Some guy in the Murrayfield area of Edinburgh had a Ford Probe with A80RTS on the license plate. I used to pass it almost every day and I really wondered about the owners morality. I mean.... A Ford Probe for goodness sake. So tasteless!

Dude, why is your rear number plate on the front?

Your words are correct, but the picture shows an ex-Great Western Railway ‘Pannier’ tank loco, built in 1930. London Transport bought a bunch of them, but they were mostly used on the above-ground parts of the network and for engineering trains. The 1896 No. 1 loco had a condenser so there was way less steam in the…

Not enough stars... Maybe not enough people here speak pidgin German.

“Replaced with 14ga. steel” So now the poor car weighs more than it did before the chop. Good work!

On an Imp, it's called a tailgate, because it opens.

Am I the only one who sees Ford Puma ? Waaay nicer, of course, but there's a definite resemblance

My 1987 Renault Espace had a set of 3 FIAMM horns from new. They scared the shit out of everyone within a mile radius. The musical ones were banned in the UK from 1973, but I do remember a lot of teenagers in Capris had them through the early 1980's.

IIRC, Ford Cortinas (3rd gen) had a very similar handle.

I think it is because European and North American trailers have very different structures. In Europe, a trailer has a rigid frame made of 10" or deeper steel channels, with a load bed or box bolted to it. In North America, most box trailers are “stressed skin” construction, where the floor and side panels all form a…

My first thought also. No way does an interior look that bad after only 66k miles

Absolutely right, plus, you’re not supposed to overtake where there is a long white stripe in the centre of the road. It’s 10 years since I last read the Highway Code, so I can’t give you chapter and verse.

What is wrong with everyone? This is brilliant! It is fantastically tasteless, and it sticks two middle fingers up to all the pampered garage queens (and their cars) that inhabit the world of stateside classics. This is a Miata as imagined by Liberace. On acid.

Pretty sure that poles were always available to pole vaulters.......

Would this have come with steel 13" wheels from new? They look like 15" rims, which makes me wonder if the owner has messed up the clearances to the wheel well, struts etc.

So first Tokyo, then London, now LA is claiming that this is a huge innovation in safety. Edinburgh has had this type of traffic light phasing since at least 1987.

Ah, I see. It’s all a long time ago now, but I vaguely remembered that the carbon driveshaft was intended to twist slightly to make up for the slight difference in front and rear wheel speed when turning, but I didn’t realize there was a viscous coupling as well.

Was the UN-7 transaxle used in the Renault Espace Quadra? I believe they had a Carbon-Fibre driveshaft to the rear wheels, presumably because the transmission didn’t include a centre differential.

Yes, though the bugeye Sprite platform originated with the Austin A30 of 1952. This was also the first appearance of the A-Series engine that was in production right up to the end of the classic Mini in 2000. The first version was something like 803cc.

‘His breeders were Douglas Horn, Douglas Johnson and Dee Duffy”