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[flipper35]

Originally Posted by masraum

Cheetahs are cool. I have to think that driving one would feel a little weird initially since it looks like you're almost sitting on the rear axle. I know that when I went from a 911 to a miata, it felt weird. The 911 and Boxster never felt weird to me. Sitting in the miata driver's seat, I could open the door and reach my arm out and touch the back tire (took some leaning and stretching).

The Cobra you sit practically on the rear axle as well, but the Cheetah the engine is about in the center of the wheelbase. One of the race drivers years ago said the Cheetah was the most perfectly balanced cars. he know, because once it came around it didn't like to stop spinning.

[GH85Carrera]

A special dish from the 1970s: Bananas enrobed in pickled herring and parsley. I will pass.










The massive Roman aqueduct built in Segovia, Spain, by the Roman Emperor Trajan (AD 98-117).
One of the best-preserved works of Roman engineering, the structure was built from approximately 24,000 blocks of dark-colored Guadarrama granite without the use of mortar. The above ground portion is 2,388 feet long. And it consists of approximately 165 arches that are over 30 feet tall.
They built structures that lasted over 2,000 years and our modern infrastructure only lasts a 100 years before it has to be replaced.

[Seahawk]

My son and his best friend from HS. Both now 28.



Jak was the best man at a friend of both of theirs, wedding was in San Diego.

My favorite pic of Jack in HS...James, pictured above, is a few folks behind.

[GH85Carrera]

Hello insurance man, you ain't gonna believe this. I need a new seat due some massive staining and the new front of the vehicle.

And by the way what the heck is a JMC?

[GH85Carrera]

Route 50, Nevada. Loneliest Road in America. It is a blast of a road. From a curvy mountain pass road, down a long long valley, on the horizon is another mountain pass. No side roads, no intersections.


Valley of Fire State Park, Nevada


Convair/General Dynamics Plant and Personnel, Edwards Rocket Base - 1958

[GH85Carrera]

Alvin Pocock Wasena Roanoke Virginiia.
Texaco Main st service station




Now that is a big rear end!

[Baz]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Back in '06 I bought a bunch of new furniture for the house including this piece, which was described to me as being a telephone chair.........



This piece too........

[VINMAN]

^^^
Love that bar, Baz! Very cool!

[Racerbvd]

[Baz]

Originally Posted by VINMAN

^^^
Love that bar, Baz! Very cool!

Thanks much, Vinny! It's got a lot of places to hide stuff....lol.

Random from yesterday at the WM car park....

[GH85Carrera]

Chloride, AZ.

[HobieMarty]

Originally Posted by Baz

Back in '06 I bought a bunch of new furniture for the house including this piece, which was described to me as being a telephone chair.........







This piece too........

We have a very similar telephone table at our place at the lake. It was my Grandmother's and she called it a "gossip chair".

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[red 928]

Supposed to be the oldest gas station in the country

[porsche tech]

Originally Posted by Baz

Back in '06 I bought a bunch of new furniture for the house including this piece, which was described to me as being a telephone chair.........

Baz, Can/do you play piano?

[Robert Coats]

[GH85Carrera]

Princeton sophomores after a brutal snowball fight, 1893.

[Baz]

Originally Posted by porsche tech

Baz, Can/do you play piano?

I'm not what you'd call proficient but can play some basic stuff. This is the piano we had growing up in the 60's. My Dad was a very good piano player and also accordion - all by ear!

Random.....

[Por_sha911]

Originally Posted by Baz

Wow that pic brought back a flashback. My mom bought a piano in the 60's that (from what I can see of yours) is the exact same piano. She tried hard to get me to learn to play but I wanted to learn to play drums (they bought me a guitar instead). We had that piano until 2005 when it was never played and taking up space so we sold it for a couple hundred dollars (it was in perfect condition and just needed to be tuned).

Random:

[GH85Carrera]

FACOM 222, first transistor-based computer manufactured by Fujitsu, the fastest and largest machine of its type produced in Japan at the time, April 1961.
On console, Mayumi Takahashi, a claims officer at the Kyoei Life Insurance Co. is running the SORT/MERGE program on earthquake damage policies. It had 10,000 words of main core memory and a 100,000 word auxiliary magnetic drum storage unit, able to connect up to ten 200,000 word magnetic tape devices, integer performance was 6,250 additions/sec and 1,100 multiplies/sec. Floating point performance was 350µs(addition), 800µs(multiplication), and 3,300µs(division). High-reliability was achieved by a complete check system, including checks based on 5C2 code for arithmetic operation. The systems were used by trading companies, manufacturing businesses, universities, and computation centers.
Software
Fujitsu shipped the relay computers FACOM 100, FACOM 128A and FACOM 128B between 1954 and 1958. However, Fujitsu did not provide their software, and users created programs in machine languages. The company initiated research on programs in conjunction with the start of development of the large general-purpose computer FACOM 222 in 1958, and prototyped a FORTRAN programming system (FACOM 222P FAST), an assembler programming system (FACOM 222P FASP)(*), an IOCS (Input Output Control System) and a SORT/MERGE program for FACOM 222P. Because the main memory of FACOM 222P consisted of a 400-word core memory and a 9,600-word magnetic drum, the company took various measures to achieve control similar to today’s virtual memory. In 1963, following these prototypes, the company provided a FORTRAN programming system (FACOM 222 FAST), an assembler (FACOM 222 FASP), an IOCS and a SORT/MERGE program as software for FACOM 222A. This FORTRAN programming system was a closed system that contained a relocatable binary loader (FACOM 222 FAST LOADER), a subroutine during execution and a small monitor. In addition, the assembler itself also constituted one system, and the object program used the IOCS and SORT/MERGE program.




Ancient Snow Gum tree (Eucalyptus pauciflora) at Bogong High Plains near Cape West Aquaduct, Alpine National Park, Victoria, Australia
Photo: Groei en Bloei Asten-Someren

[Eric 951]

Originally Posted by red 928

Supposed to be the oldest gas station in the country

I stopped at this place back in 94 while driving cross-country