The ‘48 Packards weren’t all-new; they were just the ‘41-47 Clipper with extra sheet metal to make the fenders blend, and a less graceful grille. The mechanics went back to ‘41 and the engine went even farther back. At least one car reviewer called this body a “pregnant elephant.”

I don't know how the drivetrain is laid out on this, but it seems like you could fit a Yamaha RD250/350 in there and get an almost scary HP boost. Even the 200 puts out more than the stock engine...but I don't know if I'd want to wait till 7000 RPM for the torque to peak in a car.

Most of my bikes have been more or less impulse buys; they’ve all been old. So I got almost all of them either slightly modified or incomplete. Few of them were models that anyone seemed to think were so legendary that they had to be left stock. My Jawa Californian was almost all stock (Barum tires!) but came to me…

“A completely different car” sounds nice when you’re starting from the Pinto. Swapping the axle and the tank would have demanded some serious restyling, but would have made a much more comfortable car—seats really belong inside the wheelbase if you don’t want to get thrown around like the last few rows in a school…

I never said the ‘71-76 weren’t full size, after all they had to be big enough to hold a 500 cid engine. I just said the pre-71s were nicer.

But ironically, these covers were only around in the days of sealed-beam glass lenses.

Out of the millions of used cars out there, that's almost nothing. And I say that as somebody who has lapped the US in a $3000 RV that I bought in 2018.

I did get my R90/6 started with the kicker a couple of times and only tried it off the bike. And luckily never in traffic.

The reflectors are parabolic; the shape of the lens doesn't matter much.

They’re very different from each other; the light switch is small and round and much closer to the floor. That said, I still have a rig with a floor switch and I have to hunt for it all the time.

Needs a lighter.

I use Google News on Android and 9 out of 10 slide shows just scroll, or I probably wouldn't bother with them.

I have an ‘89 Ford RV with a foot high beam button; it always feels like I have to hunt for it. I’m sure an ‘89 car wouldn’t have had this but the Econoline interior was designed for 1976 and didn’t change much until 1991. I’m old cars it didn’t seem as hard to find. The oldest car I've owned was a '65 Cadillac, and…

My second, third, and sixth cars were VWs: ‘74 Beetle, ‘66 Microbus and ‘82 Rabbit. Every one was like stirring oatmeal. The Microbus came to me with a trashed gearbox—there was a hunk of clothesline tied to the heater knob (which had no other job to do in that thing) and when you shifted into 4th, you threw the…

It was common for the first couple decades of Synchromesh to not have a syncro on 1st. The English stayed with this way too long.

Buick WANTED you to know how huge it was. It was right in the name. How big? A deuce and a quarter!

As Tolstoy said, "Happy families are all alike. Each unhappy family drives a different color Imperial."

The very little rear leg room sounds more like a Lincoln than a Cadillac. My '65 Calais 4 door had tons of room in the back, but also a shorter hood than most Lincolns, at least the ones after the suicide Continental was replaced.

Well, I guess this is better than a camper built around an electric tuktuk, but the countdown of states that are revoking RHD imports’ registrations is picking up speed, so if you’re gonna do it, do it soon.

I had a Toyota-based Class C with a 22RE that would only do 70 downhill...but then look what you'd have to pay for a nice Westfalia, and you can outrun one of those riding a pallet jack.