That's what I was thinking. Awesome they may be, but coming from a modern car it will be like driving a Stutz Bearcat.

One in which you are responsible for planning and accommodating your needs, and one in which you do not get your way on a plane flight with threats.

Good point. Besides hot water (for tea) they also have hot ovens.

Yeah, just get on the coast to coast US Autobahn and drive your Bentley 150 miles an hour for 20 hours not including frequent fueling stops and you're there.

How could the flight attendant sell them food with no price tag - make up a price? Plus there may have been exactly the number of first class meals needed on the plane.

You can get food through security. A chemical hot pack not so much. Wide mouth thermos bottle, yes. Plus planes have ovens.

I don't think planes have microwave ovens, but they certainly do have regular ones ready to go and probably already hot.

Tension.

Yes, my civilian farm caterpillar type tractor experience plus common sense would indicate that there must have been a bunch of lower gears the driver maybe didn't know about.

Whoah dude. "at least the engine was in front of the wheels instead of behind it...." This is the Traction Avant/DS series/Renault 5/16 layout. It's actually pretty sensible. Other layouts have taken over for good reasons. On the other hand, none of them leave room for a spare tire under the hood.

To be fair, the Smart is a TWO person only car, made to park where nothing else can. Also already replaced.

They're still making Olde Sentras in Mexico or Brazil or someplace.

They went backwards from rectangle to round mirrors! The new one needs a big chrome bumper though. One with several bars, deco style.

Chrysler of course did various even more cool and impractical versions of the strip speedo.

Nothing identical in the US, Opel, and Holden versions of this, but obviously designed by the same guys at about the same time. The Opel is like what a Cadillac version would have looked like - very Cadillac style grille.

The windshield seems to be flatish and vertical, but not too high. Some kind of forward control van? Also, who screamed - moose or man?

I always disliked them in their most common (only one I know about actually) habitat, the original VW bug.

A perfect one was for sale about a year ago. For a lot. It might be worth it to turn this one into perfect, but it would cost so much it's no gold mine.

Just to be clear the wood isn't factory wood.

Renault 16. A very nonconforming car in every way that most people probably felt was just weird and ugly. I was washing mine one day and realized it was indeed beautiful in every way.