That’s okay, Manche. I’m fairly sure I know the car I’m gonna drive, but I remember from reading the BSLL thread that there were rules that encouraged trying weird things that may have not been entirely… advantageous to racing.
And no, I haven’t even tried seeing what I can get out of that V6, even in other cars. I’m keeping completely blind on what that engine can do.
Very late edit: Actually, I’m not so sure of what I’m going to drive. I don’t really want to drive the glitch wagon after a bit of consideration. Mostly because I see this as kinda part of Luke’s origin story. To make a long story short, Luke’s the kind of guy who sees a bunch of super cars on a race track and wants to race them in his truck. So for him to receive an invite to the Tour (the founder left him the entire business, after all, including unread emails) and have to go through quite a bit to get here, it doesn’t seem right that he’d show up in a small station wagon when his mindset would be more along the idea of a big truck in a touring car race.
As for the character… Luke’s not as crazy as Team BSLL was. Slightly obsessed with racing, enjoys having too much horsepower, and insists that he’s capable of doing “just about anything” that a human can do, despite being metal, wires, and circuits. Things he’d enjoy would be doing burnouts, tweaking the fuel map on an EFI system, playing with carburettors and mechanical fuel injection, and getting covered in axle grease.
So as for the vehicle I think Luke will arrive in, I’m sorely tempted to do a 1950’s era pickup truck, just because it seems more like his character to show up for a touring car race in a big, heavy steel pickup truck. As for engine… not quite sure just yet. Need to do a bit of research and figure out what the usual engine was for that era of truck.