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  • Posted by $ allosaur 5 days, 17 hours ago in reply to this comment.
    And as ironically so much for the sacred lib cow of diversity for a viewing American public.
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  • Posted by 73SHARK 6 days, 22 hours ago in reply to this comment.
    Grippy tires won't help when the front end gets lite. Zora Duntov once said that the '63 Corvette had just enough lift to be a bad airplane. ]i[
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  • Posted by 73SHARK 6 days, 23 hours ago in reply to this comment.
    Reminds me of how cold it got and you had to sleep with 3 dogs to keep from freezing to death. I least that's what I heard.
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  • Posted by 73SHARK 6 days, 23 hours ago in reply to this comment.
    There's a website that gives the location of the cameras. Not sure if it's just Flock or all brands
    Just Google it.
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  • Posted by $ 1 week ago in reply to this comment.
    Using up the last bit of tread before buying new or, perhaps, making homemade racing slicks! or even, "Stress testing" the mechanicals!!!

    (goto admit, those are GREAT Answers . . .)
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  • Posted by fairbro 1 week ago
    Okay. I get "the car in the pie" one now. The key word to make the mental association was "childish", as I remember an older teen "doing doughnuts" or "cutting cookies" in the empty, grassy local stadium parking lot. Being of engineering mindset, i asked myself "What is the purpose of this?"
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  • Posted by fairbro 1 week ago
    The "corn dog" reminds me "Three Dog Night" is playing at a venue in Kansas soon. One of the original players too!
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  • Posted by $ 1 week, 1 day ago in reply to this comment.
    Tire tech is a lot better these days, 200 mile per hour plus grippy tires are found on the Mustang GTD and other hyper cars.
    I ran Michelins on the z with koni shocks and 1 inch stabilizer bars.
    The mini needs that with much bigger brake rotors inside the 17 inch wheels.
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  • Posted by JakeOrilley 1 week, 1 day ago in reply to this comment.
    "Getting light" is the best way to describe the Jag - did not modify it at all but always thought that with that straight 6 4.2L going up the front it would have stayed on the road. And it really held well to the road - until about 120 or so... And then the grip just seemed to go away.
    Handling at that point got .... interesting. But up to that point you felt you had total control.
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  • Posted by $ 1 week, 1 day ago in reply to this comment.
    My Z car was the same way, front end got light at 130, had to put on an air foil.
    The mini has an airdam style lower front end with an extension under that. At speed it sucks the front end down.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 1 week, 1 day ago in reply to this comment.
    Out of sight~~out of mind!
    During all those years that I was a state corrections officer (what prison guards are told to call themselves) at a combined maximum and a medium security Alabama prison, it never occurred to me why unpeeled bananas were never served.
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  • Posted by JakeOrilley 1 week, 1 day ago in reply to this comment.
    The Flock cameras - there is only one way out of town where the cameras do not capture the plate. And it is not a straight line. But there is only one '69 Jag for several counties, and even more counties when it is a red one....so would not be too hard to find!
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  • Posted by JakeOrilley 1 week, 1 day ago in reply to this comment.
    Back when I was young(er) on an open road had the Jag to an indicated 140 - and had pedal left, but the car was floating - seemed like it was only touching the road every once in a while.....
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  • Posted by mccannon01 1 week, 1 day ago
    A very delightful set this week, OUC! Thank you! I know the golden in the first one has to be my son's dog. She knows how to delete a cookie in a split second, LOL. Hey, I've had those corn dogs - yummy! I'll be looking for faces in my Guinness or IPA. Oh, the racing pie is awesome, LOL!
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