I'm a grandfather now, but a couple of times a week I pick up two of my grandsons (5 & 😎 from school and watch them till my son gets off of work. My 2015 Fit EX 6MT works just fine as a kid hauler and since it's a 5/8th scale Odyssey, there's plenty of room in the back for strollers and such. I think the EX comes with the upgraded audio system - I'm a bit of an audiophile and I find it perfectly adequate. As a family car, I'd say the biggest drawback to the Fit is that it's relatively noisy. ... View more

" Yeah, radial—not rotary."  As cool as this bike is, an aircraft rotary (shaped like a radial only the entire engine spins around a stationary crankshaft, with the propellor fixed to the crankcase) would be even cooler. ... View more

Replying here to a comment above due to a glitch.   Desecration? It's a machine, not a ritual object. Cars are a hobby, not a religion.   The conversion appears to be completely reversible, at least the drivetrain is, and as long as no sheet metal is cut to fit the battery pack, there shouldn't be any issue. One of the founders of the Auburn Cord Duesenberg club was an engineer who owned a Cord 810 convertible. As cool a car as the Cord was, it wasn't perfect, so over the years he made modifications to improve on design flaws. They were all reversible and all marked with red paint, so a later owner could replace them with original parts (which he, of course, kept). Now Cords are a lot rarer than Minis.   This is no worse than putting a modern LS or LT V8 in a '55 Chevy. The car hobby has a big garage, big enough for completely original condition vehicles, survivors, 100 point restorations, and restomods alike. ... View more

It's interesting to be talking about generational changes in music a day after Eddie Van Halen died. I'm 65 and I'm guessing there are lots of baby boomers who respect EVH as a guitar player but can't stand the band Van Halen, in any of its iterations. I respect success but that doesn't mean I always agree with its aesthetics. ... View more

Jim Hall regrets the fact that he never secured the intellectual property rights for the cross-spoked cast aluminum wheels on his Chaparral racers, that BBS pretty much copied. ... View more

Virgil Exner didn't mind when Ghia, which was building Chrysler's concept cars in the '50s, took his Chrysler D'Elegance show car and had Giovanni Savanucci scale it down for Volkwagen's Karmann Ghia. ... View more

" Detroiters would be hard pressed to pick any other Mickey but their own: Mickey Lolich."   My late mother, a native Detroiter who grew up in the 1920s and '30s, would more likely have picked catcher Mickey Cochrane, who, as player-manager, won pennants for the Tigers in 1934 and 1935, winning the World Series in 1935.   BTW, I'd say that the real competition between Tigers and Yankees fans was not who had the best Mickey, but rather who was the better outfielder and slugger, Mickey Mantle or the recently departed Al Kaline. Mantle probably had more talent, but he wasted it. Kaline was more of a class act.   Speaking of classy acts, the Yankees stunk in 1968 and Mantle was retiring after the season, but the Tigers had respect for him. In a meaningless September game against the Yankees after the Tigers had already wrapped up the American League pennant, Denny McLain was on the mound. Mantle came up to bat, perhaps for the last time at Tiger Stadium. Backup catcher Jim Price was behind the plate and he gave Mantle a heads up that the next pitch was coming right down the middle. McLain grooved the pitch and grinned as Mantle put it in the seats. I'm an inveterate Yankee hater, but I still love that story. ... View more

In case you want to buy one for your race team or restoration shop, the laser sintering powdered metal printers that Porsche is using to make parts start at about a half-million dollars. ... View more

Yes, but is the plural of Lotus "Loti"? ... View more

Wouldn't a recreation have to take place in Paris, not Monaco? ... View more

"To his recollection it’s the only mid-engine made at Ford."   What about the Mustang I concept from 1962? ... View more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gr0T9c8SEUk ... View more