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The further and continuing adventures of the girl who sat in the back of your homeroom, reading and daydreaming.
About Me
- Roberta X
- Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
- I'm *mindlessly* fascinating. My internal monologue is like a frog in a blender, swimming like mad to keep ahead of the blades.
What's On My Other Blogs?
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HERMES "ROCKET"5 years ago
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Merry Christmas!20 hours ago
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Ethnic food, Westphalian style5 days ago
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Cults and Music5 years ago
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Defenders Of The Bill Of Rights
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Ego vadum perussi vestri prandium
Ego vadum perussi vestri prandium
"I saw to what extent the people among whom I lived could be trusted as good neighbors and friends; that their friendship was for summer weather only; that they did not greatly propose to do right; that they were a distinct race from me by their prejudices and superstitions."
Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
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- View From The Porch
- Cop Car's Beat
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- Walls Of The City
- True Blue Sam
- Trailer Park Paradise
- Tom Cochrun/Light Breezes
- Thunder Tales
- The Wandering Thoughts Of J. R. Shirley
- The View From North Central Idaho
- The Unwanted Blog
- The Travis McGee Reader
- The Shekel
- The Miller
- Marko Kloos (.com)
- The Clue Meter
- Staghounds
- SnarkyBytes
- Sharp As A Marble
- Shall Not Be Questioned
- Self Sufficient Slacker
- Say Uncle
- Rustmeister's Alehouse
- Rich's Garage
- Retrotechnologist
- Pergelator
- PA State Cop
- Not Clauswitz
- New Jovian Thunderbolt! (RIP)
- Mycroft HOLMES 4
- Mike Kole: Hoosier LP guy
- Mike Flynn: The TOF Spot
- MArooned: JayG
- Listen To Uncle Jay
- Last Refuge Of A Scoundrel
- Jigsaw's Thoughts
- Insert Title Here
- In Jennifer's Head
- I Work On A Starship
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- Fat In Indiana
- Every Blade Of Grass
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- Cowboy Blob (link fixed!)
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- Extry! Extry! NYT Editorial Staff Still Idiots!
- Mood-Lifter: The Rook Of Bloviation
- I'm Deeply Unhappy
- Yep, "Win'try Doom" It Was -- And Is
- Win'try DOOOOOOOM!
- Open Mouth, Insert Foot, Lose Big
- Merry Christmas!
- Another Angle On Lone Madmen
- Happy Hellidays
- The Astute Reader...
- Protest March?
- NRA Presser: Bit Of A Let-Down
- Winter Wonderland: A Neo Paleolithic Christmas?
- A Posinegative?
- Kentucky Fried Nope
- Missing The Point
- Music Break
- What To Do
- Reaction To The Reaction
- A Passionate Ignorance
- Compare And Contrast
- The Antis Are Already Pushing, We Must Push Right ...
- The Gun Didn't Do It -- But The Camera Might Have
- Christmas Oddness Via Claire Wolfe
- Books: Kage Baker's "Dr. Zeus" Tales
- State Senator Jim Merritt Ruins Career Over Tannerite
- A Friend In Need
- Spamoetry
- Convenient Mallshooter With Convenient "Assault We...
- I Feel So Special! Or, Deceptive Adverscamming
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- Aw, Shux
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- Overheard, Part Deaux
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14 comments:
That external tubular thing on the left-hand side of the car, right below the flaming exhaust manifolds... is that the gas tank?!
I'd still drive it, of course.
I was surprised that this sounded *just* like a Spitfire. I had thought that the prop noise would dominate.
Yeah!!! Gallons per mile, but WHO CARES! And yes, that IS the Spit engine!!! :-)
Ummm...
Object has Merlin engine.
Object does NOT have wings.
Analyzing...[bip]
Analyzing...[bip]
Analyzing...[bip]
Analysis failure. Alien concept; does not compute. Please reboot Universe and try again.
(Pedant side note: technically it isn't quite the Spitfire engine. Spitfires and Hurricanes always used the Rolls-Royce Merlin engine. Packard's Merlin was a copy of the Rolls engine, built in the US for the P-51 Mustang.)
That's, what? A V-24?
Did you notice the blue Ford GT being moved out of the way just as the Packard-Bentley was pulling back into the paddock? I think maybe the waterworks is a feature, not a bug!
Helluva thing, though.
(First) Anon: At a guess I'd say it's an oil tank. There's a small tube running from near the front of it up into the engine somewhere. Line is way too small for coolant, And removing the fill cap on top would dump the whole cooling system, Besides. Fuel's probably stashed behind the driver.
Sez here it's a 42-liter twin-port V-12, which explains the 24 exhaust pipes. With 1500 bhp. From a PT boat, yet!
PT BOATS AVR (AIR SEA RESCUE) AND OTHERS
SHOULD NOT THE GROUND CREW STAND BY WITH
50 LB CO2 BOTTLES FOR START UP AND SHUT DOWN?
WOW ! BY THE WAY
Must be a hoot to have to get clearance from the tower before you pull out.
I've watched that 3 times now.
Twice with headphones on.
I believe driving that would be my last mortal act. Once done I'd die happy.
And the guy parked next to Mavis when she starts up gets to explain where those flame scorch marks in the paint came from.
Oh.
Em.
Gee.
I need a cold shower, just listening to it.
I want to see Clarkson and The Stig take it around the track...
I'm with Drang: the sound was... exciting.
And ditto Borepatch: it sounded EXACTLY like a Spitfire starting up*. I wonder what effect that sound would have on a German?
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(*) Which I've only heard in movies, notably "The Battle of Britain" (1969).
docjim -
Get thee to Oshkosh for the fly-in, and you can revel in all sorts of glorious aircraft sounds.
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