You should keep a pocket full of tip money for the bathroom attendants. I’ve been to a lot of tracks but Sebring was a first for me. Basic cinder-block structures, and every one I went into had a well-attired attendant doling out whatever one might need, short of a cold beer.

On BMWs, at least on my ‘09 135i, it is a headlight, of a sort. With the Adaptive option, turning on a turn signal (really, BMW’s have them, and some of us use them!) fires up a moving cornering lamp, housed there, surrounded by an angel eye. The Adaptive lights do other things too, like auto-dipping the nearside high…

Sure they haven’t already done this? I was behind a beat-up Civic yesterday in Nashville stop-n-go, whose Pennsylvania tags had expired in April of 20frickin’17! JVS-7438 in case anyone from the PA DMV is reading... “Visit PA - Flaut the Law” could be their new plate motto.

Hardly a new idea - James V. Martin patented a similar design, and variations of it, as early as 1931 and as late as the late ‘50s. He was quite prolific with his ideas, few of which amounted to much.

I’ve had a few fast rides as a passenger- SpeedSource RX-7 at Road Atlanta, BMW CSL at Barber, and a Z4 GT3(?) with Bill A at the wheel at PittRace, but I had a ride as described here in an Alpina GT3 car driven by Andy Bovenseipen, president of Alpina, at Laguna Seca a few years ago. You know how race cars on TV, or…

By myself - Golden Flake Sweet Hot pork rinds.

15 minutes ago, I was standing behind the ramp of a transporter loading a Porsche Carrera GT. It started while I was at ear level, about 3 feet away. My face was covered in spray, and my ears were filled with wonderful sounds. I’d vote for that.

I just took a quick walk around. Our ‘35 Adler is a roadster, so it has bullet lights, no joy. Both the T87 and T97's lights are proud of the fenders, not inset, no luck there, either. The Steyr 50 is a ‘38, but has simple inset lights. The DKWs and Schnellaster van, of course, have the style under discussion, as…

And this is on our 1939 202...

Try not to do anything that makes someone else have to put on their brakes.

Are you sure about the 3cm plate? 1/4" is generally considered handgun-proof. 1.18" could probably stop a Barrett! And, at only an extra 660 pounds, that’s just 1.35cu.ft. if we assume steel is 489#/cu.ft., or not very much coverage at that thickness. 3mm is not quite enough (9mm gets thru at 90 degrees), but 3cm…

If Hooydonk wears these on stage to introduce the car, wearing a full-length Nehru jacket made of ocelot fur, maybe I’d listen. “What, afraid of fashion, or just change? That Saville Row suit is so ordinary!”

Perhaps commission something like this, which is NFS...

There’s two of them - go for a modern take on the BiSiluro!

I’m just reminded of what’s under Lord Harwell’s prosthetic on ”Pennyworth”. <shudder>

And we have a 1924 example, no body, at Lane Motor Museum. https://www.lanemotormuseum.org/collection/cars/item/citroen-autochenille-1924

I wonder if the last name was just a coincidence?

Call a local art museum and ask them for the name of a paper conservator. It won’t be cheap, but it will be miraculous.

Except the Goliath GP700 had it years before Mercedes, a little-known industry first. https://www.lanemotormuseum.org/collection/cars/item/goliath-gp900-1957