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Originally Posted by masraum (Post 11937465)

Cool. I'm sure it was carved by aliens because ancient people weren't smart and didn't know how to do anything. That's the kind of message that I feel we often get from folks studying past civilizations and accomplishments of humans in the past. It seems like there are enough accomplishments left from past civilizations that we haven't been able to figure out that maybe it would be universally accepted that past civilizations/men may have known a thing or two.

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I agree, our conclusions about our past people are very bigoted assuming that they were not very smart. As an example, here is a map that shows part of Antarctica from 1510 some 300 years before it was "discovered". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piri_Reis_map The more I learn about history the more I learn that we may have been much smarter than we think we were.

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Originally Posted by craigster59 (Post 11937699)

Name that film star....

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No respect. Don't get no respect at all. I told my dentist my teeth are going yellow. he told me to wear a brown tie.

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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera (Post 11937071)

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Below is my Dad sitting on the sister car to the one above circa 1998 or so (sorry for the crappy scan). This car was owned by a guy here in Knoxville. He also owned some other cool stuff. The car to the right in the pic is one of the late-'80s Electromotive Nissan GTP cars. He also had a Ferrari 333SP.

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Originally Posted by IROC (Post 11937758)

VERY cool pic, Mike!

I always loved that car!

The 1984 Le Mans Winning Porsche.
Since the team's founding in 1978, Joest Racing has achieved numerous successes in motorsport. The team was notable for campaigning Porsche race cars in the 1980s, among which was the Porsche 956 that was entered for the 1984 24 Hours of Le Mans. This No.7 car featured prominent New Man sponsor markings and a distinctive yellow, black, and white livery. The car went on to claim overall victory at Le Mans that year as well as in the subsequent year.
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956 dominated at 1984 Le Mans despite factory’s boycott

In 1984, Porsche’s domination continued, with 10 wins in 11 races. The German manufacturer lost only a race at Kyalami Circuit. That race was won by Martini Racing’s Lancia LC2. Stefan Bellof took the world’s drivers’ title, driving for two teams (Rothmans Porsche and Brun Motorsport).

At the 1984 24 hours of Le Mans, Rothmans Porsche team boycotted the race due to a disagreement between Porsche and the Automobile Club de l’Ouest (ACO) over the fuel regulations. Despite that, Porsche 956 clinched seven top positions with private teams. The winning car was the #7 New-Man Joest Racing‘s Porsche 956B, driven by Henri Pescarolo and Klaus Ludwig. Only Vern Schuppan was competing of all factory drivers, finishing sixth in the Kremer Racing’s car.

In 1984 All Japan Sports Prototype Championship, the Porsche 956 was a winning car in three out of four races, but with different teams, so the title went to the Japanese drivers in the M1C-BMW prototype.

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Originally Posted by red 928 (Post 11937742)

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Winner, winner Chicken Dinner!

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I agree. In that same vein, "Longitude" is a great book:

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Originally Posted by NeedSpace (Post 11937705)

I agree, our conclusions about our past people are very bigoted assuming that they were not very smart.
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Originally Posted by A930Rocket (Post 11937646)

I bought it on Etsy after looking at Zeke’s purchase.

What’s funny is the website said I bought the last a 30“ x 40“ poster. Looking just now, it says there are two left in that size.😂

When I was on the site yesterday, that poster wasn't there at all, but now it's there twice.

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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera (Post 11937872)

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except that the US, Officially, DOES use metric..at least for Nasa and Military

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In 1984, instead of trailering their cars from a storage facility to the track, Porsche thought, “It’s not far… let’s just drive them” and proceeded to drive their three 956 racers down Melbourne’s Dandenong Rd to the track.
They ended up taking pole position, and finished 1st, 2nd, & 8th, in the Australian World Endurance Championship

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