Aw, they misspelled “Joop.”

Stig in a Blanket.

The Faux40 was amazing to see at the track. Thanks for pulling together this mini-history of it. The Ratsun team seemed genuinely surprised to win IOE at NOLA with it, but in my opinion it was a slam-dunk obvious IOE win.

Porschelump probably would be classified as GP4. The Tetanus 944 (“Blanco”) was put in GP4 for the inaugural COTA WRL race.

We’re certainly hitting you up for advice once she gets the corpse, er, car to TX and delves deeper into the to-do list.

Two Lemons? Oh, it is far worse than that. Stef is teaming up with us in the deep end of the crazy pool and we will be running either 5 or 6 cars together at MSR.

Nice T-shirt. :)

This has been a fun series to read. When Murilee Martin’s gallery of PP images went live for Autoweek’s website a few days ago, I was happy to see a pic of your Corvette and have been looking forward to the writeup.

Lots of commenters are speculating about whether consumers will want to rent an autonomous car. I don’t know the answer for that, but it seems immaterial to whether this deal makes sense for the companies involved for the short term (I think it does). The rental companies have two things that the autonomous-vehicle…

Might as well be, but with an Italian accent!

Siata Spring. (going from memory so I may be off on the spelling and whether it’s a Spring II)

Non-transferable medallions would only work if the supply isn’t artificially constricted (as it often is). If there is an shortage situation that brings its own problems. If Driver Smith is issued a medallion but decides he or she doesn’t want to work long hours, nights, weekends, or something, but Driver Jones does,…

I think it would be fine, the Australian V8 Supercars were quite fun to watch there and they aren’t bewinged time-attack monsters. Perhaps NASCAR would want to just cut off the hairpin and long back straight like the V8s did.

Bah, you know how few parts actually interchange, Stef. Just call up and ask how much for the ‘83 parts car and leave the ‘87 for some other dreamer.

Vermin Supreme’s promise of free ponies for everyone suddenly seems prescient.

My apologies to the entire population of Jersey for the error. In my defense, there was beer nearby.

When in France in 2010, I met a young man from the Jersey Islands who had bought one of those, but I don’t recall if it was that color. His was also registered as a street vehicle. Maybe he’s visiting a friend. Very bare inside but it was a hoot to zoom around a campsite in Le Mans in it!

The seller had a mischievous sense of humor. He indeed sold me the car for $1.98, and he paid for lunch while we did the paperwork. Dubbed the car the “buck-ninety-eight blue-plate special.” Also, at the time, that got us around the vehicle-registration gift tax of $10 and my vehicle-registration sales tax was about…

My Corolla taught me the *real* secret of Toyota’s reputation for reliability. It wasn’t that things didn’t break— stuff did break— but that the Corolla would still limp along to get you home. It threw the water pump belt once on the freeway; I just exited and managed to lug it along slowly at low RPMs until I got it…

‘77 Corolla Liftback SR-5 for me, sold to me by a friend of my mother. For $1.98. Those were quite easy to drive, weren’t they?