2020 New Random Pics

[GH85Carrera]

Katmandu, Nepal. 1960

[Jbabl]

Here's my 1974 H2, the one I kept. My first one was a 400, and owned 3 H2s over the years. I can rebuild it in my room, and did so with all new seals, all bearings, German Wossner pistons, new crank, 34mm flat slide Mikunis, 15 plate clutch kit, aluminum rims, and EX 500 front caliper. Denco stingers, running on castor bean oil. The '74's oil pump feeds the crankcase and the carb bowls-sometimes I go around the block to smell the oil in the air 😂
If it wasn't raining so bad today I'd be cranking it up right now-clearing up in the morning so I will probably go for a Sunday blast 👹
Triples are like 911s-keep them going, and they're worth quite a lot-

[Jbabl]

My other bike is a Z1 900

[GH85Carrera]

Badlands sunrise, near Hanksville Utah

[908/930]

Originally Posted by Jbabl

My other bike is a Z1 900

Nice bikes jbabl, I had a H1 years ago. You should repost these in the motorcycles lets see em post.

[Seahawk]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

I know, I know, I pimp this book like I wrote it, but it is so facinating and insightful:



It is a must read.

[astrochex]

Originally Posted by Seahawk

I know, I know, I pimp this book like I wrote it, but it is so facinating and insightful:



It is a must read.

Is watching Marco Polo on Netflix a cliffnotes version?

[Seahawk]

It is:



I was saving that image!!!

[GH85Carrera]

[GH85Carrera]

It blew up real bad.






I have visited all of those parks with my wife as a passenger in my 85 911. Many more national parks as well.


Almost sure this is an AI image.

[GH85Carrera]

Porsche 962-09. 2021. Official Press release from the Porsche Museum.
I thought I would share some info that most of you don't get chance to read. This is from the press release given to journalists at the cars presentation in August 2021.
Porsche 962 C restored to its original condition down to the last detail
Stuttgart. Hans-Joachim Stuck has had to wait almost 35 years for a reunion with the fully refurbished 962 C and its first rollout. So the surprise was all the greater when the silk cloth was drawn back to reveal the vehicle at the Weissach Development Centre. The racing car from the Porsche Heritage and Museum department has been restored to its original 1987 condition over the past year and a half. “It feels like coming home,” smiles Stuck, stroking the car’s left wing. The racing driver says he has nothing but fond memories of the victorious car with the racing number 17. “By arranging this reunion after more than three decades, we have not only surprised Hans-Joachim Stuck, we have also taken a little journey through time. The history of the motorsport story surrounding the 962 C is unique,” says Achim Stejskal, Head of Porsche Heritage and Museum. At the Weissach Development Centre, where the vehicle was first built and now has been restored to its original condition, Stuck also meets his race engineer of the time, Norbert Singer, and designer Rob Powell, the man responsible for the car’s black, yellow and red livery.
It is 35 years since the now 70-year-old won Germany’s prestigious and fiercely contested ADAC Würth Supercup. During the inaugural series for Group C sports car prototypes, he tested the then-new Porsche dual clutch transmission (PDK) at racing speed. The vehicle’s appearance changed before the second race, the Norisring 200 miles, when Shell came on board as a sponsor. Porsche also competed in yellow and red the following year and Stuck worked hard to successfully defend his Supercup title. This 962 C then began its second life as a test car in the aerodynamics department at Weissach, later serving as a reference vehicle for the sports car manufacturer’s corporate collection.
Armin Burger and Traugott Brecht from Historic Motorsport were jointly responsible for the racing car’s rebuild. “We kept passing this car in the warehouse. Then, about a year and a half ago, we decided to get it out of there, transfer it to Weissach and start working on it,” he Burger. He and his team had to rebuild many parts because they were long gone. “The cooperation with the other departments from Porsche was great. We found almost everything we needed within a radius of just 30 metres,” says Burger. At the very beginning of the reconstruction work, he invited Powell and Singer into the historic motorsport workshop. “When you hear the right people talking by the vehicle, everything immediately becomes clear. We learned an incredible amount from two witnesses who were right there when it all happened,” he adds. The experts completely rebuilt the underbody, changed the arrangement of the radiators and made many other bodywork adjustments. Then they presented the Supercup championship car to European media at a journalists’ workshop at the Weissach Development Centre.
Livery designer Powell brought along various thicknesses of tape, stencils and design sketches from 35 years earlier. “Stucki immediately liked the design of my first sketch,” he recalls. Stuck gives him an affirmative nod over the roof of the car while the designer tapes the lines and applies a stencil to the front headlight: “This is very important, for example, so that the painters can plan the cut-out correctly. By the way, I still think the colour combination of yellow and red looks modern,” says Powell, putting the rolls of tape over his arm, ready for the numerous questions from the press. Stuck, who was involved in the development of the car, also takes questions and waits for his turn to do the first laps on the run-in and test track. “I’m a big fan of the Porsche PDK dual-clutch transmission and proud that I was allowed to test it in the 962 back then. Being able to keep my hands on the steering wheel when changing gears at full throttle felt great right from the start,” he says. Today, PDK is available in every Porsche.
A second surprise awaits Stuck just a few metres from the test area, when he discovers his red racing suit from the 80s and is delighted to find he still fits into it. “For me, the time with Porsche was the most successful of my entire career,” he says, putting on his white star-decorated helmet and climbing in. Unlike the basic model, the 962 C has a wheelbase that’s 120 millimetres longer and pedals that are mounted behind the forward-mounted front axle. “We gave Stucki a very warm welcome at Porsche. He was always one of the drivers whose feedback I could interpret accurately, like the data from a sensor,” reveals Singer, who first introduced an aluminium monocoque with the 956 Group C car and its direct descendent the 962, as well as the Ground Effect underbody. Stuck starts his first lap on the two-and-a-half-kilometre test track in Weissach and all the spectators fall silent as they watch the Group C racer. “The car automatically takes me on a journey back in time and brings back many fond memories. I will never forget the atmosphere at the race tracks,” smiles Singer.
The 962 C made its first public appearance a few weeks ago at the Porsche Museum’s digital Sound Night. It will make many more appearances over the coming year, with driving and presentation events planned for the upcoming ‘40 years of Group C’ anniversary. “The 962 C was one of the few cars I was allowed to drive on my own, without team-mates and with exactly the setup I wanted. You never forget a car like that,” Stuck concludes, promising: “In 2022, we’ll celebrate the 40th in style!”
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[A930Rocket]

