This has probably been mentioned already, but this isn’t new. Back in the 70’s the movie Midway used a ton of footage recycled from Tora! Tora! Tora! Planes being blown-up while taxiing; planes bown up while parked; buildings being blown up; heck, several scenes in Midway had battleships in the background!

After your first major, out-of-warranty repair. The intensity of resentment is higher the closer the repair is to the expiration of said warranty. For example, ball joint at 150K is no big deal and I doubt most would consider that outrageous wear and tear. But an engine rebuild when the car is 10K miles out of…

I was driving to help a friend move out of Lawrence, MA one Sunday morning (a not-so-good section of a not-so-good town) I turned a corner to find a Lancia Stratos rumbling by me. This was back in the early 90’s, or maybe even the late 80s. No mistaking what it was. No reason for it to be driving through there.

Germany opened WWI with an offensive strike through the Ardennes in 1914, so it wasn’t entirely outrageous to think the Germans would try it again in 1940. Don’t give Hitler too much credit for the plan, the invasion plan was called the Manstein Plan, after Eric von Manstein. Other German generals did oppose it, but…

How about the Maginot Line?

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Something like a 1924 Miller Board Track Racer must have taken brass ones the size of cannon balls. Drive quickly? Hell, just making it a one lap must have been an adventure. Board tracks earned the nickname “murderdromes” for a reason.

The original SWB 911 was a handful, but the 930 really put Porsche on the map for snap oversteer

The vehicle is the companion

You have it right, the cannon rests in the “V” of the engine and the crank drives the prop through a gear.

This is a Hispano-Suiza HS8-Be engine. It does not have a cannon on it. The Hispano-Suiza engine that had a cannon on it (not in it) would be the HS-8Ca

Correct, the Fiat G.55 and Yak 9 had a cannons firing through the hub. as well as the 109 and the P-39/P400. Pretty sure there are other fighters/ground attack planes that had a machine gun/cannon firing through the hub.

I can’t lay my hands on the information, but I recall reading that after Dunkirk the German Paratrooper unit (Fallschirmjager) commander (Walter Koch?) volunteered the paratroopers to be dropped into a corner of England to secure an airfield. Had the German commanders agreed to it, it could have given the Luftwaffe a…

Inspired by the RA272? With that seat hanging out there it looks like a dash of RA302 was thrown into the pot as well.

Where the heck is James Dean’s 550? The wrecked shell bounced around various exhibits, allegedly leaving a trail of pain and suffering in its wake. Somewhere along the exhibition timeline George Barris purchased it. A few years later it vanished from the back of a truck. Barris stashing it away for some reason is most…

Moon Buggy

I admit to a soft spot or these. And my family had one, so I know what junk they are. But the family went from one of these to a Chevette - - establishing the Vega as a high-water mark for domestic cars in my family in the late 70’s, early 80’s.

I have to admit I like seeing these drive by. Not because they are a “happy” car, but because they were kinda’ orphans when new and now most (certainly not all, but most) are in the hands of gear heads. I like to tell myself that the person behind the wheel just enjoys driving and has that car because they want THAT…

Never seen an AZ-1 but I imagine it would really make my day if one cruised by