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How many of us have put something in the air intake of the carburettor to prevent debris getting into the engine when not in use and then forgot to take it out before starting the car.
A look of wonder why the engine wont fire.... Well at least I know I am not alone because even Delta managed it yesterday at Mallory Park with the 500! |
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Red faced but thank you Stuart. Well done on Goodwood entry. Fully deserved.
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I’m not going to put this on the Revival thread, in case my sense of humour is not in line with others......
https://sniffpetrol.com/2019/06/04/g...-call-of-duty/ |
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18 Jun 2019, 14:50 (Ref:3912674) | #3858 | ||
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Nice avatar, Mike. What do you prepare for December…
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Got to download a few more pics from dropbox to see out the rest of the year! That was the first PA HTC race- Spa 2013....
Viv, it was thanks to your link on the Rich Energy thread that I found the Goody piece. Cheers! |
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18 Jun 2019, 17:54 (Ref:3912713) | #3861 | ||
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2013? Oscar Cibié is a must, so chic! At least you follow the rules, all the headlamps are period correct. Not always the case…
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If I had my way, cars entered for Spa6 would have completely period lighting, not as we find nowadays. I find it odd that, for example, a GT40 could successfully do LM24 in the 60s without a rally style lamp pod (OK, not invented ), and yet it’s necessary now.....
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Fully agreed, Mike! May be others can remember back in the seventies/eighties at Spa when doing the 24 Heures the scrutinizing team didn't appreciate French teams so much. We were obliged to comply with our road regulations meaning we had to have yellow headlamps. It was really painful when another car was overtaking with white lamps…
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The Corvette was easily the most "moving" sound - its visceral, feels like it was rearranging your internal organs. I stood on the pit straight, with a can of beer in my hand, and it actually vibrated in my hand as the Vette blasted past! My first visit there, and its tiring, but a great experience. |
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Me and my old man tried that with a bottle of water and the Mclaren M8F at Silvestone in May.It worked alright. |
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My first (of many) trip to Le Mans was 1982/83 when turbo petrol cars like the Porsche 956 were in their heyday. We went on a Page & Moy coach trip, and had seats in the Esso grandstand. That year there were two rather slow, but gloriously noisy Corvettes in the race.
We had the choice of either sleeping in the coach in the car park, or to try and grab some sleep stretched out in the grandstand. So, there I was, in the middle of the night, tightly cocooned in my sleeping bag, stretched out on the wooden bench, and fast asleep until one of the Corvette's came past. I woke with a start. and proceeded to roll off the seat onto the floor, unable to stop myself as my arms and legs were tightly wrapped inside my bag! Fortunately the seats were not too high, and so apart from a few bruises, I wasn't really hurt. More fortunately, none of my mates were awake at the time to witness my fall! |
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19 Jun 2019, 09:01 (Ref:3912827) | #3869 | ||
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The thunderous noise of the Corvettes at Le Mans has always been something to behold. 20 years ago we had multiple v8, v10 and v12 powered machines with the Panoz, Vipers and Corvettes along with the big engined BMW's and other prototypes. I well remember standing along the straight on the run up to Indianapolis from Mulsanne at 1am listening to the mixture of engine sounds. After a while, even in the dark you could identify the cars from quite a distance, then came the whispering Bentleys which appeared ghostlike as they flew past with deceptive speed. Fond memories both in the wet and dry.
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Watching the stream of LM last weekend, there was a choice of in car Toyota LMP1, Rebellion or Porsche RSR. The last sounded magnificent, the Rebellion OK, the Toyota like a bag of nails...… What I really wanted was IN CAR CORVETTE, though!
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If you want noise....I was there of course when the Mazda 787 (etc) was running. When the bloody thing lasted the whole 24 hours it was a bloody disaster for my ears! Previous years we'd been so pleased when they broke
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Being an old "bike bloke" I think that the Honda 6 race bike on full chat back in the 60s was absolutely magic. Even a road going CBX does it for me as well. All those multi cylinder works bikes like the Moto Guzzi V8 were something else !. Car wise I suppose the BRM 16 cyl takes some beating !
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[QUOTE=GORDON STREETER;3913033 Car wise I suppose the BRM 16 cyl takes some beating ![/QUOTE]
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I'll join in with other members of the Old Git's club here and mention the V16 BRM which to me has a magnificent sound. (I've never heard the BRM H16 but I presume that'll basically sound like two V8's?)
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