A streetified Manx is pretty hard to beat on the dreamworthiness scale. Mike Clay’s book “Cafe Racers” had some pictures of his own Goldstar/Featherbed machine that looked pretty desirable too and in the day it was a more realistic choice for mere mortals planning to ride on the street. The Norton twins and the…

I do in fact know someone who is a licensed by Transport Canada balloon pilot (and also glider, glider instructor, single engine land, light twin, seaplane, aerobatics etc. etc.) who did at one time drive a Reliant. He hasn’t flown his balloon in quite a few years and I’m sure he never used the Reliant as the chase…

Some of his stuff I liked, some I didn’t. Sometimes I would just watch the video in amazement that I really was watching someone who seemed to be a seven-foot tall love child of Eddie Deezen and Paul Reubens pointing out unusual features on a Rolls-Royce or Toyota.

I think that beautiful German Shepherd deserves a better truck. Hmm... I wonder... did that dog just wander into town one day and jump onto the truck to help the owner sell it? And when it sells his work will be done there and he’ll be off again. There’s a voice that keeps on calling me, down the road that’s were I’ll…

“Why do they do this to us, and why do I keep falling for it?” Replace the singular “I” with “we” and the second question contains the answer to the first.

There can’t be more than ten PFM’s that still have the Porsche engine in them, and even that is probably generous. Most of them were converted to Lycoming or Continental engines after Porsche surrendered the type certificate and stopped supporting the engine. A Mooney is a great plane of you want to go fast, don’t…

Yes, leveraging positive brand identity to assert space in the market ecosystem is an essential component of any effective design language. The blue-and-white roundel has become a synecdoche for BMW’s corporate identity and must be brought forward to engage in a dialogue with the customer’s needs and wants.

It was a good start and I took it upon myself to make it better with my amazing MSPaint skills:

Kinja strikes again! My reply was meant to be for jhrmobile nominating Grand Prix and my reply to your post disappeared without a trace! Anyways, Checkered Flag or Crash is a wonderfully cheesy movie. Joe Don Baker alone is worth ten times his weight in Gorgonzola all by himself. I love the way that in almost all his…

I’m with you on the dialogue and story, but on the other hand there’s James Garner and great footage of tracks in their heyday.

If I’m OK with Porsche using “Turbo” as a designation for an version of their electric car I should be alright with Ferrari using “Omologata” on a car which hasn’t been and won’t be homologated into any racing series.

Doesn’t even really look like hammered metal. It does however bear a striking resemblance to certain pieces on fiberglass carnival ride equipment I remember seeing back in the 70's. It would look great next to metal-flake, tuck-and-roll vinyl upholstery.

I hear they’re not looking into Project Orion type nuclear pulse propulsion.

The reciprocating dingle-arms presented insurmountable production problems.

Not that I wouldn’t love to have any Viper but to me it’s where the windscreen, the top of the fenderline and the sidescoop all come together that doesn’t work for me - it looks like the car is drooping in the middle, bent like a banana as if the structure is failing and about to fold and let the rocker panels hit the…

“unique coach built one-off models is a vibrant evocation of the values that define Ferrari in relation to GT racing: A car that is equally at ease on the road as it is hitting the apex on the track in the hands of a true gentleman driver”

I always figure the appeal of the Westfalias was the way that everything is so nicely integrated and designed and nicely built of good materials. That does a lot to make up for the drawbacks of the VW van basis. Chop up a bay window and lash on a pile of corrugated metal covered chipboard, fit it out with the sort of…

Yeah, just carry a box with a half-dozen replacement fuel pumps and the tools to change them behind the back seat and you’re good to go.

I’m not all that surprised to hear of the European market cars that had this but I am amazed that your 1984 Camaro did! Available from one of the world’s biggest manufacturers, on a very popular car of theirs and from long enough ago that it predates me having a driver’s license and I’ve still not seen it in a car…

Even the British Zeus thinks that’s ridiculous.