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Oh I see it now, I thought I was looking at a fuel distributor there... Ironic given the growing restomod/custom-classic trend to harken back to racing carb setups on anything that could suit them (eg putting triple Spanish dcoe webers on 80s falcons)...

Very nice. I woke up early and fell asleep on the couch once the kids were done with breakfast, so we basically missed the whole thing; got there with about 10 cars left. But we did get to hear that Kremer Porsche in the Gulf colours start up and leave :)

Wow, the 230E and 280E kinda surprise me. I'd be a bit hurt were I the vendor of either...

How do you get to see the final bids/prices?

The SLC is still under $1800. Looks like the owner gave up after having it on gumtree for $29k. Quite the bid/ask spread as it stands, will be interesting what the hammer says. It's rustier than my 350SE (though perhaps in less troublesome areas) on the "outside" but ofc a 107 and, crucially...

The problem with fuel cells (hydrogen or otherwise) has always been scale. I have no idea what the state of the art today is but when the buzz was kicking off the gotchas were already pretty evident. You could buy a fuel cell education kit from dick Smith electronics (remember them?) 20 years...

Are the 3 motors wired in series (lower I2R losses) or parallel (lower voltage control/insulation requirements & less battery per W)? Or a configurable topology? The size difference certainly is startling. I assume the extra space in the cabin translates to some driver comfort improvements...

Yeah I feel really sorry for the car, but even sorrier for the tree!

Not really a car but this AMG (-style?) rear bumper comes with most of a car attached... https://www.grays.com/lot/0001-21008044/motor-vehicles-motor-cycles/mercedes-benz-450se-automatic-sedan Might be worth the $9 starting bid with less than 22h to go... My instincts tell me that given the...

I take it you're aware of the oil starvation issues with the current generation 86s? Apparently there are baffled sumps available out of the US now. Mate at work drives an older one (in BRZ form) so I can get the relevant links off him if required.

I'll send you a pm in a minute. Among all the other excuses I have for not progressing my 350se (and not reporting here what I have done) I can now add "my daily drive got written off by an inattentive p plater last week" so I'd better make a time to come take a look!

Great car and very nice photography too. I'm especially grateful for the emblem shot showing the (I assume) zipties holding something on to the grille: otherwise it'd look too perfect!

Not to mention centre bore diameter (use hubcentric rings if wheel CB > original wheels, aluminium from eBay are ok but sometimes hard to fit, polymer from hubcentric-rings.com were the first I found readily available and imo still the best, plus they're marked), and the (in Germany anyway)...

This was sent to me with the caption "I present to you: The Death of Design" [Edit] when I lived in Germany in 2009 a bloke in a village on my regular commute had an *original* Alpine 110 that he kept uncovered at the side of his house, easily visible from the overpass of the main road. I used...

Cheers, "Professor" is for the foreseeable future an ironic epithet ;)

But that's not really that different to 50 years ago. Sure a few manufacturers had in house (nearly) everything, like MB, but Ford and GM (in the states, not to mention here) used eg Muncie, Borg Warner etc. transmissions, supplied rear ends and so on. All Japanese manufacturers were car...

on the waterpump/balancer interference: are you *sure* you need to pull the pump forwards out of the block? Just checked out a german repair video* on an m116-engined C107 (couldn't find anything m100, natch) and *that* pump the impeller doesn't look to sit "in" the block at all, i.e. if the...