In 2002 I was this close to buying a Stook (as they were called; S2K, get it?). It was going to be my next track car after my Porsche 944T kept breaking.
I had taken one for a test drive and liked it, and saw another one on a dealer’s lot. I asked what they wanted for it, and was told they couldn’t sell it: someone had stolen the seats out of it, right on their lot! I said this was perfect, since I wanted to install racing seats anyway!
They knocked the price down by about $1,000 for me to buy it without the seats, which was a great deal. But when I went to order the new seats, they were in stock, no problem, but the mounting brackets were back ordered, and wouldn’t be available for more than a month. The dealer didn’t want to wait, and I didn’t want to buy a car I couldn’t drive for a month or more.
At about the same time, I started looking at Nissan’s new Z car that was about to be released, and decided the 350Z was the car for me, and placed my pre-order.
I sold it more than ten years ago after happily driving it on track (100 events) and as a daily driver for ten years. It was a great car, fun to drive, easy to work on, especially the brakes, which I had to do a lot, with all the track activity.
One of the only downsides was that there wasn’t enough interior room to comfortably take a set of four spare wheels and tires to events. So I often drove to the track on track tires, which wore them out more quickly. I eventually figured a way to do it, which involved strapping a tire to the passenger seat and one between the seats, which was uncomfortable and perhaps illegal in some places. (Fortunately, I never found out.) It made shifting tricky, so it didn’t work for really long drives of more than a couple of hours.
I envied the drivers of BMWs and Subarus who could just throw four wheels in their back seats. But my car looked so much better that theirs!
There are enough Rivians around here that I’m getting used to the front fascia. Sure easy to identify as they come at you! If you get offered a ride in a quad-motor version, take it. Shockingly quick. My buddy is coming to pick me up in his in a hour to ride ICE dirtbikes–I enjoy the irony.
A)What are those lovers/grates covering?
B)It has a back up camera…on a motorcycle. I mean, I get it, but also, why? I’m curious if that’s OEM or added on later? (I see the screens now, I assume it’s an add on, which makes more sense).
C)I wonder if the owner was purposely going for Ironman colors. I haven’t seen the movies, so I couldn’t say if anything else on the bike references it.
Yesterday, a '65 Pontiac GTO. Original, needed a paint job.
Today, a BMW i3 in black over red, I did a double take because I was looking down and it looked a bit like a beetle or ladybug. I wouldn’t mind having one as a commuter car.
