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I like Morgans!
Although I do not have the 'pocketmoney' yet for such a nice toy!
But I have a buddy with a Morgan Plus 8 - lightweight - good tourque- amazing acceleration for such an old concept. Handmade bodyparts, wooden frame around
passenger cabin.... cool sound out of the british V8.
Greets
Dirk
I like Morgans!
Although I do not have the 'pocketmoney' yet for such a nice toy!
But I have a buddy with a Morgan Plus 8 - lightweight - good tourque- amazing acceleration for such an old concept. Handmade bodyparts, wooden frame around
passenger cabin.... cool sound out of the british V8.
Greets
Dirk
That nice British roar comes from what is in essence a Buick 302 AMERICAN designed engine!! It was licensed to Rover in the UK and was used in Police cars for a whole generation....before they changed to German - EU style -BMW!
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It cost us £30.00 in 1961...the original Cu headed engine was warped therefore the transplant! That - today - is no more than a decent second hand bicycle. 😎😎😎
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It cost us £30.00 in 1961...the original Cu headed engine was warped therefore the transplant! That - today - is no more than a decent second hand bicycle. 😎😎😎
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Aaah, I didn't know that the ROVER V8 was a license build.
And: also german engineers disassemble and look into other engines. 🙄
Opel Diplomat also used an american V8 (I think it was an Chevy 5.4L) - and many others
Cheers
Dirk
And: also german engineers disassemble and look into other engines. 🙄
Opel Diplomat also used an american V8 (I think it was an Chevy 5.4L) - and many others
Cheers
Dirk
The Rover V-8 was an Oldsmobile 212 ci designed engine used by Olds and Buick, first all aluminum V-8 from USA. The next all alloy V-8's were again Big Block Oldsmobile used in McLaren CANAM cars.
I had a 1964 Buick Special convertible with the 212 engine, I got blown away by a Dodge slant 6 in a stoplight drag race, sold it the next day for a 1968 327 Camaro. Last time a 6 cylinder car ever beat me again.
I had a 1964 Buick Special convertible with the 212 engine, I got blown away by a Dodge slant 6 in a stoplight drag race, sold it the next day for a 1968 327 Camaro. Last time a 6 cylinder car ever beat me again.
In the near future we will no more hear nice roaring V8 engines anymore.
Remember the 'muscle car era'....
The electric motor doesn't roar anymore - the tires and the wind sing the song.
Greets
Dirk
Remember the 'muscle car era'....
The electric motor doesn't roar anymore - the tires and the wind sing the song.
Greets
Dirk
I believe that in not-too-distant-future advances and cost drops will bring electric cars to the masses, making them cheaper to buy and own than gasoline ones.
That said, I don't think that gas guzzlers will die entirely: they will survive as luxury cars for the rich: it will be possible to drive a roaring gasoline V8 muscle car, but only after you pay an exorbitant environmental tax 🙂
Its possible, do you have a study or similar you can share regarding this comparison, its interesting for me as its related to my work.
Thanks
I'm a vegitarian, someone said to me, 'You wear leather', I replied 'I don't eat leather'.
The point is - I don't know how many pairs of boots a cobbler can get from a cow, and I'm sure the rest of the animal isn't wasted; the alternative is to buy 'Veggie Boots', first you need a factory with raw material to make them, usually from some kind of pre processed oil product, you need another factory to process the oil, oil can be grown or drilled for - another industry, to make the factories, you need steel, lots of energy is needed for smelting, mining is necessory for the raw materials.
In the long run, which is greener and more animal frendly, my leather boots or xxx animals inadvertently killed by all the other industries to make a pair of Veggie Boots - that don't last any where near as long.
The point is - I don't know how many pairs of boots a cobbler can get from a cow, and I'm sure the rest of the animal isn't wasted; the alternative is to buy 'Veggie Boots', first you need a factory with raw material to make them, usually from some kind of pre processed oil product, you need another factory to process the oil, oil can be grown or drilled for - another industry, to make the factories, you need steel, lots of energy is needed for smelting, mining is necessory for the raw materials.
In the long run, which is greener and more animal frendly, my leather boots or xxx animals inadvertently killed by all the other industries to make a pair of Veggie Boots - that don't last any where near as long.
Matt and Nat use recycled material for all their products. No leather. I am sure there are others doing similar things.
A few professorships for waste management at german universities
prognosticate that in a few decades we will dig out our former waste dumps
to get to those wonderful and expensive materials we have been throwing
away.....
Is there a possibility to find a wondeful sounding class A-amp from a well
known .....
Will this amp still reproduce music.....(after a short cleaning, inspection and
bias adjustment?
I am getting into a mind-blowing day dream.
We will not be able to build amps anymore - we dig them out
Greets
Dirk
prognosticate that in a few decades we will dig out our former waste dumps
to get to those wonderful and expensive materials we have been throwing
away.....
Is there a possibility to find a wondeful sounding class A-amp from a well
known .....
Will this amp still reproduce music.....(after a short cleaning, inspection and
bias adjustment?
I am getting into a mind-blowing day dream.
We will not be able to build amps anymore - we dig them out
Greets
Dirk
Hello Zen Mod,
Official Pass Labs Disposal Facility has enough material to be recycled? 😎
And it is hidden in a bunker and protected by wild animals .... 😱
Greets
Dirk
Official Pass Labs Disposal Facility has enough material to be recycled? 😎
And it is hidden in a bunker and protected by wild animals .... 😱
Greets
Dirk
I bought a drone for work and now I realize I'm too old to use it. Never mind all the certification you have to go through, I need a lesson in youngness again. I really need more than the two available brain cells. Anybody willing to lend me a couple for a few weeks?
Wait, look who you're asking here Cal.
Never mind, but thanks for thinking of me while I wallow in a world called 'instruction manual'.
Wait, look who you're asking here Cal.
Never mind, but thanks for thinking of me while I wallow in a world called 'instruction manual'.
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Hello Zen Mod,
................protected by wild animals .... 😱
Greets
Dirk
Wily Coyote 😉
though , it's easy when bicycle is in the case , it can't jump on ya as Drone can
wear a helmet ........ and buy few more drones , just in case
Damn!
Coyote again - protecting last 2 wild braincells of Cal - ah, no -
drones reading instruction manuals and transporting amps from California
to OPLDF - ah,no - I've got lost in..... brain damage 😀
Greets
Dirk
Coyote again - protecting last 2 wild braincells of Cal - ah, no -
drones reading instruction manuals and transporting amps from California
to OPLDF - ah,no - I've got lost in..... brain damage 😀
Greets
Dirk
My vote goes to hybrid cars!
best of both worlds: obligatory in city areas, free to choose eslewhere, plus much less sound polution, much better distance potential and costs (providing producing and delivering electricity is very competitive).
my wish is to make the transistion as soon as possible to tackle other shadowed but important problems like trafic jams.
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