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    Get Ready For 24 Hours Of LeMons Reno With Eyesore Racing’s EldoradoMiata
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    Image of Schm, enjoying his first desert winter. . Schm, enjoying his first desert winter. .
    11/17/09

    In reply to Mercedes-Benz's Silver Arrows
    I'm just afraid that Brawn won't be as good under direct Mercedes leadership. Hopefully Button will stay and they'll lure another great driver for the other spot. At least they've got the brain of brawn to lead them. #silverarrows
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    11/17/09

    @Schm, enjoying his first desert winter. .: Button signed with McLaren yesterday. #silverarrows
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    11/17/09

    @Maxichamp: No Multi-diffuser=No championship. After the rest of the teams went to the multi-diff, Brawn was just "good" #silverarrows
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    11/17/09

    @cityag: Agreed. Why did Button win the championship? 33% 2x diffuser, 33% strong Merc engine, 33% was slightly better driver than Rubens, 1% raw talent. #silverarrows
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    11/17/09

    In reply to Mercedes-Benz's Silver Arrows
    Great list, but no SSK/L? M-B ran these regularly 1931-1934 at major races, even winning Nurburgring in 1931. #silverarrows
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    11/17/09

    In reply to Mercedes-Benz's Silver Arrows
    I will be honest, I really can't wait for the next season to start. F1 has been awesome for the last season, both on and off.

    Let's add more gasoline to the fire. #silverarrows
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    11/17/09

    In reply to Mercedes-Benz's Silver Arrows
    Now that I'm studying for a year in Berlin, I made a pilgrimage out to AVUS. There's a 125 meter high mini-Eifel Tower a block from where that title photo was taken, and from the top you can see the endless grey line of what used to be the straight fade off into the flats of Northern Germany. If you don't mind walking along the edge of the autobahn for a few hundred meters, you can get out onto what used to be the track itself. The whole experience, especially at dusk watching lights flicker by and hearing the howl of superbikes piercing the cold November air, was utterly unreal. #silverarrows
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    11/17/09

    In reply to Mercedes-Benz's Silver Arrows
    And now, some more 50's era Silver Arrow goodness #silverarrows
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    11/17/09


    @scroggzilla raids again: Stirling Moss on the Monza banking...1955 #silverarrows
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    11/17/09


    @scroggzilla raids again: Mr. Fangio in his "office" #silverarrows
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    11/17/09


    @scroggzilla raids again: The winning 300 SLR, piloted by Moss and Collins, on the 55 Targa Florio #silverarrows
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    11/17/09


    @scroggzilla raids again: Juan Manuel Fangio on his way to yet another win, 1954 Swiss Grand Prix #silverarrows
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    11/17/09


    @scroggzilla raids again: one more...Moss and Jenkinson, in color no less, on the 55 Mille Miglia #silverarrows
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    11/17/09

    @scroggzilla raids again: Has to be the best or top 3 best looking race cars ever... #silverarrows
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    11/17/09

    @scroggzilla raids again: It has always bothered me that great engineers existed back then, of course and nobody thought to make wider tyres! #silverarrows
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    11/17/09

    @scroggzilla raids again: What I would have given be there watching the 55' Mille Miglia. A race still talked about almost 60 years later. #silverarrows
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    11/17/09

    @Schm, enjoying his first desert winter. .: If I had the keys to a time machine, the 55 Mille Miglia would be one of several motorsport-related stops I'd want to make. #silverarrows
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    11/17/09

    In reply to Mercedes-Benz's Silver Arrows
    Great. The plucky Brit team from Brackley gets consumed by Germans and becomes an all German team. German staff, German drivers, German owners. #silverarrows
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    11/17/09

    In reply to Mercedes-Benz's Silver Arrows
    Der Silberpfeil!!!! #silverarrows
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    11/17/09

    In reply to Mercedes-Benz's Silver Arrows
    "not a typo". That is awesome.

