If you think that full sized Matador really flew, you are mistaken. The jet engine was a prop. The only reference I saw to it flying was where it was mentioned that they made a test run at Pinewood Studios in the finished prop, and it got going fast enough that the wings they attached actually started to produce some…

No such thing as a flying car? Molt Taylor and James May would beg to differ.

James May did a segment on the Taylor Aerocar. He actually flew in it.

If you ignore the cable holding it up in the scene. That Matador never flew, nor could it fly. All movie magic.

I live in Denton. Haven’t tried theirs yet (I have been meaning to get over there), but I have been to the Weinbergers in both Grapevine and Southlake. They come close, but only close to what you get in Chicago.

Same here, but I lived there back in the 60's and 70's. Gangs were a problem back then too, but the Italian Beefs and stuffed (deep dish) pizza were not. I would kill for a good Italian Beef here in Texas.

Give me a mess like that any day of the week. Too bad Texas has never heard of stuffed pizza (what Chicagoans call deep dish).

I hear ya. I used to have a ‘94 Caprice wagon and loved it. If Ford still made a wagon on the last Panther platform, it would have been a no brainer for me. Of course, there is always the custom route....

It’s been done hundreds of times. I started one myself back in 2000 on a ‘94 wagon. I had part of it done (trim, emblems, air dam, hood ornament, under the hood stuff and suspension stuff, etc.) , but got a “too good to pass up offer” on it before I got the wheels and seats/console finished. BTW, do you know the only…

Here ya go. The only issue it has is that it’s in NJ (I’m in Texas).

I was differentiating between a slow leak in the lines or a connector, a small hole caused by a puncture in a wreck, and a total rupture. To compare it to a tire, the first would be a slow valve leak, the second, a nail, the third, a blowout.

When I say “leak”, I’m thinking more of something a little larger than a simple, slow, connection-type leak. I’m thinking more of a puncture caused by a wreck. If it stays a pressurized leak, it may turn into a sort of blowtorch if it was ignited. Bad if you’re caught in it’s path. If it’s a large gash, the tank…

Hydrogen isn’t as dangerous as you would think. Gas or diesel catches fire when it spills all over the ground and the vehicle and finds an ignition source. It also burns for a relatively long time. Hydrogen, being lighter than air, will go UP when it leaks so it lessens the chance of finding an ignition source. Even…

Ernie Adams makes them, and they are amazingly detailed AND street legal/registered.

Weighed? My point is that most states require owners to register their cars in the same state where they live.

Tesla doesn’t have a “marketing department”. They don’t advertise, and there is plenty of stuff out there, including in the car itself, that will tell the driver what it can and can’t do.

“Autopilot” isn’t even a misleading name. It’s just that people don’t know (or want to know) what a plane’s autopilot can and can’t do. Using that thinking, I guess that my “automatic” transmission will shift in and out of park and reverse by itself too. It says it’s an “automatic”, after all.

If he lives in Phoenix, how come it’s registered in Texas? Anyway, I prefer my cars to be a bit larger.

I didn’t either, having owned a trouble free MkIV Golf TDI 2dr manual for the last 16 years and 450K miles, but having a car budget of only $12K, it’s hard to find another car with less than 50K miles on it. That MGM I got had only 38K miles and cost me half of that budget. I’ve always loved how the old 60's cars…