By Robert Emslie
I have decided to to come out with my own line of racer car driver underwear. It will be easy breathing, flame retardant, and most importantly, all kinds of brown.
Last Call indicates the end of Hooniverse’s broadcast day. It’s meant to be an open forum for anyone and anything. Thread jacking is not only accepted, it’s encouraged.
Image: Imgur
Jeff Glucker
Ooof. Considering the suspension characteristics and the construction of your average open-wheeler seat… I hope his racing leathers kept his kidneys in place.
Don’t worry, although his organs jiggled around his spine compressed slightly to compensate.
I’d bet his abdominal cavity had a bit more volume once he took flight and that the racing suit will need to be laundered thoroughly.
So, something interesting happened in my neck of the woods this morning. I saw, supposedly, the first Jeep Renegade to be delivered to Colorado.
I saw the thing parked in front of a grocery store, with three guys talking to each other. You couldn’t miss it: Bright yellow Latitude model. Turns out one of the guys worked up the road from the store at the Chrysler dealership. Couple notes:
-Tons of headroom. Driver’s seat seemed kind of low though.
-Generally much bigger on the inside than I thought. Behind the rear seats, I suspect its as big as the area behind the rear seats of my old XJ, though the whole car trades length for height and width. It’s short. I think a Mini Countryman is longer than this thing.
-It has locking diffs.
-The yellow paint looks better in real life than it does on the website.
-…I kind of, sort of, maybe want one real bad now.
Comparable to a Suzuki Jimny in size and height?
http://www.4x4community.co.za/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=52893&d=1266517090
Well obviously you need to get one in blue and call it Tardis.
My wife and I are anxiously awaiting the first Renegades to show up at the dealers here – supposedly in-transit with anticipated delivery of next week. Only Latitudes for now, and the allocation is 1 per dealer. If she likes it (size wise), we’ll probably be ordering a Trailhawk. To be continued…
I’ve been rambling on how rare my Honda van is, with it being exotic making driving one less embarrassing. Now I finally contacted the registration office: Yes, only 148 are registered in the entire country. Big grin. Also the Camry is relatively rare, but with its long production run, there are 3000-something left spanning three decades. Somewhat interesting numbers:
Reg. Year Number
1983 18
1984 33
1985 74
1986 103
1987 194
1988 97
1989 85
1990 95
1991 180
1992 207
1993 296
1994 208
1995 226
1996 210
1997 456
1998 364
1999 243
2000 228
2001 202
2002 263
2003 90
2004 46
2005 2
2006 3
2007 15
2008 6
2009 3
2010 4
I think official sales stopped around 2004, so the newer ones are private imports.
Go Speed Racer, GO!