Are you feeling that this country is being divided?
Like last Saturday, if you read this column online, you would have seen a great pic of a beautiful blue 1931 Alfa Romeo 6c 1750 GTC Fifth Series Cabriolet. If you did the right thing and bought the paper, you would have seen a pic of GM boss Mary Barra who, I can assure you, is not a blue 1931 Alfa Romeo.
Then there's the divide between petrol and electric cars. Friends and readers, I know you have expressed your opinions very strongly on this, so you can rely on the old bloke and me to look after your interests. We'll be the first to don the khakis, pull the 303s out of the back shed and head to the front line in the war against silence.
Anyway, not only is Airspeed's founder, Matt Pearson, making electric flying cars, he is making red, 200km/h, 12m-long manned or womanned or personned electric flying racing cars.
Later this year QAGOMA will feature a show called "The motorcycle — design, art, desire". None of those words belong in the same sentence.
According to Ms QAGOMA: "This world-exclusive exhibition will showcase the art, design and history of one of the most iconic objects of the last 150 years, the motorcycle."
There will be 100 innovative and influential deathtraps from the 1860s to present day. There will be no highlights but the lowlights include: a 1868 Michaux-Perraux, the first steam-powered velocipede and oldest known motorcycle in the world; a Spencer produced in Brisbane in 1906; the 1930s Triumph Speed Twin; the 1970s Ducati 750 Super Sport and the 1990s Britten V1000.
Today's pic shows a 1930 Majestic designed by Georges Roy and restored by Serge Bueno of Heroes Motors in Hollywood. George was not an engineer but a former corporate executive who took bikes art deco. Serge is a French designer known for his vivid creativity and his ability to balance functionality and elegance across a broad range of artistic mediums.
The Majestic belonged to Serge's father. Together they decided to restore the bike. His father died suddenly and Serge couldn't bring himself to continue the restoration without his father, so the deconstructed and rusting parts were stored in crates at the family estate in Normandy, France. Ten years later he started the restoration again.