Duke said:chandler said:
That has a very Syd Mead vibe:
If only Aston Martin had made a Lagonda Coupe
Duke said:chandler said:
That has a very Syd Mead vibe:
If only Aston Martin had made a Lagonda Coupe
Perfectly reasonable autocross car.
wheeeeee!
In reply to ncjay :
Welcome back. It's been awhile since you were active here. How ya doin' ?
Also, I see what you did. 
ncjay said:
I actually believe I've seen that unit in action. A big CSX trunk runs through my town.
In 1942 General Douglas MacArthur ordered this Packard Clipper Eight sedan with virtually every option including air conditioning, overdrive, and radio.
The $1,341 base price nearly doubled to $2,600. The factory returned his check and delivered the car to his station in Australia as a gift.
The car was MacArthur's until 1948, when he gave it to his driver who had served the general.
MacArthur made arrangements through a Navy friend to ship the car on the aircraft carrier Princeton to San Diego Then on a military flatbed it shipped to Fort Sam Houston, Texas. It was released to the driver in his home city of Dallas. He made arrangements to have military hardware removed and painted a bright post war color. However, he had to wait as they were busy. Before he could get it done he parked the car in his small, dirt floor garage. He died in his sleep. The car sat forgotten in a barn in Texas for 30 years. The car still had MacArthur's old army helmet and corncob pipe in the back seat. It may be in Golden, Colorado now.
jfryjfry said:
Man, you canardly see any blank space left...
In reply to jfryjfry :
Reminds me of a story about Keith Duckworth visiting Ford Engineering in the US and being shown some new heads / inlet manifolds they were developing for NASCAR. He was asked for some off the cuff comments about the design of the ports and after some consideration he indicated a few areas and suggested casting small arrows. Asked why, his response was "at least the air will know where it is supposed to be going".
Slag carriers dumping in Indonesia.
In reply to NickD :
It speaks to how amazing the FD looked that it still looks OK with the Corvette badge on it.
In other news, Baldur's Gate 3 dropped. I've been busy with work, but that hour or so I've gotten past character creation has been pretty good.
In reply to Brett_Murphy (Agent of Chaos) :
Yeah, I need to avoid that. Will have to see what the reviews look like for gaming systems. May finally cause me to buy a PS5.
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