A century of use as the go-to method for storing enough electrons to spin the starter motor of a car engine has endeared ... the bank takes a charge from a cheap 24V hand generator.

Believe it or not, some European car makers used hand cranks into the 1990s (including ... or some other stroke of bad luck ...

This is an early car (judging by the hole in the front bumper for a hand-crank starter handle), so its original engine probably was a 1198cc version rated at 59 hp. Murilee Martin My guess that ...