Very sad news, and condolences to Mr Duran's family and friends. That Lime Rock Vintage Weekend is a beautiful event, it's especially sad for this to happen there.

Obama does look like a old-fashioned sepia-toned print come to life with that suit and tie.

There's a key piece of information missing here:

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Maybe celebrities might consider it un-stylish, but business execs aren't usually concerned about style statements. Moreover, if enough jet-set business execs start riding around in these, they'll become a status symbol and therefore, a style statement.

Should we really be surprised?

I'd guess it's because that was probably their biggest Asian market at the time. Japan and S.Korea were too ravaged by war, China had gone Communist, etc.

What language are they speaking? Afrikaans?

sum ting wong with the fact checking again.

In a similar vein, it's interesting how the word "Brit" used be pejorative, but is now considered acceptable. I have heard British people use it fairly regularly.

They've been enforcing multiculturalism for centuries!

512s Coda Lunga

The fictional President of the U.S. played by Peter Sellers in "Dr. Strangelove" was named "Merkin Muffley". Note the sexual slang connotations of both the first and last names. Like other characters in the movie, the name is meant to be a comment on his character. That movie was relesed 50 years ago, I wonder how…

They're eating junk food and playing video games so much that it's making them infertile.

Isn't this really just the reciprocal of the cost-of-living index?

They interbred with horses and zebras - the horn is a recessive gene.

The sad fact is that Mermaids went extinct because they got eaten by sharks. The documentary glossed over that.

Here's some good sportscar footage with 917's and Ferrari 512s's in 1970:

Bellof was not racing for the Rothman's team in 1985, although he'd won the WSC driver's championship with them in 1984. There was the contractual conflict with his Formula 1 commitment at Tyrrell, so he drove for one of the Porsche customer teams (EuroBrun) rather than the factory Rothman's team in '85.