I know the Vanagon in many objective measures is worse. Don't care. It's curtains for me, Mugsy.

I actually like the '73 best of the C3s for that combination, and it's just before the engines were completely EGRed/detuned to hell and gone, but after they went through the body to tighten things up and reduce rattles. Were I to own one, it'd be the '73 small block manual, but preferably in the T-top.

It's especially fun that the EPA conducted human exposure tests with diesel particulates recently. Actual human tests. They're arguably mad with power.

And yet, they say a Wankel diesel is unfeasible.

Too true. All the same, you can't help but give Skorzeny props for being such a pure dramatic Hollywood villain. So few Nazis had has level of gusto in that respect.

I can't believe that pun was missed. Or moosed. Whatever.

#3 on your list is my favorite.

Performance wise, I wonder if adding such a thing increases foot-lb of toke. Illegal modifications indeed.

Much hairier would be the takeoff from Gran Sasso during WWII in Operation Eiche, the freeing of Mussolini. A 200 foot run near boulders on the side of a mountain with an overloaded plane. Unfortunately, I'm not sure any footage exists (some footage of the raid was taken for propaganda).

Here's a Fieseler Storch taking off. One of these was used by the Germans to prison break Mussolini.

Smoke it over for a while, and get back to me. Maybe go do some burnouts to get in the right state of mind. If you come up with anything, pass it around.

Is attaching a mary-jane repository to a car more a kind of reeferbishing or just hemprovement? Does removing it make one's ride harsh? Is exhaust tone a little weedy or actually mellow? If on a German car is it an Autobong? Does it count as a particulate trap?

Since it was cited in the QOTD, it's not on the list. The unwritten rule is that the COTD example is kind of an unofficial #11, since just reposting the example is silly.

In Soviet Russia, moose dives under YOU.

You might have noticed the height was listed as an approximate for convenience. That wasn't a coincidence. On a hunch, I checked if it was a round-up from the listed height in inches, and it was (50.6).

He said "inch and a half", which is not 1/2", but 1_1/2". It seems you stop reading at reading.

You left out SCIENCE history. Ordinary animal/automotive history lacks rigor.

Is it is? I do think it do be!

"Average size car"

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