[craigster59]

High school students take their lunch break outside, 1977

[masraum]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Watch until the end. It shoots flames out of the back.


There's another video on the 'Net that I have seen, but couldn't find that shows that if it shoots the flames while it's driving, they look like the flaming tire tracks from the movie.

Kind of weird to do to a car like that, certainly not something that I would do. But it takes all sorts to make the world go 'round. If it weren't for folks that would do things that you'd never consider, the world (and the Internet) would be a much more boring place.

[GH85Carrera]

[john70t]

[jcwade]

Originally Posted by A930Rocket

I would often see the curvature of the earth when flying a Cessna.

Or maybe it was the drugs.

Picture taken from the ISS.

[GH85Carrera]

The oldest wooden escalator is located in Antwerpen,Belgium










Among the tribes of Ethiopia, the man with the biggest belly is considered the best looking guy. The bigger the belly, the more attractive the guy is. If you are fat, fleshy, and have a belly, do not deny yourself, but you are living in the wrong strain.

[john70t]

That island: Most of it deforested when there could be fruit and agriculture. The entire thing criss-crossed with a tight grid of curvy roads everywhere. I guess they must like auto-x or something? Totally pointless. All the buildings in the center, when there could be some nice cottages with beach views along the coast. The marina doesn't have a nearby dry dock building to store over winter. Just why.

[Dixie]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Among the tribes of Ethiopia, the man with the biggest belly is considered the best looking guy. The bigger the belly, the more attractive the guy is. If you are fat, fleshy, and have a belly, do not deny yourself, but you are living in the wrong strain.

Lol, that is so not sexy, ugh! Then again, fat women are greatly prized in Mauritania. So I guess fat people are sexy to somebody somewhere, but not to me.