Axles off, coolant lines capped, shifter linkage disconnected. Nothing left now except for the bellhousing bolts and rear trans mounts. Hopefully this weekend! 🤞

QOTD: Show me your pillarless hardtop of choice.

I challenge anyone to watch this video and disagree with me that these regulations aren't a total nightmare. What a complete disaster. #F1 I've watched exactly one race this season, and have zero interest in watching any more. Can't even be arsed to punch up the highlights. 👎

And Saba goes down. There will be a brand new Grand Slam champion on both the men's AND women's sides this year. Crazy. #FrenchOpen #RolandGarros

Finally making some real, tangible progress. Still not impressed with ze Germans' muffler bracket that's about 14X as complicated as it needs to be. 👎 Next up: Axles, shifter linkage and trans cooler.

Thinking about the failed McDonnell 119/220 business jet today, and I found this promotional video. Love the looks—like a mini 707—and it's fantastic they actually made and flew a prototype and it wasn't just a paper project. #avgeek

Absolutely stunning Evo V in the Ace Hardware parking lot. I've always thought IX is Best Evo, but this was really something special to behold. 🤌 I may have to adjust my opinion.

Crazy how wide open the men's side of the #FrenchOpen is with Sinner, Alcaraz, and Djokovic out (among MANY others). This is obviously Zverev's big chance, but can't bring myself to root for him given his on-court outbursts and off-court controversies. Be neat to see Fonseca take it all the way.

QOTD: What a good car you’ve inexplicably (to an outside observer) replaced with a worse car?

Went for a walk in the woods with Lau today and got this pic. I'm stoked by these colours 🍁

OK this is cool as hell. Absolutely would. The driving vid is 🔥.

Best looking airliner in the skies today, in a gorgeous livery. #Airbus #A350 #avgeek Via www.airliners.net/photo/Vietna...

Some strategic lightening of the magnolia by an enterprising woodpecker (?). #racingtree

Absolute genius. 🤌

Like no other. ♥️ Via the Heritage #Concorde FB group. #avgeek

In which she checks me out with her long neck at the end. 😍 #hummingbirds

So my #1 dream '90s car is a '95 FD in Chaste White. But. The distance by which this comes in 2nd place would have to be measured on the subatomic scale. Peak, peak, peak. 🤌

One of my favorite #avgeek tidbits is the fact that Marcel Bloch changed his last name to "Dassault" just because he thought it sounded cooler. Which, to be fair, it does.

Out of the 648 (!) photos I took of my 2.5-year MX-6 journey, this may just be the most satisfying. That was a good day. Also, patina. #weirdcarbs

Show me your favorite instrument clusters.

The pure, original shape reminds you just how ballsy it was for Porsche to release a car like this in the late '70s. It looks so *alien*, even nowadays, and must've looked exponentially more so back then. Can't blame them for aiming for as distinctive a look as the original 911 had.

Just helped my son change oil for the first time (his 2009 F150 4.6). 🔧 That was unironically a lot of fun. ♥️

I designed the seats for this! They flew me out to Albuquerque a few times to discuss concepts; always seemed like a good group of enthusiastic folks, but the business model seemed...tenuous, even back then. #avgeek

Back in 2003, I drove the family F150 up to NW Virginia to purchase a Chaser-sourced 1JZ for my A70. Brought it home and spent the evening studying every part of it, including pulling the heat shield off the turbos. I return to this picture often.

First copy of the RX-7 book has arrived in the post. With my own car on the cover, naturally. Available to order now from Crowood Press (and in all the usual online stores too).

© Friedrich Kunath. 'Storms Never Last.' Oil on canvas, 2023.

Funny fake paperback cover postcards at Bookmarks in Winston-Salem. (note: I didn't buy any but still spent too much money on books 😅)

One of exactly two video games my dad ever played (the other is Tetris). This was a mind-bendingly advanced game for its day (1986!). Procedural planet generation; an engrossing, open-world storyline; moments of panic and peril... All on one floppy disk. 🤯

Post a random cool car photo you took on another year, with no explanation.

Fantastic article. As usual, Gary Anderson nails it. This is such a genius solution: "The electrical power output should be mapped to the torque curve, or the power curve, of the internal combustion engine." As it is, #F1 returns this weekend and I'm kind of dreading it. 😕

Good heavens, what a song. Also, today.

Magnificent beast, and a bucket-list car. 😍 bringatrailer.com/listing/1975...

Tempting, but why'd it have to be The Wrath of Khan? 😕 Hot take: TWOK is *not* the best Trek film.

A great comparison illustration of Apollo & Orion. #artemis #spacesky

I have NEVER seen one of these without the infamous dash bubble. Ever—until now. 😮 bringatrailer.com/listing/1990...

Hi #portfolioday I’m Lee, I’m a painter from England. I have a penchant for abandoned and derelict buildings - an unhealthy obsession that finds its way into my strange and unsettling universe.

Love this one. #avgeek Interesting (and rare) choice of engine swap; I'd have gone for the more common (and powerful) R-2800. Courtesy www.airliners.net/photo/Untitl...

OK guys, what do we have here? #weirdcarbs

2nd & Charles finds! #booksky

A milestone of sorts! I've put 17K on it in the past 15 months, and that's with a 2.5-month pause while I sorted out the "transmission" problem last year. Here's to many more!

In honor of Artemis II's triumphant return to Earth tomorrow, here's one of my favorite spaceflight-related videos: A slow-motion clip of a Saturn V launch with a fantastic, educational voiceover. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKtV...

I would think exponentially higher of the executive who rolled up in one of these vs. the latest McLuxuryCrossover. bringatrailer.com/listing/2003...

I'd just like to take this opportunity to point out the similarity between the French word verb for love—aimer—and the word for magnet: aimant. Kind of gives you a new perspective on things to consider your fridge covered in little lovers. 🤔

Well, guess whose transmission is coming out? 🤦‍♂️ Fun times. 🔧

Matt vs. CPS, round 2. FIGHT. 🥊 🔧

In which the sunbeam is clearly prime real estate.

Flex for the day: I spelled "paraphernalia" correctly THE FIRST TIME. 🤘 Coming for you next, Mediterranean.

Just learned that one of the astronauts on the way to the Moon is an NCSU alum like me. Pretty cool! #GoWolfpack www.nasa.gov/people/chris...

Absolute class. ❤️ bringatrailer.com/listing/1984...