“Sometimes I’d open the door, and the inner door panel would separate from the door, and remain in the jam”

Ah ha! That explains it. The bike history books I have that mention the oval piston Honda only covered the GP races so I hadn’t heard about it being used in endurance racing. I suppose it makes sense as it seems like the endurance racing scene was a hotbed of imaginative engineering back then.

I am now extremely conflicted about what action I should take regarding the star button on your post...

Apparently it suffered a glancing blow from the same ugly stick Honda used on the Civic. Well done!

Sadly, yes it is. And I thought the old Ford Ranger was a little bigger than it should have been. The 1990 Mazda B2200 and the 1994 Nissan pickup my family business had as delivery vehicles were just about perfectly sized. The last thing you need when unloading 205 liter drums of aircraft paint stripper by hand is a…

The artificial “steps” on so many CVT’s remind me of the horrible plastic fake wood cladding on 80's Chrysler Town And Country vehicles. The whole thing makes about as much sense as overlaying piston engine noise on the first jets (because that’s what pilots would hav been familiar with) would have. Or for that…

The Honda “oval piston” was banned? I thought they just gave up after a few excruciatingly embarrassing GP seasons with the NR500 in which it never even managed to outperform the last of the MV 500's from 1974.

VW faces their supreme engineering challenge: how to make an electric car that cheats on emissions. Once they get that sorted I’m sure they’ll start producing it.

How could the guy who once did a hovercraft chase sink so low?

Fantastic!

I did watch it and did learn a few things:-) His idea for the “masking” technique on the wheels was particularly interesting.

Clerk: “Will there be anything else?”

I dunno.... to me it looks safer than standing near the exit from the average cars & coffee meetup.

If I charged a ton of money for a 911 build and stuffed a Motor Meister engine in it and couldn’t even be bothered to fit air filters, I would try to keep my whereabouts secret too.

Considerably better than my 2010 AWD Element gets. The best I’ve ever seen is 22.5mpg and it’s usually down around 20mpg. It can’t be all down to my driving style either because when I had a rented convertible Mustang GT Premium this summer for a few days it got 24mpg!

I was a delivery driver, transporting paint and associated chemicals in Vancouver and the Fraser Valley five days a week for years and years. I was never too prone to road rage in the first place but after a few years of that job I had seen just about everything and learned to expect anything and just not give a damn…

Even if they use the term to refer to a makeshift arrangement using (for example) the boom and a jib to get their sailboat underway again after it has been rolled and dismasted in a storm?

If the system is malfunctioning and leaking this can happen, but I’ve never heard of any way to do it deliberately. I trained to be an AME (Canadian equivalent of having an A&P and IA) and I know several AME’s - they’ve all worked on the crapper at one time or another. Lots of old military aircraft had relief tubes…

Imagine how Roy Fedden felt when he found out by the mid-40's (thanks to P&W, Curtiss-Wright etc.) that he could have not bothered with the whole sleeve-valve torture and just gone with two bid poppet-valves on the multi-row radials! It all started because (thnaks largely to Ricardo) he thought he needed four valves…

Worse or better? :-)