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Mark Tucker
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I’d never heard of these either! What a cool little bit of history.

From everything I’ve heard, it sounds like it doesn’t need more power; it needs lower gearing. My ‘91 Miata only had 115 hp (and probably not even that after a quarter-million miles), but it still felt sprightly beause of the low gearing (4.30:1 in the rear axle, if I recall). Granted, it was turning almost 4000 RPM

“Daddy, the top came off...”

Oh, mine wasn’t water in the fuel tank; it was inside the rocker panels. The channel along the back of the top funnels water down into drains that go thru the rocker panels, and those get clogged up with gunk. There are two little “weep holes” on each side that you can open up to let the water out.

“Oh, you know, life has its ups and downs...”

1st/Neutral: Commuting isn’t driving; it’s practically abuse, for both cars and drivers. The less of it we collectively do, the happier we’ll all be.

Huh... In black, these kinda look like my elderly dog Luna...

From one yellow British car owner to another, let me just wish your old Scimitar the best of luck in its new stewardship. Cheers!

I think US servicemen who keep their cars on the base are exempt, if I’m not mistaken.

Congrats on getting it through! Honestly, that doesn’t sound quite as tough as I imagined. It kinda makes me wish we had at least some sort of vehicle testing here. Maybe not quite that rigorous, but I bet it would take some cars off the road that really need to be retired.

So when do you pick it up?

I don’t know... batteries are heavy, but so is a 460 and a C6. It might add some weight, but that’s actually another point in favor of a big car that’s already heavy. Making a 5000 pound car 6000 pounds is less of a hit making a 3000 pound car 4000. And, as others have pointed out, plenty of room. There’s a lot of

Oh, yeah, my first choice would be a ‘66-67 Plymouth Fury, but some of the 70s boats do appeal to me. And they need the powertrain help more.

Don’t be thinking small. Think BIG. Think Continental. Think New Yorker. Think Delta 88. Tbink about all those smooth-riding malaise-yachts with 150 horsepower lumps. Imagine doubling or tripling the power of one of those things and gliding along in silent splendor...

Oh, I know. But the article mentioned the 10K RPM number, so I chose to mention that one. But yeah, the story of Indy in the ‘50s and 60s is the story of Offy, for sure.

Durn kids need some edjamacation sometimes.

4 cylinder twin cam. Revved to the moon. Dominated its class for 40 years, starting in the 1930s. 1000 hp at 10,000 RPM in its final form.

Funny how they make that tiny little thing and give it blind spots that could hide a Suburban. Can we really not make roof structure that meets the new requirements and still have big enough windows to actually see out of? I mean, roll cage tubing isn’t that wide...

Neutral: Considering how often I’m tailgated by a Tesla, no, it does not.

Was the engine swap done for a power upgrade by someone who didn’t know anything about modern engine systems, or because the original engine blew up and this is what he could find, figuring it was “close enough”?