Really happy to see you guys putting up pics and describing the venues. Mitch,Dan and Hustlestuff, you guys can all go suck it!!! Im really jonesing now....Truth be told, I need to see this stuff to keep my motivation up. Otherwise my ADD will set in and I may work on a truck instead.

Emil - 72Swinger... you're welcome to drive my car if we ever meet up somewhere!... road course, pylon autocross, etc. I hope to eventually get back into actual competition events.. I did the pylon autocrossing forever (1975~2002, and an accasional one here/there); since about 2009 I've been doing hi-speed road course lapping events (but at a minimal as $$ is tight)...

I suggest searching and joining a couple of clubs that host and put on sanctioned events... pylon autocrossing is low cost (~$25-$50/day, and some are 2-day events ... gets you about 5-10 minutes of track time/day avg speed ~40-55mph), while road course events are more expensive (~$135-250-275 per day, maybe $350/wknd of 2-days... giving you about 90-120 minutes of road course time avg speed ~55-85mph.. some a little higher mph). Clubs like cool cars that can also become their wheel-to-wheel race day "Pace Cars"... instead of the usual Toyota or Camaro/Mustang. Also, just making the typical drive to/from the events is cool in our cars.

Most clubs have good social gatherings after the race day or into the evening/overnight (BBQ, club parties/banquets, etc)... plus you meet new friends .. maybe even a spouse/wife!

The possibility always exists that she could become faster than you... in your own car... then what do you do???... (take credit for teaching her all that she's learned?)

I know a woman that did that, and that was before she married her husband, in his car, on the drag strip tho, she was quicker. A friend said she was a good driver so I let her drive my highly modded '67 390 Mustang with a 4-spd and she had no trouble with it or the clutch, even on a hill from a stop at the stoplight.

All the time. Prepping for Laguna Seca USCA event in March. Also hitting Portland in August.

Yes... Bob Boyce owns a few of them.. and he frequently has Mopar vintage driver Brian Garcia (#48 67 B'Cuda.. Gurney-ized TransAm car) driving his blue Cheeta.. they are wickedly fast.. running away from the pack!

2013 was the first year i sat out doing laps on Watkins Glen International since 1992. For many yrs I ran 2 events per yr. I have run plenty of junk on the track. 96 Dodge Intrepid ES, 200? SRT10 pickup, 1979 Chrysler Newport, 1970 Charger R/T, 1970 AAR Cuda.

Don't laugh now..but the intrepid would hit 112 on the back straight.

The Charger handled the best, but is big fat n heavy.

The AAR was a hoot because it had HP and a 4 speed and handled great for a car with no frame ties. I ran hundreds of laps with that beast. 130 on the back straight. The corner workers always commented about it's exhaust note from the 416/340.

The truck, well I am not impressed at all. 125 on the back straight trying really hard not to crash or miss a shift. Had I been tied the seat well maybe I would have had more fun. [5 pt belts]

The chrysler was a backup car and did well for a 4 door downsized boat.

Some Junk

I try to get in a couple of autocrosses every year. The last track day was this fall on the infield roadcourse at Gateway. It was a medium speed charity event and I happened to be driving my DD Mustang that day.