Not just in the Southeast; they’re all over the local tracks in the Rust Belt too. The Hobby Stock division at Sandusky Speedway in northern Ohio was full of Cavaliers, except for one guy in a Neon always riding around in the back. The place is so heavily entrenched in UAW country that it was only a few years ago that…

Leaning towards NP on the assumption that someone who appreciates a car like this (read: not me) is also knowing what they’re getting into and doesn’t think they’re getting a trouble-free future - especially with that top - for five grand.

Outstanding. COTD.

They sure didn’t.

Literally the same defense Alex Jones used.

Well played. +15 yards

Love the car, love the shoot. That ground-level rear quarter shot might spend some time as my desktop wallpaper, I reckon.

I’m four years removed from last playing a Forza game (or an Xbox at all, in fact) but I do remember similar to what you said and that designing liveries with the controller was a right pain in the deck lid. I much preferred PC racing games simply because designing and importing liveries didn’t involve a trip back and…

On the upside, it made better livery designers out of those of us with a knack for Photoshop and a bad case of OCD. I dropped quite a few hours into fixing Bud, Miller, Winston, Camel, and other censored sponsors in many a NASCAR release.

Reverse: Remember This One?

It’s a shame that service doesn’t guarantee citizenship, and on the question of why that isn’t the case, yes, I would like to know more.

I had a similar comment that also included 555 but didn’t even think to include Winfield or Benson & Hedges (which were both big touring car sponsors in Australia for a long time). I had sketchbooks full of drawings of many of the 70s and 80s era racers with full tobacco sponsorship and nobody batted an eye. I’ve also…

That’s hilarious. How are those wheel skirts even legal for whatever banger race that’s kicking around in?

I rarely recline either. I try and keep in mind that the person reclining in front of me probably has the same issues I do (I’m 6'3") with leg room, so I also assume that the person behind me could have the same too.

It’ll get plenty of TV time while the camera closes in on the anguished face of the driver waiting for the tow truck.

I don’t know about that, it is quite pointy at one end.

Gotta admit, the headline made me expect a lot more bat-swinging than actually went on. Pleasantly surprised they found a better way.

Living in Ohio, I see a lot of cars with NY plates and it’s about a 50/50 split between yellow and white, and since Ohio issues yellow plates for certain DUI convictions (“party plates,” the locals call them), I used to naively think we’d been inundated with so many drunk-driving New Yorkers.

NP all day. Even better than LeMons, this would make a neat Hobby Stock racer at what used to be my local track. Make-to-make engine swaps are allowed (so you could probably source and drop in a V6) and this would eat up the Chevy Berettas and Dodge Neons that usually knock around in that division.

God, I loved that car. It’s funny how, for all the (justifiably) negative press that tobacco advertising got, it also gave us some of the most iconic motor racing liveries of all time (JPS, Marlboro, 555, Rothmans, et al).