I’d love to see the pictures in that magazine...

Matchett was Schumacher’s mechanic, an article I found on the fire said it was Paul Seaby

Nah, but it’s even funnier when I think about it, the garbage bag isn’t a garbage bag, it’s a drum liner for a 55 gallon drum.

Watch again, as it lifts and drags the car, the right rear tire blows out.  As if the crane dropping on top of you wasn’t enough, it was probably followed by another BOOM when the tire blew out.  If I was that pedestrian I would have blown out my pants too.

1 large garbage bag, nitrile gloves, 1 small shovel (seasonal, type 1 for snow, type 2 for putting out brush fires), 1 Tyvek suit (chem resistant, so also water resistant), 3 road flares, first aid kit, a few bungee cords, 1 spare tire, 1 12V tire inflator, stock tool kit, 1 ABC Stick (breaker bar / Asshole, Be Cool…

I keep a breaker bar and 19mm, 6 point socket for that.

Self.

The one on fire I think.

Good point... that’s almost as sleepy as Willimantic.

The biggest mystery here isn’t why the van is painted that way. The biggest mystery is why the hell this thing is in Willimantic, CT.

“MINT CONDITIONS”, ok, looks pretty mint....

Agreed, nothing worse than trying to find something and a bunch of ads show up with jitneys and mopeds listed along with every other mode of transportation in there as well.

Not an auto worker here, but I would assume that the keys are in the ignition if they just got assembled. I would guess because “who would be dumb enough to steal cars from the assembly lot?” Mixed with “we’ve never had an issue with that in the past” plus a little of “we can’t ask union labor to put the keys in a key…

Battery management would take care of that, the charging process heats up the salt, so as long as the battery is continuously being used, it will stay in a molten state.

Probably not for a battery.  You would want to keep the entire thing at some type of steady state and remain predictable.  I’m not familiar with the nuclear reactor systems, but those are most likely similar to the solar systems that heat molten salts.  Those salts are nitrate salts, similar to metal quenching, sodium…

They don’t need the same cooling because they seem to run @ 200 C, not exactly room temperature as the post notes. Room temp in @ 20 C, water boils at 100 C.

These things are pretty off road capable. A standard bug weighs in at around 1,600 lbs, removing all of the metal above the floor and replacing it with fiberglass, adding on a cage and the larger 1.6 litre motor probably puts this thing @ 1,500 lbs. Depending on how that motor was built, it can be pushing up to 100…

It’s way, way worse than that... google it and keep a bucket handy. Something about a ‘scalp reduction’ surgery... that’s where they remove a section of your scalp (that’s bald) and then stretch the part with hair to fill in the area where the scalp was removed.

I honestly thought that someone, anyone at Ferrari with a high enough pay grade would have taken note of how bad their “race strategy” has been over the last 14 years and made a change. 

One could posit the opposite of that. Teams, spotters and drivers, seeing rain and knowing what is about to happen, should take immediate action to avoid getting caught up in a 200 mph automotive mosh pit. If any of the cars up front had taken immediate action to avoid getting slammed into from behind and pulled down…