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  April 30, 2011 9:28 p.m. JoeyM SuperDork

  http://www.cracked.com/article_19175_the-6-most-terrifying-historical-car-races.html

  Like any sport that relies on a combustible engine and hundreds of pounds of sharply angled metal, car racers generally accept a certain amount of mortal liability when they compete. Today, there are tight safety precautions to ensure that the threat of death and mayhem is minimized as much as possible, but none of that would have been possible if not for the lawless absurdity and charred corpses early motorsports kept spitting out. With that, here are the races throughout history that catered purely to those who were just plain sick of living.

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  April 30, 2011 9:29 p.m. JoeyM SuperDork

  The year 1903 was a magical time when cars had advanced enough that they could go more than 60 or 70 MPH, but not enough so that any safety measures had been invented.

  914Driver: "Except for us {GRMers} who the hell would build a 1932 Japanese car?"

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  April 30, 2011 10:42 p.m. Cole_Trickle New Reader

  Funny and eye-opening read.

  Hit the Pace Car!

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  April 30, 2011 10:57 p.m. asterisk New Reader

  Pairs well with this: Killed Myself When I Was Young from The Jalopy Journal on Vimeo.

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  May 1, 2011 7:28 a.m. Marjorie Suddard General Manager

  Thanks for the link. I'm a huge fan of cracked.com. Whole lot of goodness there.

  Margie

  Booger

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  May 1, 2011 8:19 a.m. JoeyM SuperDork

  I love their science coverage....they are usually accurate while being fun to read.

  Example:
  http://www.cracked.com/article_19161_the-6-creepiest-things-hiding-in-your-dna.html
  http://www.cracked.com/article_19149_5-bizarre-accidents-that-helped-invent-modern...

  914Driver: "Except for us {GRMers} who the hell would build a 1932 Japanese car?"

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  May 1, 2011 2:27 p.m. Xceler8x SuperDork

  Cracked can't get enough clicks imo. Great articles that are as fun to read as oil wrestling with all the Kardashians.

  You are what you do, when it counts.

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  May 1, 2011 4:26 p.m. friedgreencorrado SuperDork

  I told one of the younger folks that Cracked used to be a print magazine (and competitor to MAD), and he boggled. And yeah, they're still better. I sent the link to their article on the "8 most badassed demonstrators" to my liberal buddies for MayDay.

  How can it be a midlife crisis, when I've driven sportscars my entire life?

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  May 1, 2011 5:11 p.m. SyntheticBlinkerFluid Reader

  hahahaha this is the best:

  See that ridiculous banked curve there, with nothing to keep you from flying off the edge? They called that "The Wall of Death." In case it's not clear on the picture, there is no crash rail around the top of that curve. Get it wrong coming into that corner and you're going to be launched into the goddamn sun. And don't think that didn't actually happen at some point because it totally did.

  '95 Jeep Cherokee / '80 Mazda Rx-7 / '68 Corvair Monza Coupe

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  May 1, 2011 5:15 p.m. keethrax HalfDork

  JoeyM wrote: I love their science coverage....they are usually accurate while being fun to read. Example: http://www.cracked.com/article_19161_the-6-creepiest-things-hiding-in-your-dna.html http://www.cracked.com/article_19149_5-bizarre-accidents-that-helped-invent-modern...

  Well, they pretty much allow anyone to submit lists. So the science (or any other) coverage is only as good as the submitter. Plenty of neat stuff in their lists, but plenty of blatantly wrong stuff too.

  That said, about once a month I get sucked into reading a E36 M3load of cracked lists, because they're awesome.

  '08 Mazdaspeed3, '00 PontiacGrand Prix GT, '99 Metro, '96 Cherokee

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  May 1, 2011 7:14 p.m. novaderrik HalfDork

  friedgreencorrado wrote: I told one of the younger folks that Cracked used to be a print magazine (and competitor to MAD), and he boggled. And yeah, they're *still* better. I sent the link to their article on the "8 most badassed demonstrators" to my liberal buddies for MayDay.

  did that "younger folk" even know that MAD is a magazine that you can buy, and if he did, did he ask if it was based on the tv show?

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