I’m sure you meant ‘71-‘73. The sport roof versions reminded me of aircraft carriers. However, I’ve always liked those years. Like me, they just got bigger and heavier through the years, so I could relate to them rather easily…
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What one could do with this.
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Honestly never thought I'd see a Willys wagon on Bonhams, but there it is...
https://cars.bonhams.com/auction/31...hassis-no-453-fa-2-19268-engine-no-1-t-48c03/
My grandfather had one of these. His was green, but fond memories.
I’m sure you meant ‘71-‘73. The sport roof versions reminded me of aircraft carriers. However, I’ve always liked those years. Like me, they just got bigger and heavier through the years, so I could relate to them rather easily…
Yup typo 71-73 , coupled with a half ass proofreading . In those years I prefer a Torino to a Mustang , ( minus a giant white hash mark on a red car )
What seems inconsistent is , I just love the Javelin AMX from the same vintage !
That is weird given the similarities. It might be the Corvette fenders you like.
When I was a kid there was a guy in my neighborhood who had two nice looking '71-73 Mach 1s, a yellow and a red one. He also had a green project/parts car out back. I didn't see them everyday, but I can't remember ever seeing those cars move in the 10ish years I was aware of them. Then over the timeframe of about a year they all disappeared one by one.
That is weird given the similarities. It might be the Corvette fenders you like.
When I was a kid there was a guy in my neighborhood who had two nice looking '71-73 Mach 1s, a yellow and a red one. He also had a green project/parts car out back. I didn't see them everyday, but I can't remember ever seeing those cars move in the 10ish years I was aware of them. Then over the timeframe of about a year they all disappeared one by one.
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69 Boss 429 is my favorite Mustang .
One of my neighbors bought an orange Boss 302 new, which if you know the man, having a fast car is pretty funny since he moves soo slow. I've heard plenty of stories about the car and how he used to drive it. They had to sell it a few years later when the first baby came along and it's been nothing but baby haulers and grandpa-mobiles since.
Having the option of speed is a strength, exercising self-control and patience in its application is a virtue, young grasshopper.
You come meet the man and after that minimum 20 minute conversation, you'll understand. He's not slow like retarded, just slow like a comical old southerner man sitting on his front porch on a hot summer day, and I hear he has always been like that. I've known him all of my life and he's never sped up for anything.
I already know what socks and shoes he's wearing.
You come meet the man and after that minimum 20 minute conversation, you'll understand. He's not slow like retarded, just slow like a comical old southerner man sitting on his front porch on a hot summer day, and I hear he has always been like that. I've known him all of my life and he's never sped up for anything.
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Jimmy Clark was an unassuming Scottish sheep farmer. You probably wouldn't figure him a fast man to meet him, but he notched two F1 driver's championships before an unfortunate accident ended his life and a fair few of his racing records stand to this day. I think they call it "stealth" now.
Jimmy Clark was an unassuming Scottish sheep farmer. You probably wouldn't figure him a fast man to meet him, but he notched two F1 driver's championships before an unfortunate accident ended his life and a fair few of his racing records stand to this day. I think they call it "stealth" now.
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That is such a beautiful car.
Possibly a different car, very hard to say without some research into the chassis numbers. A total of 12 cars were built in some combination of 49, 49B and 49C and raced from 1967 to the 1970. That's definitely a 49 from 1967 (Gold Leaf livery came in '68), definitely Clark at the wheel (killed 04/07/68) and, if I had to venture a guess, that shot was taken during the 1967 German GP at the Nürburgring. Clark took pole but (maybe not so) ironically, retired only after a few laps with broken suspension. The airborne shots are cool, but those jumps were very hard on equipment and the Lotus tended to be light and fast, but fragile.
Edit: The photo I posted is from the Lotus 49's first race, the 1967 Dutch GP at Zandvoort - of Jimmy, likely shot at the Hugenholtz hairpin (check video @ around 7:23, same shot). Graham Hill had tested the car briefly before the race, Clark didn't drive it unit the race weekend. Hill took pole, Clark took fastest lap and the race win. Not bad for the first time out, eh?
Video of the Snetterton test by Hill mentioned in the first clip:
"Well...it's got some poke..."
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Arguably the sexiest F1 car ever designed and built. Lots of contenders, but I've always favored the Lotus 49.
And what a soundtrack!
Some of you may like seeing the subject vehicle in this one.
What instrument is that being played on? I know nothing about it, but it sounds to be a smaller displacement V8, maybe in the 200-250 ci range, and to have a flat crank. Did I get any of that right from just the sound?
Edit: I got impatient. Online sources say it ran a Cosworth DFV which is a 3L V8, and it looks to be a DOHC setup. Sources say these engines made 400-500 hp, and spun up in to the 10,000 RPM range. According to this article, Hand-Drawn Dominance: Ford’s DFV Engine Is Still One of the Greatest https://www.enginelabs.com/news/hand-drawn-dominance-fords-dfv-engine-is-still-one-of-the-greatest/, it did/does run a flat crank.
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Probably (arguably) the most successful racing engine ever built, the Cosworth/Ford DFV. The racing formula changed from 1.5L to 3.0L displacement for the '66 F1 season (the origins of the project), so the DFV was designed as a 90 degree V8 with a flat-plane crank and 3.0L displacement. As the engine was developed from mating two four cylinder DOHC engines together, I suspect the latter makes even more sense.
There were many variants of the DFV throughout its racing life, with many of them claiming victories and championships in USAC, Cart and Indy. In its original form, this is a fairly accurate summary of the damage it did to the competition (note the years and racing series).
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I believe that might be a turbocharged (obviously) Indy variant in the photo, but basically the same power plant at the core.