Any - Coffee / lunch break reading - craig-pd130

The Flickr site below has a fantastic collection of vintage 60s / 70s / 80s road tests from mags including Car, Autocar, Motor, Autocar&Motor and the US title, Motor Trend.

Be warned: if you visit it, you can kiss goodbye to the rest of the day :-)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/triggerscarstuff/collections/

Any - Coffee / lunch break reading - unthrottled

Craig, you're a genius-and a ba**ard!

Any - Coffee / lunch break reading - craig-pd130

That's the image I like to foster ;-)

Any - Coffee / lunch break reading - Bobbin Threadbare

I second that - I'm supposed to be planning some lessons..............I might have to make them all about cars. 'Oh you were expecting a lesson on microbes were you? Well it's cars instead...'

Any - Coffee / lunch break reading - Avant

Bobbin, I'm sure you'll wax lyrical on the Nissan Microbe.....

Forgive an ignorant classical scholar, but I thought microbes came under biology rather than your normal subject of physics. Or are you having to teach General Science?

(PS - thanks very much Craig from all of us.)

Edited by Avant on 21/04/2012 at 00:33

Any - Coffee / lunch break reading - Bobbin Threadbare

Yes I have to teach biology and chemistry as well as physics. There's some ecology, electronics and astronomy in there as well!

Any - Coffee / lunch break reading - bathtub tom

>>There's some ecology, electronics and astronomy in there as well!

Ooh! What star sign are you?

;>)

Any - Coffee / lunch break reading - MikeTorque

Oh wow, what a collection, enough reading for weeks ahead. Thanks Craig.

The MG Maestro 2.0 EFi is definately one for the physics lesson, one of the best cars around at the time (IMHO), I would have got one had I not fallen for an Astra GTE 16v instead. Now where's that review of the Morris Marina/Ital...yippee...

Any - Coffee / lunch break reading - unthrottled

The MG Maestro 2.0 EFi is definately one for the physics lesson

Nah, The Montego Turbo is the one for the physics lesson. Turbo engine with a blow through SU carb sealed in a box. Worked pretty well too. Loads of good excuses to sneak that into a physics lesson, venturi effect, work done on a gas, work done by a gas. They'll be riveted!

Any - Coffee / lunch break reading - MikeTorque

Yeah good point, that was an interesting Turbo engine alright, just about the last of it's kind wasn't it ?

Could they include the MG Maestro Turbo in the physics lesson ?
It had more problems trying to get the power & torque onto the road, torque steer will give them something to think about.

Any - Coffee / lunch break reading - oldroverboy
My most lasting memory of the maestro was watching while a mechanic asked the apprentice partsman for a rocker cover gasket.....AND the workshop trying to make one run properly when the air pump had seized. (in switzerland they has air pumps fitted to the a series ones to lower the emissions) So so funny...

Edited by OldRoverboy on 21/04/2012 at 19:48

Any - Coffee / lunch break reading - Bobbin Threadbare

I managed to get a lesson about catalytic converters in...!

Any - Coffee / lunch break reading - unthrottled

That's quite advanced stuff (or at least it can be!)