Yeah, that REALLY means a lot in Michigan..........

No need for snitches....a cop can hear studded tires on the road with his window closed!

This used to be a popular gearing arrangement before the gov’t banned it. It was easier to rock a stuck car with L and R next to each other...

You are correct. At that period, non-turbo cars were mostly driven by first-season drivers, like Senna was.

The 1984 Monaco, by far. At the time, Senna was a new driver, driving for a small team that was still using the non-turbo Cosworth V-8, which was a truly noncompetitive motor. Senna drove brilliantly, and was all the way up to second when the race was red-flagged. If the race had gone just a few laps longer, it…

Yep, Harley Davidson is doomed........

Gee, suddenly it’s 1977! What’s next? Supersonic flights to London and Paris???? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MetLife_Building#Helicopter_service

I remember the day in 1979 when a friend and I crossed into the east for a day of sightseeing. The “Greppos” were uniformly dour and intimidating, as well as being armed. All we really had to worry about was making certain we spent all of our Ostmarks before we crossed back into the west. Probably the single most…

BTW, did you know that Atoms For Peace also involved a cargo ship, the NS Savannah? The reactor was removed in 1971, and the ship seems to have been moored for at least 10 years, but it still exists.

I remember reading about some guy in Canada who had a late 70's Corvette with a Duramax diesel in it.

Yes, this could be a problem, as I believe every state requires you to have a functioning reverse gear to pass inspection.....but nice idea, as impractical as it is.

The idea of sliding-scale fines sounds like a good idea. If you have ever lived in a big city, you’ll no doubt have seen some rich doosh in an expensive sports car who obviously isn’t worried about the pittance that a ticket will cost him for his idiotic driving. If you or I get a $200 ticket, it’s a pain, but a guy…

I believe he was using a slang term meaning “coachbuilder”, rather than the proper term “carriozziere”. Regardless, he meant to say they were people who knew little about engines....

The days of every F1 team building their own engine disappeared 40 years ago, with the arrival of the “carriagisti” (as Enzo Ferrari disparagingly called them), McLaren being one of the earliest to make a success out of this model. Tecnically, the Mercedes team and the Mercedes engine manufacturing are separate…

What’s going to happen when completely self-driving cars come to be is that people will stop paying to park the car, and rely on the cars to either keep looping around until needed again, or else will be sent home empty, just to be recalled empty later

A Freightliner conventional, pulling a 57' trailer.

This car is only for those who are a glutton for punishment and a fool with your money.

Aside from the Russian vids, notice how few of the accidents in the youtube below were of professional drivers. I spent a decade driving trucks professionally, and the first thing you learn about loading is NEVER load a trailer heavy on the tail. For lighter auto-pulled trailers, a MINIMUM of 10% of the weight MUST be…

Between this car and the Pantera, there is tons of room in the engine bay. Disconnect the the exhaust, remove the cover, roll it under a hoist, and you’ll have that Ford small block out in an hour.

Well, it’s super-easy to pull the engine in those things, and Ford parts are readily available....