Why does it have half a hundredweight of scaffolding attached to the back?
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Why does it have half a hundredweight of scaffolding attached to the back?
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To stop it flipping backwards.Originally Posted by Macca
All big drag bikes have it and some of the cars.
(apart from the jets & rockets)
It is impossible for anything digital to sound analogue, because it isn't analogue!
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Okay that makes sense.
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And just for the sheer hell of it. Here's a proper dragster laying 10,000 bhp on the deck. Makes Formula 1 look like a bicycle parade!
Turn the sound right up and enjoy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3CYGLURsf0
338 mph in under 4.5 seconds!!
It is impossible for anything digital to sound analogue, because it isn't analogue!
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all that for 3 secs
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Yeah, did I mention it would need to have a usable boot, rear seats (for something) - oh and a roof!
That Tesla's not bad, Martin (but NEVER in white) - BRUTAL BLACK only, preferably matt, to maximise the MENACE... It'd depend on what the interior was like, and ultimately [very crucially] what it was like to drive, say in comparison with the GTR I showed earlier. ONLY if the Tesla was all-round, no-brainer better, would I entertain it.
Plus, as someone who likes to shun the accepted norm, there's still something satisfactorily 'non-conformist' about [at least for now] sticking two fingers up at the 'all-electric future' we're being forced towards, and driving around in a big, noisy, V6 or V8 'gas guzzler'!
Long live the combustion engine.... So here's my message to the authorities, in that respect...
Marco [forever an individual, not just a number].
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For something more sanely priced, this Honda Civic Type-R, in Matt Black, is simply drop-dead gorgeous:
I mean, just LOOK AT THAT...!!
I can feel a chubby coming on... Just drop a 15" sub in the boot, with some 1KW monoblock amps - sorted
BOOYAKASHA!!
Marco.
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Turntable: Heavily-modified Technics SL-1210MK5G [Mike New bearing/ETP platter/Paul Hynes SR7 PSU & regulator mods]. Funk Firm APM Achromat with Nagaoka GL-601 Crystal Record Weight. Isonoe feet & boots. Ortofon RS-212D tonearm with Denon DL-103GL, in a Denon PCL-300 headshell, fitted with Funk Firm Houdini and Kondo SL-115 pure-silver cartridge leads.
Paul Hynes MC head amp/SR5 PSU. Also modded Lentek head amp and Denon AU-310 SUT.
Other Cartridges: Nippon Columbia (NOS 1987) Denon DL-103. USA-made Shure SC35C with NOS stylus. Goldring G820 with NOS stylus. Shure M55E with NOS stylus.
CD Player: Audiocom-modified Sony X-777ES/DAS-R1 DAC.
Tape Deck: Tandberg TCD 310, fully restored and recalibrated as new by RDE, plus upgraded with heads from the TCD-420a. Also with matching TM4 Norway microphones.
Preamps: Heavily-modified Croft Charisma-X. Power Amps: Tube Distinctions Copper Amp, fitted with Tungsol KT-150s. Quad 306.
Cables & Sundries: Mark Grant HDX1 interconnects and digital coaxial cable, plus Mark Grant 6mm UP-LCOFC Van Damme speaker cable. MCRU 'Ultimate' mains leads. Lehmann clone headphone amp with vintage Koss PRO-4AAA headphones.
Tube Distinctions digital noise filter. VPI HW16.5 record cleaning machine.
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As Clarkson said; “It looks like someone crashed it through the window of Halfords and all the bits just stuck to it”. Looks a bit ‘try hard’ and adolescent to me.
I much prefer understated cars, when my little Citröen eco box has run its course, I’ll be hunting for a post-2018 Porsche Panamera. 😃
My board engineer has a Tesla Model 3 and he loves it. 0-60 in 2.9 seconds, laser guided cornering and the most flexible interior and dashboard ever. Pennies to run and super quiet. No maintenance either, aside from tyres and an occasional ‘glance over’.
Combustion vehicles are numbered, about 15 years’ time will signal the end of the legal sale of new ones pretty much worldwide. Just in time in my opinion.
Big petrol engines will be a thing to behold in the future; the sound, the drama and the passion. But it will be a case of ‘here is how we did things wrong in the past; knowing full well the damage they cause and the fact that oil is finite in the planet, and there’s no alternative to oil (to run a petroleum based engine).
I won’t miss combustion engines at all. Constantly need fiddling with, new this and new that every few thousand miles, wearing out within mileages that even a casual user balks at.
Having said all that, the sound of a 1959 Cadillac Series 62 starting up and driving away will never be replicated by any creation. Something so wonderful about it!
Just listen to this...
https://youtu.be/y6HoGOqZ7xY
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Lol - I like that!
But we'll (mostly) have to agree to disagree on this one, which is cool
I do agree with your 15 years, max, lifespan for new combustion vehicles (certainly diesel), but that won't detract from a HUGE (several lifetimes worth choice of cars) available on the second-hand market.
In any case, my 'driving lifespan' probably equates to approx 30 years, so as long as I can get to drive what *I* want during that time, I don't give a flying fuck what happens after it!
Marco.
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Turntable: Heavily-modified Technics SL-1210MK5G [Mike New bearing/ETP platter/Paul Hynes SR7 PSU & regulator mods]. Funk Firm APM Achromat with Nagaoka GL-601 Crystal Record Weight. Isonoe feet & boots. Ortofon RS-212D tonearm with Denon DL-103GL, in a Denon PCL-300 headshell, fitted with Funk Firm Houdini and Kondo SL-115 pure-silver cartridge leads.
Paul Hynes MC head amp/SR5 PSU. Also modded Lentek head amp and Denon AU-310 SUT.
Other Cartridges: Nippon Columbia (NOS 1987) Denon DL-103. USA-made Shure SC35C with NOS stylus. Goldring G820 with NOS stylus. Shure M55E with NOS stylus.
CD Player: Audiocom-modified Sony X-777ES/DAS-R1 DAC.
Tape Deck: Tandberg TCD 310, fully restored and recalibrated as new by RDE, plus upgraded with heads from the TCD-420a. Also with matching TM4 Norway microphones.
Preamps: Heavily-modified Croft Charisma-X. Power Amps: Tube Distinctions Copper Amp, fitted with Tungsol KT-150s. Quad 306.
Cables & Sundries: Mark Grant HDX1 interconnects and digital coaxial cable, plus Mark Grant 6mm UP-LCOFC Van Damme speaker cable. MCRU 'Ultimate' mains leads. Lehmann clone headphone amp with vintage Koss PRO-4AAA headphones.
Tube Distinctions digital noise filter. VPI HW16.5 record cleaning machine.
Speakers: Tannoy 15MGs in Lockwood cabinets with modified crossovers. 1967 Celestion Ditton 15.
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I've driven several GTR's (on the road and on track) and also a Tesla model S, and hand on heart i'd have the Tesla any day of the week.
I've also driven that Civic type R and wasn't particularly impressed, maybe because of the looks of the thing made me want to vomit every time i looked at it.
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