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Car pics too cool not to share
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Yup! 544s and a 444. I owned a '65 544 with a Cologne V6 and 4 speed out of an early Mercury Capri. With the factory 4.11 gears, it was a little screamer. Fun cars, for sure.
*And kudos, btw, for picking up on that so quickly. It's not the first thing that comes to mind for many!
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That was going to be my guess too because of the hood & fender profile, but it was just a guess.
Interesting cars.
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Right ! , I am afraid most TJ owners would crap their pants using a TJ the way these SAS guys used and modded a MB.An early advertisement for GenRight Extra Capacity Fuel Tanks?
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Drag racer/Crew chief . . . . Dale Armstrong campaigned his Volvo 'Asphalt Slave' at Shepard Raceways/Calgary before moving to California. Hilborn injected 327 . Saw him run many times.
I love old racing pics
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Beyond the obvious reasons to love pics like this, I also dig looking at all the cars in the background, identifying as many of them as I can (something I noticed you do, as well). It's something of a curse, though, when watching modern movies that are supposed to reflect an earlier period. Watching a movie that was supposed to take place in 1957, and then having a '59 Chevy drive by in the background, just bothers the hell out of me.
Watching a movie that was supposed to take place in 1957, and then having a '59 Chevy drive by in the background, just bothers the hell out of me.
Bothers my wife too because I can't let it go.
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Same in my household.Bothers my wife too because I can't let it go.
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Or when you focus more on the cars in the story than the actors. Bet you're guilty of that, as well, ain't ya, buddy?Bothers my wife too because I can't let it go.
Details like that always bug me too. One of my favorite movies is "The Longest Day", the story of the Normandy invasion. In one scene, John Wayne has been wounded in the leg and has it propped up over the cowl of an MB Willys Jeep. A second Jeep following him is an M38A1 Korean war era unit. The shame !
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I'm nowhere near as well-versed in the Jeeps and trucks of the time. Same with airplanes. Okay, if the Concorde flew overhead in a WWII movie, I'd know it was wrong, but beyond that...
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