Years ago we had a great historic race meeting at Sandown race track in Melbourne to which people bought some fantastic cars: 1967 Honda V12, 1961 GP Porsche; 250F and 300S Maseratis; C-type Jaguar, McLaren M26 F5000, 1938 GP Mercedes; Porsche 917; Brabham BT19; and many others. Drivers included Stirling Moss, Jack Brabham, John Surtees and Denny Hulme.
The most unusual sound was the pre-war Mercedes: like someone tearing up a corrugated steel roof; it put out about 400 bhp on skinny tires. I don't know what the fuel was, but it was mixed just prior to the car going out.
Denny drove the beast, which for some Teutonic reason had the brake pedal on the right and the accelerator in the middle: he left many tire marks along the back straight.
The Honda sounded great but only lasted two or three laps before something broke.
However, the sound of a DC-3 is still my favourite mechanical noise.
Swapped out carbs on the truck tonight, much more better. Rust from gas tank got into previous one. Started right up. About got idle set right. Time for beer.
@6thplanet said:
I dream to touch a 917 someday...😍
I didn't touch it but got close to it in the pits; it and the GP Porsche had a howl which bounced around the covered grandstand of the circuit, marvellous. I think the latter was the car in which Dan Gurney won his first Grand Prix.
I also saw and heard a 962 at our Philip Island track which was amazing; louder, but not as visceral as the 917. It was driven by Vern Schuppan, a Le Mans winner who came second in the 1974 or '75 Indy 500, great driver.
That's awesome! I'm planning on going to the vintage races at Mid Ohio in June. There won't be any coolness like those cars, but should be a great time none the less. Go Porsche!!🤘🏼
I bought tickets last week for my son and I to go the the NASCAR Cup Series race in St. Louis on June 2nd. He's only seen the XFinity cars at Road America so far. He's super excited because he's an Alex Bowman fan. Told him I can control everything but the weather. St Louis is just over a 4 hour drive from here and he has school and I have work the next morning
Gorilla glue (since it foams up and hopefully make decent contact with the imperfect surfaces) 4x 5/16" carriage bolts ea. in a staggered orientation. Hopefully thats overkill
My area is now in a tornado watch alert, not yet a tornado warning alert. The radar seems to show most of the heaviest storms moving past us just to the West. But I can tell you that when my Son and I just went outside to batten down all our pool/lawn stuff the air feels prime for something bad. It is super humid and the winds go from zero to 60 mph, then back in just a minute.
@Tom_S said:
Ron is in Ames. Not sure if they saw any damage.
A tornado passed by us about 15 miles away to the south. It was radar indicated and in open country. We'll have to wait until tomorrow to see if it did any damage. We had a fast 3/4" of rain and some wind but no damage. Outside of Greenfield Iowa getting clobbered I haven't seen any other damage reports yet but this line of storms probably did plenty. I think a lot of people lost power in the Des Moines area. There could be flooding issues because IA has had a lot of rain lately.
This is the latest storm news from Des Moines. The video of the truck blowing over was taken on highway 30 between Ames and Nevada which is 10 miles away.
I covered lots of bad stuff in my days as TV news photog. Accidents, murders, even bodies with bullet holes in the street. The only time I ever teared up was while we interviewed a mother holding a toddler in the little town of Worthington. They were tucked under the branches of a pine tree to stay out of the rain. She was still in shock as she described coming out of the basement after the tornado, only to find their house was completely gone.
@Tom_S said:
I covered lots of bad stuff in my days as TV news photog. Accidents, murders, even bodies with bullet holes in the street. The only time I ever teared up was while we interviewed a mother holding a toddler in the little town of Worthington. They were tucked under the branches of a pine tree to stay out of the rain. She was still in shock as she described coming out of the basement after the tornado, only to find their house was completely gone.
Reeds an awesome chaser. It always sounds like he’s panicking but he says that he is his adrenaline is so high that almost feels like he’s gonna have a heart attack. Crazy job.
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Years ago we had a great historic race meeting at Sandown race track in Melbourne to which people bought some fantastic cars: 1967 Honda V12, 1961 GP Porsche; 250F and 300S Maseratis; C-type Jaguar, McLaren M26 F5000, 1938 GP Mercedes; Porsche 917; Brabham BT19; and many others. Drivers included Stirling Moss, Jack Brabham, John Surtees and Denny Hulme.
