My take would be: Buying a car for normal, hardworking people is always on paper a bad financial decision. You are always going to lose money. The question is, how do you manage your exposure?

My guess would be belts/chains were not strong enough and too prone to stretching, and therefore cams needed to be gear driven. So they were placed as near to the crank as possible.

These days, they're usually some form of moulded piece. In the olden days when they were fabric, a combination of glue and tensioned metal frame (kind of like those pop up tents).

"Gimme a carton of Low Birth Weights" - Bill Hicks

Jesus how old is that picture? Six quid a packet? What is this 2004? I mean I.....oooh hello soft pack Marlboro Reds....mmmmmm.

The F4 Phantom. Aerodynamic proof of the theory that anything will fly as long as you put a big enough engine in it.

This sure as hell won't be popular, but my understanding is the Elmiraj concept was designed at the (now closed) GM advanced studio in the UK.

You mean a Canadian Tuxedo?

That would be a Bernie Ecclestone quote, I believe...

Please tell me your American hipsters are not into Mumford & Sons.

In the BBC commentary David Coulthard made reference to Ricciardo "doing a Nigel and selling him a dummy".

I daily drove a '79 for about two years.

I don't often post selfies, but when I do, they're with Daniel Simon:

They end up falling in love, consummating the relationship and producing a future leader of the Jalopnik Resistance, Patrick Ballaban??

As a Brit, we are much closer culturally to America than to Europe.

That's lovely. Tasteful mods, good colour combination. Nice work.

Approved.

"Blake, I know you're in there. I can hear the ice cubes."

I think it's a Ducati 600 Pantah, but I'm not an expert on the old Ducatis.

I completely and utterly agree. There is nothing personal or particularly interesting here that we haven't seen before.