Sailing Hardware & Gear for Sale
- Mesh center line catcher for hobie cat 16 catamaran tramp trampoline(US $19.00)
- *new* 40 feet of 1" inch nylon white rope(US $31.50)
- *new* 90 feet of 1" inch twisted nylon white rope (firm lay)(US $77.40)
- Cleats tube, tubular, jam, small plastimo -twenty (20)(US $17.50)
- Schaefer marine sailboat block(US $20.00)
- 2 new tru-hull fittings, transom-cockpit, drain plug, for sail or motor boat(US $9.99)
New Lotus V8 will mean new 4-Cylinder engine too
Wed, 22 Jun 20112014 Lotus Elise - will get new 4-pot Lotus engine It seems that Lotus are deadly serious in their plans to build an all new V8 engine to drop in to the new Lotus Esprit, and it also seems as though the Lotus engine revival isn’t going to end there. The headline act is an all new modular Lotus V8 of 4.8 litres and boasting 562bhp. This is planned for the new Esprit, which is the only one of the crop of Lotus concepts actually under development, and will be ready to fire up in just a couple of months.
2012 Porsche 911 7-speed gearbox in action +video
Tue, 06 Sep 20112012 Porsche 911 7-speed gearbox video below Some of us are old enough – just – to remember when a 3-speed gearbox was normal. And, quite often, located on the column. Cars like the Vauxhall Cresta and Ford Zephyr had them, but they now belong to a completely different world to the one inhabited by the 7-speed manual gearbox in the new Porsche 911.
Fisker to buy former GM Solstice/Sky plant in Delaware for $18 million
Tue, 27 Oct 2009The old General Motors plant in Delaware that until July cranked out sports cars for Pontiac, Saturn and Opel will be sold and retooled to build plug-in hybrids with UAW workers. Fisker Automotive said Tuesday that it will buy the plant, located in Wilmington, Del., from Motors Liquidation Co.--the old General Motors Corp.--for $18 million. If Fisker's plans come to fruition, production at the plant could start in late 2012.