Now this guy sounds GRM

I'm thinking this guy needs to be interviewed for a future edition. Interviewer: "I've driven at Mazda Laguna Seca, Road Atlanta and Sebring, how about you?" "I've driven on the moon." Interviewer: "Oh . . . um . . . ok. I once made a catch can out of my son's sippy cup, how about you?" "I made a fender, from a map . . . and duct tape . . . on the moon."

Come on, tell me this wouldn't be an awesome interview: http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2012/12/19/out-this-world-driver-eugene-cernan-recounts-his-ride-on-moon/?intcmp=features

LOL. Kazoo, you belong in a tree. You're a nut.

Beach chairs for seats? That a hillbilly rig!

Pffft. He had a team of thousands of professional engineers develop his vehicle, had it delivered to the track at some incredible shipping cost and left it behind without even trying to part it out.

Sounds like a goddamn primadonna to me

Giant Purple Snorklewacker wrote: Pffft. He had a team of thousands of professional engineers develop his vehicle, had it delivered to the track at some incredible shipping cost and left it behind without even trying to part it out. Sounds like a goddamn primadonna to me

IDK, he strapped himself into something with a billion horsepower, built buy a government committee and controlled remotely from Texas. That took some stones.

pinchvalve wrote: IDK, he strapped himself into something with a billion horsepower, built buy a government committee by suppliers that bid the lowest and controlled remotely from Texas. That took some stones.

FTFY

Not necessarily true, but in general its the way the governemnt works

So, if you were on a moon mission today, would you sneak a GRM sticker onto your modern lunar rover?

Gearheadotaku wrote: So, if you were on a moon mission today, would you sneak a GRM sticker onto your modern lunar rover?

Yes, but only on a promise from GRM that my "dork status" would be raised above GPS's and that the rover would be featured in "Reader's Rides"

Read his book.

Gearheadotaku wrote: So, if you were on a moon mission today, would you sneak a GRM sticker onto your modern lunar rover?

You could sneak on some of those little novelty cones and have the first SPACE AUTOCROSS

GameboyRMH wrote:

Gearheadotaku wrote: So, if you were on a moon mission today, would you sneak a GRM sticker onto your modern lunar rover?

You could sneak on some of those little novelty cones and have the first SPACE RALLYCROSS

Fixed it for you.

From the article:

"However, in what could be the most heroic gearhead moment of all time, Cernan created a makeshift fender by duct taping a couple of maps together and fastening them to the vehicle with a set of light clips."

Duct tape on the Moon, folks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzHEyUkyt9Y