Can we please stop hotlinking pics?

You have to be a well rounded geek to get this.

Dammit, I'm a doctor, not a smeghead.

In reply to Knurled. :

I found out recently Chris Barrie is really a petrol head.  There are some engine-centric TV specials he did uploaded on Youtube along with a couple of episodes of a car game show he did with Richard Hammond.

And he had a column in Practical Classic:

j_tso said:

In reply to Knurled. :

I found out recently Chris Barrie is really a petrol head.  There are some engine-centric TV specials he did uploaded on Youtube along with a couple of episodes of a car game show he did with Richard Hammond.

I found some of those documentaries too.  At first I was like "huh, someone else named Chris Barrie", and then I watched and my mind was blown.

It's like finding out that the guy who did Pontiac commercial voice-overs later became a starship captain, until he was paralyzed and retired to run a school for "gifted students".

I know this isn't the meme thread or the animated GIF thread, but I need to post them somewhere relevant.

Plymouth used to sponsor high school automotive class troubleshooting contest.  They still do this?

914Driver said:

Plymouth used to sponsor high school automotive class troubleshooting contest.  They still do this?

Got bad news about Plymouth for you, dude :p

914Driver said:

Plymouth used to sponsor high school automotive class troubleshooting contest.  They still do this?

 

I found the problem Mr.Jones!

Yes, Appleseed, what's wrong with this car?

It's a slant 6 Duster.

In reply to Appleseed :

Which should mean it will run forever with almost no maintenance. 
 

In reply to Duke :

Except for the ballast resistor.

Brett_Murphy said:

Donebrokeit said:

While I love the New Yorker style illustration, I'm irritated that this thing has a jet huge intake on the front that the passenger compartment would be in the way of, no jet exhaust and a propellor on the back. 

There's are ways to get air around a cockpit to power your turboprop. 

fasted58 said:

I've never seen photos of a hot rodded 2CV before this

Anyone know who this (obvious) GRMer is?