Photo by Mike D’Angelo.
* Anybody who has worked on a British car has wondered at some point why, when the rest of the world seemed to agree on negative grounds for their electrical systems, the English had to go with positive grounds. It actually makes a whole lot of sense, though, once you’re read through Steve Kirby’s “The Argument for Positive Ground” on the Los Angeles Jaguar Club’s site.
* A quick glance through the photos on this post at Motorsport Retro seem to show a number of well done 1/24-scale models of older F1 cars. A closer look reveals they’re all made of paper.
* South Africa’s Capri Perana was essentially a Capri stuffed full of Ford GT40 parts. A Canadian is building a clone. Car Build Index has the story.
* Over on The Jalopy Journal, Jive-Bomber shares some of Don Palmer’s color photos from Bonneville in the early to mid-1950s, with the promise of more to come.
* Finally, Troy from Lost America came across this interesting little abandoned vehicle on his nighttime shoots, which he has yet to identify.
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