If it looks anything like the concepts I’ve seen, I’ll be first in line to trade in my current Abarth. I’m a sucker for a good convertible. Give me the fun of an Abarth in a correct-wheel-drive convertible and I’m sold.

Your local dirt track. You’ve got teams on very limited budgets doing everything they can to win. The races are fast and can be filled with drama. Every track has its own ‘bad guy’ that everyone hates and a hero everyone cheers for. Door-to-door banging of real sheet metal in cars that are recognizable as actual…

Both.

Land Rover owners are pretty non-judgemental in my experience. In that community it’s not _what_ you drive, but how you drive it. If you’re willing to take your $100K Range Rover down the same narrow trail I’m taking my beat up Defender you get the same respect. Just for taking it out and getting dirty. I noticed the…

Officially, they only get $7200/year.

I’m jelly. I never got to see a Shuttle launch and it was high on my ‘must do’ list. I am knocking that list slowly back though. Last year I did 200+ miles of rafting in the Grand Canyon. Can’t win them all. Hopefully I’ll get out to see a SpaceX launch some day.

Knowing they still wave makes me very happy right now.

I’m torn between this honor and my story as to which is more awesome.

Why, thanks! I don’t know that I care about the airplane type. Already looks like she had clearance to ‘take off’.

I never said how many fingers he was waving.

I never said he was smiling. He was wearing his mask. Duh. ;)

I grew up across the road from Miramar in the 80s. All the neighborhood kids would come over to my house and we’d climb on the roof to watch the practices and shows. One of my best memories is during a practice around 1984. We had #5 fly over our house at what felt like 20-feet(probably more like 100-feet) off the…

With a torque gauge so you can monitor your ‘torque ratio’ in real time.

This is what I do.

The city buses around here(Austin) have that exact thing. They have flashing yellows when the driver lets off the gas. So it’s not a dead technology. I just think no one realizes that’s what’s happening when the yellows flash.
edit: Next time I’m near a city bus I’ll make sure to save the dashcam clip just for you.

I didn’t include my son’s Miata NA. That means in the driveway we have cars built in the US, the UK, Japan, Germany, and Italy(Mexico). :) We’re a very multi-national bunch. Keeps me on my toes when repairs are needed.

Because different cars do different things better. My Abarth is for tracking, my beat up 25- year old Range Rover is for offroading and camping, my '61 Thunderbird is for weekend cruising, and the Golf R is the 'family' car. How is that so hard to understand?

Exactly. The local C&C used to be cool. Even my son showing up in his beater $800 Miata NA got people talking to him and offering to help with his project. I’ve just found out that they are planning on banning ‘undesirables’. ‘Undesirables’ loosely defined as ‘we know it when we see it’. Imports, tuners, ricers, etc.…

No one’s buying them because no one understands their naming scheme. I couldn’t tell you the difference between a MKC, MKS, or MDK. You tell someone you drive a Lincoln MKX and they’ll look at you and wonder if that’s an SUV or a sedan. Then they’ll laugh about the McConaughey ads. Tell them you drive a ‘Continental’…

It was well worn from all the slapping. They knew it was reachable. People raise their arms on coasters all the time. It just required a little lean to the left to reach. You didn’t need to stand up or even push yourself out of the seat to get there. Anyone that was taller than 6-foot could easily touch it.