I'll bet those hood hinges are intentional. They bend easily but don't shear or push back on the cowling, the hood folds up, it's all part of the crumple zone.

Ancient Swedish lore tells us to chicken dance on one foot and spin around four times with the key in your hand, but that’s not in the manual and has never worked for me.

BB, I saw a 70s V8 Alfa Romeo on FB the other day and meant to post the photo here. It was beautiful, and in the US. Did we get those or was it a grey market import? Was it this? Alfa just produced a show car with no name, never intended to build them. It has a detuned Tipo 33 race car V8. It was s...

volvolugnut wrote: ↑22 Oct 2023, 14:55 ...the mice modification mess.

UH oh...

Hoof it out to JFK or LGA, an hour on the train , and we will get you on the water Need a sunny day Jan feb March, otherwise nice I once dragged an older (but very good sailor) friend out to sail our Lasers on Flathead Lake in late fall for one last blast. He agreed for some reason. His wife though...

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. Giant of a racer in a what looked like a miniature racer but it's not. . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPDcReKzBbQ . One of the legends, that car. And yes, I've read how in pictures it always looks like the big bad 917, but drivers in person say they were really small, and your knees were up be...

matthew1 wrote: ↑07 Nov 2023, 13:06 Those blue Polestars are the bee's knees...

Thought of another thing - some of the tube chassis were made of aluminum. Some were made of titanium. Just enough metal to do the job. Some of the chassis were pressurized with a gas, with a pressure gauge and switch. If a crack formed, pressure was lost, a warning light would go off - STOP!