A prescient photo from Automobile magazine.
I always thought the hairdo would have made convenient handles...
I'm assuming that the test car was "Competition Orange"?
I effin hate my poverty.
The interior of my classic Mini is much more spacious than the second gen modern that we owned for a while. The downside that you would not want to hit anything solid in the classic. No padding, no airbags just a punched ticket to a handshake with Jesus.
I see what you did there
OK, I’m a geek:
Did anyone else notice the big white sign with his IQ posted on it?
Preach it, brother!
Cue the "Unauthorized Appropriation of Likeness" lawsuit in 3-2-1...
I submitted "Highway Blue". I think I used more brain cells than the winner.
No, no, no - that's where they put the fire IN the cars.
I have sppedy too-door car; with manuel shift. It's' blue. I can right well. This is all suck.
One of the great things about the internet is that if you can take a pair of mechanical arms and somehow connect them to a 18" high pile of mulch, that pile can type opinion articles for a website. Which seems to be precisely what's happened here, in this Car Connection article about why sports cars are now irrelevant.
Beauty Leopard. It is neither.
Well, imagine it like this: diagonal tires were like tough balloons. Radials on the other hand have a series of cord plies reinforcing the tire, making them much more solid and reliable.
These are the remains of the Linder-Nocker E-Type after the fatal crash noted in the post.
Torch, it's so sunny outside my window, but my Jalopnik so grey...