This hits so many weird fetishes that it’s either been shotgunned onto a bunch of different sites or is some special person’s special Christmas gift.

I loved this show when I was a kid. Tried watching it a few years ago, though, and I couldn’t make it through the first episode. In Lost Highway, Fred Madison hates video cameras because he likes to remember things the way he remembers them, not necessarily how they happened. The A-Team was like that for me.

I would…

I’ve been to 100s of shows, but only a handful of good ones: first Rennsport Reunion, 2000 Concorso Italiano and Monterey Historics, Castle Hill Concours, and some of the old Larz Andersen museum lawn events before the odd balls were replaced by boring late models owned by much less interesting people (though I’m sure…

Pebble Beach Concours 2000. Bunch of D-list celebs trying to get the attention of C-listers, more plastic in the people than the cars, and nobody seemed to be interested in what they were displaying beyond maybe scoring a trophy so the 7-figure car they paid someone else 7-figures to restore would be worth more at…

I like Porsche, but have little interest in owning one except for the Cayman (or some unobtainium). Color’s boring, but not ugly and even if I had to pay for an IMS bearing I’m calling this one NP (pending inspection).

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Oof, IMO, the covered light and ventless fender version was a lot more pleasing to the eyes.

So, basically a velomobile without any pedal assist. As much as I’d love to see them normalized, most of those are over $10k without a battery big enough to forgo pedal assist for 100 miles and 50 mph. That $10k might get you the battery for such a machine.

Once the pathways are built, the equipment upgrades are much cheaper. It’s the to-and-from that costs the most money. That’s how telecommunications companies hold monopolies—it is prohibitively expensive to build the pipelines to take on an entrenched company and then try to compete on price (just ask Verizon).

Back when there were still insurance agents, mine actually told me to give the windshield a sharp whack with a ball peen hammer when I called about getting a sandblasted one replaced. In New England, they don’t seem to cover for sandblasting, just for “cracks larger than a credit card” even though a crack might not…

No, it means having light where it’s needed not just a blast of photons in the general forward direction. Lights that blind other drivers are also bad lights. The US beam pattern standard is shit, throwing too much light too high. New lights often work as if they just overpowered the garbage old sealed beam units that…

I fully support this idea.

One of the earliest magazines I bought as a kid was Sports Car Illustrated featuring the Isdera Spyder, but it was the Imperator that I loved. I always hoped for more from Isdera, but they just never seemed to be able to find the push they needed or maybe it was all just a problem of timing.

This! I don’t get many options when I buy cars because most of the stuff is junk I wouldn’t want for free, but I would pay for better headlights. Problem is the dickheads always seem to tie them to some overpriced upper trim level or option package that includes a bunch of other shit and jacks up the cost. I have…

That’s still bad lighting. It’s not just the brightness (or lack of) that’s a problem, it’s also where that light goes.

Too utilitarian, not tacticool or expensive enough looking to impress whoever it is they think they’re impressing.

I’m building a couple of large aeroponic gardens and got a bunch of 10' PVC pipes. I put my roof rack on figuring I’d need it, but found they fit inside my Focus ST with the hatch closed and front passenger seat reclined. I also transport equipment for work and people always make the same lame joke that I need a truck …

I’m looking for a tandem 2-seater with a body like a WW2 fighter with the wings and tail removed, outrigger wheels, sliding canopy that can be driven open instead of doors, around 2000 lbs., with a manual transmission. I’ll be just slightly less likely to see mine on a dealership lot as a cheap, no-frills, BOF pickup.…

That makes more sense from an alternate production standpoint over stamping in that case and explains why it doesn’t have the usual creases or curves to add strength to a flat sheet. Also makes for much cheaper style changes, even if those options are limited. I agree that the design will probably change for…

That makes sense. I guess I didn’t take my head out of the usual production process.

But, the DeLorean’s stainless steel panels were thin sheets covering a urethane fiberglass composite (ERM—Elastic Reservoir Molding—a low pressure process to wet out an open cell urethane foam with resin in a mold, which could then be s…