An engineer friend used to call them “Collapsible pseudo-three-dimensional expanded-foam non-convective heat transfer-limiting sleeves”.
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BMW E30 coupes, among others, could be had with a factory sun shade that rolled up from the parcel shelf.
Sadly, unless things have changed in the few years since I was there, there is only one hotel with a capacity of 200 guests or so within a 30 minute drive. It’s a great track, a wonderful town and area, but no supporting infrastructure. I guess driving in from Corning isn’t so bad...
I saw the Red Baron at the Museum of American Speed a few years ago. It was amazing to see the car that I’d built a model of as a kid decades earlier! At least it has a steering wheel, and some 7.92mm persuaders for left-lane bandits.
That was our ‘47 from Lane Motor Museum. It’s a great car to drive, as long as one respects the physics!
At The Bridge art/car event this year, there was a full-scale McLaren Can-Am car in the Richard Mille area. Amazing.
Depends what you mean by “bigger”. The 700 is longer and wider, if the mirrors are included. (I did, since I kept the Dagmars on the 603) The 603, however is taller by a few inches, and if we disallow the 700's mirrors, it is wider as well by a few. Still, both are huge cars, but drive smaller than expected.
I’ve had the good fortune to drive both the Spider and a 1st gen Elise back-to-back. I don’t fit in the Elise all that well, so that may have influenced me, but for my driving style, the Spider wins hands-down for most everything except creature comforts. No heat, no AC, no windows, no real top - it’s purely a…
He also make old mufflers look pretty nice!
Having driven a ton of alder Citroens here at Lane Motor Museum, I was excited that I had reserved a Cactus upon arrival in Rome last year. Of course, there was no Cactus when we got there, so I was offered an Alfa sedan of some sort. Seemed OK, but once we had our bags in it and got settled, we realized that none of…
Last year I had the good fortune to tour Greg’s collection (and Bruce McCall’s, and a couple of others in the Tacoma area) and saw this car. Greg loves cars, loves driving them, loves sharing them with an interested audience. He spent a good half-hour telling us about the ex-Prince Bira ERA that was on display. Good…
It’s an open UnderArmour bumper case - not sealed anywhere. We were stunned that it powered up at all. It’d been on since Saturday morning, we pulled it out of the lake at 5pm Tuesday. It should have been dead just from the battery running down! It was still going the next morning when Jeff pulled it from a bag of…
Jeremy handed me the rear-view mirror and a 6" piece of pinch welt, found on the bottom near the site. The last seat cushion appeared today, in a pile of life jackets that was unloaded from the amphicar. It’s all there, and only two small scrapes.
I have different knives for different things, but more often than not, I reach for the Fibrox. It’s three years old, gets daily use, and I’ve had to sharpen it once. I hone it on Friday night when I am cooking dinner, if I remember. If I’m breaking down a chicken or similar, I may use an antique Chicago Cutlery 8"…
I have different knives for different things, but more often than not, I reach for the Fibrox. It’s three years old,…
FBI and ATM are initialisms, not acronyms. An acronym is a pronounceable word made up of first or near-first letters of a compound name, like NES, NASA, or Fiat.
Driving wasn’t so bad, but navigating was terrible! Spent ten days around Tuscany last summer, and the damn roundabouts! Every freakin’where! We had written directions culled from Google Maps, a Michelin map, _and_ my Garmin with European Maps 2017. Not a single road sign at the roundabouts matched a single road name…
‘98 M3 cabrio, 5 speed, Ferngrun over Magma
I already take home a plain-Jane E30 M3 every night, so I’d have to pick the 190 EvoII. If the Cossie was LHD it might be a different story.