[Racer X 69]

Yesterday...as I was going to the bakery...I saw a '60's Datsun Fairlady sportscar driven on the street. Unfortunately we were going in opposite directions, as I would of liked to talk to him about this, now rare car up here.

Your first picture looks like the car I saw on the street yesterday, sans all the racing mods and race car paint. Think the car may have also been known as the Datsun 1600 / 2000 .

To me the Fairlady was the first Japanese, British style sportscar, then of course came the 240Z, which I was also very impressed with. The engine in the early 240 reminded me of a larger Brit sportscar...with it's 2.4 liter displacement, inline...overhead cam... engine and the twin carbs.

The first one is a Sports 2000, which came with a 2 liter OHC engine, and twin SU carbs. IN race trim it set the pace for its class.

The SP310/SPL310 (L for left hand drive) Fairlady/Sports 1500 was introduced in 1963, with a 1.5 liter pushrod engine, the first 300 having only one SU carb, the twin SU setup continuing thereafter.

The SP311/SPL311 Fairlady/Sports 1600 came in 1965, with a 1.6 liter pushrod engine, again with twin SU carbs.

Introduced in 1967, and produced through the end of the Fairlady/Sports 2000 run, the SR311/SRL311 was the first with a SOHC engine, iron block, aluminum head, twin SU carburetors. A performance option was available, Mikuni/Solex carburetors, different cam grind, gauges and a special license plate trim.

In 1968 emissions systems reduced power output slightly. The body and other items were revised slightly.

The cars were campaigned by John Morton, Bob Sharp and others. The sticker price was lowest in its class, but it won its class in C Production (Mikuni-Solex carburetors) and D-Production (Hitachi-SU carburetors), in SCCA racing on a consistent basis even years after production ended.

I have raced against similarly prepared cars with my Z, and they give it a good battle.

[Racer X 69]

It depends on the hood ornament.

Ask and ye shall receive.

[Racer X 69]

Nice, if my memory fails me in cardiology (or endocrinology, or anaesthesiology, or intensive care, or general medicine, or gastroenterology - because I have all of these over the course of three days ) I'll just try to woo them by talking about the 'head bone' instead Fun fact for you: did you know that the sternoclavicular joint (the really rather small bit that connects your clavicles to your breastbone) is the only real joint that connects the entire skeleton of the upper limbs (arms and whole shoulder region) to the rest of your body?

Another bone, Leon Redbone.

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Oh, and once I'm rich I want a platform on the roof of my house with a permanently installed 16" Ritchey-Chretién Or I'll buy one of those second-hand once ESO moves over to the ELT:

[FantasticMrFox]

Another bone, Leon Redbone.

Leon Redbone - Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone 1977 - YouTube

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[Racer X 69]

Another hood ornament for Bob.





Hope you had some bacon with at least one of your meals today.

[tim60]

It's been 33°C in Munich today, pretty insufferable - so I've been online shopping for a nice gin to emulate you

33!

The hottest day I experienced was 44.6 in my home town. Drinking water was strongly recommended.

[mkgd1]

33!

The hottest day I experienced was 44.6 in my home town. Drinking water was strongly recommended.

It's been around 45C for two weeks straight even longer further south in Phoenix. But it's a dry heat.

[Racer X 69]

It's been 33°C in Munich today, pretty insufferable - so I've been online shopping for a nice gin to emulate you

33!

The hottest day I experienced was 44.6 in my home town. Drinking water was strongly recommended.

I spent 3 days in the Flying J at Ehrenberg, Arizona, waiting for an oversized load permit.

No trees.

No shade.

130 degrees F, 54.4 degrees C.

When I finally go the permit I headed East. About 50 miles West of Phoenix a drive tire exploded. I limped on down the shoulder to a rest area and waited for tire service.

It was 150 degrees F, 65.6 degrees C.

I felt sorry for the kid that came out to change it.

[FantasticMrFox]

It was 150 degrees F, 65.6 degrees C.

The highest temperature every recorded was 56.7 °C, and even that one is hotly contested

[FantasticMrFox]

Have you guys seen this new thread:

10 reasons I will not buy K new

Would be a shame if someone took it over with bacon, and planes, and talk of the live hociR ...

[Parallax]

130 degrees F, 54.4 degrees C.

When I finally go the permit I headed East. About 50 miles West of Phoenix a drive tire exploded. I limped on down the shoulder to a rest area and waited for tire service.

It was 150 degrees F, 65.6 degrees C.

I see I'm not the only one fond of hyperbole.

"According to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the highest temperature ever recorded was 56.7 °C (134.1 °F) on 10 July 1913 in Furnace Creek (Greenland Ranch), California, United States,[8] but the validity of this record is challenged as possible problems with the reading have since been discovered. Christopher C. Burt, a weather historian writing for Weather Underground, believes that the 1913 Death Valley reading is "a myth", and is at least 2.2 or 2.8 °C (4 or 5 °F) too high.[9] Burt proposes that the highest reliably recorded temperature on Earth could be at Death Valley, but is instead 54.0 °C (129.2 °F) recorded on 30 June 2013.[10] This is lower than a 1931 record of 55 °C (131 °F) recorded in Kebili, Tunisia [11] and is matched by a 1942 record of 54 °C (129 °F) from Tirat Zvi, Israel.[12] Recent[when?] readings in Kuwait and Iran have also matched the 2013 Death Valley record. The WMO has stated they stand by the 1913 record pending any future investigations."

List of weather records - Wikipedia.

[robtcorl]

I see I'm not the only one fond of hyperbole.

So, you're saying Racer is a hyperbolist?
I'd never in a million years think you'd say that about him.

[Racer X 69]

No hyperbole gentlemen. The truck, like most newer vehicles, had an outside temperature gauge. As mentioned, I had spent 3 days roasting in the hot sun on the California/Arizona border at 130 degrees. Given I was parked at a truck stop, surrounded by dozens of trucks, all idling and generating heat, all parked on dark, greasy pavement, the conditions would have influenced the temperature locally. The 150 degree heat when I stopped for the blowout may have also been biased by the conditions, a large expanse of pavement, trucks and cars all idling with air conditioning pumping heat away from them.

So I submit that the numbers displayed by the thermometer on my truck were as accurate as any thermometer.

[StiffLegged]

Hottest I ever experienced was an air temperature of 47°C atop Masada by the Dead Sea and I've no wish to try 56°C, or 65°C, or whatever more a trucker has experienced. That was quite enough.

[Racer X 69]

Have you guys seen this new thread:

10 reasons I will not buy K new

Would be a shame if someone took it over with bacon, and planes, and talk of the live hociR ...

There can be only one.