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Tarbuster
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right here, right now
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Apr 11, 2019 - 12:49pm PT
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Speaking of self-starters, this is a wonderful story.
I love where this guy's head is at.
James Glickenhaus Garage, P4/5 Competizione:
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Apr 11, 2019 - 12:52pm PT
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That sure don’t look a 4L engine! But that is sure some high class shade tree wrenching! 😆
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tolman_paul
Trad climber
Anchorage, AK
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Apr 11, 2019 - 02:14pm PT
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That's an old picture, Neb III has run many different engine classes and many different displacements. It was the only photo I had handy to gives a view of what is under the bodywork.
If you're interested in the records Jack has set with his vehicles, he has a list on his website: http://www.jackcostella.com/ scroll to the bottom of the page.
The letters refer to engine displacement and vehicle class. In the case of the latest record E/BGS the E denotes engine displacement 184-260.99 (see table below) the BG is supercharged/turbocharged on gasoline (Blown Gas) and S is streamliner. If it was a naturally aspirated engine running on gas in the case of Jack getting into the 300 mph club it was D/GS in that case 300 cu in naturally aspirated running on gas. The XF prefix is a vintage engine class using a Ford flathead.
For cars the engine displacement breaks in cubic inches is:
Class Displacement
AA 501.00 and over
A 440.00–500.99
B 373.00–439.99
C 306.00–372.99
D 261.00–305.99
E 184.00–260.99
F 123.00–183.99
G 93.00–122.99
H 62.00–92.99
I 46.00–61.99
J 31.00–45.99
K 30.99 and under
Motorcycles have different displacement breaks and go all the way down to 50cc as I recall
El Mirage is a shorter course with no return runs so slower for a given engine displacement.
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johntp
Trad climber
Punter
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Apr 11, 2019 - 02:52pm PT
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Nice Tad. My brother had a Triumph TR6. No photos, he wrapped it around a tree.
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johntp
Trad climber
Punter
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Apr 11, 2019 - 07:45pm PT
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^^^
Good times. We are lucky to be alive.
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DanMerrick
Social climber
FKA Banquo from Mo' Hill, CA
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Apr 12, 2019 - 08:25am PT
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Nio electric car. I took this at their Santa Clara facility last year.
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Sula
Trad climber
Pennsylvania
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Apr 12, 2019 - 04:25pm PT
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Marlow posted:
Bugatti Atlantic [Click to View YouTube Video]
I knew the guy - Pete Williamson - who owned & restored that car. He bought it in 1971 for $59k. It sold recently for ~$30M.
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Apr 13, 2019 - 09:16am PT
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Damn, Matt! ^^^ That thing looks like it could have come straight out of the cartoon film, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Apr 13, 2019 - 09:30am PT
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HaHaHa! And I gotta believe that it will bring less than the original Bugatti would if properly restored. BTW, The Economist had an article a while back that showed rare cars and art to be your best investments IF you know what you’re doing. That’s a big ‘if’.
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mastadon
Trad climber
crack addict
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Apr 14, 2019 - 07:53am PT
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Visited a friend last week who has an amazing car collection. He has two ‘65 AC Cobras, a 289 and 427. This is his 289. You can see the wind deflector to my left is signed by Carroll Shelby.
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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Tarbuster
climber
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Apr 19, 2019 - 07:38am PT
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Get out of that car right now, Don!
Before you poke your eye out ...
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Apr 19, 2019 - 08:09am PT
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Some dreams come true...
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Apr 19, 2019 - 09:25am PT
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Wow, Tar, that was a nice start to my day anche senza il mio espresso! So, whaddya say we
go in together on one? You can have it for summer and fall, I get it winter and spring. I’ll
spring for the front wheels and you can pick up the rears. Marlow can front the rest and he can come drive it whenevah!
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Tarbuster
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Apr 19, 2019 - 09:46am PT
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I really enjoyed being let in on the thought process and the execution of the build.
What's also quite interesting is how in automotive design, as in climbing, power to weight ratio is key. For pure enjoyment, and also racing efficacy, light is quite often right!
The guy definitely underscored how the minimalism of the design and execution amounts to quite a lot of the zest of the whole experience.
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steve shea
climber
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Apr 19, 2019 - 12:13pm PT
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All of the Zagato/Storz redos were supposed to have pushrod engines. I think Storz had a 4Cam in the original and the one in this video sounded more like a 4Cam than a pushrod. Either way I'd happily take one. I also like this one without the fins; beautiful.
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Winemaker
Sport climber
Yakima, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 19, 2019 - 04:36pm PT
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Well, I did as requested by Chris. What a joke. I won't argue the legality side of this, but this is the only place I've seen such draconian culling of content. There seem to be no issues on other sites I post on; certainly we're not posting pictures here for commercial use.
I think this place is dead. I thought about deleting any threads I started, but that would be as draconian as what I'm complaining about. There seems to be no way to post a picture of a car or whatever that existed in 1913, as I certainly did not take the photo; it seems to me a good argument could be made for fair use for education, but what do I know. This really sucks.
Thanks to all of you who posted to this thread; there were some really cool cars...
Steve
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Apr 19, 2019 - 05:09pm PT
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One of the few reasons remaining to post on this site is to chew the fat with people we've come to know through interaction here over the years.
Going forward, I'm definitely not generating any new content whatsoever. As I can no longer climb, I'm not taking any new photographs. I've been primarily hanging around to talk about cars, Formula 1, and jazz. To the degree that involves generating or sharing content on those three topics, most of that will violate their policy.
If you can't post a visible YouTube video about cars or music or historical media of any kind related to climbing and talk about it, then it's pretty darn neutered for those of us who no longer climb.
It's so inflexible as to be laughable. I suppose the trip report function will persist, because at least then you know for sure you are not infringing on any copyrights by posting your own pictures.
Maybe it will eventuate in CMAC getting more or less what he's been asking for: pretty much climbing content only. A younger crowd might start infiltrating and do just that, but I'm left with little to do here at this point.
Someone mentioned it's like a remodel: tear it down and rebuild it the way you want it. I don't think this is really what they want, but they've been intimidated into stripping it down to this level, that's clear.
It's pretty lean, and it might persist in this condition, who knows. Time will tell. It's pretty much a dumpster fire or a corpse. ... Or a corpse IN a dumpster fire!
Ha ha: at least I can still make myself laugh. So I/we still got that going on!!!
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Winemaker
Sport climber
Yakima, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 19, 2019 - 06:07pm PT
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Roy, I don't know if you look at this site, F1technical.net. but there is some great historic and current F1 info there. Here's one you might enjoy
https://www.f1technical.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=27760
Lots of photos there; the posters frequently say 'if this is in copyright violation let me know and I'll take it down'.
Thanks for all your contributions to the taco and I'll see you in May for some racing.
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