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  1. StraightEight

    What is your favorite aircraft of all time?

    I have two favorites, both expressing incredible audacity in aeronautical engineering. The Saturn V -363 feet high -7.5m lbs at engine start -Thrust duration (not including orbital coasting): about 16 minutes from lift off to S-IVB separation. -S1-C first stage fuel: 203,000 gals of RP-1...
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    Driving golden era cars in the modern era

    '60s muscle cars, yes. You can buy brand new '68 Mustang body shells, put whatever engine in it you like. This is the only one that I know of from the 30s, a replica of a Talbot-Lago, very expensive. I'm not sure they're even building cars anymore. It was one guy with one shop...
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    favorite cars of the golden era

    Oh, I like that. We're definitely going back to Normandy in 2014 in a WC54 ambulance.
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    Circa-1949-1952 Pontiac sighting

    Nice find. Imagine how many frigid Christmases and sizzling Fourth of Julys that car has been through. The factory full of people who built it is gone, its dealership is probably a strip mall, all the cars it shared the showroom with almost certainly went to the scrapper decades ago, and the...
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    Thanks AP for all you do for the living history set

    It's just an AP wire repeat of a Toledo Blade story. Seems balanced enough. What, the voters have no right to know that he donned an SS uniform as part of his extra curricular activities? 'Course, if the story were about Obama instead of some third lieutenant Republican in Ohio, there would...
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    favorite cars of the golden era

    Actually, you can credit Buick chief stylist Ned Nickles with that one. Personally, I prefer the '51s to the '50s. Never liked how the grille spills over the bumper. In '51 they rebuilt the dike and the grille is once again contained.
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    Adventure! Fedora Lounge Folks in Action!

    Indiana Jones photos-very clever. More information is needed on "Adventure weekend II & III." What is that?
  9. StraightEight

    Adventure! Fedora Lounge Folks in Action!

    Because home is where the heart is. No matter where we go, we're always glad to come home.
  10. StraightEight

    The Sunday Drive

    Gettin' a fill up down by the whales in Newport Beach.
  11. StraightEight

    Adventure! Fedora Lounge Folks in Action!

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    Adventure! Fedora Lounge Folks in Action!

    Two weeks in Turkey.
  14. StraightEight

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    Tres noir!
  15. StraightEight

    favorite cars of the golden era

    I've seen that car! At the new Audi museum in Ingolstadt. Great place.
  16. StraightEight

    Driving golden era cars in the modern era

    Pink slips are always eminently transferable. At some point in the none too distant future the Buick will go on to its next caretaker. By the way, the front and rear bumpers and door handles are the only major chrome parts. The rest is stainless.
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    favorite cars of the golden era

    Now's the time! Stuff is going so cheap. Buyers are scarce.
  19. StraightEight

    Driving golden era cars in the modern era

    Thankfully, no. Who wants to go to a wedding reception with a bunch of strangers?
  20. StraightEight

    Driving golden era cars in the modern era

    Thanks! Late '48, actually a '49, but really a '48.
  21. StraightEight

    Driving golden era cars in the modern era

    Played wedding chauffeur this weekend. I don't know these people; they approached me at a car show a couple of months ago. Money was offered, but it was just a few miles from the house so I did it to be neighborly. Now, to get those heel marks off the ceiling...
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    VIDEO: Jetting through the Grand Canyon

    So we can go back to a hundred smog-alert days per year in LA and pull bodies off the hoods of cars after wrecks. No thanks. The film is fabulous, the music asinine. Thank Top Gun and Jerry Bruckheimer for forever associating jet aircraft with pounding metal guitar riffs. Cliches are set on max.
  23. StraightEight

    Who are you favorite generals of WWII

    I'll put a word in for Count Alfred von Schlieffen. Without him, the whole thing probably wouldn't have happened. Oh, except that would have been a good thing...

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