Perfect support vehicle for a Corvairs race car

As seen at Gingerman Raceway today.

Must be stealth cause it's invisible.

Still haven't figured out how to get a pic to work.

Keep trying, you'll get it. I think we all had a learning curve linking pics. On a host site?

It's on Flickr and I copied the url from there and tried to paste it into the dialog you get when hitting the camera icon. Nothing happens. Any suggestions? I confirmed that the pic is marked public in Flickr.

Let's see if this works.

Thanks! Now please let me know what I need to do differently to make this work.

test

Wow! I did it!!

Great! Now please let me know what I'm doing wrong. It's kind embarrassing for other people to make my pic work when I can't

There are people who know what they are doing. I am not one of them.

So, here's the complete idiot's version...

• I right-clicked on the icon in your original post and selected "Copy image location".

• I pasted this into my browser, and found your pic.

• I re-copied the URL from the Flickr page, and pasted it into a post. That didn't work.

• From your Flickr page, I right-clicked again on the picture, and again selected "Copy Image Location". I pasted this new location into a browser again, and got the picture again, with a different format and URL. (Somebody more technical can explain these 2 different versions better).

• I copied that new URL, and came back to this thread.

• I clicked on the little camera icon above the window for typing your comment. It gives a pull down menu that asks for you to type or paste the image URL. I pasted in the 2nd URL.

• It worked!

YMMV.

In reply to pkingham:

Don't feel bad. Pics on this site are always challenging.

Everybody figures out their own quirky way to make them happen, then sticks to it.

Ok, this is now totally derailed from the original topic, but I need to get this figured out.

On the iPhone i can't find any other option than copy URL which is what didn't work the first time. Any other thoughts on the iPhone?

In reply to pkingham:

Your URL in your original post is this:

https://m.flickr.com/#/photos/124330916@N06/17794856882/

That's not a picture. It's a data file.

This is the URL that worked for me:

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7695/17794856882_658324b530_h.jpg

See the jpg extension? That's a picture.

I have now vastly exceeded my allotted brains for the day. Anything else will have to come from someone smarter than me, who is not a carpenter by trade.

Thanks, that's getting me an idea of what's wrong. Now to keep trying...

Cool support truck! It prompts a story. long ago, back at the dawn of time (like, around 1980) A friend and I were racing a 1966 Corvair turbo in the SCCA National Pro Rally Series - this was the predecessor of the current Rally America series. We ran open class, and were midfield runners, ran a couple of nationals a year, because pretty much everything was a 1000-mile tow, one way, for us except for the Big bend Bash in West Texas, our specialty. Anyhow, we ran a Corvair for the same reason that a lot of people ran 510s - we had a bunch of parts cars stashed so we could fix the rally car cheap. Our support vehicle was a forward control Corvan, but a special one that I still haven't seen another one of. It was ordered from the factory by a local utility company, and was windowless on the driver's side to allow hanging tools, and had full windows on the passenger side. Pretty slick. It had a 140,and we used it to flat tow the rally car, haul all our tools and spares, plus four adults and a teenager. It actually worked very well. Around 1980 or so the CORSA national convention was in Denver, and we used this setup to go to the convention from southern New Mexico, towing over Raton Pass without any trouble. Rampsides like the one in the OP's photo worked great, too, they have a really long bed and can haul a lot of spares.

OOOH! Just noticed the Dante's Down the Hatch windshield script - is that the James Reeve car? It was the fastest Yenko back in the 70s' I think took pole at the runoffs one year. Thought it had big, fat rear fender flares, though.

I was working at GingerMan this weekend, liked watching the Corvair! And I saw the support truck on my way out Sunday (left at lunch break because I felt like crap.)

I've seen that car at Waterford hills. I love it. When it's running with Alfas on the track, it looks HUGE