This post is dedicated to the noted automotive innovator J. Torchinsky. In fact, I’m not 100% sure of this but I read on the internet* that one of those two attractive young ladies, I’m not sure which, is actually Jason’s own mother. Of course this was years before he was born.

So I was checking out a Chevy Volt in the parking lot at the grocery store. A Volt can run for 40 or 50 miles on a charge, while a Tesla Model S can go 250 miles or more. However, a Tesla battery pack weighs about 1200 pounds, while a Volt battery pack weighs about 450 pounds.

I was driving home tonight with the sun down and I pulled up behind and to the right of one of those new Priuses and happened to glance over at its mad tall slash of a tail light and suddenly, despite my previous disdain for its crazily overwrought, oversculpted bodywork, I was “uh! hit me before I knew it!” gawking…

Ah ha ha ha ha!

Here’s an oddity, a variable-displacement engine from 1917! I wish I knew which auto manufacturer made this fine invention. From Illustrated World, Volume 26, courtesy of Google Books (page 732).

What kind of car is this that I saw in a parking lot the other day? Knowing you guys, I expect this will take about one minute.

No, not that movie, this one. Another Roger Corman masterpiece!

Nuages, by Django Reinhardt

Also, Kathy Welch in a Morgan (NSFW!) below.

I've seen this list here and there on the internet. I don't even need to research it to know it's rubbish. You guys leave your bullshit detectors at home or what? 84 drunk driving arrests in the last year? Come on.

The new ND is lovely, and I can't afford it.

Here's a nifty picture courtesy of Shorpy (extra-hi-res version, Shorpy's specialty, here) but I never saw that kind of hardtop on a C1. Was it a bolt-on like the one you used to be able to buy for an NA/NB Miata?

Here's an interview with Stirling Moss from a sixties cheesecake magazine, Modern Man, together with a picture of him driving an Amphicar, plus a couple of NSFW pinups from that issue for atmosphere.

This was a recent article, and when I saw it it was like I had a good answer on the tip of my tongue but I couldn't quite grab it. Just now I got it though, this one:

Yay me! Hardly bled any at all, either!

Famous fifties British pinup June Palmer adorns the boot of this classic English sports car. But what brand of sports car was it? At first I thought it was an AC Ace but the tail lights don't look like the ones on pictures of Aces on the web. They do resemble the tail lights of the Aceca coupe. Any ideas?