..can be a thing of great beauty, as the following film shows.
Stop motion and a Carrera 3.2 teardown..
•July 18, 2013 • Comments Off on Stop motion and a Carrera 3.2 teardown..Oh hey, “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee” is back
•July 17, 2013 • Comments Off on Oh hey, “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee” is backAnd here’s Jerry Seinfeld hooning David Letterman’s engine-swapped hot rod Volvo station wagon.. that was commissioned by none other than Paul Newman! It blows our mind a little.
The story on how this car (or rather, these cars) came to be can be found here.
(Embedding disabled – why?!? – but worth clicking through and sitting through the advertisement to get to the video.)
Not one of the best driving roads in the world
•July 12, 2013 • Comments Off on Not one of the best driving roads in the worldMeet Bolivia’s “Death Road” (Camino de las Yungas or el Camino de la Muerte). The following clip may be entertaining (in characteristic Top Gear fashion), but just how treacherous the road really is is also very palpable.
Certainly a world of a difference from that other driving destination that Bolivia is also known for.
The old look-back-in-admiration-while-walking-away
•July 11, 2013 • 4 CommentsWe’ve done it countless times and look forward to countless more. To be honest, if you find that you’ve stopped doing so.. it’s probably time for something new. Life’s too short to be driving a boring-to-you car 🙂
(Image by Eric Chaline-Guignard)
Pilgrimage to Pikes Peak
•July 10, 2013 • 1 CommentRabin and friends recently went on a road trip to the most recent Pikes Peak International Hill Climb which, if you’re a Peugeot owner like Rabin, certainly constitutes a pilgrimage of sorts— Peugeot is no stranger to Pikes Peak, after all. The photos suggest that it was an excellent time.
See and read more about it here. Thanks for sharing, Rabin!
Money-shifting Fangio’s Mercedes-Benz W196 race car
•July 9, 2013 • Comments Off on Money-shifting Fangio’s Mercedes-Benz W196 race car
We loved this article from Leo Levine (“a reporter and part-time racing driver living in Germany” since at least 1960), who once money-shifted Juan Manuel Fangio’s Mercedes-Benz W196 race car… and lived to tell the tale:
The opening laps were fantastic. I’d never driven anything so responsive and so powerful. Then it was time to go fast, and it got even better — until halfway through the second quick lap, when I forgot that the shift pattern was reversed and went down a gear when I wanted to go up.
Before I could push in the clutch, the engine spun up to 10,000 r.p.m. Remember, this was a 1950s engine, when 10,000 r.p.m. was uncharted territory.
I rolled into the pits, the transmission in neutral and my heart in my mouth. When the chief mechanic came over, I could only point to the “telltale” on the tachometer, which had one hand at 10,200.
“How long?” he asked.
“About a second,” I said.
He shrugged. “Five minutes, it doesn’t like.”
I started breathing again.
Read the full article here:
Guest contributor: Lauri Ahtiainen on the 1979 Lotus Esprit S2
•July 5, 2013 • 4 Comments
Some cars can be defined by numbers— you only need a piece of paper or a plain Excel spreadsheet. Those pure facts reveal everything the car has to offer, and that’s all there is. To gain some perspective you have to experience those facts, whether we’re talking about the quarter mile time or something as prosaic as the size of the trunk.
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