This 9-second RB26-powered Miata overheated on the Sacramento drag strip, spilling coolant onto the rear tire and spinning out in the middle of a pass. Somehow, the driver saved it from wrecking on the narrow barriers.
This 9-second RB26-powered Miata overheated on the Sacramento drag strip, spilling coolant onto the rear tire and spinning out in the middle of a pass. Somehow, the driver saved it from wrecking on the narrow barriers.
Jesse James Thomas surpasses Michelle Watson
Yesterday we took in a showing of Paris, je t'aime at the Crest Theatre in Sacramento. Despite the preponderance of trees in California's seat of government, Sackamenna is not exactly Gay Paree, nevertheless, our Francophile self was flabbergasted when we walked down 10th Street for a cup of tea and saw this battered…
The boys over at Rod & Custom hit the Sacramento Autorama last February and came back with shots of sleds of all stripes. Oddly enough, the Autorama was where we saw our first in-the-Kevlar-and-Lexan Ferrari F40 when we were but a simple and unformed Jalopnik of twelve. It's a Sacto tradition of sorts, having run…
For the last week or so, Jalopnik's San Pedro office has taken up temporary residence in Sacramento and our bureau chief must admit that he giggled a little bit when proponents of carpool lanes on I-80 in the Natomas area got shut out of a large allocation in funds that will go to improve the 405, the 5 in LA and…
We've often fired off random missives that blast our hometown of Sacramento. It's too big, sprawling and expensive with too few offered cultural opportunities for such a large place. But that said, our Sacto-native, multiple-Deuce-owning uncle Noel couldn't believe it when we told him that we'd most likely never move…
You know, we're really not especially fond of our hometown of Sacramento. Sure, there're a few good things about it, but really, we couldn't wait to get out of the place at 18, and we'll hopefully never end up back there. Plus, it's expensive and congested now, too — two things it never used to be. But one great thing …
Whoo! We're just chock full o' Bernie Ecclestone