“30-year Mercedes Master tech Dave “Klink” Kalinkiewicz, who would end up putting hundreds of man hours and several months of work into the car”

Looks about like my commute, but with fewer jaywalkers. Maybe I’m ready for this race!

[assuming a high-fraud area, such as disney]

Let me get this straight. You are concerned with reliability, so your plan is to buy a 1st year production ALFA ROMEO?

There are many examples, but I will just leave this here........

Flew when parked

Here at Hennessy, we only care about forward motion.

One as a driver and two as parts cars? ;-)

“Less than $4000” is just the entrance fee towards joining the German automobile parts replacement and funky service costs program

TT is for 1) metrosexuals who finally realized s/he needs a car and asked his/her know-nothing gender-fluid partner what to get, and 2) the single graying/ balding Ivy league finance grad who realizes a car would provide a better exit from the speed dating shindig his yenta mother told him to attend.

*provided that you don’t need it to always run

It was a gussied up golf, it was a hairdressers car. It was full of flaws. It is a lousy used car.

Under normal circumstances I’d probably be meh whatever about a story like this. But one thing stuck out that is seriously pissing me off. This “school”, and I’m using the term school loosely here, is accepting GI Bill money. The amount of supposed “schools” out there that prey on young folks in the military with…

The internet says Hennessey is a crook, Hennessey makes things worse, all is right with the world.

Wait, wait, wait.... YOU mean to tell ME, that you spent an exorbitant amount of money on something provided by someone named John Fucking Hennessey and didn’t get your moneys worth?

Counterpoint: if you watch the tuner school youtube video, John Hennessey’s exact words: “students can literally come out of their classroom, and go into the workshop, which is right outside the door, and literally take the vehicle they are working on and go to the drag strip if it’s a sunny clear day.” Not having…

Yes, but you could build your own for 8 grand. And use an aluminum LS instead of an iron LQ and life would be even better.

This car is local to me and I saw it at a dyno-day this past Sunday. It put down 377 at the wheels and sounds great!

Color me cynical here. I sat and listened to the Air Combat Command (ACC) commander explaining to my Wing how the F-35 was going to take up missions currently served by the A-10... I sensed a lot of self delusion going on at command levels regards that aircraft program.