Happy Fathers' Day To Everyone Except This Guy With His Taycan

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We will have the members’ open thread tomorrow; I had both a long haul back from Grattan Raceway today and I’m working the evening. I want to wish a happy Fathers’ Day to my readers for whom it applies.

In the meantime, I’d like to recommend my former colleague Kyle “Toby” Kinard’s article at Hodinkee. Those of you who have subscriptions at The Free Press are encouraged to read this piece by Nicholas Clairmont about, for lack of a better phrase, voluntary fatherhood.

Just for fun, I also want to share the following photos with you. A reader sent me a link to the Instagram account of a fellow who did a custom chocolate-Alantara wrap and some custom electrical work to adapt a GT3 Cup car steering wheel sans airbag to… a Taycan.

When I make my personal list of “cars that shouldn’t have a driver’s side airbag,” there just aren’t any 5000-pound EVs on it. I leave it for the reader to decide whether the racing wheel in the (mall) shopping cart is better or worse than this:

Yup, that’s a fake, er, “tribute” 917 plywood shift knob adapted to the automatic transmission selector of an SUV.

There’s something to be said about the philosophy athatnd meaning behind making street cars imitate race cars, but that isn’t what I wrote on the page:

What sort of mindset says “I’m so eager to pretend that I’m driving a race car that I’ll cheerfully go headfirst into an aluminum plate with chocolate Alcantara on it?”