You’re supposed to replace the belts after any significant impact anyways. That is just one of the many reasons why. Along with no more explosive charges and stretched belts. The smell after the charge has gone off is pretty distinctive. You’ll know when it’s popped. I mean besides the fact that you just hit something…

It’s happened to me several times in the tech industry. Year is winding down, budget is out of whack, lay off people* to make year-end numbers. 6 weeks later I’d get a call back

* Focus on contractors by ending their contracts early. What good is a one year contract if the company has a ‘we can kill the contract at any…

If I was going for camping in a Land Rover I’d go with a 101FC Ambi.

Curling is already an Olympic sport. So it can’t be that.

He is a genuinely nice guy. I consider myself lucky to have been able to spend a few minutes chatting with him a couple years ago. I expect his main focus in life will be raising his son to fill his shoes. Give it about 10 years and Felipinho will be out there winning races while his old man looks on.

Land Rover Defender 110 Crew Cab - For offroading and camping and towing the next two cars

Such a nice guy. I feel lucky to have been able to meet him and get to chauffeur him around CotA. I still have the windshield sticker at home along with the signed hat he gave me. I’ll miss cheering him on.

Because they were.

Yep. This was in Georgetown in September. Watch especially for any British marquee specific shows. He brings it out several times a year. At the Jag show he had 4 or 5 cars. An E-Type and a C-Type were in that collection.

Favorite supercar of all time. I’m lucky enough to live somewhere there’s someone who likes to bring one out to shows often. Took this pic a couple weeks ago.

In my ‘61 Thunderbird on warm days I’ll occasionally drop it into Neutral, not Park, at lights I know will be long. The big 390 engine runs warm as it is. When sitting at a light it’ll lug on the torque converter and start warming up more. The fan is direct-driven off the water pump so the lower RPMs mean less cooling…

Nice to meet you my new ‘I wish I hadn’t sold my Amigo’ amigo.

I still watch for 1st gens in the classifieds. Some day a perfect example will show up cheap and I’ll snap it up. Some day.

The first new car my wife and I bought after getting married was a 1990 Amigo, the first gen. No rollbar, no rear seat, no third brake light periscope. We loved that thing. Drove it all over the Southwest. Northern Cali to visit wine country, exploring slot-canyons in Utah, skiing in the mountains, the beach,…

The most interesting bit to me is the ‘Extended Exterior Paint Palette’ option. Sounds like if you got the dough, they’ll paint it any color you please. So maybe they won’t all be just Red, White, or fancy Ford Competition Blue. I’m excited to see what owners come up with.

This is my belief too. Boomers raised the Gen-Xers. The early Xers are the ones that raised Millenials.

I’ll just stay home and watch it on TV. Didn’t get tickets and they canceled the classic car parade I usually drive in before the race. Hope the drivers enjoy that hay ride.

Ok, sure. I tire of one person’s self-promotion juggernaut so I should go back to the Stone Age. Got it. ;)

And that’s the reason, right there. You wanna be a top driver? You better be good looking and shamelessly self-promote. Talent isn’t enough. It’s pretty easy to understand why some people have a problem with him. I’ve met some F1 drivers and gotten to chat with them away from cameras/media and they have far more…

Does his character get disappointed when he looks through a rifle scope and realizes he doesn’t see himself through the lens?