His greatest contribution was to the vernacular of Her Majesty’s constabulary: upon being stopped for speeding a British driver can expect to be asked..

Did they have a C130 full of AA batteries fly onto the base just for you? Jesus.

“this old MG isn’t unreliable enough!”

Heard Concorde coming into Heathrow once whilst having a BBQ in a friends front garden. It was Pimms spillingly loud (he lived under the flight path).

The F4 Phantom. Proof of the theory anything will fly if you put a big enough engine in it. 

With the pilots in shirt sleeves. Once she lands, run a vacuum up and down the aisle, pop some fresh flowers in the bathroom and she’s ready for the return home, in time for tea.

Came here to say this.

That’s a P5B saloon, not a coupe. The coupe’s have rear quarter light windows :D

Jesus. That’s not a dog. It’s a horse in a dog costume.

Most people forget it was a transitional year, before the turbos were banned in 1989. Most teams made do with their 1987 cars with smaller 150 litre fuel tanks, or made do and mend (ie Williams).

Synopsis: A crazy old man takes a high school kid to a parking lot late at night to show him a surprise he’s keeping in a van. Later on that same high school kid has to avoid having sex with his mum. 

I think the original at the moment for me looks a little dated mainly due to it’s simplicity. But it was regarded as a masterpiece at the time and in due course will pass into the pantheon of copper bottomed greats.

The simplicity, the economy of line, the geometric precision. These are things people associate with Bauhaus, even though that’s not really what the ethos of Bauhaus was all about. 

For about thirty seconds with the mechanics in the test booth with their fingers in their ears? 

Because of how an open differential works, there are some situations where it would get you precisely nowhere. If one wheel has no grip (say off roading with one wheel up in the air, or one wheel on ice, the other on tarmac) that wheel will simply spin and the ironically the wheel with grip receives no power.

I’ve never driven one, but am old enough to remember them being on the roads. My educated guess is that they weren’t terrible cars per se, just awfully built, butt ugly and technically outdated (compared to say, a Mk1 Golf). 

I expect cars, like myself, dispensed with the need for ‘feelings’ long ago.

And if you did it in a manual you’d create a lot of lovely burnt clutch smell and then stall the engine. 

I think, the short answer is yes, generally very second hand cars in the UK are considerably cheaper than the the US (although I’ve often thought US second hand car prices are insane).

Also he would never swap his numbers. Not only is this not allowed by F1 regulations, he’s built a brand partially around that number.