What is some of your Pet Peeve's

[gstrom99]

It was for a short video... not competition...

SCCA (and others) have "Track Days". A good way to get 'em out for some exercise.

PROGRAMS - SCCA Track Days (And Nights)

65,000+ door-to-door, cone clipping and dirt-throwing individuals make us the largest amateur motorsports club in the United States.

www.scca.com

 

[ultrarunner]

He was very involved with SCCA and the Monterey Historic Races for many years.

Sometimes he would bring one of the Cobras and other times one of the GT40’s or Lola or Super 7

As the values escalated he stopped as a friend suffered significant damage and events are generally not covered by insurance…

The last of the cars sold in 2019 but it’s interesting to look up the serial numbers and see chain of ownership in the registries…

I was able to drive a few briefly and that is my only claim to fame… most miles in the Pantera… I did take the 427 Cobra around the block and remember three things… it was loud, it took real effort to turn the wheel parking and I burnt my calf on the side pipe getting out.

The GT40s have saddle tanks it was fun to get gas and fill from each side but the low ground clearance made many roads impassable…

My brother drove the 289 Cobra to his high school graduation and breakfast and even then it drew a crowd.

My pet peeve is most assume any Cobra is a kit or replica…

 

[WinterDeere]

New Peeve: The homogenization of cultures. World travel was infinitely more interesting, before the Internet, Hollywood, Television... which have all contributed to a cultural "white bread" homogenization. Even comparing the 1990's to today, which wasn't all that long ago, other countries and continents were far more different and interesting, from our own.

Today, with everything all over the world made in China, and American media and entertainment circulated worldwide, even far-off places end up looking, feeling, and sounding much the same as home.

Anyone remember flipping through 1970's National Geographic as a kid, and thinking the world was so much more varied and interesting, than today?

 

[scootr]

He was very involved with SCCA and the Monterey Historic Races for many years.

Sometimes he would bring one of the Cobras and other times one of the GT40’s or Lola or Super 7

As the values escalated he stopped as a friend suffered significant damage and events are generally not covered by insurance…

The last of the cars sold in 2019 but it’s interesting to look up the serial numbers and see chain of ownership in the registries…

I was able to drive a few briefly and that is my only claim to fame… most miles in the Pantera… I did take the 427 Cobra around the block and remember three things… it was loud, it took real effort to turn the wheel parking and I burnt my calf on the side pipe getting out.

The GT40s have saddle tanks it was fun to get gas and fill from each side but the low ground clearance made many roads impassable…

My brother drove the 289 Cobra to his high school graduation and breakfast and even then it drew a crowd.

My pet peeve is most assume any Cobra is a kit or replica…

I have a Factory 5 Cobra. It too is loud and hard to handle. The gear box is akin to a box of rocks. But dam it is fun. And an hour on the backroads is a full upper body workout.

 

[ultrarunner]

I have a Factory 5 Cobra. It too is loud and hard to handle. The gear box is akin to a box of rocks. But dam it is fun. And an hour on the backroads is a full upper body workout.

Nothing can really compare on many levels.

His Super 7 Lotus was his all time favorite get on the road car… drive it to local SCCA events, run the course and drive home.

I remember the Cobra and GT40 setting off car and building alarms…

 

[masseyrider]

I have a Factory 5 Cobra. It too is loud and hard to handle. The gear box is akin to a box of rocks. But dam it is fun. And an hour on the backroads is a full upper body workout.

I want a Superformance Cobra.
Depending who you listen to they are highly interchangeable parts wise to the original.
Problem here in Kanuckistan is you can't licence them because they haven't passed safety standards.
I have a fully built 351 Cleveland Boss engine sitting on a stand with no place to go.

 

[scootr]

I want a Superformance Cobra.
Depending who you listen to they are highly interchangeable parts wise to the original.
Problem here in Kanuckistan is you can't licence them because they haven't passed safety standards.
I have a fully built 351 Cleveland Boss engine sitting on a stand with no place to go.

Mine is registered as 1965 Ford thus bypassing any safety or smog inspections ~ quite a big bonus in Commifornia
Sure we all want a $75k Superformance Cobra but a F5 car can be found for half the cost and all the fun.

 

[Alan46]

I wonder what is his preferred brand. They found ~1500 cans in his house.

Alleged Portland graffiti tagger arrested after avoiding capture for months; police find $10K worth of spray paint in his house

James S. Fischell, 40, faces possible criminal-mischief charges.

www.oregonlive.com

Bruce

We saw that segment on the news recently! That was quite the haul!
We’re glad they are going to send him to jail (I hope) Portland just spent over 1 million cleaning up that f-ing mess!!!

 

[Oaktree]

We’re glad they are going to send him to jail (I hope) Portland just spent over 1 million cleaning up that f-ing mess!!!

A more fitting punishment would be making HIM clean it all up.

 

[Alan46]

A more fitting punishment would be making HIM clean it all up.

You’re right, but there was so much of it, it was almost everywhere!

 

[garry1p]

Why is it the younger generation can not complete a sentence with out saying "like" four or five times.

 

[Too many Kubotas]

Why is it the younger generation can not complete a sentence with out saying "like" four or five times.

Oh, you don't like it when they say like?

 

[JethroB]

Why is it the younger generation can not complete a sentence with out saying "like" four or five times.

You know….

 

[bigtiller]

Cool...
and the more up to date...Sweet

 

[scootr]

Today ~
No Worries. Like, I say what I feel. And you, like, say like, what you feel like. Ya know? Right? Right
50 yrs ago ~
Hey Man, You Know man, I know man how you feel man.
20 yrs ago ~
Dude. Dude, I know Dude. Dude I know

 

[Alan46]

Today ~
No Worries. Like, I say what I feel. And you, like, say like, what you feel like. Ya know? Right? Right
50 yrs ago ~
Hey Man, You Know man, I know man how you feel man.
20 yrs ago ~
Dude. Dude, I know Dude. Dude I know

How about bro?
I use it a lot, I’m 78 bro!

 

[Engineer42]

How ya doing Brother? Brother, where ya been?

 

[Engineer42]

The one that kills me is “ I appreciate you”. To me, it sounds fake. I’d prefer you nod acknowledgement, and go on your way.

Getting grumpy in my old age I guess

 

[RjCorazza]

The one that kills me is “ I appreciate you”. To me, it sounds fake. I’d prefer you nod acknowledgement, and go on your way.

Getting grumpy in my old age I guess

I think that's a modern management "feel good" term.
I agree it sounds fake and hollow. I think something more specific and deserved would be better received.... Like "I appreciate how you handled that problem".

 

[WinterDeere]

Why is it the younger generation can not complete a sentence with out saying "like" four or five times.

I'm not sure that's new, though. I remember the same phenomenon when I was in school, in the 1980's!

The one that's new is "feel" or "feel like". We didn't "feel like" someone was an a-hole in the 80's, we knew they were.