Recent content by ProfessorExperimental

My car (uk spec 350SE, no seatbelts from MB, 77? ish build, 78 import) also has "that can't be right" mileage (64k). The one option it seems to have been fitted with ex factory (other than tex/plaid seats, style must come first...) is the frankly ginormous long wave radio antenna box, an...

Didn't the rally cars also use the auto in a beefed up manualised version? Consensus seems to have been that what they lacked in ratios was largely satisfactorily compensated by the durability and ameliorated by the bags of low-rpm torque available to "drive around" the 2 missing cogs...

Y u need double din? single din retractable screen Just needs someone to CAD copy your favourite Becker face and resin print the surround and controls. Could probably even retain most of the functionality of the buttons by massaging arrangement or hiding buttons "in the face texture". Any...

Fantastic! But also sort of a bit disappointing and predictable I suppose. Happy that Bill didn't miss out on much after all though!

I have a Becker Mexico to go in my car eventually (it came with a... *shudder* Daewoo head unit. Never yeeted a part out of a car quite so fast as that quick release faceplate before...) and I agree the striped face might not be a perfect aesthetic match (though I chose it primarily out of HVS...

Not as rough as some I've seen... ...when I open my garage ;)

The Aussie-assembled ponton in that article reminded me to check Lloyd's, and it looks like I did so in the window for closing prices. I think someone got a good deal on the yellow w123 personally... <edit> in case anyone wanted to see the duck and the porker:

I have never so strongly felt TK needed a "wildly salivating" response emoji...🤣

Possibilities: 1) Patent portfolio contributes substantially to their investor relations, it's just patent-as-product. 2) They don't know it doesn't work. And they don't know it does. They're happy to let someone else fund that experimentation. 3) They know the patent wouldn't be enforceable for...

No worries. I found my last job pretty eye opening regarding the reality of tech innovation vs IP protection, totally different to the preconceptions I had which, in hindsight, were heavily skewed by patent lawyer marketing. Happy to discuss how/if what minimal insights I have to the tech...

Please don't take this as criticism, I certainly have no idea of the ins and outs of your project (obviously), financing, production capability nor market analysis. It's pretty obvious to me that everyone in the local "photonics/optical physics/future tech" world (a part of which was my...

in honour of the recent replies to Dave's "convertible W116" thread, Grays has organised an W126-based "tribute"... https://www.grays.com/lot/0001-10054389/classic-cars/1981-mercedes-benz-w126-500se-automatic-convertible

Is that a header pipe running along the valley in the space where the intake manifold usually sits? Mad....

I think a substantial number of the S600s still active are finding themselves straightpiped by brats half my age to earn instagram/tiktok clicks by "trolling supercar meets with an old merc sedan that sounds like a Pagani Zonda, lol, rofl, skibidi, etc." At least that's the answer Google seems...

Some extremely nice cars there (although I had a good laugh at the XF Falcon hobnobbing with the *objectively* nice/valuable cars... guess my ute deserves such an outing now...). I was especially moved^ by the Meteor Gray Porsche 911 (I think its a 964 but I dunno air-cooled 911 series that...