The Jalopy Journal
The corporate agenda drives the politics, not the other way round. Our kind of cars are dead because they aren't what the industry wants made....
I regard the automobile as having become extinct around 1990.
20bhp single, probably around 200-250cc, with boring CVT.
Environmental issues are real but the mainstream response has been steered to a paradigm which serves to increase the prevailing capital...
Worst was, most of it was bounced off my part of the world, making it necessary to block all South African IP addresses. I only got a chance to...
A gas-pressurized monotube damper might have a piston area of perhaps 3 sq. in. Assuming a realistic rear corner weight of around 900lbs unladen,...
On FB: "1939 prototype designed by Jean Edouard Andreau on the basis of a Citroen Traction Avant." [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Opinion, indeed. That isn't to say that opinion isn't subject to analysis. How safe is safe? It is probably impossible to pin down, but it's not...
I've been like that since my 20s!
Never let it be said that I am incapable of admitting that I was wrong. I owe @2OLD2FAST an apology. I was confusing stress and strength. I think...
Some strange things have been fixed with Pratley's (our version of JB Weld). Oddly, the more it has the character of a scandalous bodge job, the...
You know, you've got a point. I missed that the nut puts the heim in tension, reducing the shear capacity by that amount. If a bolt etc. isn't...
Tensile stress and shear stress are calculated identically. There might be conventional adjustments due to the extraneous factors I mentioned e.g....
Barring extraneous factors, shear strength equals tensile strength. But we're dealing with a bending moment here.
I turn 61 today! I had good luck with the 4-electrode Lodges in the '80s.
I'd expect that the importance of the crotch strap on a 5-point harness would depend on the seat's cushion-to-backrest angle and the structural...
http://www.coachbuilt.com/bui/m/montpelier/montpelier.htm
You'll find that most of those early racers had the bones or hairpins mounted a lot higher on the car than is the case on a typical hot rod.
I've got the time. I crave the shop!
Stall speed isn't constant but varies with the square root of the torque the converter sees. If cruising speed is close to the engine's peak...
Brits messing with Hudsons is of course a long tradition. Compare for instance Railton and Brough Superior in the mid-'30s.
Hudson, 1948: [ATTACH] No further information, however.
Have we had this one? On FB today: [ATTACH]"Projecta 9 hp cyclecar, 1914"
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Panhard "Razor". It had a seriously weird steering wheel arrangement.
An odd choice of a basis for a special: [IMG] Though it had a tidy OHC four: [ATTACH] This did not yet have the generator wrapped around the cam...
That seems partly inspired by the Burghley Sports 2-seater body which was available on the 7 in the mid-'20s. [IMG] Not all the Burghleys were as...
The most basic kind of special is unique sporting or racing bodywork fitted to a more pedestrian chassis. Then, it runs to tuning, performance...
Quite apart from the fact that I tend to dislike the weather most people call good, I have a thing for little coupés. And I love the weird stuff....
At the risk of a horrible tangent, most of that kind of stuff turns out not to be medieval at all. The bulk is Victorian, made especially as...
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