NP - basically original, well sorted, and not thrashed within an inch of its life.

Somehow, I have my doubts that the brakes, bearings and hubs on this thing are engineered for the kind of heat and forces that 160 km/h speeds will involve ... 

Of course, the one thing the age of the Plymouth might introduce are temperature sensitive gremlins in the wiring harness (not that it’s hugely complex), and a grounding fault due to a cracked wire can cause all sorts of “interesting” random behaviours.

Centimetres makes sense to me - it’s more or less the right measurement for accuracy in an odometer - mm would be ideal, but perhaps a little too fine for the compute power available. If your odometer is calibrated to the tire’s circumference in cm, then it’s pretty easy to work from there up to 100m segments when in…

That’s a fair hypothesis. I can’t claim any awareness of the inner workings of the odometer software. (Plenty of experience with volumetric metering, and your guess fits with that quite well).

So, basically a modern(ish) version of the old “Rolls-Beetle” kits you used to be able to buy to “posh up” your VW. 

13,342 is an oddly specific number for it to fail at.  I wonder what’s going on internally, because I can’t think of a case where a number that size should cause an extra bit to get tripped, regardless of the way the number is stored in the computer. 

Speaking as someone who used to write control systems software for a living, testing matters. You don’t just write a piece of software and “hope” that it’s going to work correctly. You test the ever loving heck out of it, and boundary testing matters even more than most people realize.

Wasn’t the H2 essentially a badge-engineered Yukon/Tahoe? (with added pretentiousness)

You are correct, always a good idea to do an inspection.

It’s pocket scratch money for a car in what seems to be decent running order.

That building looks fairly old (60s build?). You’d have to go back to the building codes at the time of construction to figure that out.

Modern (as in last 30 years), I can believe. There are several malls I know of which have escalators that date back to the 1960s - not sure if that’s modern enough or not.

The use of wood makes sense - those steps were created decades before the fire, and had been in operation for years. 

Sometimes, yes.  That’s just a fairly good explanation of some of the “hidden in plain sight” hazards that get ignored so often. 

... and another aspect of those little brushes goes back to lovely little incidents like this:

No. Just No.

I’m not even convinced that he committed a criminal act per se, so much as a moment of poor judgment - at his age, I doubt he had anywhere near enough experience assessing the condition of his vehicle.  

... and this is why the “tough on crime” mandatory minimum sentences (which always seem to end up equalling “life in prison”, somehow) are simply bad public policy.

It’s a tidy enough build, but after that, way too much green for what is already a chassis likely getting close to its end of life. (Box trucks do not live gentle lives)