Maybe it’s all the time I’ve been spending on car boards or the fact that a friend of mine just got a new Acura RSX and has been talking about this, but I’ve been thinking that autocrossing (and subsequently track days) would be super fun. Except my car isn’t especially good at that sort of thing, and there’s no place around here to do it anyway.
I fantasize about taking a new MX-5 or Civic Si and just beating the hell out out of it on a road course for a day, savoring the sound of the motor and the snick-snick-snick of the transmission. The best part is that in addition to being fun, you have the opportunity to see how your car reacts to being pushed and you become a better driver because of it.
Downsides? Tires, brakes, and all the other miscellaneous wearable items that will go south even faster when you’re putting them under the stress of racing. Which means, of course, money.
Someday…
cottager said:
is this a clue to the previously posted 5 doors & whistles riddle? I still don’t know that one.
23:03 on 24 Apr 2006
cr said:
I usually just fantasize about having a General Lee (which I saw on the way to work today BTW), but then it occurs to me that “beating the hell out of it” as Matches put it, would mean totaling it out after the first jump. Then I’d have to enough money to buy a new one.
23:13 on 24 Apr 2006
matches said:
OK, sure. It’s a clue:
What has five doors and whistles and is also not a race car?
Not very helpful, though.
cr, I picture G-Lee ownership as almost cartoonish - think of how cartoon characters open their closet and have 100 of the same outfit; that’s what your garage would look like!
07:16 on 25 Apr 2006
cr said:
Perhaps, although I always pictured my garage having one General Lee, one Mystery Machine and one KIT. Of course, that’s in the “Look at me, I’m a millionaire!” version of my life. The current version is, “Look at me; I just want someone to notice I’m alive!” Pathetic, I know.
08:30 on 27 Apr 2006