Prince was the musical love-child of James Brown, Jimi Hendrix, and Nina Simone, and he could shred the fuck out of a guitar...or a piano...or pretty much any musical instrument.

I’m sure somewhere there’s a video of him melting faces at a VFW with a Sousaphone.

Rapture reference. Well played, sir.

Or Afro-nauts.

Yeah, but the Cleveland LeBrons still lost the game.

I need to meet this guy and pay tribute to his deranged genius. This is the most wonderfully insane beer-budget computer-nerd build (A Prius electric steering rack? Arduinos to trick the engine *and* to provide steering feedback? Warsteiner livery?) one can imagine.

I’m surprised since he works for Microsoft (e.g. Turn…

I lived in SoCal (La Verne / San Dimas to be specific) while in graduate school, and it was impossible not to pick up the habit of adding ‘The’ in front of freeway names. Something which has stuck with me for the last 20 years (and is a bit embarrassing now that I live back in the PNW).

Piling on the E30 love (nice E30 M3 cockpit in the photo above, BTW), the E30 had a special two-pin connector on the side of the glove box into which one could plug a rechargeable flashlight for emergencies. 

Also, just for Torch, the VW Type III fan / fan shroud was designed so that one could advance the motor…

A couple more good live albums to consider:

Brandy Clark - Live in Los Angeles
The Decemberists - We All Raise Our Voices to the Air 

And thanks for making sure ‘Live in Paris’ was in the top 5. 

Is the repetition starting to torque you off?

(I’ll show myself out) 

Good on Tesla for addressing issues proactively around crash safety - props for responsiveness on their part.

However.

That abomination of a touch screen for pretty much everything related to driving functions will - I predict - be the cause of far more accidents due to distracted driving. There’s a reason that when…

I’ve always loved the looks and very idea of the Moggie. It’s a sports car for someone who’s just a bit off and isn’t afraid to flaunt it (the same sort of person who’d put a BMW 1100r motor in an 700 Coupe).

I’m surprised Torch hasn’t tried to get one.

True, but there was (AFAIK) no dual-carb stock version of the Type IV VW motor ever offered (which is what the 914 used in all three displacement variants of the 4-cylinder - there was a reason it was badged as a VW in Europe). That makes the Type III motor (of which the Type IV was an evolution) a handy yardstick by…

Looks a bit bigger than the earlier V60 model, which raises an important question: is it going to drive like the previous generation V60, or like the larger V70? If the latter, then no thank you (the V70 was a lobotomized dull-mobile with shitty handling and performance, and a general insult to drivers).

I don’t think it was two-barrel. It was a pair of single-barrel Solex carbs (one per cylinder bank) - like so:
(wing-nuts are on top of the carbs)

Let’s not forget ‘welsh on a bet’, which doesn’t even attempt to hide the targets of the slur.

D-Jet was a revolution in engine management. For example, the VW Type III jumped from 54hp to 65hp (a 20% increase!) with the inclusion of D-Jetronic in 1968 - even with the same 1584cc engine displacement and 7.7:1 compression ratio of the dual-Solex version. Unfortunately, I don’t believe there was ever a dual-carb…

<contemplates road trip down I-5>

Think they’d take cryptocurrency?

Fire extinguisher in the passenger footwell...does it think it is a Ferrari?

<rimshot>

Based on the stickers, the driver is a connoisseur of death metal and psychobilly, not so much punk. But po-tay-to / po-tah-to.