The camera angle represents the 24 hours of Lemons pretty well: Half rust, half sky.

Been a long time since I rode in the wayback.

Bad.

Ass.

The squeaks and rattles in the '65 are especially impressive, given that it's just about completely stripped of anything that could squeak or rattle.

oh noes indeed!

That sounds like Hot Sex to me...

maybe that's why I always finish so fast?

Videos like this make me sad for the future. I don't think a direct injected, twin-turbo V6 will evoke quite the same response. Save the muscle!

Cobra? Slowbra....

@reefer: Hey bra...

Racing one of these is fun in that goofy clown-car kinda way. Like the steering wheel and brake pedal don't know what you're telling them, and neither do they care.

But definitely fun.

"Really, car, I'm laughing with you, not at you. I swear..."

@parramore46: Just cut off the pipes before the cat. Then you'll get some evocation.

I formed a real affection for that Mustang. Bulldog Racing will be renting it out in the '08 for about $1100 a day, for those of you who want to try killing yourselves. The video doesn't make it totally plain, but it rarely exited a corner perfectly squarely. Toyos are to blame!

i like how you can see teh cobwebs in the trunk of the '65 fluttering in the vid

reminds me of bullitt

Reminds me of an amateur drifting competition I saw a couple years ago. There were a few Nissan Silvias, Toyota AE86s, and other legitimate drift machines that did very well.

Then there was some guy in a late 90s Mustang with a loud exhaust. None of his drifts were precise or graceful, but he had the crowd cheering with all the tire smoke and V8 noises he was making.

* Dude, when you went off the grass you almost got slammed from the right!

Achtung!

@austinminiman: Good way to put it!

Thanks for the clips. I needed that.

This should instead be titled "How I overdrove 25% of the corners and, when it finally landed me in the grass, hopped back on to the track with out checking for (or regard for) other faster racers who didn't blow the corner, and now I'll pat myself on the back for being such a great driver and avoiding the crash".

This should be a hoon video. Slow in the corners, not driven consistently, and driven with out thought of other racers. I hope a race steward sees the accident you almost caused and pulls your competition license so you can't do it again.

And yes, I race. I race a lot. Road courses with a couple of different clubs, Targa Newfoundland, and I'm looking in to rallying.

Thanks for the reminder of why I don't do events with Mustang or Camero clubs. Hoons.

@bernie530: Hey Bernie, I'll agree and disagree with you here.

Agree: I'm not exactly Jackie Stewart out there for smoothness. I showed up in the morning without having seen the car previously. I was too tall to fit so we moved the seat all the way back and I basically sat sideways for the whole day. I took seven practice laps and seven quali laps, and went racing. With little knowledge of the car, I thought it was better to drive too hard than not hard enough - a philosophy validated by my setting second-fastest lap of the race.

Disagree: Nobody "hopped back on the track". I was doing better than 70mph when I exited the track onto the grass. Cars with untreaded tires don't do 70-0 on sixty feet of grass. They don't even do 70-50. They don't turn much, either. Listen to when I re-enter: the tires immediately squeal. I'm stopping the car, not flooring the gas.

And while I'd never call you a fibber, most racers in North America wouldn't watch a mixed-class race with CMC, AI, AIX, and SU cars and call it a "Camero club race". It was a standard NASA race. "Camero clubs" don't have Viper Comp Coupes :) Still, thanks for the eyeballs, and if you ever add SCCA or NASA to your list of "racing clubs", I'll make sure I don't re-enter the track in front of you!

@bernie530: Let me know when your next trackday is so I can come by and run into you a little! I'm a hoon so I don't know any better. Whoops!

Thanks for that clip - I forget the States has tracks that turn left AND right!

Dog will hunt!

Any chance that "Jim Boswell" might be lured out of retirement to contribute to los Jalops on a regular basis? It would help stem the recent exodus of well-loved, opinionated, eloquent, interesting writers from the site.

@The Kid: What exodus? The Leaverman left -- who else has dropped out the past six months? Spinelli's still here...I'm still here...Murilee's still here...

@Ray Wert: Point taken. I was adding Davey to the list slightly outside six months, but two souls does not an exodus make. Three if you count Leaverman twice.
Speaking only for myself, what makes the site feel different these days is the relative volume of quirky, personal postings by contributors and editors. Murilee has this beat locked down at the moment, but the rest of the band doesn't seem to be quite as in sync (not that Sync) as before. I guess we need to give some of the new players time to develop.
Spinelli at large is better than no Spinelli at all, but let's have more stories from the road and less new model reveals. Not totally fair during auto show season, but there's always an auto show happening somewhere these days.
As for you Mr. Wert, I appreciate that you took my comments about the site personally, and responded in kind. Thank you for keeping the Jalopnik we know and love on course when Gawker is hawking it as,
"Jalopnik is for the gearhead with an eye toward the future. The site covers all the latest developments in the automotive industry and provides comprehensive reviews of the newest models. Jalopnik's readers are brand-conscious and brand-hungry, always waiting for the next hot thing to drive their way."

Pushrod V8 obsolete? Tell that to the guy beating you in a race.

What track is that? Grattan?

@a2r: It's my home track, Mid-Ohio. I did run at Grattan this year, for my rookie Spec Focus race:

@The Kid: I, er, just spoke with Jim this morning. Naturally, he's a big fan of Murilee, as he likes the ladies!

Left the photo out: [i68.photobucket.com]

By the always awesome Hector00.

Needs more nemesis

@Ray Wert: What about Bumbeck? Also, my departure was well within the last six months. I understand that you're feeling defensive right now, Ray, what with the drubbing you took yesterday from the commenters. But you might want to make sure you have your facts straight regardless of how out of joint your nose is. That is all.

@Davey G.: [/feverishly searching for grammar/usage errors in Davey's comment]

YES! WHERE THE HELL IS BUMBECK?! I need an article on how to retrofit an electric fuel pump w/remote hidden kill switch and and in-distributor electronic ignition conversion on my Chevelle, STAT!

Also Davey, how's the novel (or whatever) going? Need a proofreader-editor? Jonny and Ms. Martin both have my email if you need it.

He was passed by a Datsun B-210...oh, the shame!!

@Davey G.: Holy crap. A Davey sighting. And I missed it. Damn.

@Davey G.: Looks like your parents paid for some internet access so you can get online.

What "drubbing," btw?

@Ray Wert: Loose ends?