Why do they, of late, stick Hammond with cars that don't really belong into the group tests? The Threewheeler is not meant to be a trackday car.
That said, I love the thing to death. Nothing like passing a finishing line backwards (except maybe backwards and in a big ball of fire).
Or I would love it if it weren't so absurdly overpriced. It's probably even worth the 30,000 in terms of the labour and craftsmanship and all, but wasn't the point of the original Threewheeler to be a cheap laugh? It should definitively have gone on the show but it needn't have been within the trackday car group test.
The news: I wonder if Jeremy had something specific in mind when he said the last time he had been wrong about has been in 1974. Loved the Audi running gag, they should keep this up indefinitely.
What I found strange was when Jeremy compared smacking children to trackdays, which he had made very clear he thinks are a lot of fun. Adults who have fun smacking children are sick bastards who should be thrown in jail, as I'm pretty certain even Jeremy himself would agree. And it was a carefully edited segment, too, not some spontaneous gaffe on a live show.
because how the hell can the Brutus be road legal?
Doesn't it use a more or less original Chassis from ages gone by? I think that might help a lot, because if you manage to convice the T?V guy in question it's not a new vehicle constructed by you, but actually an 80-odd year old, slightly modified veteran, it might only have to adhere to the legislation from back then.
I think you have to grease the valves every so-and-so miles, or it could be like a diesel locomotive where oil is very gradually allowed to seep out onto the components.
You're right. These pushrod valvetrains do not need that much lubrication anyway. There is no quickly spinning camshaft. There are no plain sleeve-type bearings that would need high oil pressure. And back in the day, nobody was bothered about a few drops of oil spoiling the pilot's face, let alone the environment.
The better siarpc guests seem to have dried out. Who has some laying around?
Just off the top of my head:
Hugh Laurie, supposed to be a huge car nut
Juan Pablo Montoya
Angus & Malcolm Young
Phil Rudd, come to think of it - remember him drifting that 928 over that frozen lake in the "Let there be rock" film back when?
Any of the regular Simpsons cast
John Cusack
Martina Navratilova
Billy Gibbons (plz bring Chica)
Jerry Seinfeld
Nicholas Cage
Flea
Eddie Griffin
Might be entertaining but is he a car nut?