Are you putting the Maita motor into the plane so you can deliver it to someone who cares?

If you're that precious about it, how do you leave your car in a parking lot? If you can afford the car, it's just a car. Even if it's nice/cool.

Yeah, Edsel was super inconsistent. I had a 59 Corsair, which was their fanciest that year. It was basically a Fairlane, but the motor was a little bigger (361 vs 352) and it had easily double the acreage of chrome when compared to its little brother. The same year Mercury was a much larger car, and you could order it…

Mercury was just a Ford level spec in a bigger Lincoln body. Obvious application as a family car probably meant plenty of marketing as a lady friendly car.

I’m not sure you mixed up Mercury and Edsel. It’s kind of an opinion at best. The plan in 1958 was:

It’s like the author points out, the record reflects the technology of the time. It will take a long time for batteries and chargers to match gasoline refills and giant tanks. Until then, it’s game on. Technology will drive records more than extra-legal velocities.

Its a 2011. You have five years and counting of legal motors. Many fine aftermarket machines are built in California by people with more imagination than you.

Try typing those instructions non-stop for two hours strait. That should give you the experience you’ll get in Dallas or Houston. Go on, it’s not so bad!

All the people saying it’s not that bad

So middling mid 20’s for mileage is where we set the bar for this one?

Really? I mean, it's been a decade since I sold mine, but I recall the mileage of the NA to be stunningly unimpressive. Like low to mid 20s. That's par for a full size car these days.

Sometimes, 1.79 gallons is all you need

Yeah! It was such a shitty investment that he got twenty years of joy out of it. FFS, it was a race car not an investment vehicle. selling to fund retirement is probably a nice way of saying “I’m getting too old for this shit”

Motors, propellers and wings are ALL fairly sophisticated bits of technology. I get that the supporters of bikes as an answer are referring to the “social technology" or whatever, but still. Bicycles ain't no airplanes.

My old 59. It was pretty, had a vagina nose, and taught me that looking at 50s cars is more fun than driving/owning them.

Anybody else wonder about these “nice swaps” with paltry post-conversion miles? 6k isn't even a year of regular use.

The 510 and S13 like the old SCC project cars!? Man I miss those days. It would be nice if a mag could do half as well with their projects as you guys did

I built this little guy back in the late 90s

I owned an NA for a number of years, and I have had the misfortune of driving a handful of Versas. Even my old 94 was more comfortable than a brand new Versa. I just contend that that says more about the discomfort of the new car than the comfort of the old one. If you really seriously have to buy new for some weird…