Changing car names to EV would be a shock to consumers. There would be a lot of resistance to the change  and a lot of impendence to name changes.

It looks happy. Like it has somewhere to be and is looking forward to getting there and getting things done.

Mercedes is David Tracy if David Tracy had a significant other to talk him out of his worst ideas into ideas that are bad but not quite as bad. 

Oops I made a mistake

As expected, a trip to the drag strip for 13
consecutive runs on my 3.0-swapped SVT Contour
wiped the new clutch straight out. Having never
gone this deep into a car before, I pulled the
wheels, suspension and transaxle off and swapped
in a new clutch disc and pressure plate. But
when I went to put the transaxle back on, I
co…

I saw one at a Gandini exhibition a few years ago. There is certainly something about it! Btw, the Americanised rear end (I take it for the legislation about tail light height) on that one for sale is awful!

Don’t meet your heroes or your hero cars.

About 10 years ago I was on my way to a small private car show when I spotted what I assumed to be a Cobra replica on the highway. I ended up following him all the way to the show where I learned that it was in fact a real Cobra. Unfortunately I only had my flip phone to take pictures.

A friend of mine back in the 90's had a garage full of old English cars. He had an XKE, a Tiger, and a couple of Alpines. He couldn’t resist buying them if he found them cheap enough. None of them were driveable.

Good questions, all. Yes, there are some in the drawer, but they get dried out, and let’s face it, that’s gross. I prefer the salt method preservation, as formaldehyde makes them ined... umm, unsuitable for other purposes. And, yes, they’re left over from a project, and my collaborators ended up declining ownership of…

I’m glad I’m not the only one wondering who let Austin Powers drive the ship.

So it drew a dick, then got stuck in the mouth of the Suez and there aren’t enough seamen with enough thrust to push it out. And the longer it’s in there, the more screwed we are...

Kinda has an Opel GT flair to it:

So is that your actual car, or is just the default screen when you enter your car’s make as “Alfa Romeo”?

“...I DO ZAT LAPP IN A VAN...!” Legend. 💔

The main obstacle is always free time. I don’t have a lot, and when i get it i have no energy for wrenching.

He’s certainly aging like a British man.

A little tangent...

Michigan, the Florida of the north.

In other news, water is wet. Hydraulic hoses and lines leak or break all the time, it is one of the realities of industrial equipment. Maybe this particular application could have used one of the higher temperature hydraulic fluids, or a “fire resistant” fluid. It’s only news because it’s Tesla.