"Paulie, did you pack your toothbrush? You know how tobacco stains your teeth..."
"Paulie, did you pack your toothbrush? You know how tobacco stains your teeth..."
I want to build one.
1. I just hate not being in charge of my own journey. GPS often doesn't know the little local shortcuts or if a slightly more circuitous route is actually quicker due to less traffic, lights, etc.
Get rid if the current roadster and coupe thingy, make it mid-engined with the JCW power train, maybe revive one of the old names BMW owns like Austin Healey or Sprite. Would be a seriously fun car if they did it.
I'd rock it just because it has "Cyborg" in its name.
For some reason I thought those were a cool design when I was a kid. I was a weird kid.
The Orange Arrows was quite pretty, but the Asiatech sticker on the nose says it all. Recycled Peugeot engine that wasn't very competitive to begin with.
Biggest budget (supposedly), had all of the prices there to make it it happen yet they could never seem to break out of the "best of the rest". A complete boondoggle compared to their WRC efforts in the 1990's.
my dad had an '87 T-bird, not a turbo coupe, but it was black withers velour inside. He sold it when I was 14, I was so mad!
One trip to Iraq, two to Afghanistan have left me with a soft spot for "bongo trucks". They're odd looking workhorses, but you can haul a lot of crap in these, and they'll pretty much run forever with minimal maintenance. Plus driving a cab over is kind of novel, a little more space efficient.
I've loaded a Toyota Hilux, countless 463L pallets (Air Force pallets), but never a Hummvee. Impressive indeed, the crew chief would have to be pretty good, especially if this was done as a "hot load" (rotors turning, usually time sensitive). I'd be worried about bumping into something fragile and expensive!
Can the Fiat even reach the required 88 MPH?
I wish I would have thought of it first. Whoever runs Best Made has to be making a mint.
I'm fairly certain one of my flights back to the US from Kyrgyzstan (flying home from Afghanistan) was a chartered 737. We had to make a total of 4 stops, compared to 1 in a 747. Was the longest flight ever, even excluding that we had to touch back down and have them do a pressurization test because the cabin door…
Not like this is really anything new, just a new method. Anyone with knowledge of how to operate an engine lathe and a Bridgeport mill, not to mention CNC turning centers and mills, could build their own gun if they wanted to. Granted, not everyone has access to these, or CAD/CAM software, but it's not like a 3D…
My first car, a 1988 Pontiac Grand Prix, had a 5-speed manual backing it's 2.8l V-6. I think I've only seen one other like that in person, not sure if any other W bodies had manuals.
Had one of those on my 1993 Mazda Protege. Threw it out and stuck a faux suede one on and a much more attractive MOMO knob.
The Japanese Kaiten sub of WW2. Basically it was a human guided torpedo. Weird because it's express intent and purpose was a suicide submarine.
Don't they own the names Morris and Austin? They could have just put that in the Mini lineup as the Mini Minor... Sure reviving long dead marques with reputations that were ruined by the BL days, but it would be better than diluting the brand's image. Or this is all nonsense. People will pay more to have a badge, even…
Also, from my experience on sport bikes, there is some lash between where the dogs slot into the gears. This allows for the quick clutchless shifts. While it makes for some minor clunkiness in traffic when rolling on and off the throttle on a bike (it was really noticeable on my Ducatis, not as bad on my Triumph), I'd…