The car was stolen.

That kind of junk has been around since the 20s. Amazing that there are people still willing to buy it. The automakers are under such pressure to meet CAFW standards; I’m surprised they haven’t heard if it!

You are practicing good defensive driving. I was in Germany twice, once with the Army in the early 70s, then I went back in 1992. Rented a little Opel Corsa (1100-1200cc) and used the Autobahn from Berlin -> Dresden -> Kaiserlautern -> Hamburg -> Berlin.

About 1100-1200 miles.

Things I noticed: You learn lane…

It did sound like she was just reading from the script. My favorite though of your examples was that because of the pandemic you had to come in.

That dealership seems pretty scummy.

This software has a few bugs. Had the link in, shows it and hit “publish”. It disappeared. Well, try this:

I am with Mercedes and the 67 Lincoln with the following caveat: That top mechanism is very complicated, and there’s only a handful of people who know how to repair them. For years I thought Daimler had pioneered the hydraulically-operated top on my R129 1996 SL 500 - No - Ford did that over 30 years earlier. And…

I am looking at the label in the guys hand and I am wondering if these are aftermarket knock-offs? Reason I mention it is you’d think if GM had such a problem with these 15 years they would reengineer them - a stronger clip?

crash helmets

He has to be hardcore, walking around with spare bezels! A Johnny Appleseed of the GMT800 world ;-) 

He was the one who convinced Daimler-Benz to pull out of the ‘55 Lemans after the horrible accident 

There is a bug in the software I have discovered in the linked strings. Apparently it throws the linked word(s) to the front of the sentence once published. Had it happen nor 2-3 times tonight.

With that I bid you a good night.

According to the book Go Like Hell, he was the reason for Ferrari’s success and maybe kept him in business. Sort of the Max Hoffmann of Ferrari.

I just finished Go Like Hell, the book on the Ford-Ferrari rivalry. Author A. J. Baime went into a lot of detail about everything, including Enzo Ferrari’s preferred car for just commuting to work - and no, it wasn’t a Ferrari (and a lot more practical).

Something about Chinetti really struck me. And it was a bookend…

   That is what killed the Mille Miglia - in 1957 10 spectators, including 5 children, were killed along the roadside. Like Paaron, I had never heard of this accident.

For me it is getting onto the merge lane at 40 mph, traffic be damned. Everyone is supposed to wither brake or get out of the way.

Don’t think I’ve ever had a “bad” engine, although if I have to include one it would be the Mercedes-Benz M103 inline 6. At the back of the block, the coolant and oil passages were too close together and that, coupled with the aluminum head (cast iron block) with different rates of expansion/contraction over time…

It takes a buyer to buy one of those overpriced cars. And nobody cares if a car that is not popular sits on the lot for 10 months despite markdowns.

The smart buyer will wait a year of so when things settle down.

I was surprised the local Mercedes had the G Wagon marked up $20K - as with the AMG-GT.

It takes a buyer to…

Years ago, I took a tour of the Daimler facility in Sunnyvale. Their mission is to determine what electronic technology should go into cars for the future. They had (have) a self-driving car and said years ago how difficult it was programming the software. Say for example a man is in the middle of the road right in…

I don’t think they sell them any more, but don’t buy retreads. I was driving home from Napa when the tire lost a big chunk of the retread. You don’t know what an out-of-balance car feels like until you throw off a couple pounds of rubber...