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FestYboy

Dinner's on!

Viking64

Tony M wrote: »

Maybe a repeat?

Maybe not.

Tony M

Refs doing those blatant no-calls again. That's exactly why the Saints lost. End of story. That play near the end will be broadcast and viewed a million times.

The Saint's coach will crush a few refs careers tonight or tomorrow over this.

Mikey081057

And he will get fined

Tony M

who will get fined?

Clipdat

Tony M

I've been in a Datson B210 doing that.

Also some other car that was very heavy driven by the same crazy driver. My old friend Barry.

mhardy6647

Clipdat wrote: »

Real F1
The cars in that era were still gorgeous, wings and fins notwithstanding

Tony M wrote: »

I've been in a Datson B210 doing that.

Also some other car that was very heavy driven by the same crazy driver. My old friend Barry.

ahhh, the B210




Speaking of "Datsun" -- did you know that the name came from a company called DAT?




I was gonna write this myself, but - poor form & questionable accuracy notwithstanding - I'm gonna just quote Wiki-P.

Before the Datsun brand name came into being, an automobile named the DAT car was built in 1914, by the Kaishinsha Motorcar Works (快進自動車工場 Kaishin Jidōsha Kōjō), in the Azabu-Hiroo District in Tokyo. The new car's name was an acronym of the surnames of the following company partners:

Kenjirō Den (田 健次郎 Den Kenjirō)
Rokurō Aoyama (青山 禄朗 Aoyama Rokurō)
Meitarō Takeuchi (竹内 明太郎 Takeuchi Meitarō)

Incidentally, datto (how a native Japanese speaker would pronounce "dat") means to "dash off like a startled rabbit" (脱兎), which was considered a good name for the little car.

DAT Automobile Manufacturing began development of a line of 495 cc cars to sell in this new market segment, calling the new small cars "Datson" – meaning "Son of DAT". The name was changed to "Datsun" two years later in 1933.

Nissan ultimately bought DAT and used the Datsun name as a brand name (e.g., in the US).

According to Wiki-P, the Datsun name was phased out in 1986



PS The home market Nissan cars generally had (and still have) cooler names than their US counterparts, I'd opine

mhardy6647

ahem

mhardy6647

A cold, windy day (-5 degrees F air temp, -20 degrees F wind chill) brings the perching birdies to our feeders. The wind blew the top of the feeder open -- but I don't want to go out & bother all those little songbirds.

DSC_3845 by Mark Hardy, on Flickr
DSC_3846 by Mark Hardy, on Flickr

Milito

mhardy6647

ahh, the GT40... one of the most beautiful vehicles evah.
The fact that it was a serious, serious contendah doesn't hurt.

another pretty (and related) one, IMO...

L-O-L-A Lola.





Lola was, and is, curvy. Not exactly zaftig. But definitely Voluptuous.

FestYboy

Sex on wheels.

aprazer402

Too bad there's only one left, these would have made cool speaker stands? No affil.

CGTIII

My favorite at the Tupelo Automobile Museum yesterday, a Marmon. My family had an all black 1931 V8 four-door Marmon (quite a different beast) before we left Texas when I was four. If anyone is interested in visiting that museum, do it before mid-March. It's all to be sold at auction soon after. They also have one of the two Leslie's from The Great Race and a Tucker 48, if it's not loaned out. :-)

joecoulson

Beautiful

tonyp063

These are the ones that tripped my trigger

FestYboy

Speaking of, who else here owns a copy of Steve McQueen's Le Mans?

Tony M

You do?

Milito

I do, also Senna and Grand Prix.

Also a few more.









Spa.

mhardy6647

I was gonna pull up a McLaren. Number 4, ol' Bruce himself.

... nice to see Dan Gurney & an Eagle. He was a heck of a guy.

speaking of Amurricans (cars & drivers)...

joecoulson

We have Road Atlanta about 15 minutes down the road and they have the Walter Mitty races in spring. Historic race cars from all eras and all racing types. Great event for those who like the cars above. Full on racing

Clipdat

What the hell?

lightman1

Oh no!

mhardy6647

perhaps a glitch?

joecoulson

mhardy6647

OK.
Definitely a glitch.

I hope!

mhardy6647

otherwise -- it may be time to start a movement.

And friends, somewhere in Washington enshrined in some little folder, is a
study in black and white of my fingerprints. And the only reason I'm
singing you this song now is cause you may know somebody in a similar
situation, or you may be in a similar situation, and if your in a
situation like that there's only one thing you can do and that's walk into
the shrink wherever you are, just walk in say "Shrink, You can get
anything you want, at Alice's Restaurant." And walk out. You know, if
one person, just one person does it they may think he's really sick and
they won't take him.

And if two people, two people do it, in harmony,
they may think they're both [CENSORED] and they won't take either of them.

And three people do it, three, can you imagine, three people walking in
singin' a bar of Alice's Restaurant and walking out. They may think it's an
organization.

And can you, can you imagine fifty people a day, I said
fifty people a day walking in singin' a bar of Alice's Restaurant and
walking out?

And friends they may thinks it's a movement.

And that's what it is, the Alice's Restaurant Anti-Massacre Movement, and
all you got to do to join is sing it the next time it come's around on the
guitar.

- Arlo Guthrie

Milito

joecoulson wrote: »

We have Road Atlanta about 15 minutes down the road and they have the Walter Mitty races in spring. Historic race cars from all eras and all racing types. Great event for those who like the cars above. Full on racing

Yea, Road Atlanta is a great track. People I know who have driven on it said it's a fun track to drive on.

CGTIII

Think YOUR family is messed up?