Too bad martin shkreli is going to jail. He’s the only idiot that would buy it for that kind of money.

Is it actually that difficult to figure out who the legal owner is? I figured the VIN must be registered somewhere.

Yeah, fixing the bulletholes was a mistake. The person who would have bought this would have wanted a museum piece, not a daily driver.

Fully restored is bmw jargon for annual service.

And contrary to the article headline, it sounds like this type of doors-off flight is still allowed.

Nice flying...fuel selector is literally the first step in the emergency procedures for engine out. Not being sure it was set correctly shows gross negligence.

There are no female Mustangs... part of what makes reproduction so tricky.

“And that a lot of obvious jokes were probably made across the internet.”

It’s supposed to go to the lowest qualified bidder and even then it’s not really supposed to be to the lowest. Public and government entities have discretion to balance quality and advantages against cost. Effectively it’s the best offer more than the lowest bid that’s actually supposed to get the job.

That sounds more like a construction/contractor issue, as opposed to design.

Just keep in mind that there’s design, and then there’s execution.

Do I understand correctly that this “ABC” process consists of the following steps?

How about spending more time validating the design

Hey look, 2 dumb fucks already.

Know how I know you have 0 reading comprehension skills.

welcome to the internet

How on earth was traffic allowed to pass underneath a bridge that wasn’t yet fully supported?

It wasn’t built in a day, nor was it open immediately. That one span was built on the ground over some period of time, and placed in a day. The opening was planned to be next year.

From the pics, it looks like it wasn’t a bridge yet. Just the span had been put in place. The central vertical support and suspension wires (?) hadn’t been installed yet.

This is something you’d expect to see from an 80 year old bridge that has been falling apart and neglected for decades, not a brand new one. Somebody screwed up big time on this one.