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[GH85Carrera]

A B-17's propeller embedded in the upper fuselage of another B-17 at a training base in the US, November 22 1944.

[Bill Douglas]

[pwd72s]

Originally Posted by jrj3rd

Leaving cars and coffee in 1966

That's not a '66...

[GH85Carrera]

[Steve Carlton]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

That's a pretty clever way to store a crescent wrench, but I would be concerned over time about the rubber wearing through and losing the wrench.

[GH85Carrera]

Fun Fact!
If we were to ask you what the fastest man made object that humans have ever launched was, what would you say? A jet? Or Maybe an Apollo era spacecraft or a SpaceX rocket? While all are great guesses, none are the right answer. The correct answer is a man hole cover, yes a man hole cover, that was launched following a nuclear bomb test in 1957.
In 1956, Dr. Robert Brownlee of Los Alamos National Laboratory was tasked with exploring the feasibility of conducting underground nuclear detonations. The first subterranean test, named Pascal A, involved lowering a nuclear device down a 500 ft (150 m) borehole. To everyone's surprise, the explosion yielded 50,000 times more energy than anticipated, resulting in a massive jet of fire shooting hundreds of feet into the air.
Following this, during the Pascal-B test in August 1957, scientists attempted to contain the nuclear blast by welding a 900-kilogram (2,000 lb) steel plate cap over the borehole, despite Brownlee's skepticism about its effectiveness. When Pascal-B was detonated, the blast shot straight up the test shaft, propelling the cap into the atmosphere at an astonishing speed of over 66 km/s (41 mi/s; 240,000 km/h; 150,000 mph). Strangely, the plate was never recovered. Scientists theorize that the intense compression heating caused the cap to vaporize as it streaked through the atmosphere.
To capture this incredible event, a high-speed camera, taking one frame per millisecond, was trained on the borehole. Surprisingly, the plate only appeared in a single frame, but this was sufficient to estimate its speed. Dr. Brownlee humorously described the cap's velocity as being "going like a bat!" Based on his calculations, the explosion, coupled with the unique design of the shaft, could have accelerated the plate to nearly six times Earth's escape velocity.
In 2015, Dr. Brownlee stated he had no definite explanation for the cap's fate but speculated that it likely vaporized before entering space. Subsequent calculations in 2019 strongly support the theory of vaporization, although this result remains unconfirmed.

[Bill Douglas]

[GH85Carrera]

The Chevrolet Performance ZZ632/1000 is the largest and most powerful crate engine ever produced by Chevy. With a displacement of 10,350 cc (632 cubic inches), this naturally aspirated engine delivers an incredible 1,004 horsepower and 1,188 Nm of torque. It’s engineered for extreme performance on the track.

[WPOZZZ]

Originally Posted by pwd72s

That's not a '66...

Yup. 67 or 68.

[Racerbvd]

[A930Rocket]

[masraum]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Originally Posted by WPOZZZ

Yup. 67 or 68.

Good call. I am a fan of classic mustangs, but never enough to be able to tell one year from the other. But looking at a few pics of 1966 - 1969 notchbacks, the tail lights are the biggest clue.

On a '66 they are "outies".



'67 and '68 they are "innies"




And '69 are flat with the "scoop" in front of the rear tire on backwards. (I have always thought that the reversed air "scoop/vent" on the '69s was an unfortunate choice for Ford).

[masraum]

If I had to guess, I'd say that was a '68 because the '67 had the split side scoop louvers.

'67


vs the single scoop sans louvers for '68 (my personal preference).
'68

[GH85Carrera]

MP-40??


When Bing Crosby's nephew asked him casually, late in Bing's life, about the most difficult moment of his career, he expected some juicy gossip about a difficult Hollywood director or the story of a struggle with a studio. But Bing instead told him it was on a USO tour in December of 1944 in an open-air field in France. He'd just made 15,000 French and American troops laugh and holler with Dinah Shore and The Andrews Sisters and now had to close the show with a quieter number: "White Christmas." He described having to maintain his composure and vocal control in front of 15,000 crying GIs as the toughest moment of his career.
He never wore his toupee on USO tours - a small thing, but he thought these occasions were above Hollywood artifice - and more importantly insisted that no officers or other top brass got front row seats. Front row seats belonged to enlisted men who were headed for the frontlines.
A few days after this performance of White Christmas his audience was sent to The Battle of the Bulge, one of the deadliest battles in the history of humanity.






1977 Porsche 934.5/935 IMSA | 3rd Overall at the 1981 Sebring 12 Hours

[Steve Carlton]

[Bill Douglas]

[Bill Douglas]

[Steve Carlton]

Early rendering of the USS Enterprise.

[Steve Carlton]

[mgp steve]

Not to denigrate the enormity of the American death toll during the Battle of the Bulge, but the Russians are estimated to have suffered more deaths every day during WW2 than the total of American deaths during the entire 35-day Battle of the Bulge.