“Hines’ chunk of granite comes with a certificate, verifying its flatness down to 0.00004 inches.”

I dont know. McLaren is British and what you’re describing sounds like the start to a Bond film. Dont want to spoil the ending but it doesnt look good for you.

Metal expands and contracts with temperature. Not sure if there is anything as dimensionally stable in all conditions as granite and it’s certainly less brittle than anything you can cast that isn’t metal.

“You know how, on an old Nintendo game, you blow in the cassette, push it in just enough to make it work? Getting this thing to fire up is like that,” he says of the old computer. “You have to make sure the sun dial is set correctly.”

Based on the title, I thought this was going to be a list of reader-submitted stories from auto technicians sharing their best and worst tales from this past year.

A curse upon those who borrow tools and don’t bring them back.

You’re totally hitting on her. Don’t you know the rest of us can read your comments...LOL

I know how to ride a horse, but that is simply because I was allowed to put a saddle on my au pair growing up and ride her around the house.

Sounds like Mr. Kazemi can’t drive.

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Well, then give ME your extra torques, your horsepowers, your huddled kilowatts yearning to drive free, the wretched refuse of your overpowered fleet. Send these, the low-mile, garage queens to me, I lift my headlamp beside the garage door!

“While Patrick never won a top-level championship in IndyCar or NASCAR…”

Build date 4/20/2016

“a revered former american automaker “

Not to be pedantic or anything, but wouldn’t a ‘simulated weight’ imply that its not an ACTUAL weight??

Considering the issues with the obviously shoddy resto work, a collector would need to be pretty green to consider this a NP because there’s a lot of rework lurking there that a serious collector wouldn’t be able to ignore.