Another thing to remember is that even in a Category One crash where the crashing rider jumps straight up and appears (and feels) unhurt, the adrenaline release of the crash may mask injury pain.
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At least in the Type 2 model,
Back in 1987 the Surveying Department at Melbourne University had the only GPS receiver in Australia - it cost about $60,000, was a suitcase-sized unit connected to a witches-hat sized and shaped antenna on a tripod and took several hours to be able to resolve its position to within 100 metres while stationary due to…
Probably 25+ years ago, in my first car (Ford Cortina MKII). Had my best mate in the passenger seat, about 2 in the morning coming back from a long country drive. Coming down a long downhill stretch of freeway, we got to a gradual right hand curve. I woke up when my mate reached over and turned the wheel to the right…
Okay, if they can do this with Alvis why can’t Fiat-Chrysler do this with the 4.0, 132 AC, and Slant Six?
I do like the Datsun 510 hood prop setup, I had many Datsun 510s back when they were still affordable, and it was one of the neatest simple bits of engineering in the car.
Um, no. The previous models may have been aircooled, but were just as black and purposeful-looking as the new liquid cooled model. And personally, I way prefer the colour scheme of the last aircooled version, the GPZ-70-A3. Looks more like something screaming ‘get out of my way, I’m coming through fast!”
The other option for a comfortable riding position without Goldwing style excess weight and bulk (especially if you’re on a budget) is an older sportsbike, where the riding position is a lot less hunched.
Turns out, after some Googling, that my guess was right - each of those wings is the maximum width allowed in the regulations of the time, so it was a way of exploiting a loophole in the regs to fit a bigger wing. But it was apparently done as ‘retaliation’ for Williams using watercooled brakes at the previous race…
My guess for the lack of oil cooler is that those cars probably didn’t have oil pumps in the engines, but relied on things like scoops on the side of the rod caps to splash oil up from the sump to get it where it needed to go, hence no real way of feeding oil through a cooler?
My boss in my previous job restored one of those, and painted it like Noddy’s car (for anyone who has read a Noddy book).
Worse yet, he only got those 19 votes by being on the ticket of One Nation - a racist right wing party of nutters founded by a racist who when she was first elected as a Liberal party member blamed all the country’s problems on Asian migration, was dumped by the party, formed her own party, was voted out, went to…
I’d rather have the other Bugatti in the background of one of the pictures.
The Daihatsu Delta van was similarly a bit odd where the van body met the cab:
Australia has generally tended to have less of the big V8s available in the US, but fewer of the small economy engines from europe.
Lexus V8?
Pipe over the top is a good way to improve clearance and avoid tearing the exhaust off on rocks and stumps on a rally car.
Speaking of wedgy 70s Leylands.....here’s one I prepared earlier:
And the sudden loading increases the pulling force available to a point where a smaller car is able to extract a bigger car. I once came upon a couple of guys trying to extract themselves from a creek crossing - one had a Nissan Patrol stuck in the middle of the creek in maybe 6" of muddy bottom, the other had got…