| Car and driver Jan 2022 issue | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Douglas Anderson (dnt dock.net)
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| Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2022 10:25:45 -0800 (PST) | |
True true, Rick. And as Ferrari Bubba taught me – never give a little (not in stature) person in charge any power. Especially at racetracks. Case in point. In the olden days when cardboard tags on a string or colored ribbons denoted the limited areas on a race track where you can be involved A.J.Foyt. Read on. Covering the usual SCCA races at Riverside Raceway, Laguna Seca or other speedways we’d get our press credentials and go off and have fun and do some work. At Riverside it was particularly enjoyable as we’d go over to the hot press courtyard, drink Les Richter’s beer and eat his sub sandwiches and in the pits or garages just generally meander about taking pictures and listening to drivers and teams. But NASCAR? At Riverside? Hoo haa. They had a pass for: entry to the grounds, garages, pits, hot pits, pre-grid, photo, and ‘good anywhere any time’ (printed on the ribbon) which the fire or ambulance teams would wear. There was a long trail cardboard and rayon ribbons if you had a Photog Pass. And MAN, these NASCAR gate guards . . . . they were strict (in house term for ‘nuts’). And again, case in point, A.J. Foyt, ON RACE DAY, forgot (yes, drivers had to have the whole array – just didn’t wear them) his passes at the Mission Inn!! He got past the first entry to the grounds guards but nay at the garage level – MUST have a pass Mr. Foyt. He went ballistic. Long story short one of his crew ran back to the Inn, got the passes and fought race day traffic and delivered the goods and Mr. Foyt got to go racing. I somewhat recall the conversation – ‘yes Mr. Foyt, we know who you are BUT you MUST have your passes – how do we know you didn’t just give them to someone else?”. Ohhh, that WAS a Kodak moment. But since at the time we didn’t have sound to go along with the 16mm movie film or 35mm cameras – all the pictures would have been was just a person waving his arms (a blur) and everyone once in a while touching the ground. That gate guard had a job to do and HE was going to protect the integrity of the whole shooting match. Uh-huh. Ach the memories as Bubba would say. Doug From: Rick Moseley <ramosel [at] pacbell.net> Like the idiot in the State House who got denatured alcohol banned from being sold in hardware stores... Because he saw it on "Breaking Bad" and they used it to make Meth. One of those dimwits who has probably never been in a hardware store... who sits staring at a screwdriver trying to figure out which end you use to pound nails. On Thursday, January 6, 2022, 10:17:15 PM PST, Douglas Anderson <dnt [at] dock.net> wrote: But don’t forget – this is Kalifornia. The land of weird. For instance the brain drain outlawed any adhesive that will glue well although to prevent pealing. However there is no truth to the rumor Ferrari S.p.A. contacted us requesting the best glue to use on the 458 wheel arch assemblies. Doug From: Peter Rychel <dino308gt4 [at] hotmail.com> Did you do the bottle of methyl hydrate in the tank trick? Peter Sent from Mail for Windows From: Douglas Anderson Picture this – December 2, 1968, Riverside International Raceway, the Rex Mays 300. THE last USAC race of the STP door stop turbines. As a hanger on photographer as a guest of the Fullerton News Tribune and Ferrari Bubba, the primo spot to catch full frame race cars was turn 6. A nice right hand double apex 180 degree turn. Cars were light and you could shoot very slow, blur the back ground and get a great shot. So what. The ‘what’ is all the cars, ‘cepting maybe three but for sure the two STP turbines were quick there – BUT . . . . but – no sound. The cars powering through turn six sounded somewhat like either a ROOOOR from a variety of standard Indy cars or whoosh from a turbine. The turn sounded something like: ROOOOR, ROOOOOR, whoosh, ROOOOR, ROOOOR, ROOOOR, whoosh - - - and similar to the Nissan NSX exhaust system, a mighty big disappointment. And disappointment in the drag racing world? I watched, on TV, Don Garlits electric dragster. Managed to do 189 or so. As it took off – squeal squeal squeak go the huge slicks . . . and then, to borrow the title of a book . . . “…The Raucous Roar of Silence.” All that instead of the ear bleeding 150 dB full throttle take off of a top fuel dragster. The hue and cry – down with vehicles using planet collapsing fossil fuels (Top Fuel nor do Indy cars but tell that to the local yokels) which are branded to spell the end of earth as we know it in less than 10 presidential campaigns. Oh well, at least the people of New York were happy 22,000 years ago when the great ice cap receded into Canada as a result of the unregulated nuclear furnace 93,000,000 miles from us. Were there people around then? Gotta ask Anthony (AKA Tony) or CLyDe. ß---- [note patented ‘Clyde’ signature from 25 years ago] Good news today: after 17 tries, my carbureted 1978 308 GTS passed it biennial smog check. Cheers Doug From: Ferrari <ferrari-bounces+dnt=dock.net [at] ferrarilist.com> On Behalf Of Robert W. Garven Jr. Friends, It’s obvious an electric car can beat at any gas powered car but electric car or Ferrari SUV will never be as cool as, or have the history, or panache of a gas powered Ferrari, especially one with carburetors and a gear lever! I know that’s where the future headed and anyone that thinks that global warming isn’t destroying human existence (the world will be fine) isn’t thinking critically, but that said my love for these old Ferraris will only increase as the world becomes progressively more electric until we all wiped away just like the dinosaurs. If I could afford a electric car I would by a Lucid it looks a lot cooler than the Tesla and it doesn’t have a bond villain for a CEO……
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- Re: Car and driver Jan 2022 issue, (continued)
- Re: Car and driver Jan 2022 issue Rick Moseley, January 6 2022
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Re: Car and driver Jan 2022 issue Peter Rychel, January 6 2022
- Re: Car and driver Jan 2022 issue Douglas Anderson, January 6 2022
- Re: Car and driver Jan 2022 issue Rick Moseley, January 6 2022
- Re: Car and driver Jan 2022 issue Peter Rychel, January 7 2022
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