If it’s of any assistance, The weather in Leeds right now is also very pleasant. Also, one of my friends built a robot namesake of One Punch Man for out uni combat robotics comp; It kind of lived up to it’s name, usually managing about one hit before either the blade went flying across the arena (v1), the belt…

There’s one of these (an sIII) parked quite regularly at my local supermarket back home; It’s a bit bumped and bruised, and looks like it’s been painted with emulsion paint, but it’s still cool.

Yeah; this is A; disgusting, B; a waste of a fiat 500, and C; a failure to actually win the bet it was created for in the first place.

...as soon as she’s checked the exhaust (she’s not sure if the Cat’s dead or alive)

Huh; neat.

I kind of want to see this get a rear-mount radiator (or two), just to fully confuse matters.

Well, it’s damaged goods now; might as well hack it up and go the full mad max battlecar/safari car on it, double down.

having a car engined car feels like a mistake

yeah... nah. mainland europe != UK. Busses in the UK are kind of variable; some are fairly new, have free wifi, charging etc, some are ancient, uncomfortable, and should have been scrapped ages ago.

I mean, the original Twini Mini/ Twini moke were factory efforts;

X1/9 1300cc: 74bhp

I might have to ask around about X1/9s; I can’t get a quote for insurance on one online (brief background; insurance is hellish if you’re a first-time driver in the UK, classic policies are more affordable, but still kind of restrictive), but I suspect it must be a bit borderline, as they’re a small-ish engine, and I…

I like them, but nah. They seem to go for ~£2-4k here in Britain, with the brabuses only a touch more, and you can actually drive them here.

That’s exactly the point I was going to make; I’ve got a watch, which has a digital face and an analogue face, each showing the time down to seconds. They’re not synchronized in any way. They even run off separate batteries. The seconds slowly drift out between the two clocks, and drive you mad. I tried using it for a…

Huh.

Would you rather your story had taken place in a 1972 Porsche 911?

Explosive Diarrhea.

Also, why don’t we have timing gears?

To be fair, I’d imagine it’d be less unpleasant than, say, a ‘59 eldorado or something

hmm... Maybe an X1/9: