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19/10/2026

18/10/2026

Dad’s dream or yours? Five classic-versus-modern pairs.

15/10/2026

Five cars after dark. Pick your midnight cruiser.

14/10/2026

One last petrol drive: which car gets the keys?

13/10/2026

Your country picks your getaway car. Comment yours.

12/10/2026

Shelby cobra 1965. Video source Jonathan
Motor Cars.

12/10/2026

Pick your villain car. Which one makes the entrance?

08/10/2026

Two clutch presses were doing one important job: matching speeds inside an unsynchronised gearbox. Releasing the clutch in neutral reconnects the engine to the input shaft, allowing its speed to be adjusted before the next gear engages.

Synchromesh performs that matching with friction. Our new explanation uses gearbox and synchroniser demonstrations from the public-domain film Spinning Levers (1936). The archive footage is mechanical context, not a filmed double-clutch pedal sequence.

Engineering

04/10/2026

That enormous steering wheel had a practical job. Before power assistance became common, its larger radius gave the driver more leverage at the rim. The trade-off was extra hand travel, and the steering gear, tyres and geometry still mattered.

Period driving footage from When You Know (1936), with our original narration and labelled comparison. Would you choose a big classic wheel or a compact modern one?

RetroCars

03/10/2026

A spring can soften a bump and still leave a car bouncing. The shock absorber controls that movement. This remarkably clear 1938 model demonstration makes the difference visible: watch the wheels, then watch the trace above them.

Edited from the public-domain film Over the Waves, with new explanatory labels and an original cover.

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