From my European standpoint and going by  the evidence I see in the press, on TV and on the internet, he just doesn’t seem to be that bright. Would you say that was a fair assessment?

Can you design them a new grille next?

My favorite Bucky Fuller factoid: he and his wife died within hours of each other. This (from wiki) is one of the most touching end-of-life stories I have ever read. I just hope my wife and I get to go the same way, but the chances against it are pretty high:

And beat this for a quote (from the C&G website):

“Having worked with Fuller in the 1970s, the eminent architect Norman Foster decided...”

A company called Crosthwaite and Gardiner in England has built one for the architect Lord Norman Foster (Reichstag and various other genius things to his credit). I’m sure they’d be happy to assist with parts sourcing...

Funnily enough, one of the features of thre original (and of all Citroëns until the early 80s) was that the turn signals didn’t self-cancel. So if they have been true to the original and included that feature, this could actually be quite useful...

And apart from the rear turn signals it has absolutely nothing in common with the DS and isn’t worthy of being mentioned in the same breath. The current so-called DS range is a range of completely unexceptional cars that don’t ‘move the envelope’ on one iota and certainly don’t challenge any other car makers - simply…

The ‘snake oil and unicorns’ is a reference to the fact the electric vehicles are being marketed as a panacea by governments in exactly the same way that propane ones were in Europe around 20 years ago (there even used to be a government rebate if you bought one). Governments tend to jump on the bandwagon of whatever…

If you’re a Lancia restorer who lives near Manchester (as I was), you get to do it quite often - I used to drive from somewhere in Italy to Manchester around 6-10 times a year. I am now retired and I do it less, but I still do long towing trips probably 10 times a year (way too many for it to be economic to rent a…

It’s because Bill Mitchell was in charge of design at GM. He was Quite. Simply. A Genius. I was a kid in England at the time, but my Corgi models of the Olds Toronado, Buick Riviera and others simply blew me away, and in lots of ways still do. 65/66 Cadillac, 63 Riviera, 65-69 Corvair, Corvette Stingray, 67 Camaro, 67…

See my reply above. Yes it is...

They are fantastic to drive, but they are much less well built than the 50s ones. Get a good one though, and you will love it. BUT, and it’s a big but, EVERY panel is structural, so you can’t buy one with rusty rocker panels and be confident that the rest of the car will carry you though, because a) the rockers are…

I live in Europe and until recently I used to have a propane-powered Volvo 940 towcar with a range of around 140 miles when towing, so I have ‘pre-tested’ what EV life will be like. Believe me, it sucks. A while back I towed a trailer containing a Lancia Integrale from Catania, Sicily, to Manchester, England. It is…

Haha - sorry, didn’t see this for ages. The clue is in my Jalopnik ID - they are Appias. Appias are the small version of the Aurelia - you get a compact sedan built to the same standards as a $1,000,000+ car, and looking pretty much like a shrunken version of it, for $5-10000

Prettiest wedge of all was a Lotus. But it wasn’t a road car.

WHAT HAVE THEY STUCK TO THE FRONT OF THAT THING?

Great stuff, but why nothing about rust prevention? Rust kills cars, especially in the north in winter. Once you have driven on a car with dissolved salt on it and the salt spray has forced its way into box sections and cavities it can’t be hosed out and it is there for ever - the water dries, the salt is deposited on…

I might be biased (I founded the 130 owners’club in 1982 - see letter in Issue 3 of Classic and Sportscar magazine), but in my not so humble opinion the Gamma is a disaster compared with the 130 - fussy, too much black rubber, proportions all wrong, absolutely terrible finish, grilles never fit, horrible interior…

Try moving to Europe - you can multiply those figures by 5

Tings are so tough now, aren’t they? Back before the TSA existed, when you could basically do what you wanted and there was a 60 lb limit on international checked items, I took a 47 Chevy transmission (weight: 59 lbs) as a core from England (I am English) to RDU in my checked baggage on an American Airlines flight, and…