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Vanity - Red cars and glorious sounds
https://youtu.be/1_kwxzU4wL4 ^
Posted on 05/08/2016 2:34:41 PM PDT by West Texas Chuck
Yeah, OK, it's a gasoline commercial, but the video is in HD and the sound is spine-tingling. Turn it up.
TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: automotive; ferrari; shellvpower
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To: West Texas Chuck
The more cylinders the better! All the best aircraft and marine engines seem to be V12 too.
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posted on
05/08/2016 4:11:42 PM PDT
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: smokingfrog
Part of it is geometry.
V8s of the same displacement get too wide.
Maybe not a big deal in a yacht but better for a car chassis or airframe.
To: smokingfrog
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posted on
05/08/2016 4:33:09 PM PDT
by
Fresh Wind
(Hey now baby, get into my big black car, I just want to show you what my politics are.)
To: Fresh Wind
700 hp is going to sound pretty good no matter what.
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posted on
05/08/2016 4:43:21 PM PDT
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: corkoman
“Nice! Screamers!”
You want screamers.... I got to hear one of the original Honda CBXs do a couple of laps. 6 cylinder of only 300 or so CC. Peak power at 17 to 19,000 RPM. In the words of one journalist it “sounded like a panther passing a kidney stone”.
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posted on
05/08/2016 5:05:52 PM PDT
by
CrazyIvan
(Socialists are just communists in their larval stage.)
To: nascarnation
Wow that was an era when “safety equipment” was a misnomer.Safety equipment was the guy with the fire extinguisher in the infield.
Besides, he's got his goggles and helmet, and at least two of his tires appear to be in working order. ;-)
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posted on
05/08/2016 5:35:55 PM PDT
by
IYAS9YAS
(I got nothin'.)
To: IYAS9YAS
I know a lot of the guys who raced in the 50s were in WW2 combat, so racing cars didn’t seem all that dangerous.
To: West Texas Chuck
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posted on
05/08/2016 5:52:13 PM PDT
by
gaijin
To: gaijin
Flat motor sounds good don’t it! Air-cooled 6, oh yeah.
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posted on
05/08/2016 6:06:52 PM PDT
by
West Texas Chuck
(EAT THE YOUNG! 100 billion guppies can't be wrong.)
To: gaijin
Modern image-stabilized cameras make those videos so easy to do now. Back in 1976,
this video would've been filmed in the Ferrari that provided the soundtrack, rather than a Mercedes 450SEL 6.9, had the latter not provided a smoother camera platform.
"C'était un Rendezvous" certainly has inspired numerous similar videos (linking it above for them what aim'y seen it).
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posted on
05/08/2016 6:34:13 PM PDT
by
Charles Martel
(Endeavor to persevere...)
To: nascarnation
I know a lot of the guys who raced in the 50s were in WW2 combat, so racing cars didn’t seem all that dangerous. Even the '55 LeMans crash (70 or so dead) didn't result in the race being halted. Many of the spectators had seen far worse in their lives.
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posted on
05/08/2016 6:37:27 PM PDT
by
Charles Martel
(Endeavor to persevere...)
To: Charles Martel
Amazing finish..! Just impossibly French..!
Never saw that, niiiiiice..!
Many red lights gambled, good God..!
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posted on
05/08/2016 6:49:20 PM PDT
by
gaijin
To: gaijin
It is a great ending. I was on those steps in Montmartre a few years ago and remembered the video. Such a cool spot, it overlooks the entire city.
In interviews, the driver/filmmaker admitted to having one guy on a radio watching that tight spot at the Louvre "tunnel", but the remainder of the cross-traffic was a total risk.
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posted on
05/08/2016 6:57:58 PM PDT
by
Charles Martel
(Endeavor to persevere...)
To: Chode
Now I know you have heard them sounds. Buddy of mine is begging me to buy this, but he just wants to come to my place and watch it on my TV because I have some speakers:
FERRARI DVD: Victory by Design.
Stay safe FReeper!
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posted on
05/09/2016 7:54:06 PM PDT
by
West Texas Chuck
(EAT THE YOUNG! 100 billion guppies can't be wrong.)
To: West Texas Chuck
oh HELL yeah...
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posted on
05/09/2016 8:07:17 PM PDT
by
Chode
(Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY - Luke, 22:36)
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