Response from this event's** chief perpetrator, The Duisberg Kid, Torque King comfy shoe wearer (he's having IT issues presently):
"1-These aren't 'the best cars we could afford'. The same chaps had a trackday at Spa and also the Nurburgring earlier in the year in some far more potent hardware. The cars at Stelvio were chosen specifically for the job, because 'less is more', and 100+bhp is useless on a 180 degree hairpin at 2700m above sea-level. There were 8 x Fiat 500s (c.59 BHP), the camera car was a Smart car, the Vauxhall Agilas both died a glorious death up an alp. The Fiats were perfect. No, really.
2-This story was reported on my website www.s2b2.net for those that want the full story. You'll also see the 'Mental in a rental' adventure in Abarth 500's in Scotland... These were also printed in practical performance magazine.
3-It is not in Colorado. It is in Italy. FFS.
4-If you liked this, you'll have an orgasm when we post up next months adventure"
And, as privy to some of the details, he's spot on re: 4! :D
** one of many posted with all the gory details on www.s2b2.net
"1-These aren't 'the best cars we could afford'. The same chaps had a trackday at Spa and also the Nurburgring earlier in the year in some far more potent hardware. The cars at Stelvio were chosen specifically for the job, because 'less is more', and 100+bhp is useless on a 180 degree hairpin at 2700m above sea-level. There were 8 x Fiat 500s (c.59 BHP), the camera car was a Smart car, the Vauxhall Agilas both died a glorious death up an alp. The Fiats were perfect. No, really.
2-This story was reported on my website www.s2b2.net for those that want the full story. You'll also see the 'Mental in a rental' adventure in Abarth 500's in Scotland... These were also printed in practical performance magazine.
3-It is not in Colorado. It is in Italy. FFS.
4-If you liked this, you'll have an orgasm when we post up next months adventure"
And, as privy to some of the details, he's spot on re: 4! :D
** one of many posted with all the gory details on www.s2b2.net
@Ray Wert: "...specifically BECAUSE I respect your fellow commenters and believe their opinions are worthwhile...."
Sorry? I'm confused.
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@raywert Ray Wert
"@SeanKHotay If your evidence I don't "get it" is my commenters, methinks you need to up your evidentiary requirements little man. "
And I'm confused why I no longer can find another 'favorited' Tweet of your feelings toward your commenters...
I rather join the cadre of the unStarred than figure out this tangle of logic.
Sorry? I'm confused.
[twitter.com]
@raywert Ray Wert
"@SeanKHotay If your evidence I don't "get it" is my commenters, methinks you need to up your evidentiary requirements little man. "
And I'm confused why I no longer can find another 'favorited' Tweet of your feelings toward your commenters...
I rather join the cadre of the unStarred than figure out this tangle of logic.
@shinjukuDLJ: Ha!
Tuco: [trying to read a note] "Sell you one soon, eed... " "eed... " eeds... "
Blondie: [taking the note] "Idiots". This truck's for you.
Tuco: [trying to read a note] "Sell you one soon, eed... " "eed... " eeds... "
Blondie: [taking the note] "Idiots". This truck's for you.
Someone needs to 'chop Ferrari colors on this
@SeanKHotay: Sorry..."...Desert Flower..."
The stitched scrollwork reminds me of the stitched, black leather Jeep Cherokee & Wagoneer interior available 1974-1976 called (IIRC) Desert Sunflower...
Wish I could find another...
Wish I could find another...
Being in the automotive safety biz, this reminds me of when a Wayne St biomechanics prof (not Melvin... King?) came to work to give a presentation on blunt trauma head injuries at our workplace. He mentioned that they used measurements from both cadavers and boxers (they went to the famous Kronk's Gym here in Detroit).
His first video was of a boxer sparring while wearing head gear with load cells to measure the force of the blows with a pony tail of wires down his back...
The next was of cadavers getting hit from different angles just to show the flexing of the skull before fracturing...
He then showed an x-ray of a skull where they obviously had drilled holes to put load cells inside the skull, wires coming out of it, to further measure blunt force head trauma...
I asked if that was cadaver or a boxer.
Took a while for the room to get back to normal...
His first video was of a boxer sparring while wearing head gear with load cells to measure the force of the blows with a pony tail of wires down his back...
The next was of cadavers getting hit from different angles just to show the flexing of the skull before fracturing...
He then showed an x-ray of a skull where they obviously had drilled holes to put load cells inside the skull, wires coming out of it, to further measure blunt force head trauma...
I asked if that was cadaver or a boxer.
Took a while for the room to get back to normal...
@b4d: No, "file not found"ing for this US resident, too...
@aciddiver: *This* is is why grown men want to be race car drivers *before* they grow up. :-)
A great one woulda been Charleton Heston discovering the melted Statue of Liberty.
"YOU MANIACS! YOU BLEW IT UP! DAMN YOU!....DAMN YOU All to Hell....
"YOU MANIACS! YOU BLEW IT UP! DAMN YOU!....DAMN YOU All to Hell....
There's still a question of how what the neighbors will think about having an F1 track in their backyard (so far they seem happy it's not tract housing)...
"I would take Formula One over 40-foot lots with boomboxes and pit bulls any day...I would rather have horrible congested traffic for one weekend a year than live with it the rest of my life." - one rabblerousing neighbor said when developer George "Kip" Kronenberg Jr. sought city and county approvals for Wandering Creek, planning nearly 1,800 homes.
F1IMBY, please
"I would take Formula One over 40-foot lots with boomboxes and pit bulls any day...I would rather have horrible congested traffic for one weekend a year than live with it the rest of my life." - one rabblerousing neighbor said when developer George "Kip" Kronenberg Jr. sought city and county approvals for Wandering Creek, planning nearly 1,800 homes.
F1IMBY, please
@solracer: That...is a cool car! Do you have any more pics and info on this car? I (& I know a family of Packard fans that) would like to know more!
Packard hot rods FTW!
TIA!
Sean
Packard hot rods FTW!
TIA!
Sean
@laylaholic: I feel your feet pain...I've done that trek many times...
@laylaholic: Oof, never saw this...
It's a serious PITA more than tough.
Hope your travel goes (went?) well!
It's a serious PITA more than tough.
Hope your travel goes (went?) well!
Multiple pedant: plural, absolute infinitive (IIRC...I'm not much of a pedant)
Now he's a pendant on a bridge lip...it's barely a container retainer...
Now he's a pendant on a bridge lip...it's barely a container retainer...
Multiple pedant: plural, absolute infinitive (IIRC...I'm not much of a pedant)
Now he's a pendant on a bridge lip...
Now he's a pendant on a bridge lip...
BUY THE 'BACH-TOOTHED BENZ!
@laylaholic: Ha! I would lay my money on the useless stationary defense...
Actually, I just remembered a work conference I ran that required about a dozen German folks that had to fly thru Dallas or Houston to MX.
They had to 'enter' the US and then go back thru the TSAxICE defense to go to MX - literally 4 layers of security & immigration btwn Frankfurt & MX...
As the guy who ran the conference, I did not hear the end of it 'til about mid-week...
Actually, I just remembered a work conference I ran that required about a dozen German folks that had to fly thru Dallas or Houston to MX.
They had to 'enter' the US and then go back thru the TSAxICE defense to go to MX - literally 4 layers of security & immigration btwn Frankfurt & MX...
As the guy who ran the conference, I did not hear the end of it 'til about mid-week...
@laylaholic: He's got to get past ICE even if he makes it thru the Thousands Standing Around...
Keep Tilke away from anywhere near Austin....
