I’m starting to have a love hate thing for the Singers. Flawless, but to a point where it feels pretentious.

I remember when Aero Spacelines had their shop at Van Nuys airport. Across the way was the 146th Airlift Wing. At that time, they still had C-97s and KC-97s in their possession although they were transitioning into C-130s. The KC/C-97s used the same Boeing base design out of the B-29s/B-50s as the 377s used. So you…

I was working on my Porsche 944 yesterday, replacing a few trim bits and installing new hood struts. I needed a small screwdriver to install something so I popped into the garage to grab one and when I got back this was what I saw. Big Henry, our beagle/basset hound mix decided it was time to go for a ride. I can’t…

The A380's upper deck is structural, so there’s no getting rid of it without basically designing a whole new fuselage.

She has been a rescue rig, driven through nearly 4 feet of mud (no picture of that sadly), and towed aircraft at an airshow when the aircraft tugs broke.

I’ve told this story (in various lengths) many a time on this website but why not once more with a few more details?

I wanted an offroad rig. Something I could use for camping. Something that was kinda serious about going offroad. No, not a jeep, a real offroad rig. Something rugged and mostly indestructible. My…

My tale has been told before and if told properly would no doubt run to several thousand words. Obviously, I will need to show restraint. Who knows, I might even serialize the story. Anyhow, to set the stage, we start with a young couple, a German national girl and a Marine Sergeant. Newly wed and living in Chicago,…

I hear you, and I still think the project is awesome. I’m kind of arguing semantics here, so feel free to ignore me.

No need to apologize, I didn’t have time to even start to look for the car you described (I was most definitely going to). :-)x

Counterpoint - Museums preserve history for future generations. I’m not just talking about 30 years from now, but also 200 or 1,000 years from now.

Because racecar. Seriously, it’s built on an old race car, and that’s how the sports racers were in the 60s. The Ferraris, Ford GT40, Porsche 917.  Why?  Because the majority of race circuits are run clockwise, so the majority of the turns are right hand, so it is better to have the driver on the right.

WELL ACKSHULLY, I imagine it’d be pretty well taken care of in a museum. Bonus points if it goes to different museums around the country/world for more than just stuffy concourse types to experience.

Some of what you describe sounds vaguely familiar. Is it this one?

I guess it’s true what they say, “Timing is everything”. If Torch wouldn’t have written this post when he did, and Sotheby’s wouldn’t be auctioning off the very first slantnose next month, I wouldn’t have learned it (and maybe more) differed from the second run in that they had round driving lights.

...in 1981 Porsche decided, what the hell, we like money, too, so they began to offer the “Flachbau”

I guess it was too good an idea not to have been tried at some point.

I’m guessing you’ve never been around cheap 1970s boats that have sat on a trailer for four decades. That’s shitty fiberglass at a thousand yards.

This is one of the prototypes at the Peel factory. I’ve read that originally BMC wanted to export the fiberglass ones to places like South America and Africa, but that proved too complicated so they sent the molds to Chile when that situation came up. I think the original plan was to have Peel manufacture the bodies…