Transportation You’ve seen the pictures of the hacked together ones but here’s the real deal. Motorcycle side-car based camera mount. The fabrication quality blows me away. Based on a 6 cylinder 1500cc what? Seats 4. Sexy enough to make me consider a electric car. Almost. Or I could buy one and put a real engine in …
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Morning Linkage (Mar 10)
Transportation Plywood paddler for the junior set. Funny how much the logo looks like Harley Davidson from a distance. Cute though. 1923 BMW factory floor. Lots more vintage in the Vintage Motorbikes Flickr pool but beware of bad captions, and wild ass guesses as to makes and models. Scroll down once for hot girl in …
Morning Linkage (Mar 9)
Transportation I love the tail treatment on this Triumph. Such a sweet, round butt. The post title says it all “Enjoy Some Gratuitous Classic Lotus Porn.” Pics from the Lotus archives. (SFW) A bad jump start once cost me a ECU/BCU pair for a Mercedes. If the surge suppressor in these smart jumper cables works …
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 4)
Transportation Purple Helmets, the Isle of Man TT half-time stunt team. Very British — in a Benny Hill, wellies and slickers, kinda way. (Sound) Wrench Monkees begin building a bitsa. Where did that purple frame come from? Updates as they happen. Desmo double front-wheel trike. Very bizarre and headline writers take note, no way in hell is …