Don’t know, TBH. It’s just an image I found via Google. I had to find something that showed the flight engineer’s station which, to geeky me, was the cooler spot than the two up front.
Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
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I love buttons too. I took out the LCD stereo I had installed and put back the factory unit for more buttons. I changed out the steering wheel, ostensibly to add leather, but the extra buttons were a nice side effect. And I’ve replaced all of the blanks on the left side of steering wheel with more buttons for lights,…
I once got pulled over for making a right turn on a red at an intersection where that was not allowed. The cop came up to my window and asked if there was a reason why I went through the light when the intersection had a sign that said ‘no right turn on red’, obviously trying to get me to incriminate myself.
And yet we have accidents like this precisely because the pilot expected the autopilot to do something it wasn’t designed to do. It’s all a matter of understanding the system, and this pilot didn’t.
As well as that compression ignition gasoline engine they’re working on. Unlike the rotary, this one has a solid future.
Whatever you say, Sarah...
It all depends on the final drive ratio. With 4.11 years in my 6MT I accelerate briskly onto the highway in first through third and then just drop it straight into 6th from there. Tall FD (less than 4.0:1) and 6 speeds is kinda pointless, but a shorter FD is lots of fun, especially when you don’t have all that much…
I worked at Radio Shack back in the ‘80s, and many of the car stereos we sold came with the vertical faceplate and dial for X-cars right in the box.
Red manual minivan driver here. I searched hard and found this one and will never replace it. Even if I wanted to, finding a suitable replacement will be a challenge. I’ll get a Miata as a plaything, but the van isn’t going anywhere.
The good ol’ days. Like you said, lots of interesting bikes nobody bought. I still love the Honda GB500 and want one, but cannot justify the cost these days, but back then they seemed to be anchored to the showroom floor...
Pass on the turbo - just give me back my old Seca II and I’ll be happy.
The gears in that lower picture look like they came out of a Lego set.
Has anyone ever made an engine with an odd number of valves? Audi did a lot of 5-cyl engines and a lot of 5-valve per cylinder heads, but did they ever do something like a 25-valve engine? How about a triple with three valves per cylinder?
I worked with a know-nothing that just so happened to run our GSE maintenance shop at a large airport. He insisted that the modular V8s in our Ford F150s were all DOHC motors because there were two cams in each engine. Uh, no, that’s not how it works. I asked him what a V8 engine was called if it had two cams over…
Now I’m a big Vanagon fan, but I don’t have the time, energy or motivation, not to mention bucket loads of unwanted cash, to have a project like this. I never knew that VW made T3s with dual sliders, and figured that I’d have to do it myself with parts from a RHD model. But these days I’d rather have a full Westy even…
IMHO they started getting better from 1977/78 through 1982, after which they just got a little uglier year after year and the sport lost a lot of its appeal to me. Really, my following Gilles Villeneuve’s career closely at this time, including attending the USGP West, has absolutely nothing to do with this opinion...
Agreed. My interest in F1 diminished after May 1982. I still need to get up to Quebec one of these days - got a museum to see...