Oddest and most terrifying thing I ever drove was a weird Frankentruck quasi-racecar that showed up at Buttonwillow on a test day. It was an ‘80's S-10 with a half assed tube frame glopped on to the original chassis. Power came from a 350 with a snotty cam backed up by a Powerglide. The guy asked me to take it for a…

Well done. Sounds like a perfect car to take on the One Lap this year particularly now that you have “comprehensive protection against unexpected repair costs” even though my mind boggles at the thought that one could find an unexpected repair on a nearly decade old Aston with patina pre-installed.

Will sell like hotcakes in Humboldt and Boulder if they come out with a “Da Kine BUDD-e” edition with built-in bong water recycling, a pizza heater, and some sort of patchouli infusion device a la Sonderklasse Benz.

Angeles Crest is one hell of a drug. I went to high school at the base of the mountain and we had plenty of guys wad up some pretty nice equipment up there and you could regularly find stains where guys on crotch rockets made themselves into greasy spots. Fortunately, I was broke and had either a Datsun 710 or a ‘71…

...and this just in. PCNA just extended our warranties from 4/50 to 6/100 as an apology for the emissions goof. Looks like we’ll be keeping these a bit longer than we planned to. Thanks CARB and EPA!

I think the only way that MMP will live on as a racing facility is if the Mitime bid goes through. The place does not make sense as a mixed use residential and office park just as it did not make sense as a stand alone race facility that was solely kept alive by Larry’s and Roger’s passion to keep the place going. It…

We have two 2013 Cayenne diesels and we regularly knock down 32 MPG on the highway doing 75-80 with the best ever being 34 on a sustained slow highway trip on flat ground. They really are lovely and we have found the standard steel spring suspension to be just fine and less maintenance prone than the PASM based on…

Ze Germans can be rather kinky, you know. Remember those little grab straps on the B-pillars of old Beetles? Leverage, baby, leverage.

Urban Asshat indeed.

I had a 2001 LS V8 that we ran to just about when the warranty petered out at 50k or so. It really was a sweet handling car with remarkable balance and the V8 while not incredibly powerful did sing a nice song when you revved the piss out of it. Sadly, the reason we got rid of it was that it started giving me hints…

Wow. Fresh pavement at Willow. Last time I saw that was, well, probably when they filmed this video.

Interestingly, this big guy made a low pass over my house in NorCal in early June en route to Travis AFB after doing some laps around the greater Sacramento area. It also did a bunch of long trips over the continental US around the same time and NASA’s U-2 (NASA809) made a number of patterned flight all over…