    And totally terrifying. Those tires are, what, 5 inches wide? Tops? And the only 'driver aid' was Rudolf's big toe...

    Men had bigger balls back then.

    Or smaller brains.

    Nope. Definitely just bigger balls. Probably bigger brains, too, for that matter.
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    11/17/09

    In reply to Mercedes-Benz's Silver Arrows
    Here's hoping that Merc GP will hire Heidfeld. #silverarrows
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    11/17/09

    In reply to Mercedes-Benz's Silver Arrows
    Peter, do you know the race that 1st photo was taken at? The German GP was only held at the Avus circuit once (1959), and that was after Mercedes Benz and the W196 retired from motorsports. #silverarrows
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    @scroggzilla raids again: and the answer is the non F1 Championship, Grosser Pries von Berlin in 1954. The winner....the very Germanic looking Karl Kling #silverarrows
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    11/17/09

    In reply to Mercedes-Benz's Silver Arrows
    Good job, Mr. Oreosz.....great article and wonderful photos. I especially like No. 12, the 1955 300SLR. #silverarrows
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    11/17/09

    In reply to Mercedes-Benz's Silver Arrows
    So, what is it with the Germans building horrifyingly dangerous machinery from extremely flammable materials? #silverarrows
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    11/17/09

    @Paul Y. don't drive too fast.: Well, the normal operating parameters don't include the outside being on fire, so obviously it should work fine.
    I mean, the Germans never have anything go wrong, do they? #silverarrows
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    11/17/09

    @Tyson: Well, you know the Germans make good stuff.

    "Well, the normal operating parameters don't include the outside being on fire, so obviously it should work fine." -- I need to work this line of logic into day-to-day use. #silverarrows
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    05/22/09

    In reply to Get Ready For 24 Hours Of LeMons Reno With Eyesore Racing’s EldoradoMiata
    Eldoriata=Insane Crazy People.
    The pink gauntlet has been thrown down, Lemonsers.
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    05/22/09

    In reply to Get Ready For 24 Hours Of LeMons Reno With Eyesore Racing’s EldoradoMiata
    In all honesty, what they've managed to do with the car performance-wise is damn impressive. This really struck me in particular:


    "So how's she run? Well enough to impress our cynical scribes. Let's just say that the 6.8 seconds (6.5 seconds with 1 foot of rollout like on a drag strip) the Miatallac required to hit 60 mph is 0.1 second quicker than the 2010 model MX-5 we tested recently. The quarter-mile arrived in 15.0 seconds at 90.7 mph - the same ET as the 2010 MX-5.


    Handling was more impressive. Slithering through the slalom at 70.4 mph makes the Miata faster than a 2009 Porsche Carrera S Cabriolet. Road-holding, on heat-cycled, flat-spotted rubber, was better than other $500 cars we've driven, at 0.89g. Braking, at 135 feet from 60, is 14 feet shorter than a 2009 Honda Pilot and that's without ABS and on those same crap tires."

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    05/22/09

    @Leeeeena, a Jalopchick: As much as I sort of don't exactly prefer Miatas in LeMons, this is a huge exception.


    I, of course, never learned to read, so hearing you repeat its performance is actually a great asset to me! That's really rather incredible. I do very much hope, now, that it doesn't just explode into a gigantic fireball.

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    05/22/09

    In reply to Get Ready For 24 Hours Of LeMons Reno With Eyesore Racing’s EldoradoMiata
    Just thinking about the torque-steer on that king gives me chills.
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    05/22/09

    @FLB is a trekkie: king = thing (oh wait...)
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    05/22/09

    @FLB is a trekkie: It is The King's car.


    Well, if The King had become a cocaine addict rather than a drunk, and thus ended up weighing ninety-two pounds and sucking cock for blow.


    Instead of the drinking, barbiturate near-ODs, and falling off the toilet at the end. Which, come to think of it, isn't really any more dignified.


    Carry on.

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