No loss. 

#COTD. Wait, can it be COTD without actually having a comment in it, just commentary?

Now where’s the fun in that?

This is only one towbar short of the perfect race support vehicle. 10/10 would Paris Dakar. 

The Leadfoot Festival in New Zealand is famous for pitting hopelessly inappropriate cars (as well as some seriously appropriate ones) against each other up Rod Millen’s driveway. A few years ago someone tried to send a vintage Altered Rail dragster up the hill. It...didn’t end well:

It’s not even the best THREE WHEELED French-British mashup.

You’re obviously not a regular reader of the BAT comments section - there’s a whole running joke over there of people asking completely inappropriate questions about the maintenance history.

Wut? Was referring to the fact that the FIRE was in the boot, not the extinguisher. Extinguisher in hand doesn’t do you much good if you can’t point it at the root of the blaze, and opening a bootlid with a fire inside it (assuming it hadn’t blown itself open already) is just asking for a charred face. Better to not…

Fair comment - I’m just assuming that the trunk didn’t blow open due to an explosion, but popped later once the latch failed or distorted due to heat. Just because that’s what happened the one time I saw a trunk fire at the track. 

In this instance it may be better that they didn’t. Opening a trunk full of burning oil and propellant to attack the blaze could have ended very badly.

Blows my mind that a 2CV can average over 70% of the speed of a 211 round a track (174/241 laps). His 20 liter fills will have been going a lot further, for sure.

No, they probably wouldn’t have helped, in fairness. Kei cars are exempt from most Japanese crash safety regulations and are designed accordingly. Running an un-caged one at the Ring (or any track with poor run-offs) is just further proof of a previous poster’s comment that the heads worth preserving do have helmets…

Back in the early 2000s someone from my work found a great scam you could run on Europcar anywhere in Europe.

The truly amazing thing here? No helmets. 

The Draguar’s kinda cute, but why lose 4 cylinders?

1960s original brakes constituting servo assisted discs all round, 11” up front, 10” in back, basically cut and pasted from the multi Le Mans winning D Type? Doesn’t sound overly problematic to me in a 300-odd hp car that weighs well less than a stock V12 one

If it’s a drop in for an E Type, presumably it’s close to being one for a Series XJ. Which for my money would be a better application - the V12's silence and torque was about as close as you’d get to an electric drivetrain back then, and the whole car was a perfect match to that. So why not drop one of these in and…

According to no less an authority than the UK‘s Fashion Museum, the approved way to do it, if you want to appear proper old-school rich not one of these nouveau types, is to buy a couple of dozen couture outfits each season, pack them away unworn for four or five years, then wear them while exclaiming “what, this old…

“There is water at the bottom of british lakes too”

As I said in my comment, things were different back then. Now, you’re probably right. But Panthers weren’t designed now