2020 New Random Pics

[Adrian Thompson]

Originally Posted by bkreigsr

Maybe Formula 5000?

Nope. it's not F5000, it's F1. The Wolf with 21 on in the foreground is Bobby Rahal. He ran the last two races of the year, USA, and Canada for Walter Wolf. I recall in his autobiography that at one of the races he had a crash, or some other issue that put his car out of action, and they grabbed a display car that had been a race car but had sat in a store somewhere for the last 12 months. They basically dusted it off, fueled it up and sent him out in it. It didn't last.

The Williams behind is Alan Jones. Williams only ran one car that year with Jones. He finished 2nd in the race, which was the highest finish by the team to date, although Jones had won with Shadow the year before. The FW06 was also the first Williams car as Williams Grand Prix Engineering, they had run a March the prior year.

A fun link between the two cars in the pic is that Frank Williams had founded Frank Williams Racing Cars in 1969, which he eventual sold to Walter Wolf. So Frank started both teams shown in this pic.

Also other than Bobby Rahal, other American drivers in the race were Mario Andretti (obviously), and Brett Lunger. Bobby finished 12, Lunger 13th, and Mario retired after qualifying on pole.

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[masraum]

Originally Posted by widebody911

I've heard of that, but have no desire to try it.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by Racerbvd

I usually knew it since my dad was in the Navy and the last time was probably right before we moved.

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[Robert Coats]

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Oh, and for the post-count:

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[craigster59]

Swing Time (1936). George Stevens
Cinematography: David Abel
Photo by: John Miehle

[craigster59]

I thought this was very cool. The more you know!

Probably the most unusual record in my collection! In post WWII Russia, Stalin banned the possession of any western music. All records allowed in the country had to be of Russian composers. But there was an underground hungry for Western popular music—everything from jazz and blues to rock & roll. But smuggling vinyl was dangerous, and acquiring the scarce material to make copies of those records that did make it into the country was expensive and very risky.
An ingenuous solution to this problem began to emerge in the form of “bone music," or sometimes called "bones 'n' ribs" music, or simply Ribs.
A young 19 year-old sound engineer Ruslan Bogoslowski in Leningrad changed the game when he created a device to bootleg western albums so he could distribute them across Russia. Problem was he couldn't find material to bootleg his pressings onto, vinyl was scare as were all petroleum products after the war. Then, one day he stumbled upon a pile of discarded X-rays. It worked. At the time, Russian law mandated that all X-rays had to be destroyed after 1 year of storage because they were flammable so he dug through trash bins and paid off orderlies for x-rays and for 20 years he handmade about 1,000,000 bootlegs onto X-ray film of everything from classical to the Beach Boys, eventually spending five years imprisoned in Siberia for this rebellion.
For over 20 years, Bone Music was the only way Russian music lovers could get western music, which they played at "music and coffee parties" in their kitchens, away from the KGB ears and eyes.
So I had to find one. This is a 78 rpm recording of the Indian Song "Awaara" by Raj Kapoor on an exposed Chest X-ray. Probably around 1951. Each Rib, was handmade, and one of a kind.
Bone Music. A testament to the underground courage to subvert authority, rebellion, and the love of music. The spirit of rock n roll.

[john70t]