Occassional Cortex is irrelevant. What she believes or plans has no bearing outside the four walls of her office where reality exists. Inside are where the unicorns and fairy dust and 21 trillion pentagon dollars are just taking up space waiting to be spent.
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Take all my stars for referencing Jim Croce. He’s buried about fifteen minutes from my house. A great musician and songwriter.
They don’t call trucker speed trucker speed because librarians use it. I’m going with trucker speed.
Don’t know from the complaint. The complaint just let’s us know he wants out and all the things that are not original in the car … but the car was not listed as original. It was listed as restored. He cites the engine being period correct but not the one on the original build sheet. Well it wasn’t represented to be in…
It depends on what you want from an old car. Some people are in it for the styling, the beautiful rounded lines that modern high strength steels make it very hard to accomplish on modern cars. Those people love resto/mods, which is fine since the body shells are often just that, picked over shells from junk yards.…
Yup. I remember the first time I went to GM at Carlisle, and walking through mile after mile of new parts for old cars I realized that I could build a ‘65 GTO just out of remanufactured parts at that show frame on up. I have also spent the past ten years looking for a ‘65 Pontiac Tempest coupe base with 6 Cyl. and…
Check out my Alfa Romeo story above. That's is exactly what a faker did. Built a whole new car around a VIN number.
Fascinating! The problem with creating a standard is that you then tell those who want to exactly what they have to do to get away with it. It promotes the behavior you are trying to stifle.
Good points. For racers the object is to win and the car a tool.
He came up with a nice solution. After rescission, he sold the now known fake car as a tribute car and got the bulk of his money out of it, so it worked out as OK as it was going to, and the buyer got a pretty cool car to drive around even if it wasn’t real.
Engine swaps were the norm in sports car racing up through the 1970's. Raced engines need constant engine out rebuilds, which would interfere with racing seasons so rebuild shops would rebuild one then swap it for the next to come in to speed lead times. It made for happy customers. In the sports car world, Ferraris,…
You get a cookie! Exactly, company lawyers are not your lawyers especially when national interests are also concerned. Ghosn should have had his own counsel negotiating with Nissan and Renault counsel concerning the purchase of homes, compensation, whatever, and that lawyer should have kept a file of signed…
Great article Justin. I learned a lot
Me too. Should I hashtag that? Probably not. It is probably a weird rando thing to do.
I think about this sometimes. It almost never comes up any more. Back when I was a kid driving around cars broke all the time, and it was usually stupid stuff to do with points or distributors or carb chokes that you could actually do something about on the side of the road just so they could drive home and see their…
It’s a joke … sheesh, and actually I knew that, but the phrase sounded the best. The funny thing to me isn’t the engine anyway, it is the idea of a canvas and spruce vehicle passing DOT impact tests and structural requirements. That’s funny. I was looking at a British bodied Hispano on Bring a Trialer last month that…
What no L5? How can Audi get along without it?
As soon as the Sopwith Camel passes DOT.
That’s a normal car guy reaction. Thing don’t work; hit with mallet; get home switch cars; get parts; fix then drive.