Germans used to have a saying:

Wow, that ALMOST makes sense.....

“ Sure, the front tires’ camber and toe were out of wack, and even with the huge spacers, the steering angle was limited, “

The only thing they didn’t get right was the controls; ALL Lancias of the period had controls on the right.

I understand that the Tokyo-Moscow route was the most profitable route this flew on, because it was the fastest way for Japanese businessmen to get to European locations. The route was co-run with JAL, who provided a Japanese crew for the first half of the run, and a Russian crew for the last half.

Three minutes and 15 seconds of annoying auto-tune.......can’t anybody just SING anymore?

The entire reason for vent windows revolves around swinging the other way; it reduces buffeting at speed, and it allows you to smoke when the windows are otherwise up, like on a rainy day. This just looks like a poorly thought piece of Chinese plastic junk.

Well, if it weren’t for racing, I probably would never have declared bankruptcy and had my house foreclosed..............

Two issues come to mind:

Just to put things in perspective; those 3 other islands around it in the picture are the remnants of the one big volcano of Krakatoa, which filled the entire basin. Anak Krakatau is at most 1/100th the size. When Krakatoa blew, North American and Europe had significantly colder temperatures for months.

Or Ektachrome. Or on AGFA film.......

I was lucky enough to have ridden in a group B Quattro once (just on a gas run, not on a stage). That thing was a beast!

Kodachrome was NEVER grainy. In fact, Kodachrome film was so slow, you pretty much had to wait until vehicles were going relatively slow. I sold a couple Kodachrome slides to magazines back in the day (one was even used a cover shot!), but the vast majority of my rally photography was either b&w Ilford, or faster…

I was 7 when Apollo 8's mission happened. As vbad as the last 2 years have been, 1968 was MUCH worse, and the mission brought calm to the end of the single most chaotic year in most people’s lifetime. A few days later, this photo was published, and shortly turned into millions of posters...

Kaiser really came up with some half-baked ideas. Using the “Go-Devil” sidevalve 4 in a sports car was just one. The later OHC inline 6 in which intake and exhaust shared the same cam was another......

Latest news: They’ve been released, and all charges dropped.

A 53' reefer weighs 16,000. A 28' hotshot vehicle trailer ain’t gonna weigh half that (at best, 4tons, probably less). An M1A1 weighs 60 tons. In short, trailer weighs about 7.5% as much as a tank, therefore your post is idiotic.

Well, with a tall vehicle like that and the rising nature of that style of “hotshot” trailer, he probably didn’t have much of a choice. Drive it all the way up top, and you have little clearance, plus a very top-heavy load. Best compromise would be to put it up half-way, I guess.

Two things that my Scion XD have that you usually only find on high-end European cars:

Looks like the whole apparatus is undersized for the vehicle. A proper-sized boiler or steam generator hooked to a larger piston assembly and geared for road speeds would make more sense.