Not buying but selling. Posted a car for sale on Craigslist for what I felt was a high, but fair price. Had someone call minutes later, show up the next day, hardly even look at the car, no test drive on a 25 year old car, offer me 20% OVER my asking price, and pay me in $100 bills. Easiest car sale ever, but felt…
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That picture pretty much explains why GM dropped Oldsmobile. Keep in mind that their lineup in 2004 looked nearly the same. Sure the Aurora and Bravada had moved on to a new generation, but their exterior styling was so similar to the old models in both cases that very few people noticed.
So... just give it Takana airbags?
How is the performance in autocross?
This looks like something that should be covered in a safety recall. Had that been an actual rollover, the airbags would’ve deployed much, much too soon, to the point where they would’ve been spent by the time the car actually rolled over.
Regulating curved surfaces is easy, and something they already do - they just define a minimum radius of the bodywork.
They don’t care enough to make tires for it. The reason you see so many historic racing cars running Avon tires is that they have a real good selection of shapes and sizes. You can even order tires to fit the front end of your Tyrrell P34 right out of their catalog.
My understanding is they had a reason for it, which was obviously wrong, but what they tell scrutineering is confidential. They could’ve just said it was a duplicate/backup clutch pedal, as hand-operated clutches were still kinda new at the time.
I’m just excited to have a uniform venue for comparing F1, WEC, Indy Car and MotoGP lap times.
The mechanical grip may be less than optimal, but it’s still going to be worlds better than any road car. While it did obviously understeer, the way in which it jumped to understeer looks exactly like what happens when you’re pushed unexpectedly from the rear. This fits with his story of not finding the clutch where…
That said, they may have stronger units that they fit for demo runs like this, where reversing is more likely.
They have them... but they’re SUPER thin and weak. They’re basically designed only to meet the letter of the rule, and possibly allow the car to pass a reversing test should the FIA devise such a test. They do occasionally use them to turn around somewhere like Monaco or Singapore, but they are probably only strong…
Realistically - nothing, as that wing was almost certainly a part which was either previously damaged (and repaired only good enough for something like this), a manufacturing defect part, or a used part that had timed out (too many KM, no longer considered reliable) or aged out (i.e., an older spec). There’s very…
As Drive Like Shit said, it deactivates at the lift of the throttle, but I’ll add his statement that it deactivates once the driver lifts to 95% throttle (i.e., just off full throttle). The 5% allowance is probably to cover for the driver’s foot bouncing on bumps, but the idea is to close as quickly as possible at the…
There were actually two before the current one. The first circuit was the one shown above. After a few crashes where cars jumped hay bales and ended up in the crowds behind them, they figured running through town was a bad idea.
Cars of this era had very different front suspension geometries, with nearly zero scrub radius, and minimal caster. This made the steering very light (by modern standards), but with no power steering and rather heavy front ends, I’m sure it was still a workout.
To me the perfect gearbox would be a triple-clutch sequential, with dual clutch levers and paddle shift (four paddles attached to the steering wheel).
Came here to post the same thing. Similarly you could have a helical cut dog-gear box.
Had a Jeep that got this treatment. 300k on the clock when I got it, and never once drained the oil. I’d top it up when it got low, and changed the filter every year or so. Made it to 400k without much drama before I sold it.