The most unusual sound was the pre-war Mercedes: like someone tearing up a corrugated steel roof; it put out about 400 bhp on skinny tires. I don't know what the fuel was, but it was mixed just prior to the car going out.
Denny drove the beast, which for some Teutonic reason had the brake pedal on the right and the accelerator in the middle: he left many tire marks along the back straight.
The Honda sounded great but only lasted two or three laps before something broke.
However, the sound of a DC-3 is still my favourite mechanical noise.
Geoff
I dream to touch a 917 someday...😍
Swapped out carbs on the truck tonight, much more better. Rust from gas tank got into previous one. Started right up. About got idle set right. Time for beer.
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I didn't touch it but got close to it in the pits; it and the GP Porsche had a howl which bounced around the covered grandstand of the circuit, marvellous. I think the latter was the car in which Dan Gurney won his first Grand Prix.
I also saw and heard a 962 at our Philip Island track which was amazing; louder, but not as visceral as the 917. It was driven by Vern Schuppan, a Le Mans winner who came second in the 1974 or '75 Indy 500, great driver.
Geoff
That's awesome! I'm planning on going to the vintage races at Mid Ohio in June. There won't be any coolness like those cars, but should be a great time none the less. Go Porsche!!🤘🏼
I bought tickets last week for my son and I to go the the NASCAR Cup Series race in St. Louis on June 2nd. He's only seen the XFinity cars at Road America so far. He's super excited because he's an Alex Bowman fan. Told him I can control everything but the weather. St Louis is just over a 4 hour drive from here and he has school and I have work the next morning
'stendo
Gorilla glue (since it foams up and hopefully make decent contact with the imperfect surfaces) 4x 5/16" carriage bolts ea. in a staggered orientation. Hopefully thats overkill
Another piece of the puzzle. The face plates for my amplifier project. Keith Etheredge did the laser etching and knocked it out of the park!
That looks great! I like that font.
That is very cool !!! really like the font style as well
I don't envy folks in Iowa right now. Sounds like the atmosphere is winding up for one hell of a tantrum.
It is officially a tornado outbreak in Iowa. We have several members in Iowa, keep them in your thoughts today.
Take cover guys! Thoughts and prayers for you.
Hold on to your butt, Maynard! Washington seems to attract storms.
Looks like it should miss us in Cedar Rapids. But this is according to the local ABC affiliate and their track record isn't stunning.
Jim is in Des Moines, news said they got nailed. Hope he's okay.
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Ron is in Ames. Not sure if they saw any damage.
Well, TomS is okay!
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Greenfield IA was hammered by what might be classed as a F4.
My area is now in a tornado watch alert, not yet a tornado warning alert. The radar seems to show most of the heaviest storms moving past us just to the West. But I can tell you that when my Son and I just went outside to batten down all our pool/lawn stuff the air feels prime for something bad. It is super humid and the winds go from zero to 60 mph, then back in just a minute.
A tornado passed by us about 15 miles away to the south. It was radar indicated and in open country. We'll have to wait until tomorrow to see if it did any damage. We had a fast 3/4" of rain and some wind but no damage. Outside of Greenfield Iowa getting clobbered I haven't seen any other damage reports yet but this line of storms probably did plenty. I think a lot of people lost power in the Des Moines area. There could be flooding issues because IA has had a lot of rain lately.
Ron
Glad you are ok Ron.
This is the latest storm news from Des Moines. The video of the truck blowing over was taken on highway 30 between Ames and Nevada which is 10 miles away.
https://kcci.com/article/severe-thunderstorm-watch-issued-for-southwest-iowa/60838526
Ron
Greenfield got hammered
You can clearly see the path through Greenfield in the drone footage. It looks like some of those houses were shredded!!
I covered lots of bad stuff in my days as TV news photog. Accidents, murders, even bodies with bullet holes in the street. The only time I ever teared up was while we interviewed a mother holding a toddler in the little town of Worthington. They were tucked under the branches of a pine tree to stay out of the rain. She was still in shock as she described coming out of the basement after the tornado, only to find their house was completely gone.
Jesus.
This is storm chaser footage of the Greenfield tornado going through a wind farm.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=R_ZDVYzIhgc
That is crazy! That's a storm chaser's wet dream, right there.
Reeds an awesome chaser. It always sounds like he’s panicking but he says that he is his adrenaline is so high that almost feels like he’s gonna have a heart attack. Crazy job.
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