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Cake day: July 6th, 2023

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  • Because I’m not cool enough to post cool stuff to the cool kids? 😜

    Seems historically the posts that do well here are written articles but I don’t often read articles. If I’m interested in something I’ll find a book and read that because it’ll be way more informative than an article likely written by someone who is not an expert.

    But I doubt linking books here will do much better.

    That said Total Competition by Ross Brawn and Adam Parr, The Chariot Makers by Steve Matchett, How to Build a Car by Adam Parr and Peter Noble, and Surviving to Drive by Guenther Steiner, are all bangers if you’re interested in books on cars! Racing and car design for racing specifically.




















  • I would argue the first mustang that’s a sports car is the Dark Horse. The base model is just a two door coup. The 2024 Dark Horse starts at $58k, the 2024 C8 Corvette starts at $69k (nice).

    Both can get a lot more expensive with options after that. The top end Corvette crossing $150k and the top end (not yet available I don’t think) Mustang crossing $300k.

    Nothing against people who love mustangs, I think the Coyote engine is one of the best sounding V8s on the market. But I still pull away from them without much effort (unless it’s a GT500) with my 2014 C7 Z51 that I paid less for (used) than they did. Plus as someone with a close friend who has a 2023 GT (the Dark Horse replaced it this year) I get way more attention in my car than he does in his.

    Side note: I love it when children get excited about my car. Just yesterday at the grocery store this mother and her three children walked up to me as I was going in and her ~9 year old son and two daughters wanted to know what kind of car I drove and chatted me up for a few minutes. We ended up leaving the store at the same time and I revved the engine as they walked by and the excitement on the kids faces kept me smiling until bed time!