If you’ve read my work for long enough, you know I love when people do absurd things with vehicles. Engine swaps are already pretty cool, but what’s better? An engine swap that goes against conventions. Go ahead, put that Cummins in your Charger and I want to see your Duramax power an Oldsmobile LSS.
There’s a Rolls-Royce Griffon 74 V12 engine currently for sale on Bring a Trailer. It’s secured to a display stand, but there are better places for a 37-liter aircraft engine. How about we put it into a Spitfire, but not that kind of Spitfire? From Rad Barchetta:
Stuff it back into a Spitfire, of course. A Triumph Spitfire.
This morning, Jason wrote a Cold Start about a turn of the 20th-century car that threw shade at another car. But forget about that, I love this alternate history presented by Brandon Forbes:
It’s amazing to me that the first car to break 60mph was electric. There’s an alternate universe out there where EVs were developed more than ICE cars, just think about how much more advanced we would be had people not given up on EVs 100 years ago.
Don’t worry, IRegertNothing, Esq. has something to laugh about:
If only Calvin pissing on another brand’s logo stickers had existed in 1900…
This morning, Matt wrote a Morning Dump about how Stellantis wants a new CEO. This is bad because we have a whole pile of images of Carlos Tavares, pictured above. Poor Matt Sexton:
All I know is, regardless of what happens to him, “Carlos Tavares, pictured above” is now permanently etched into my brain.
I will also present NC Miata NA’s comment without further comment:
We proudly announce that Stellantis will be the first company to utilize machine learning for our executive leadership. Introducing Lee AI-acocca!
Have a great evening everyone!
Uselessly silly things I know; A griffon engine is three inches shorter than a triumph spitfire. There is going to have to some sort of gearbox so the only sensible solution would be to mount it transversely. I am using the word “sensibly” in the widest possible manner here.
Remove the front end and build a rail.
Matt’s not the only one. I can easily see me forgetting Tavares’ name in a few years and saying, “You know: old ‘pictured above’”