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Alex Ripstein

@axelripper.bsky.social

Ex racecar guy

171 Followers  |  113 Following  |  980 Posts  |  Joined: 21.08.2023  |  1.9953

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Engine turned gold leaf

10.08.2025 22:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Imo let power retire

10.08.2025 22:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Wait I retract this. He said 97 but the mic is bad. The show is only up to 25 years old so the newer ones aren't allowed yet but foxes are if there were any around anymore

10.08.2025 20:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Their Thunderbird class ended at 1977 because "that's when the last one was made"

10.08.2025 20:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

There was a 1 of 1 69 mustang here because it was the only one in that color with an auto, ac and manual drum brakes but I'm fairly certain I saw a brake booster

10.08.2025 20:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Also why did they start trophies at 330 for a 28 class show that started at 8am in August?

10.08.2025 20:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Boomers: complain about participation trophies

Also boomers: car show trophies for the top 3 of each class, split into production or modified, in 10 year increments 1930-2000

10.08.2025 20:05 β€” πŸ‘ 27    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

It's a shame but at the same time, kudos to him for actually pushing it

10.08.2025 02:37 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Call up Helio

09.08.2025 23:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

And yes they have this for some teenagers to do pulling

09.08.2025 20:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Kids garden tractor pulling. You want the most pure form of racing? Here you go.

09.08.2025 19:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A wheel horse was my first go cart. It had a hole in the side of the block that had been patched over in the late 80s

09.08.2025 19:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Welcome to New York

09.08.2025 18:05 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

The only bigger I can think of is backing up a hay trailer at all

09.08.2025 16:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

For some reason spotify thinks I'm near Pittsburgh.

09.08.2025 10:48 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I really wonder if that type of broadcast could be decent with a good booth, but i doubt we'll ever know

09.08.2025 00:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
The illustrated guide to a Ph.D.

I thought this was an xkcd, but nope.

matt.might.net/articles/phd...

07.08.2025 23:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

They didn't say anything about what their PhD was in.

In this case, engineering

07.08.2025 22:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

We got gifted 2 king beds, so both my kids have them. Can confirm there aren't any kids sheets in king size either

07.08.2025 00:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Issue with that is there's very few caged karts around here for some reason

06.08.2025 22:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ideal would be just two for the kids to drive around home, but i would want to get them proper karts and just put dirt tires on them to drive around.

06.08.2025 22:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Yes, that i don't want to spend $10k on karts

06.08.2025 22:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The problem with wanting to buy a kart for my 6 year old is that my 4 year old will want one as well.

And I'll have to get one for myself as well.

And probably my wife as well.

06.08.2025 22:43 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I mean the other problem is I have 2 kids that aren't yet to the age of actually being helpful

05.08.2025 00:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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My problem isn't necessarily that I didn't have the shop, but that i had a shop then moved where I didn't have a shop anymore

05.08.2025 00:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hopefully by this winter I'll have concrete and be able to come up with better excuses as to why I have 3 non running project cars in the same garage that I'm not working on

04.08.2025 23:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

My excuse is that I'm still waiting on concrete in my shop so I can actually find all the tools I've lost in the overcrowded house garage in the past 2 years

04.08.2025 23:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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I don't even have the deep in the woods excuse

04.08.2025 23:20 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh that's right he never finished with roh did he?

04.08.2025 01:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Wait havoc is getting booked again too? Next thing you'll tell me Scurll is back in aew

04.08.2025 01:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

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