My wife just yesterday finished a painting of her dream truck, a ‘51 Chevy pickup. I’m sure she’ll want a sheet of these for her studio wall.

Just for you. Taken at CotA during the F1 drivers parade this year. I was driving for Marcus Ericsson. Last year it was Felipe Massa.

Any way you go, it’s gonna hurt pretty badly. If the car flips I definitely don’t wanna be in it as it’s a convertible. It’d just turn me to a paste on the road. I only drive it to shows and parades, mostly on city streets so my exposure is pretty minimal. Most people see the sparkly land barge covered in chrome and…

1985 Driver’s Ed student. I remember watching this film in a trailer full of ‘simulators’ in the school parking lot. We were also shown another film ‘Signal 30’. I remember it well. It seemed so odd to have a 25 year old film shown in driver’s ed.

Seatbelts were still optional on cars then. My ‘61 has none. I find it makes me hyper-aware of everyone around me knowing that anything beyond a slow speed bump is really going to hurt. They were a $22 option for my car in ‘61 and most people didn’t option them out. Yeah, I could add them but I don’t think just a…

I will one day drive my beat-up Range Rover on the Alcan and Dalton highways from my house in Texas all the way to the Bering Sea. Ideally I’ll start on the beach on Padre Island and be able to sweet talk my way past the gates at the end at Prudhoe Bay to drive right up to the water at the north end. I’ve already got…

I know exactly where this is and what trail. I guided brand new, bone stock Range Rovers, street tires and all, up it a few months ago. The steps down the hill from where the pic was taken, and the next one up the hill, were a nightmare for spotting them up. But they made it.

I was working a pit crew that weekend and was surprised there weren’t far more naked people hanging out around there. It was miserably hot. I didn’t blame him one bit.

I’ve had mine over 18 months now. Still loving it. The only issue I had was the band above the windshield needed repainting due to improper prep at the factory. Otherwise, no issues. Mine was fully loaded from the factory. No fit or finish issues for me. My only recommendation is to avoid the sunroof models. You lose…

As the current owner of a Abarth 500, I’ll be at the dealer the next day if they announce an Abarth-ified version of this.

I’m getting a Pontiac Grand Prix vibe off the lines of this and that’s not a good thing.

Dodge Challenger.

The last couple years I’ve had the honor of driving in the parade before the F1 race at Austin. Vettel, along with Ricciardo, are drivers I’d love to ferry. I have gotten to drive Massa and Ericsson so I can’t complain, but Vettel seems like a blast to hang with. Actually Ericsson was pretty talkative and awesome.…

The ghost track from my youth is the Cajon Speedway outside San Diego. We used to go every Saturday in the summer in the 70s to watch Novas, Chevelles, and Galaxies beat panels together. My fondest memory is every week my father gave me a quarter to buy a giant Charms sucker from the concession stand. It’d last me…

Never assume anyone at a dealer knows shit about manual transmissions, not even the guys paid to work on them.

They seem to actively discourage open track days. Look back at before they opened and cancelled a bunch of pre-booked track days. CotA costs 3X the price of any other track in the States to rent for a day/weekend. They cheapest of trackdays out there costs $600ish. That gets you about four 20-minute sessions in a day.

If that’s true, this is probably the best reason to never buy one. There’s zero reason to do this other than Amazon wanting to be a dick.

That’s a bit of an exaggeration. But yes, it’s not used as much as it could be. Partly because they feel that their track time is worth 3X what any other track in North America charges. It’s a rich person’s playground and they seem to like it that way. With the loss of TWS affordable track time at CotA would fill a…

‘Spring’ meaning: No later than mid-April. 3 years ago they had the V8 Supercars here in May and that was brutal. If you don’t have a grandstand seat in the shade CotA is an awful track for fans. As was the Lone Star Le Mans in September this year. I worked the pits for the later and it was like 115F on pit row.