How well do those work? Most of the ones I’ve seen have add-on vents I don’t really like the look of.

I’m willing to let the looks slide if it comes with something like a diesel turbine engine with pneumatic transmission as well as the trademark oil suspension.

I see the reasoning, but how it works is the metal expands in all directions when heated, this ends up making the hole bigger; and smaller when cooled.

Hey, the 1982 Honda Civic was light and had fully independent rear suspension, so it was pretty nice to drive; don’t bash it like that.

It sold for almost 25, that’s what I’m thinking. They’ll need like 6-8k for an engine, 2k for a gearbox and then about 100k for the restoration. How much are these things selling for nowadays?

That same basic engine was used into the 90's so you could have one with EFI and everything, although nicely polished the SU’s in it look good.

Undoing whatever modifications were made to fit the V8 is the scariest part, and the wood. Changing the wood is a horrible, long and tedious process.

Rust? That’s not even the biggest issue. Under that sexy, sexy body is a very complicated, intricate wooden frame that is completely rotten and needs to be replaced in it’s entirety.

Even then, compare those two to a Chrysler stalk...

Switches, turn stalks. A Maserati is an expensive Italian car, I’d expect brushed aluminum or something nicer; regardless of if the actual switch mechanism inside is the same.

That makes sense as well, my dad owned two 70's Citroens (no Birotors though) and neither had any problems.

Haha, the Morris has an iron engine block, as well as a full chassis, solid axle RWD and weighs 1649 lb with all fluids. No, it does not have any reinforcement anywhere.

Those are in my fantasy garage as well; my fantasy garage also includes many, many tools, a bridge and a full time experienced mechanic. Otherwise...

When Citroen buys the cars back because they might tarnish their image of reliability you know it has to be BAD.

I learned to drive in an MGB GT! White, not a bad car to learn in actually, the clutch and gearbox weren’t bad at all.

My DD is a Seat Cordoba, I also have a Morris Minor pickup which has about half the curb weight of your 500 and a couple of old motorcycles as well so that’s 2 airbags and 4 disc brakes and they’re all in the same safe-ish vehicle. (The others are like hollow Styrofoam balls, but with bad brakes)

It all depends on the type of crash, but doing 60 with a solid wall 100 feet in front of me I’d probably rather be in a Fiat 500 where I’d have the chance to reduce my impact speed significantly than in a Suburban.

Still, might lose more speed before the actual collision.

Need a bit of both probably, Sabine’s mostly done it in an M5 and touring cars, a beast like the 1:1 is going to be a very, very different experience.

While he probably knows the ring like the back of his hand, I’m guessing the braking points might be a little different for both cars.