Congrats on surviving the storm stinky but intact.

I'm not answering any of your tricky gotcha questions, mister!

Wow, that's one smokin' hot Mazdaspeed 3.

+1 CotD nods.

This is the only answer, because race track.

http://youtu.be/24149851 I still enjoy this one, posted here on Jalopnik during the May 2011 rapture publicity. [vimeo.com]

The field has been just awful this year.

I just love the sound of goalposts ringing when the ball hits the crossbar.

But that's what I... but you... huh?

That was the speculation in both the regular episode of Shakedown and the special following the press conference. Open-cockpit cars would be dropped in an attempt to merge closed-cockpit LMP2 cars with the Daytona prototypes.

Kurtlewis? Really? Maybe he was just mad that his parents settled the baby name dispute in one of the worst ways possible.

I wonder what the rationale is for chucking the open-cockpit prototype classes.

At the time, it had a brand-new motor, and had been repainted once, but was otherwise completely original, and was (and still is) a one-owner car. It seemed like the equivalent of asking whether we'd like to trade the Crown Jewels for a really cool baseball cap.

haha... No, ours had received a heart transplant by then. ^_^

In '01 my dad and I drove to the VW dealer where we'd be picking up my Golf — in a '71 Karmann-Ghia. The dealer asked if we would consider trading it in. Our ribs really hurt the rest of the day.

The Milky Way is simply representing the Local Group in the gymnastic "ribbon" competition in this year's Astronomical Olympics.

No, no, guys, that "other role" is as the cop in the Gabriel Knight series.

I had trouble coming to grips with Baker's claim at first...

Leading question from prospective owners:

As a reminder, Connor is not to be made aware that he is gravely ill. These are the wishes of his parents and we have to respect them.