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  • BlueBirdMusic
    BlueBirdMusic Posts: 3,137
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    Navarre Beach pier Saturday night
    "Sometimes you have to look to the past to understand where you are going in the future"
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  • txcoastal1
    txcoastal1 Posts: 13,520
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    Where has @lightman1 (Russ) been. Well he got married….

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  • nooshinjohn
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    ^^^ married then buried
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  • Viking64
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 35,562
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  • aprazer402
    aprazer402 Posts: 3,465
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    It was easier to find your car in a parking lot then. Go to Sam's or Costco, the lot is full of white SUV's. Oops, this may better belong in the you're getting old thread.
  • NotaSuv
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    This was taken in the Merrit Island refuge on the full moon night. The refuge has no land development and thus it is pitch black at night...great place for viewing shooting starts
  • OleBoot
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    Just because. I love the wheels too.


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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 35,562
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    Viking64 wrote: »
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    Had to “Agree,” even though I’ve always been partial to white!

    I gladly owned a silver car (actually, a couple, come to think of it) and would again -- but I've never owned, nor have I ever wanted to own, a white, or a black, one. :p

    Note that this is not meant judgmentally! ;) Just speaking for myself.
    All things being equal, I prefer dirt-colored cars, for what I hope are obvious reasons. B)
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    I will also add in passing that I've owned two red cars to date, even though red is not a color I'd have ever chosen a priori. :#
    We owned a spate of green (or green-ish) cars in the 90s and aughts -- but for no particular reason.
    Final thought: In the perfect world, all cars I would buy would be some kind of blue. B)
    As was, e.g., this one.
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  • Geoff4rfc
    Geoff4rfc Posts: 3,062
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    OleBoot wrote: »
    Just because. I love the wheels too.


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    6-cylinder Benelli cafe'd out with inverted sliders and uni-shock, superbike bars, single sided swingarm, individual air pods, 6 into 6 exhaust system, 6 piston brake calipers, custom rearsets, gold plated crank and clutch caps...Ayesha just told me to shut my mouth and wipe the drool off my lip.

    I wonder what kind of work has been done under the hood....sheesh, a 6 banger 900cc....the only thing missing from the seat is my a$$....and yes @OleBoot, the wheels are pretty cool.
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  • aprazer402
    aprazer402 Posts: 3,465
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    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    Viking64 wrote: »
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    Had to “Agree,” even though I’ve always been partial to white!

    I gladly owned a silver car (actually, a couple, come to think of it) and would again -- but I've never owned, nor have I ever wanted to own, a white, or a black, one. :p

    Note that this is not meant judgmentally! ;) Just speaking for myself.
    All things being equal, I prefer dirt-colored cars, for what I hope are obvious reasons. B)
    1tgvqozzzekx.png

    I will also add in passing that I've owned two red cars to date, even though red is not a color I'd have ever chosen a priori. :#
    We owned a spate of green (or green-ish) cars in the 90s and aughts -- but for no particular reason.
    Final thought: In the perfect world, all cars I would buy would be some kind of blue. B)
    As was, e.g., this one.
    9hd41d4qscd4.png

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    Mrs. H looking good!
  • SCompRacer
    SCompRacer Posts: 9,404
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    I've never tried this...bi-wire and Cardas jumpers.

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  • SCompRacer
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    My buddy had a Bronco like that. We used to tow a race car on a single axle trailer with it. That short wheelbase made it interesting with a hard brake application.

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  • BlueBirdMusic
    BlueBirdMusic Posts: 3,137
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    Speaking of car colors in the 1970's

    In 1976, I ventured into an Audi-Porsche Dealer in Marietta (only one in the Atlanta area in 1976). I knew hardly anything about Porches except while attending college one of my math professors owned a black mid 60's Porsche that was very cool. I spotted this bright yellow car that I immediately liked. I was offered the chance to test drive the car and take it to my house about 8 miles away to show the wife who thought the car was too bright and pretentious. Never mind, the car became mine, and she learned to love it.

    The car was a Porsche 912E exactly like this one:
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    (Not my car as no digital pics in 1976 - Picture from internet)

    The 1976 912E (2000 built) was built especially for American buyers in the 14 months between the discontinuation of the mid-engined 914 in 1975 and the introduction of the front-engine 924 in 1977. To bridge this year-long gap with no base model to sell, Porsche decided to take the Volkswagen-based, air-cooled flat-four that had lived in the engine bay of the U.S.-spec 914, slap it into the rear of a 911 body, and sell it at a significant discount.

