I’ve got a Topaz CT70H in pretty nice shape.  Time to call BAT.

I saw this bike at the Barber Vintage Festival a few years back. Its a piece of junk. The tank is even rusting out, it was then and you can still see the rust on the bottom edges. Not only is the clutch disconnected, so is the throttle. That carb is just hanging out there. The wheels are 10" BTW.

That’s just wrong. Not the front swingarm “virtual steering”, the engine. Why saddle this work of art (in the Monkey bike realm) with a 49.5 cc engine? Jeez. Daytona themselves made big bore engine kits that would work nicely in this application. I myself have a really nice 124cc big bore Takegawa 4-valve engine…

I happened to watch an old 1954 documentary about an Australian mail hauler named Tom Kruse in the outback called “The Back of Beyond” a couple days ago. There’s a CMP in the film. I think a “C8" but I really don’t know. Rather rough shape even for the 50s.

Isn’t every moving accident preceded by one last drive?

How about changing the law to reflect that ANY first-world country’s motor vehicle safety standards are sufficient for US registration of 25+ year old importable vehicles. (I would say ANY country at all, but hey, baby steps).  This crap was all started at the behest of US auto makers, and even more, Mercedes dealers…

The late radio commentator, Paul Harvey, did a commercial for Chevy Lumina when the last year of production came around.  He said that his listeners should get one and it would someday be a collector’s item.  I guess that day has come.

Don’t even the longest straight sections of road have to turn at some point?  This is a silly argument that the road was at fault because it had a tight turn in it after a long straight.  Were the road designers supposed to put a chicane in it in anticipation of this -overloaded- and recklessly-driven ‘Vette doing…

Darn. I’d love to have one of these. Maybe I should get this.

While I 100% go along with buying the required octane fuel for the engine and generally go along with buying the recommended octane fuel, there are circumstances where you may need to bump up the octane. My old now-dead Ford Windstar 3.8L engine towards the end of its life started knocking on warm days under moderate…

It’s time for them to cash out. Whether BTC is a fad or a genuine store of value with a future, it needs the masses to buy in now. Everybody I know that is holding it has had to cash them out to make the purchases they wanted. Is that the way a currency is supposed to behave?

I suspect much of the “appreciation” is the ballooning of the money supply.  Hang onto your hats when government spending really ramps up.  Hope you don’t have much money in “savings”.

I was fortunate and bought my JDM import bike from a guy who brings in containers of them and sold it to me on a US title. It wasn’t anything fancy, in fact it is a rather mundane little scooter-like bike that we never got here: a Honda CF50 Chaly.  (photo not of mine, but pretty close).

RWD too?  Wow.  I’m not a Ford guy, despite owning a 1999 Windstar for a number of years.  I ASSumed all the Ford minivans were FWD like my Windstar was.

I used to spoof play a lot. It was a way to visit places I’d never get to in a million years. Playing Pokemon Go at McMurdo station Antarctica was interesting. My favorite spots were Taipei Botanical Garden, Sydney Opera House, and Santa Monica Pier. Winning a level 5 Raid battle would have been impossible otherwise.…

Doesn’t look like it. The display on the scanner indicates it was Narrow band FM on 460.150MHz with a Continuous Tone Coded Squelch (CTCS) of 114.8 Hz. Those Chinese Baofeng $30 radios people get on Amazon will do this as well as pretty much every other UHF commercial radio made in the past 20 years with the right…

No question about it. It’s either Curt or Punkinhead Martin.

Reminds me of a story I heard about how IBM managed the books among its divisions. Part of the equation of the balance sheet for each was how much space they used. I was told this while visiting the Charlotte NC campus many years ago. Never mind that IBM owned the whole thing, but it seemed that lots of otherwise…

The god damn Germans got nothin’ to do with it.

If you want a stripped car, you have to search old cars.  I have an 06 Corolla that is bare bones and I’ll be sorry when it dies.  I’ve found some interesting old Honda Civics and Camry’s that fit the bill, but again, you are looking at the value lots or yard sales to find these.  In my area, manual cars are very rare…