With motorcycles I have always had a widget called a battery tender that will keep a battery charged during long idle periods. When bike A is fully packed to literally ride to Alaska, the last thing I do is hook it up to bike B that has t stay in the garage.

A quick web search found 3 Khamsins for sale on Hemmings in the US. A couple in rough condition under 6 figures that include the ugly US tail lights, and one above $140,000 with the original tailights in pristine (I want it so bad) condition.

Love the little baby front fenders. Just enough to keep the llama sh*t from flying off the tires into the cabin.

I am now so old that I would feel more comfortable in the XK140.

Very interesting period in automotive history. After World War I cars had become mainstream, and the pace of technological development quickened. Similar to 2005 to 2015 in regards to smart phones and digital cameras. Every few years there were very good reasons to “upgrade” to the current state of the art.

In high school in California we all lusted after an Austin America. Shown here as a MG 1100. After school we would go to the British Motors dealership and check out the cars. Jaguars and Triumphs were way beyond our wildest dreams, but the Austin appeared achievable. On a slow day the sales man would take us on a test…

No, they were thinking of the average British Rolls-Royce owner, which isn’t average at all. But also comparing totally different ways of looking at things. Buying a Rolls at the time was something established families did once a generation or so.

I remember an article in a US mass-market car magazine in the late 60's or early ‘70's about Rolls-Royce cars. RR’s were considered famously fine automobiles back then but they hadn’t yet achieved the over the top crazy that they have now. The point of the article was how the average family in Great Britain that…

If it is in the Bay Area, why isn’t it at Fantasy Junction?

But you were never in an injury accident in your Volvos, so their reputation stands.

This result os obvious. any moment you were not a passenger in your self driving car, you would have it shared out to monetize it. A soon as there are self driving cars there will be APPS to show you all of the available for hire self driving cars in nearby. A parked car isn’t paying its own way.

My cousin had an Italian Car independent repair shop in the 1990's onward. He lived off keeping these on the road. Charging 75% of what the dealer charged for labor apparently was a license to print money. I remember visiting the shop one day when a Bi-turbo was being worked on. He had a rolling cart to put the parts…

This was not the worst flight, but definitely the strangest.

So what if you took the overall concept, but ditched the baby jet engines and went electric, at least to drive the horizontal prop?

BMW is just planning ahead for global warming. You will need all the air intake you can get when the average temperature is F 120.

I can remember reaching down to put my cigarette out on Interstate 80 in California at 70 MPH in my cousins TR3.

20 years ago I would argue that riding a motorcycle from coast to coast and back, on the little roads and highways, at least once, should be a prerequisite for running for President. You gain understanding if you have been hit in the face by bits of each state. Oh, and the aroma.

I remember the place that was incredibly shrinking to about 25% of its former size. They were old school and everyone got their 15 minutes in a small conference room. This was taking forever, but you knew way ahead because your employee code had stopped working on the copy and print machines by 9:30 Monday morning.

I have always lived in a dense urban setting where my cars were always more recreational discretionary toys than necessary for daily life. So my owned cars have been British and German, never younger than the 1960's. I quickly learned that if I had a choice of good body, good drivetrain or good interior, that a good in…

In 1975, after I spent the summer backpacking West Africa and the Sahel region, the first thing I did when back in California was to track down and buy a 504. It was a nearly new dealer demonstrator that cost less than $2000 and I kept it about 10 years, including road trips to New York City from the west coast.