    The resulting car was the 912E ($10,900 in 1976), which retailed for three grand less than a 911S while still offering the style and handling of one (albeit with roughly half the horsepower of 86 @ 4,900 rpm). It was immediately discontinued after the introduction of the 924, and thus is Porsche’s only car ever built with planned obsolescence in mind.

    I kept the car for about a year, and sold it to a guy from California. I wish I still owned it.
    "Sometimes you have to look to the past to understand where you are going in the future"
    Harry / Marietta GA
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 35,562
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    SCompRacer wrote: »
    My buddy had a Bronco like that. We used to tow a race car on a single axle trailer with it. That short wheelbase made it interesting with a hard brake application.

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    Yes, the short wheelbase, narrow stance, solid axles, and its height were great for the trail, but made for interesting road manners. I had that rascal up on two wheels on dry pavement once in Brooklyn Park once -- took a corner a little too fast. :#
    It could also be terrifying in strong crosswinds...
    but I still loved it in a way that's hard to put into words. ;)
  • audioluvr
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    Toolfan66 wrote: »
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    I've seen that scene before on the Discovery Channel when a pygmy got eaten by a green anaconda.
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  • OleBoot
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    audioluvr wrote: »
    Toolfan66 wrote: »
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    I've seen that scene before on the Discovery Channel when a pygmy got eaten by a green anaconda.

    I thought it was a seal.
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  • F1nut
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    SCompRacer wrote: »
    I've never tried this...bi-wire and Cardas jumpers.

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    Nothing wrong with that as it effectively increases the wire gauge. The question I have, what is that white wire sticking up in the air for?
  • skipshot12
    skipshot12 Posts: 2,164
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    That is a noise filter.
    Can’t remember who made them but I had a few.

    Most of the time you saw them on the rear of audio gear like preamps, disc players and the rest.
    They’re put on unused input/output jacks.

    I never heard a difference.
  • skipshot12
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    Cannot find a picture of them or who makes them but they’re kinda like the NCF Filter things from Furutech….
    Furutech NCF Clear Line.

    They can be configured for rca, XLR and other types of audio plugs.

    Never seen it used on a speaker?
  • OleBoot
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  • ken brydson
    ken brydson Posts: 9,105
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    F1nut wrote: »
    SCompRacer wrote: »
    I've never tried this...bi-wire and Cardas jumpers.

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    Nothing wrong with that as it effectively increases the wire gauge. The question I have, what is that white wire sticking up in the air for?

    WiFi antenna silly....
  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 26,160
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    Speaking of car colors in the 1970's

    In 1976, I ventured into an Audi-Porsche Dealer in Marietta (only one in the Atlanta area in 1976). I knew hardly anything about Porches except while attending college one of my math professors owned a black mid 60's Porsche that was very cool. I spotted this bright yellow car that I immediately liked. I was offered the chance to test drive the car and take it to my house about 8 miles away to show the wife who thought the car was too bright and pretentious. Never mind, the car became mine, and she learned to love it.

    The car was a Porsche 912E exactly like this one:
    hravv95c21er.png
    (Not my car as no digital pics in 1976 - Picture from internet)

    The 1976 912E (2000 built) was built especially for American buyers in the 14 months between the discontinuation of the mid-engined 914 in 1975 and the introduction of the front-engine 924 in 1977. To bridge this year-long gap with no base model to sell, Porsche decided to take the Volkswagen-based, air-cooled flat-four that had lived in the engine bay of the U.S.-spec 914, slap it into the rear of a 911 body, and sell it at a significant discount.

    The resulting car was the 912E ($10,900 in 1976), which retailed for three grand less than a 911S while still offering the style and handling of one (albeit with roughly half the horsepower of 86 @ 4,900 rpm). It was immediately discontinued after the introduction of the 924, and thus is Porsche’s only car ever built with planned obsolescence in mind.

    I kept the car for about a year, and sold it to a guy from California. I wish I still owned it.

    They had a run of 912's back in the 1960's... basically the same concept. They were withdrawn in favor of the 914 as the entry level car. By 1975, Stuttgart had decided to replace the 914 with what they saw as the outgoing 911 for a short period of time until the 934 was ready, with that E variant being somewhat akin to the Honda Civic getting the SE model. The 911 herself was to be replaced with the 928, but somehow the 911 soldiered on...
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  • mhardy6647
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    So... since a GIF isn't, technically, necessarily, a video -- I'm just a-gonna put this here.
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  • txcoastal1
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  • ken brydson
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  • treitz3
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    I do miss my Oscar.

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