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I was born after the flathead era. Looks like an awesome build, but a couple of questions: Is that the distributor on the front of the engine? What drove the distributor? And doesn't that engine need a belt/pulley driven fan in the front?

NICE!!!

Looks like a magneto driven straight from the front of the cam. If so, this is probably a serious race engine and the fan would either be omitted completely or the vehicle would have an electric fan.

Yup, just about 15 years to young for me. The whole thing kinda gives me the creeps. She is way to close in age to my eldest...


very random pic to get my mind off the thought...



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Guess his mind is back on her...

my neighbor looks just like her....

I dont know man. Something about that chick screams brainless and high effort. She also looks annoying as f**k too..

My 6 year old daughter would say: "Hootchie"

Is she old enough for me to legally say yummy, or have I just committed a crime?

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Steve Austin, A man barely alive. We can rebuild him. We have the technology. We can make him better than he was. Better...stronger...faster."

The opening sequence of The Six-million Dollar Man featured NASA's 1967 footage of a real-life accident of the Northrop M2-F2 lifting body tumbling end for end down the runway caused by piloting error. The pilot, Bruce Peterson actually survived reasonably unscathed, although he lost an eye due to an infection acquired while in the hospital.

The opening credits actually used footage of two different lifting bodies; the HL-10, shown dropping away from its carry plane, and the M2-F2 shown in the unstable flight/crash sequence. (The aircraft was actually referred to as being an “HL-10” in the series, and the real HL-10 was used in a later episode; however, in the 1987 TV film The Return of the Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman Austin refers to it as the "M3F5", which is the name used for the aircraft that crashes in the original Cyborg novel.)




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Interesting, Sammy... amazing that anyone could survive that.

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Yep, they say he hit the runway at 250 mph.

When I was a kid I played at Boysen park (named afer the guy who invented the boysenberry).
They had a real 1954 Grumman F9F-6P "Cougar" (127484) for the kids to play with, including sharp metal corners, empty engine bay to crawl through, it was cool. Later they decided that reality wasn't safe so they concreted over the whole thing, pissed me off. This is what it looks like now:
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and this is what it looked like before:

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Didn't they name Edwards AFB after the pilot of that thing?

Here are few more...

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Sammy, whats up with the cockpit on the SR-71? I have seen a few blackbirds, but none like that.

Wow - watching that opening sequence for TSMDM in 2007 really brings back memories. And it's a little weird thinking that a video of the death of a courageous man was shown over and over again on TV - not saying that it's wrong, maybe just a little insensitive. Maybe I'm all wrong here...

daepp, that pilot did not die. He lost one eye due to an infection in the hospital but basically walked away from the crash.

That SR-71 wasn't my photo but I believe that double-cockpit plane is a trainer.