My mom learned to bicycle on a 1926 thing, and she still uses it daily. She turns 80 this year.

I’d be like “Oh, is it rear engined? All I see under this hood are some fluid containers!”

Yeah, but it was stupid easy to double the performance number just by swapping a few stock components to whatever.

These are terrible chairs.

These are terrible chairs.

When I was a kid we used to go camping in a RWD VW Bus type 2, with a 70 hp 2L boxer. A dozen summers in a row, all over Greece, for 4-6 weeks at a time.

My exwife made lists of the lists she needed to write.

That pretension with hydraulic jacks is supposedly how they tighten bolts in nuclear reactors as well, I have been told.

All I4 engines sound like crap.

I think it is not only the current car market driving up prices for old cars.

The “tighten until contact, then X rotations more” is actually the scientific way to do it, for all screws. Far better than torque wrenches.

THANK YOU!

Is there a word for the bits and pieces that stick out from cast (or injection moulded) items, where the melted material goes in? Scrap that you remove before further processing?

Just a thought:

I have owned four Mercedes wagons.

Engineers spend years and millions of R&D dollars to shave off a pound from the machinery, but the cars still only get heavier and heavier.

In all traffic situations there are buffer zones between Point Of No Return decisions. If you are inconvenienced by someone in traffic, chances are that you randomly met at the critical point. Neither of you did anything wrong, but you can reduce the risk by increasing the buffer zone.

I love this plan and I hope it becomes ubiquitous in the car market, with all the manufacturers hopping on the (brown manual) wagon.

You will be able to choose between say a $X used other car that someone wiped with a microfiber cloth and sprayed with “new car scent” and absolutely nothing else done to it - and a Toyota with a seal of approval where they likely swapped the interior textiles and replaced various wear items, cracked windows and…

We have had obligatory day lights in Sweden for half a century, and it is a swell thing.

Put a GM LT1 in it and drive it into the sunset.