A Twitter user by the name of McMike has earned a pat on the back and a handful of free stickers from Honda for painting his lawnmower in the same colours as one of the automakers old F1 racing cars.In a Twitter thread spanning back to January 2019, @_McMike_ chronicles the build of his 2019 Honda lawn mower dubbed Mowrichiro after company founder Soichiro Honda complete with doctored pictures and videos showing the mower tracing its lineage back to the RA273 race car.Multiple updates are included, showing the painting and building of the mower, as well as the self-made memes: Mr. Honda on a shirt with the mower, a photo of the lawnmower inserted into a picture of the real race car in 1966, that sort of thing.Inspired by Honda’s 1966-67 Formula One team, I’m very proud to launch the Mowichiro Honda HHRA273 the challenger for the 2019 Formula Lawn season. #McMower #FormulaLawn #Mowichiro #F1 #RA273 pic.twitter.com/wbRaVWRczS McMike (@_McMike_) February 8, 2019The real Honda RA273 was powered by a 400-horsepower 48-valve 3.0-litre V-12. By contrast, Mowrichiro is probably making somewhere around 4.4 horsepower.The 3.0-litre V12 engine used in the RA273 was adapted from the RA272s 1.5-litre V-12, engineered by Shoichiro Irimajiri, who would go on to become the CEO of Sega and spearhead the Dreamcast video game console project. (Obviously, he was a man of great ideas.)The RA273 wasnt a very successful racing car, earning only a fourth-place victory in the Formula 1 World Championship in 1967 in the hands of John Surtees. However, it did pave the way for the RA300, which won the 1967 Italian Grand Prix at Monza, again in the hands of John Surtees, with the same 3.0-litre V-12 engine.Earning the support of the factory, McMike received a reply from Honda Racing itself, asking for his address so it could send him some sweet die-cut racing stickers for his devotion to the
Origin: This lawn mower wears a Honda racing throwback livery
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Jerk-face Tesla owner parks on stranger’s lawn, steals power for 12 hours
Meanwhile, in Florida…A driver who parked on a stranger’s lawn and plugged his Tesla into an electrical outlet overnight without permission is being let off the hook by the friendly homeowner.It’s bad enough to park on someone’s lawn, but to steal their power, too? That takes balls, or a lack of brain cells, or both. Florida TV station WPBF 25 interviewed Phil Fraumeni, whose lawn was used as a temporary parking lot/charging station by the white Model 3. And lucky for the entitled driver, Fraumeni seems to be a delightful, neighbourly and quite forgiving individual. The Lake Worth man was woken up in the morning by his lawn guy who asked him to move his car parked on the grass near the sidewalk so he could mow. But Fraumeni’s car was in the garage, and he didn’t know anyone who owned a white Model 3 besides.So, after sending a picture to his wife and having her briefly think it was a gift for her, Fraumeni called the police, believing the car may have been stolen. It wasn’t, though, and soon a young man and woman showed up and explained that they’d run out of juice in the neighbourhood while visiting a friend and taken it upon themselves to leave the car topping up on the lawn from midnight the night before. The police explained to the driver that this was, in fact, not cool, dude. Being the gem that he apparently is, Fraumeni didn’t press charges or even ask the couple to pay for the power they’d stolen. So, free charging at Fraumeni’s place, we guess. Pass it on.
Origin: Jerk-face Tesla owner parks on stranger’s lawn, steals power for 12 hours
YouTuber fits vintage Dodge pickup with 212-cc lawn mower engine
Carson Duba, a.k.a. EverythingWithWheels on YouTube, has a thing for Predator engines. It says so right on his YouTube About page: Let’s fix something or put a Predator in it! Words to live by, truly. For Duba, the most recent manifestation of this mantra is a vintage Dodge Ram that runs on a US$120 212-cc Predator motor, a power plant designed for vacuums, mowers and pressure washers. Designed for, perhaps, but not relegated to, because the motor moves this little truck just fine, forward and backward, at speeds up to 32 km/h. When Duba’s friend who’d had it kicking around the yard gave it to him, the early ’80s Dodge Ram 50 had a four-cylinder engine. That was scooped out clean to make room for Duba’s more-modest solution. The 6.5-horsepower motor sits on a custom-made platform with its throttle connected to the vehicle’s pedal. It took some negotiation to get the clutch, 60-tooth sprocket and chain to ship power to the five-speed manual transmission and lug the heavy truck around. But, well, take a look at the results! Possibly the best feature? The fact that it looks and drives like a truck, but still starts like a lawnmower, with a pull cord that’s fed through the body and pulled from under the front driver’s side wheel.
Origin: YouTuber fits vintage Dodge pickup with 212-cc lawn mower engine
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