[MarkJerling]

February 18, 2001.

We remember.

I saw him racing at Daytona in '94. Was not his best year, he came 7th. But, legend.

[StiffLegged]

Brahms third racket.

Fawlty Towers, what a great show. My wife and I during our visit to the UK almost 40 years ago, chose a hotel in Devon, because it looked like Fawlty Towers on the outside. Surprisingly, it was much like Fawlty Towers on the 'inside'.

I wonder if it was the Gleneagles in Torquay...? And don't you mean "Fatty Owls" or "Warty Towels"? Don't mention the war!

[lesmore49]

I wonder if it was the Gleneagles in Torquay...? And don't you mean "Fatty Owls" or "Warty Towels"? Don't mention the war!

Can't recall. It was almost 40 years ago.

[slartibartfast01]

I wonder if it was the Gleneagles in Torquay...? And don't you mean "Fatty Owls" or "Warty Towels"? Don't mention the war!

Or "Flowery t**ts"

[Racer X 69]

Not yet Charlie.

I did read To Hell And Back, the account of D Day by Audie Murphy. I was ten years old when I read it the first time, scared the heck out of me.

I also read the account of John F. Kennedy’s experience on PT109, also at a young age, and also terrified as I read it.

Also read Shogun, by James Clavell. A fascinating, albeit fictional, look at Japan as the Western world was attempting to assert itself over it.

[Racer X 69]

Then there is the engineering guide to lubricants.

Is that the one that talks about how one of the authors discovered his passion for lubrication in the course of (and I quote) "the relationship with his professor"?

My mistake.

It is the Manufacture And Application Of Lubricating Greases, by C.J. Boner, Chief Research Chemist, Southwest Grease & Oil Co., Inc, Battenfeld Division, Kansas City, MO 64111, ©1954 by Reinhold Publishing Corporation, reprinted by arrangement 1966.

Still, loaded with engineering data, and chapters detailing the various structure modifying additives, and various grease bases, aluminum, barium, calcium, lithium, sodium, lead, strontium, as well as testing and analysis.

[Racer X 69]

I saw him racing at Daytona in '94. Was not his best year, he came 7th. But, legend.

Celebrating a win at the Winston West race, 1986, Seattle International Raceway road course, Kent, Washington. The promoters bring in ringers at the regional races to increase the gate, and at this event it was Dale. I also saw Bill Elliot and Michael Waltrip at these road course events in other years, and Bill Elliot, Davey Allison and Kenny Schrader at the 500 at the 5/8 mile oval at the Evergreen State Fairgrounds in Monroe, Washington. I even drank beer with Schrader at the Monroe race.

[dbs]

Has a striking res of Bob # 1.

Which driver are we remembering ? Racer

[dbs]

February 18, 2001.

We remember.

Missed the quick reply button

[RoxnDox]

BACON!!!!!

Just thought I would return to the real topic of The Thread.

Just ‘cuz :-)

[MarkJerling]

Has a striking res of Bob # 1.

Which driver are we remembering ? Racer

Dale Earhard.
Dale Earnhardt - Wikipedia

Legend.

[MarkJerling]

In other motoring related news: Today is the first day in more than 30 years that there's no vehicle with a V8 at the Jerling household. I feel a bit....... naked.

Landrover sold. So, now it's all Fords here and nothing larger than 4 cylinder 2 litres. Sad day.

[dbs]

In other motoring related news: Today is the first day in more than 30 years that there's no vehicle with a V8 at the Jerling household. I feel a bit....... naked.

Landrover sold. So, now it's all Fords here and nothing larger than 4 cylinder 2 litres. Sad day.

That does not sound good at all .......... 2 litre 4 cylinder Fords ..... I have not noticed the changes

[rod_grant]

Landrover sold

Just sold my oil shares.

[lesmore49]

In other motoring related news: Today is the first day in more than 30 years that there's no vehicle with a V8 at the Jerling household. I feel a bit....... naked.

Landrover sold. So, now it's all Fords here and nothing larger than 4 cylinder 2 litres. Sad day.

I like V8's . I like high performance V6's. I know in the past that you had described your Land Rover, but I can't recall the model year, type, engine , transmission. Did you have the Rover V8, which originated as a Buick V6, also used in Oldsmobile's back in the '60's ?

As far as sadness goes, when a beloved vehicle goes, I know the feeling. Our '07 Buick , 6 passenger sedan, which we traded in, (to my, perhaps lasting regret) about a year ago, had the old, reliable, powerful Buick 3.8 litre, 90 degree V6, which had been around in one shape or another, since the early 1960's. These engines were in FWD, RWD, AWD and 4WD (Jeep used them for a few years, called them the Dauntless V6 ), if memory serves me.

This was a great car, solid, reliable, quiet, comfortable, very torquey and had strong, robust acceleration that I enjoyed, on occasion. Never failed to start, and given our winters, that says something.

Had a AC/Delco 700 CCA battery that was still charged at 9 years old, but I decided to get a new batt...as you never want to have a dead battery , at night, in the dead of winter, @ -35, on the side of the road, on the lone prairie.

Do you think you will ever get another LR ?

Doesn't your '57 Ford have a 292 Y8 (for the uninitiated, FoMoCo speak for V8) .