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Sitting here watching the storm, still puffy winds, dropping to 20 and gusting to 110mph. Grateful the power is on, digging the Flat Three. PS: nice T-O-G Freddy. You got every detail right.

Good Lord. I got a Christmas card from the Rolex AD. Hand written.

Winds are up again tonight, hang onto your mukluks! 90mph and gusting to 110mph, whooiieeee more firewood Monday!

I have an Avocet Vertech ski watch with an air temperature gauge and it's affected a little by body temperature. There's a feature to calibrate it down (for winter) but it's most accurate worn over a jacket sleeve.

Pumpkin eater

Here's how I want a 7206 to look.

No, the steel is thick enough I couldn't even use tools to reshape them from the backside against leather. They were stamped wrong. These are the early Yuki parts. Are the new ones better?

How do the endlinks look on the new versions of the 7206? I got two very early ones and they were terrible.

Hey krpstr, don't be a stranger, eh? Come back and stay again soon. It's people like you that make America great.

Here's a question, why is the ability to go around corners THE measuring stick for a "good car"? I reject the premise. Everyone has a different idea of what makes a "good car". Here are some ideas: * Reliability - starts every time * Excellent mileage * Blistering straight-line performance * Svelte bodywork * Durability * Carrying capacity * Versatility For the motorheads among us, raw performance counts. But there is no objective "ultimate" performance criterion. I love autocross racing and a Sunbeam Tiger with a hot HiPo 289 and tall gears and heavily tweaked suspension will beat almost anything. But we're talking parking-lot sized tracks where you can drive the whole thing in 2nd gear with a rev limiter. Switch gears to the Isle of Man, and it's a whole different game. There you want lots of speed, but your low-slung Ferrari is going to trash its underside. Sebring? LeMans? Sure, trot out the Ferraris. You can still get beat there by a Ford. Laguna Seca? Better have a nimble chassis with spot-on weight distribution. Pick your poison... there is no "best" car. Other than the venerable Land-Rover, that is. http://www.ameinfo.com/27240.html

To each his own. A lovely older Phong 7016 just sold here for silly money.

Instead find a HiPo 289 from a GT Mustang. It's already got the 4-bolt mains. Add solid lifters and guides and you can rev it to the moon. Ask me about Sunbeam Tigers so equipped.

My high school math teacher, Her Hotness, drove a Pantera. To this day I equate naughty blondes and Panteras. Many were the valiant attempts by enthusiastic youth to get into her pants(era). See how quickly that connection is made?

Don't do it. Get a Josh case and mill down an MBW crown to look like a 702, or mount a gen 702 in those stubby CGs. It's a great, and inexpensive, look.

I think I just died and went to heaven. Lordy Lordy Lordy. So much horsepower it scared the spark plugs out!

It's a match made in heaven!

Say, is that PC-MUT the 1.8mm or 2mm size?

Imagine the total if Klink and Demsey were still around!

The Godfather of aged inserts.

There's no such thing as too much horsepower. It just takes more talent to drive it hard when you're balancing your traction against a brutal power curve. On the other hand a big heavy engine up front making way too much horsepower AND causing understeer is sometimes not worth the extra effort to drive it hard. What kind of tracks are you using? Tight and twisty? Fast and open? There's your deciding factor. Freddy Spencer used to ride brutal engines Charlie built for Daytona in the early 80s and on the high banking at nearly 175mph you could hear his engine warbling as he balanced it right on the bleeding edge of horsepower vs. traction. That was the absolute peak of what that chassis was capable of. Aim for that when you choose your engine.

Yes, then they'd have agonizingly long discussions over whether to call it the "V1" or "V2" bezel, with tempers flaring until someone posts about his new Red Sub and they'd all get distracted for a week, until someone came back on topic and referred to it as the "V1.1" and that would be its designation for all eternity. There would then be followup derision for any hapless soul that failed to identify it as a "V1.1"

I'll see your 60's Porsche oversteer and raise you one 60's Shelby-RS/SS Camaro-GTO-Charger understeer. Face it, they were both dangerous. Newer cars on both sides of the Pond are a whole different category.