You my friend need to go to YouTube and watch the “Project Binky” videos.
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It’s not like they did a body swap on a truck frame. This is a Cygnet unibody “chassis” with a Vantage subframe (see pic below). The Vantage chassis tub encompasses the entire passenger compartment and can’t really be shaped at all like a Cygnet, so it’s not “putting a Cygnet body on a Vantage Chassis” It’s just as…
It’s hard to grasp exactly how crazy the idea of racing up Pikes Peak really is from photos or maps. This year 77…
This is a wonderful story, and I thank you for it. You should be on Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee! [Never thought I could get back to the thread, but here we go.] Also, technically I think that is the longest drive one can have in the UK without the use of a ferry.
I suspect it's the weight: the 2CV is the lightest, the Ami the heaviest by far. I was surprised by the many Méharis though: the oldest was only four years old at that point.
Man, I miss the 70's. This is like a French version of On Any Sunday.
It is amazingly efficiently sculpted car, ever so slightly tear dropped to a cam tail, and the hood lifts seamlessly into the windscreen. I have been in love with Guilia sedans for a long time. They also have good interior room for four with luggage.
Hmm, that sounds more like something that would have been designed into the 2CV. If anything, I would think the original Mini would have a pocket for a flask of gin.
Yep that’s a thermos flask of tea - but sadly the bottle is probably milk....
Yeah, I myself saw it on a corkboard at an auto supply place decades ago, amid the usual sort of industrial fax/xerox humor. It probably originated when the company draft horse came back with a limp after the new kid made a delivery.
Maybe one day I’ll try an e-scooter, but for now, after spending weeks reading about their sudden emergence in…
Just came down to say I was really hoping that there would be a mention of Gerald Bull. The guy was basically a real-life mad scientist—he was a convicted international arms dealer that was building a device literally called a “supergun” for Saddam Hussein, before being murdered under mysterious circumstances.
I can’t imagine how you could have written this article without bringing up Project Babylon and Gerald Bull. The Canadian engineer Gerald Bull wanted to build a railgun to shoot satellites into space and looking for a sponsor, ended up working for Saddam Hussein! Bull was killed mysteriously in Belgium, presumably by…
Yes you are correct. I forgot all about the Polish intelligence work. If I recall correctly, the Polish group were the first to figure out how it functioned, but by the time the war started the Germans had already switched to an altered rotor design. The new rotors had to be captured intact before the code could be…
The risk was greater to get shot by your own straffing aircrafts (jaboos).
A lot of very secretive equipment in WWII was known to exist by the enemy, but they didn’t know enough about it to counter it.
Interesting. During WWII British mailboxes were painted with gas-detecting paint. In addition, virtually everyone in southeast England, even children, had a gas mask they carried with them all the time.
The paint was there to keep soldiers safe. Here's how.
Was this car inspired by the Titanic tragedy?
It wasn’t running. Notice it was moving at glacial speed and there was no engine noise? That’s because, if I’m not mistaken, it was sent rolling down hills to feign propulsion.