Also - Vacuum cleaner hoarders are notable for their clean floors, while washing machine hoarders are identifiable by their clean clothes- sometimes.
JimEmery
JimEmery
It looked Mediterranean, but I didn’t notice the sign.
I can recall in the 1960's -70's, before Franco died, Spain was well-known as the bargain tourism destination in Europe.
That’s enough to get my vote right there!!
What’s this picture supposed to depict ? British tourists who drove to Spain with British plates on the car?
In French, the letters/number combination of “MR2" sounds like English “Emm-Air-Deuh” [French: MR Deux] which if you pronounce it quickly, sounds like “Merde”, French for “shit”
Wow, the proportions of that car are waaaay off in the drawing vs how the car really looked. It looks like it’s as wide as a Cadillac!
I remember when this race happened. There was some discussion at the time that Lauda should have let Prost win - Prost was still in the midst of a tight championship battle with Michele Alboreto at Ferrari and needed all the points he could get. Lauda had many DNFs that year and wasn’t in contention for the…
If you look at AMC’s financial problems during most of its existence, it wasn’t a matter of designer licensing being smarter, it was a matter of licensing being cheaper. AMC was always in marginal shape financially, so their vehicles were not updated much.
Beat me to it. The Pasha upholstery actually came in a couple of other colors besides black and white
It wasn’t just the M6A from 1967 - All of Bruce McLaren’s Can-Am cars from the late 1960's had that same McLaren Orange color and Bruce’s car was always #4, every season, through his last championship in 1969. Denny Hulme always had #5:
And what if the stores are all sold out of Clorox wipes, 70% rubbing alcohol, etc.?
John Fitch’s life is a fantastic Hollywood biopic (and non-fiction book) waiting to be produced.
Yes, the Miles/Hulme #1 started 2nd and the McLaren/Amon #2 had started 4th, so the McLaren/Amon car had therefore traveled further by 60 feet, or whatever.
Do you mean 1965 LeMans? It’s true, Miles was not at home, he was at the 1965 LeMans and driving the #1 Shelby Ford GT MkII, with none-other than Bruce McLaren(!) as his co-driver. Ironically, McLaren would win the following year in the disputed “dead-heat” finish.
There are lap charts published that confirm this - Moity’s book on LeMans, published in 1974 has lap charts for all the LeMans races up to the date of publication.
What a VAN-Tastic video! Thanks for posting!
Here’s a fun piece of Porsche trivia: During the late 1960's, the color swatch on the nose of the factory Porsches was used to identify the driver. The nose on Siffert’s car was green, as seen in this painting. Other prominent Porsche factory drivers at that time were Vic Elford (blue swatch) and Gerhard Mitter & Udo…
In a similar vein - What about people who are really into dogs?