I have never been able to find video of this pass, so if someone out there in Jalop-land can find it, I will be eternally grateful.

FIAT Mephistopheles

G-Wagen

Best car color ever. I wish it was still available.

7.) Mercedes-AMG One Man Engine Build

And they may well ask why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why does Rice play Texas?

The Ypsilanti Orphan Car show and the Woodward Dream Cruise should both top any Jalop's list.

In the late 50's and early 60's, Lotus used a gearbox that used ball detents between the input shaft and the gears to select ratios. It was nicknamed the "queerbox". I know I've seen a cutaway of the mechanism, but I'm having trouble finding it again.

Came here to post that, especially the toroidal CVT. They transmit power through a special fluid that turns nearly solid when it get squeezed.

Exactly. I'm just wondering if it's something like the heave compensators they use on off-shore drilling rigs or just a big electric winch.

Um, just one question. How do they keep the tension in the cable? It can't be rigidly fixed to both ships because that would tear things to pieces as the ships heave and roll on the waves.

I think we must have gotten the same driver.

Sounds like the taxi I got on my way out of NYC a few years ago. The taxi into the city was fantastic. Every taxi I got within the city was fantastic. All of the car services I hired were fantastic. Then, when it was time to leave NYC, I got the quintessential, "Don't let the door hit you on the way out".

John Brunner wrote a book, "The Crucible of Time", about a civilization with entirely biology-based technology. If you like your car idea, you might like the book. It takes the idea to its logical limits.

They just need to learn how to cheat better. If they check the balls by weighing them, then you just need to use a different gas. CO2 is 1.5x heavier than air. If you filled the ball with pure CO2, it would weight the same at 3.3 psig as a ball inflated with air at 12.5 psig.

I have to nominate the Atchafalaya Basin Bridge in Louisiana. It's over 18 miles long. The scenery is nothing special (and doesn't change), so the drive is very monotonous. There are only 2 exits in that 18+ miles. And inevitably, somebody f's up and causes a wreck. If you get stuck in the aftermath, you're going…

It looks good, but I am NOT looking forward to the sunlight laser beams that thing is going to shoot out in random directions on a sunny day.

DeMuro needs that Jag Type S for his next car, and I think Torchy would really love to drive that cyclecar. If we all pooled our loose change, do you think we could make it happen? I've got jingle-jingle-jingle $1.87.

I usually try to signal all of my lane changes (except the emergency ones). Maybe that bit of wiring had broken/come loose?

4.) Lane Departure Warnings