You suck at insurance, maintenance, and storage if you manage to spend 13 grand on a parked car, especially when 2/3 of those are of no added charge for someone with a garage and decent homeowners insurance.

I can’t help but feel that if you bought that car, parked it in a garage, and did nothing but maintain it and detail the engine bay, you could double your money on it a decade from now. There’s a very clear trend towards older Japanese cars escalating in the collector market, and I think anything with the “Supra”…

Probably none, since the only thing Ferrari does to Seb is cup his balls while whispering sweet nothings in Italian to him.

Had a wedding to catch in Anderson, SC on Sunday evening. Overlooked the fact that it was the same weekend as the Chasing the Dragon Hillclimb in Robbinsville, SC. Decided I could run Saturday and Sunday if I bailed by noon, and still make the wedding.

All the perks of owning an old Mercedes or BMW you can’t afford to maintain, but with none of the prestige.

V6? Smudge on the horn button? Dirty arm rest? Miami? Do you have a sign that says “poor person” you can tape to my back before you hand me the keys to this peasant-mobile?

It doesn’t help that their badge looks like it was designed in MS Paint, and has the aesthetic appeal of one of those plain white cans with “BEER” printed on it. Albeit without the perks of actual beer.

Clean black interior and nice phone dials keeps me from calling it CP, regardless of the precarious history and seller misinformation. $3500 is on the low end for an early 944 that presents well these days. Worst case, if it was a colossal turd, you make that much back from parting it out.

I’ll just leave this right here.

I want to hate the CRV, but I can’t. It can baby. It can dog (x2). It can winter. My wife’s CRV (2nd gen) has about 150K on it, and she has run it completely out of oil on no less than three occasions. It will. Not. Die. Maintenance has consisted of adding gas, adding oil to replace the 5 quarts that vanished…

Will the vehicle be available for purchase to gangling hipsters exclusively?

Used a welder’s chipping hammer and a coat hanger stolen from a rest stop utility closet to crudely attach the tailpipe and catalytic converter on a 93 Pontiac Grand Am GT. That was a long, loud, carbon monoxidey drive from CT to central PA.

NHRA has been running canopies (albeit optional) in Top Fuel dragsters for about 4 years. The original prototypes suffered similar distortion issues, and the production models currently in use (developed by Aerodine) have been described as “crystal clear” (per Tony Schumacher).

Beat me to it. This just just an evolution of rag on a stick for those of us with no blower motors in the race car.

I’ve had the pleasure of racing with Cameron for several years, where he’s served as my Chasing the Dragon Hill Climb nemesis in the SCCA’s SEDIV Street Unlimited Class. He’s a genuinely good guy, a hell of a driver, and has testes the size of bowling balls (or so I’d presume).

The guy in the raucous AMG, who will never experience the sound of the “blub” coming from the water cooler at the Alfa dealership while waiting for a lifeless car to be resuscitated again.

Unlimited track time doesn’t come up front. You have to negotiate it as part of the out-of-court settlement when you sue the track for excessive noise.

Same block indeed, only the main journals were different.

That engine noise sounds like a great feature, until you realize that it will be obscured in its entirety by the sound of your screaming children who can’t listen to Radio Disney on Sirius/XM, or watch Frozen and Moana on repeat 163 times, because you have a 10 year old infotainment system without satellite radio,…