A few more pics of the, uh, thing, from the seller from a few months ago.

https://www.military.com/video/operations-and-strategy/air-drop-operations/humvee-air-drop-turns-into-epic-fail/4856058772001

Florida’s rocket shot was (mostly) real, they just went overboard with moving shit around and cranking the saturation to eleven. It was set up to win some sort of Facebook contest thing. I posted it in another reply, but the embed seems to have wholly broken what remains of Kinja.

The Florida Highway Patrol entry (#7) is edited, obviously, but not as much as you think.

I’m biased, but I agree.

Their selection of Fortune Tormenta M/T tires tells me all I need to know about the build. Also, the rest of it.

I think your AI image generator might be drunk.

I honestly admire their lack of effort.

Jonny Smith’s Late Brake Show video on the car (also cited in the TH video) is absolutely worth a watch on its own. He had the opportunity to drive it before the recent restoration work and also lovingly strolls through a bit more of the original build process.

Gizmodo is on OpenWeb. The three sites are owned by three different companies now.

Prices have crashed on those, they’re in the $7-10k range for a decent example of either a 128i or 328i series.

Hammond had a classic auto restoration shop as a side project, no idea if that’s still a going concern. His other shows tend to be short topical series on things like construction or science themes. Not bad, but more edutainment than entertainment.

Did Tom Cruise ever get to do his orbital project? Maybe he can ride it down into the atmosphere.

Exactly.

I was extremely interested in buying an Aptera when they first came out of stealth mode and announced the vehicles. They weren’t really practical, but they were fantastically distinct, intended to be priced aggressively and the touted efficiency appealed to my inner stat nerd.

Super cool. I was able to see them working on restoring prototype #2 when I passed through the auto museum in Reno about ten years ago. It’s now on display in the main exhibition area somewhere if I recall correctly.

One of my favorite concept cars, just for the sheer audacity of the design.

Phase transition is so friggin’ weird.

Community migration.