The Marmon Sixteen, yes, I know that my obsession with cars of this period might affect my judgement but these are up there with the best cars ever made anywhere,

Excellent photographs.

This is definitely the sort of car I should buy. I have just been outbid on a bright red Bentley Arnage Red label, so NP for someone else.

Have a look at “Project Plowshare” on wikipedia. From 1957 until 1973  the US goverment were proposing to use nuclear explosions for large scale engineering, including a proposal to widen the Panama canal and do away with the pesky locks by simply, er, blowing up all the stuff in the way. The experiments that were…

I do like the Lego scooter, yellow crash helmets should come with it.

Thanks for the reminder, I must defrost the ‘fridge.

I suspect that this was caused by Florida. Florida is irresponsible for so many Florida things that Florida has nothing to do with. So, this one, Florida.

Gyrocopter people are a friendly bunch of folk. Most of them look so normal you would have no idea how they amuse themselves in small private groups. The one here has sold already.

Funny thing really, gyrocopter blades are just a click away;

The nearest settlement is called Ittoqqortoormiit, which is not a name you get to type very often. It looks like this;

I have a new project now, sitting in my workshop is an unfinished three cylinder triple expansion engine. It was destined to go into a model steam yacht. I now have a use for it! The worlds least efficient phone charger!

Other two seat minis are available ;

Your mother would quite possibly be as confounded by the cars that I drive, as I guess, would you. I take a perverse sort of satisfaction from driving something with four pedals, right hand gear change (RHD car) and the sort of cold starting procedure that involves levers and switches. What I would not do is to rent…

Those damncommie libs, trying to outlaw gas stoves al fore some stupid puhlitial stuff.

No, at Goodwood, unless specifically stated, they are the real thing. The scrutineers are VERY thorough !

Can I get a roof rack and ramps to put a Caterham Seven 170 on the top?

I have had my S4 since almost new (it was an insurance write-off with 90 miles on it when I came by it) It is an automatic, I have driven manual ones and you are right, the thing is a really proper Grand Tourer, it does what it does. Very well. At over 200,000 miles it is a bit of a ship of Theseus now but of all my…

Are there Californian firefighter shanties? Like Sea Shanties but more, er firefightery? 

There is no such thing as a mild concussion, buy a new helmet. I will chip in for the sticker. ( oh, bye the bye, stickers on helmets are not a good idea, some adhesives do not play well with some helmets)

30 degree banking is really fucking scary, MIRA has 33 degrees, Vmax is stupid fast Vmax +1% is do not pass go, go directly to another place.