On the bright side a mere $1.8Mil might get you the motor from a 250 GTO.

I think the problem is that given my family income and commitments, in five or six years maybe I could have afforded a $69k supercar. Now, forget it. And, despite the extra horsepower, the car isn't 1/3 (or $30k) better.

Someone will say what is lost can never be saved.

NIIIICE! My son wanted to me router out a mounting chamber for an A size model rocket engine. We may try that this summer - if I can get some proper rubber tires. We're both beyond the cub car thing now so this may be a great way to achieve some neighbourhood glory - and break at least one law.

The brick one is great and I like the cockpit/fin on the silver one. Very nice building.

We never had that problem. A. we explained it slowly and patiently and B. we went with the flame paint job to make it obvious which end was the front.

Nice-looking car. We tried the graphite-well thing once and got busted for it. I don't have a pic of that car unfortunately. Our judges have a flat-table to ensure that all four wheels are grounded (we tried that once too and had to fix it on the fly).

Damn. I was just about to post the math question. Well done.

That's awesome. My son and I did this Cub Car (Canadian Cub Scouts do Cub Cars instead of Pinewood Derby) a few years ago. Being a tear-drop with no drag on the back end, it was wickedly fast. We had done wheel shrouds for it, to further reduce drag but the judges made us remove them to meet max weight restrictions…

Matchbox Mini HaHa. FWIW this thing would beat any HotWheels car down the track, when I was a kid.

Chinese pedal-powered, fire truck. May actually be faster to the fire, given typical Beijing traffic.

I've got a Drift Camera. It has a remote control on a strap. When you push the record button you get an audible "beep". When you stop recording the camera makes a "boop" sound. I never get GoPro face.

I ride my bike daily, year round. I keep my camera recording because you never know when you're going to end up in court, needing to prove that your broken body part is someone else's fault.

I don't get it. I hate it when the joke has to be explained to me.

Tank porn.

Armoured donk?

Nope, jet black. Black frame rails, black interior and black chrome brightwork. And this stunningly beautiful XKE polished to a nice satin finish, sitting out for the world to see. The best part was, it's a driver.

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oops. Sorry for the confusion. I used to live in Vancouver. Now I live in Red Deer Alberta. We host the Alberta SuperRun every three years. It was at the SuperRun this past summer that I saw the Jag-powered Model T. It was slick.

In Montreal they are a huge success. The service, called Bixi, is used by thousands.