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I was looking at my recordings and I see that the new season of Counting Cars has begun and I have two new episodes...




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4est_4est_Gump said:
I don't watch for the info...


;) ;)


Just the characters and their art.
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I enjoy the fabrication techniques in Extreme, the off-road program. The Engine Power program's dyno testing of engine builds can save a guy building an engine a lot of trial and error and money.
 
LIVINRFANTASIES said:
We have a partially finished 1948 Chevy 1/2ton panel in this style. '48 had no vent wings and when '48 and older was the rule for street rods we bought that year.
Now many car shows have 2017's. Going to modern car shows is like cruisin the Walmart parking lot.
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I think we all tend to remember the cars we became familiar with when we were growing up. My grandfather was an AACA judge, so I got to go to lots of shows with him. He judged 6-cylinder cars from about 1918--1925 - class 23B maybe? It's been awhile and I'm not looking it up.


I also like muscle cars because that's what was around when I was first driving. Of course, there was mom's old beater station wagon . . . .


I'd like to have a Model A, truth be told, but I'll live just fine if I never get one.

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Conager said:
In some thread here there is a discussion about the UKs looney tunes method for calculation of horespower for taxation purposes. Seems like it was based on bore withour regard for stroke. Hence british motors bias for stroked dimmensions. Great example of how government alters every industry it touches, even tangentially.
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The formula was devised by the RAC (the Royal Automobile Club) before 1914. The RAC recognised that it was flawed by the early 1920s but the UK government had used it for a tax measure. It was simple, too simple. The bore and number of cylinders was all that was counted and the tax was based on the notional horsepower of the engine. Even in 1914 it was wrong.

UK Car manufactures then confused the public even more. They sold cars like Austin 7 (7 hp), Morris 8, Ford 8 and 10 etc. But they lied. The Austin 7 was taxed as 8 hp. Some other cars were labelled 'Heavy 12' i.e. taxed as 14 hp. They also used numbers like 12/40 supposed to mean taxed as a 12 hp but actually delivering 40 hp. Again they lied. The '12' was taxed as a 14 and the 40 hp claimed output was nearer 30.

The RAC formula and the tax based on it distorted British engines. Small bore and long stroke meant more power for that tax classification. That meant that American cars won world exports because British cars were underpowered and their engines overstressed by comparison with big US engines.
 
I had better check my chocolate ration.

:eek:

I just half-paid attention to a Fox spot on new cars coming out. The sales pitch guy is showing off these roller skate cars all the while pitching how huge they are...


... there's even a 4WD roller skate for those who go off road. People who go off road do it in either a real 4WD or an ATV.
 
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