Side note: Tatras also had shovel noses between 1923 and 1949, although the T57s had a painted-on fake radiator from 1936.

This.

Well, one part still is. And it's causing a little bit of an issue with Brexit.

Indeed, because such a solution would almost certainly have required a water pump, and that would have blown the target price.

I once rented an ND automatic for a few days. Very nice car, but I longed for a manual every second I was in it.

I'd have thought that it's his job to know that 🤨

That’s already the case. Fancy stuff like Pierce Arrows and Duesenbergs will trundle along nicely pricewise, because they are that rare, but anything ordinary from that era is already pretty cheap:

This works.

Right now, in my 30+ year old hooptie, that fake cassette thing is the only means of playing my own tunes.

Yeah, but isn’t that a problem?

Ouch.

The 9-5 was built on the GM2900 platform, which is a fancy way of saying that it is a very German Opel Vectra in a Swedish party frock. It almost certainly has Opel’s Ecotec Diesel as well 😉

Needs more Wasserkühlung.

Hoo-boy. Now we're talking late '60s 2CV4 levels of performance. Hold on to your hats!

Normally, engine accessories are powered by ... belts driven by the engine’s crankshaft pulley.

What if you took the tiny mower motor and installed it into an automobile?

and all those people who complain about seeing something that’s not a black Suburban are fools.

Ho, and indeed, hum.

I know all about the engine mounts - and the gearbox mounts as well. I hope to escape the clutch “fun” for another wee while yet.

Meanwhile, in the real world.