You can get a rooftop tent for most vehicles.
Save some cash.
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Rolls-Roycii?
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Rolls-Roydes
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Rolls-Rooice
pronounced like this:
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Steampunk Hughes Glomar Explorer:
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I would have gone with Rolles-Roycies.
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The original DeLorean company benefited from corporate welfare too.
DeLorean also sought lucrative incentives from governments and economic organizations to pay for manufacturing facilities by looking to build his first factory in an area of particularly high unemployment. The Republic of Ireland’s then Minister for Industry and Commerce, Desmond O’Malley, TD, decided not to support the project. A deal in Puerto Rico was about to be agreed when DeLorean took up an offer from the Industrial Development Board for Northern Ireland (IDB). Besides some early seed capital from Hollywood stars, the DeLorean Motor Company relied on the British Government for about $120 million of its $200 million startup costs according to The Times. The British Government was keen to create jobs in Northern Ireland to reduce sectarian violence. DeLorean was under the impression that the British Government, as part of this offer, would provide his company with Export Credit financing. This would provide a loan of 80% of the wholesale cost of the vehicles (US$20,000) upon completion and delivery for shipping.
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Yeah, fleecing Maggie Thatcher of $120 million, how’s that for private sector efficiency.
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Caution Car Porn:
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I thought I’d post something about a motor on the Motors thread: The legendary flat-12, 1500 bhp engine that propelled the Porsche 917-30 (and driver/engineer Mark Donohue) and which – due to its near total domination of Can-Am races – killed Can-Am racing.
(excerpt from this article): The completed Porsche 917/30 engine. This is the spare engine for the 1973 Can-Am Championship Porsche 917/30-003, driven by Mark Donohue. You can see the mechanical fuel injection pump installed on the top right with 12 fuel lines protruding from it. The top right camshaft drives the mechanical fuel injection pump. The brown cylinder in the middle of the engine is where the oil filter is installed. Fiberglass shrouds cover the engine to direct airflow down from the crankshaft-driven fan past the cylinders. The pipe on top of the engine (blue/yellow pieces with a braided metal hose) is the crossover hose between both intake plenums. On the bottom of the engine you can see the oil scavenge pumps installed and hooked up to reroute oil. Lots of spark plugs! 24 of them, in fact. You do not want to be the lucky soul that has to change a set with the engine in the car!
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I took my one allocated step-on-the-wild-side for today. May Bog forgive me!
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[…] his T12 vertebra broke into three pieces […]
Ouch.
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Air France, huh? Both involuntarily gripped — but by the same thought. That’s way too Proustian.
Scene 1: “Look at what I can do!”
Scene 2: “Look at what I can’t do!”
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Bumper delete does not improve a Lancia B20 Aurelia.
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