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Something in the way it drives...

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Not all mushrooms are edible.

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Nice "Chuckles the Clown" quote, BTW...

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Mayer, Porsche, and PRS. Congrats - I think that's the Trifecta of polarizing topics. Well done. If you had worked Bonamassa in there too, it might have exploded The Interwebs...

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Takes me back. My first convertible ride was in a '66 Spridget, and it was every bit as addictive. To your point: Driving IS more fun than wrenching, and is, after all, the whole point. And al fresco motoring has a restorative effect on the soul. An aside: If the top is down, the windows go down. People used to know this, but somehow forgot during the years when convertibles fell out of favor.

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Also: Occasional Bezel would make a pretty good band name.

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This will help a lot with my bezels. But what about my escutcheons?

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I... wow.

audiocage · ‎03-07-2021

I keep seeing Scrat from Ice Age.

audiocage · ‎02-07-2021

From any angle, looking at the front end makes my brain hurt.

audiocage · ‎25-06-2021

Whoops. Missed the first installment...

audiocage · ‎25-06-2021

C3 Corvette and Opel GT?

audiocage · ‎22-06-2021

"I personally encouraged this driver to report to impound afterwards..." I'm chuckling at the euphemistic phrasing that's certainly taking place here. After spending a dozen years learning to run close and clean in Formula Fords (because the consequences were much more dire) it was a challenge to adjust to the legions of chuckleheads in IT and SM who thought every race was a demolition derby. At the same time, when the brain turns on all of the chemical taps, our inner lizard tends to reveal itself. It's funny how hard we'll race for a two-dollar trophy...

audiocage · ‎11-06-2021

Jerrari cannot be unseen. Oh, dear.

audiocage · ‎09-06-2021

No one warned me of the onion-cutting Ninjas that would appear in my office at the end of this wonderful piece. What a great story, beautifully told. Thank you.

audiocage · ‎09-06-2021

Sam Smith is the Ansel Adams of interviewers, finding the perfect angle, the right focus, and effortless translation into the black-and-white world of text. Thank you for this dive into the inner workings of a brilliant and talented athlete.

audiocage · ‎07-06-2021

Is that a hockey puck?

audiocage · ‎28-05-2021

The sludge monogram is truly the crowning touch.

audiocage · ‎17-05-2021

Callooh! Callay!

audiocage · ‎23-04-2021

Squee!

audiocage · ‎22-04-2021

The swirl across the door in that final profile shot is just incredible. What a beautiful shape, captured at the perfect angle.

audiocage · ‎17-04-2021

Great name for the yacht, though.

audiocage · ‎25-03-2021

Ah, autocorrect. What can ya do?

audiocage · ‎25-03-2021

Hat Truck = Millinery Mobile

audiocage · ‎22-03-2021

"Good tires," Bob mused...

audiocage · ‎11-03-2021

This article generated a lot of responses. Here's another.

audiocage · ‎09-03-2021

Comes with a skid of Brasso...

audiocage · ‎06-03-2021

Also, "...fencing with England's id."

audiocage · ‎06-03-2021

"A cross between a suit of armor with an engine and a very large and particularly feisty pair of pants." Incredible imagery, and spot on. Brilliant.

audiocage · ‎05-03-2021

I love this!

audiocage · ‎04-03-2021

Ain't it the truth! And not just cars...

audiocage · ‎03-03-2021

Beautiful. The short-window years are the best-proportioned ones, IMO.

audiocage · ‎02-03-2021

Do want!

audiocage · ‎01-03-2021

EV Eliminator cabs. Wow; that brought back some memories.

audiocage · ‎19-02-2021

I had that issue of C/D; I went with the Scirocco. The Mazda was very cool, but no regrets.

audiocage · ‎19-02-2021

Nothing exceeds like excess.

audiocage · ‎15-02-2021

In a pinch, you could have borrowed one lug nut from each of the other wheels. But you would have thought of that, if it had come to it...

audiocage · ‎14-02-2021

Or go ho-ham?

audiocage · ‎11-02-2021

These are the same people who put a master volume in a Marshall Super Lead. Also, now I need a Dualit.

audiocage · ‎29-01-2021

The gleaming casting and original inspection paint marks (after 30+ years) are a joy to behold. Also: Do want.

audiocage · ‎09-01-2021

Ah - wrong clip. Mine was of his pole-position qualifying lap (which was even more over the top, if you can imagine it...)

audiocage · ‎08-01-2021

I've watched that particular Senna lap maybe 100 times; I still have the original VHS tape that captured the on-air coverage that day. He goes so far beyond the car's capability, time and time again, and still manages to convert it all into forward motion. One-handing great gobs of opposite lock in the hairpin while ripping off a shift. Getting caught up behind a dawdling competitor and jinking not once, but twice to clear him, and *still* taking pole by a second and a half. It was masterful, ridiculous, insane, mind-bending, and incredibly violent, and like him or not (and I didn't) you had to admit that at that moment, he was the best.

audiocage · ‎08-01-2021

Quite a few thoughts came flooding in as I read this piece. One: the day many years ago when I suddenly realized that they would sell exotic cars to anyone who could come up with the money. Two: The first Countach I saw up close and realized what a piece of crap it was. Three: That the difference between the old exotics and the new (hyper-performance and hyper-driver-assisted) exotics is that when the driver runs out of talent in the new ones, he's going a whole lot faster than he was in the old ones, so the crash is much more spectacular.

audiocage · ‎25-12-2020

Carburetor is a French word that means, "Leave it alone."

audiocage · ‎15-12-2020

In my experience, the wanting is all too often better than the having. Also, I have no idea what a CUV is.

audiocage · ‎28-11-2020

And once you've got everything else sorted, the biggest variable of all is the Spacer. The Spacer is mounted between the steering wheel and the seat. It makes a big difference when you take out a bad one and put in a good one.

audiocage · ‎27-11-2020

Brilliant! And yet, you're only up to Item D...

audiocage · ‎19-11-2020

A tip of the hat for quoting Setright.

audiocage · ‎07-11-2020

A former colleague in the UK put me on to MotoGP a few years ago, and yeah, it's mighty compelling. You can literally see what it takes to challenge the limits of physics. And if MotoGP ever starts to seem a bit pedestrian to you, then go check out the Isle of Man TT and see if that doesn't give you a clench...

audiocage · ‎25-07-2020

"Are we lost?" "I think so. I was lost once before, and it looked just like this." Sometimes you have to get lost to find yourself.