Absolutely, and it varied by marque. Lotus used a yellow-green color, whereas BRM had a strange metallic grey-green on their H16 cars.

You make my words, I’ma get my Grade 10.

I miswired some trailer lights on my S-10 Blazer because of the same issue. All of the lights would work (grounded through the hitch ball), but it would blow a fuse when you put the truck in reverse.

OH MAN. I still have a soft spot for C4 ‘Vettes, especially ‘84's, Cross-Fire Injection and all. That car was a mind-blower when it came out.

The 2 entrances to the DeLorean plant were more a matter of geographic convenience than anything else. The plant is right between the neighborhoods of Dunmurry and Twinbrook, and it would be a long walk around if there was only one entrance. Once inside, the Protestant and Catholic employees worked alongside each…

This is great, in places where the roadway is properly designed. Here in WNY we have so many left-hand exits and lanes merging from the left that it makes proper lane discipline impossible in a lot of places. In one place (the 390/590 split south of Rochester) the left lane of 390N *becomes* the right lane in the…

My dad did something like this, but executed it a lot better. It was 1974, and the plate on the front of his Datsun got ripped off in a car wash and the attendants couldn’t find it. ‘74 Illinois plates were white with red lettering, so he cut a piece of white Formica to shape and hand-lettered it with red Testors…

That’s a C3, isn’t it? There’s a market for those. M’s, L’s and X’s, not so much.

That’s the nature of any evolving technology, though; it must be evaluated in comparison with its contemporaries, rather than with what is available now. I wouldn’t call a Spad 13 “shitty” because it was a fighter plane that could barely crack 150 mph. It still represented the pinnacle of aviaton technology in its…

I have one of these, built on a TR3 chassis, derelict in my yard. The fiberglass body is very well-constucted and well thought-out. It uses a ‘63-’67 Corvette windshield, a Porsche 911 rear window, and (AFAIK) Karmann Ghia side windows (mine are plexi so I’m not sure about that one). The whole front clip lifts forward…

Forklifts are of this configuration.

The ‘67 Datsun I bought recently smells exactly like the ‘66 I parted out 25 years ago. It was a little weird when I first sat in it, like someone walked over my grave.

One interesting side-effect for us DeLorean owners is that once the new powerplant is figured out, we have another option for an engine-swap into our existing cars. PRV parts don’t grow on trees anymore.

In driver’s ed in the 1980's I saw one that must have been produced back in the early’60s or so, with the cooperation of some SCCA region. It was intended to show the dangers of drunk driving and involved having the SCCA guys get progressively tanked and try to negotiate an autocross course in their Austin-Healeys and…

I’m intrigued by the front suspension modifications visible at 1:30. They have replaced the lower control arm with combined swaybar/drag link with a proper lower wishbone.

I always preferred Matchbox cars to Hot Wheels when I was a kid, because of the weird (to an American kid) cars that they produced. Hot Wheels never had anything like a Humber Super Snipe or a Hillman Avenger!

I thought gullwing doors were a gimmick too, until I bought a DeLorean. On such a low car they are practical (since part of the roof comes up with the door, it’s much easier to get in than, say, a Lotus Esprit). And they’re not powered, just counterbalanced with a torsion spring and a gas strut, so they open and close…

That’s not how it works. Engine emissions are measured on a mass basis, in grams per mile. AIR systems inject air into the exhaust manifold adjacent to the exhaust ports, and the hydrocarbons and CO present in the hot exhaust gases combust in the presence of the added oxygen.