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Elizabeth Blackstock
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Senior editor at Jalopnik. Co-author of "Racing With Rich Energy." Producer of the Deadly Passions, Terrible Joys podcast and Grand Prix Gastronomy.

It was one of those things we were told had been recently replaced, and it didn’t start to get weak until we stopped for gas near Little Rock. We diagnosed it as a “it’ll probably make it home” problem that just went a lot quicker than expected. Like, my husband went out and moved the Suburban at around three in the Read more

Oh god do I have U-Haul stories..... the kind folks who packed it for us loaded all my books onto the middle of my TV stand, which snapped in half, and the force of the snap knocked off the side of my favorite bookcase. Which actually turned out to be a good thing, because we checked into our U-Haul storage unit one Read more

That’s the plan as soon as we move into our house! We’ve been keeping the ‘Burb at my mom’s, and her HOA doesn’t allow you to work on your cars outside (my brother got in trouble for this once and they sent us a massive fine....lololol). Once we have our place, the plan is to delve into the manual and start learning Read more

My husband threw his back out changing the battery, and there was no way my first experience changing a part on the fly would be in the parking lot of a hotel when we had less than 14 hours to get home, unload the U-Haul, and turn it in lest we face paying another hundreds-of-dollars late fee. After three days on the Read more

I mean yea it happens in a lot of horror movies but some just really dig deep on the whole mutilation thing Read more

a horror movie that focuses specifically on showing very grotesque and disturbing violations or mutilations of the human body. Think: Alien, The Human Centipede, Rosemary’s Baby — stuff where fucking up a human body is the centerpiece of the movie  Read more

Basic and Enhanced refer to the Autopilot systems already in place, upon which FSD is built. So, if you have Basic Autopilot, you’ll have to pay more to add the FSD feature because you have to compensate for extra features that are available on Enhanced FSD. I’m sorry that I didn’t make that clear! Read more

Money is always a very big motivating factor — I think organizers started to realize that with the airstrip tracks, since they were located on private property. It gave them a good model for how to start charging at other closed-off events. Read more

This is a great one. Adding to that: I had a driver’s training instructor insist that we lock our doors as soon as everyone was inside. He demonstrated this by having another teacher run up and stage a carjacking as part of one of our tests; the ‘victim’ he chose was random, so you never knew it was coming as part of Read more

I definitely think there's value in starting early — as long as you have a good teacher. My family just kinda threw me behind the wheel in the worst of all possible situations, haha.  Read more

We did most of our camping at the race track, and Watkins Glen has amazing bathroom and shower facilities!  Read more

It actually smells more like chocolate right now because we accidentally left a Twix near the rear window! It hasn’t been awful, though. We bought some Febreeze to spray in the mornings and aired out the car all day with windows wide open. Read more