Morning Linkage (Mar 8)

Transportation Low rent trans­former of now neglect­ed, beloved city mas­cot. This robot built of sovi­et era car parts stands out­side of Odessa. Lovely. Thruxton based. Some back­ground on the engine design of the IoM Norton I showed you a week or so ago. The squish com­bus­tion cham­ber was the idea of a jan­i­tor? Not really. … 

Morning Linkage (Mar 2)

Transportation The F1 safe­ty car. M‑B SLS AMG. My very favorite alpha­bet soup car. The rear light­ing is par­tic­u­lar­ly styl­ish. Vintagent pro­vides anoth­er fas­ci­nat­ing sto­ry from yes­ter­year. A 1967 “pro­duc­tion” bike class at the Isle of Man TT led to the cre­ation of a spe­cial Velocette Thruxton. Tales of it’s suc­cess­es and fail­ures. Loverly. In-car …