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Quote from: silverton_ford on April 17, 2024, 10:14:34 AMI just use the "Unread Posts" button at the top of the page and go through them one by one, so the "Recent Posts" list on the main page is not a concern to how I use the forum.  I find that using the "Unread Posts" button, I am able to keep up with all new posts since I last visited the site.  If I don't finish reading them all, I just leave the page open and come back to it later, but I am using my desktop computer....I'm not sure how others use it on tablets or cell phones. 

The "Recent Posts" has always been only a small sample of what is recent and not everything recent in a day or two is listed because it cannot fit them all at times.  I find all recent posts in the "Unread Posts" button regardless of how long it has been since I last looked at the forum.  It could be several days until I get back to the forum, but using the "Unread Posts" button I am able to catch up on everything posted in that time frame since I last visited.

This is what I've always done with a lot of forums.   After I read "recent Posts", I then click the "mark all posts read".  That way my next visit on clicking "recent posts", the posts I've already seen, don't show up, unless they have a new post. 

The holes, I suspect a bracket or something for the tow set up.  They look drilled and slightly distorted metal around them. 
I also notice over next to the car, at the edge of the garage door are some racing tires stacked up.   We've all seen photo's from the 1960's/70's where these were used everyday.  And photo's of towing a Shelby product using another Shelby product as the tow vehicle. 

And the Ghost Busters car in the background. 

Quote from: 68countrysedan on April 02, 2024, 01:00:57 PM
Car spotting addendum

Once again, spotting background cars can be as interesting as the main image imho.

In reply 181 photo, just to the right of the dude in the red jacket is a Mk 1 Cortina with a black trunk lid. Guess some custom paint accents were added.

and to the right of the Cortina, a 2002 BMW?
Behind the lady looking at the camera and next to the red jacket, perhaps an MG?  Got a luggage rack and the suitcase is wrapped in plastic due to the rain. 

My uncle raced his Triumph from the late 1950's until perhaps the mid-1960's.   I always look at these photos and see if I can spot him or my aunt.  He's passed now, but 30 years ago he pulled out his photo's from way-back.  It had him and the Group-44 team and such....just hanging out before and after the races.  They also had a Volvo and between the Cobra and the people, is a Volvo.  Except I remember theirs was more grey. 

Quote from: 98SVT - was 06GT on February 27, 2024, 10:23:38 PM

Quote from: rhjanes on February 27, 2024, 09:32:29 PM
Looks like a hotel limo type car.  Got washed out in a hurricane and buried.

Caption said Pontiac station wagon. Washed out in one storm brought back by the next?

That is a Pontiac nose.  The photo just made the car look longer to me.   I can't think it was driven to the beach, got stuck and left and not towed out.  Perhaps it got left and covered by a storm and remained like that for decades.  Finally uncovered by another storm. 
We used to vacation on the North Carolina Outer Banks in the 1970s and after a storm, there was checking and documenting all the damage and seeing what washed up or was uncovered.  That area is called "The Graveyard of the Atlantic".  A few times after a storm, the remains of a ship would be uncovered or partially uncovered.  So the historians would be out to attempt to figure out what ship it was.  One summer we were down and laying near the place we stayed was the remains of a WWII troop ship like you saw Capt Miller (Tom Hanks) and team use to reach Normandy beach.   It wasn't there the prior year.  Well it was, either covered by sand or it was 50 yards offshore and the storm moved it inland.  Sometime after the war there was a tug pulling a few of them someplace and lost the tow rope and all the ships sunk or washed elsewhere. 

Looks like a hotel limo type car.  Got washed out in a hurricane and buried. 

I looked in the other CAR related sub-forums and see posts counts for everyone.  Just not here in the "Lounge".
Remember, you may "mute" a poster that you are tired of seeing.  Then when you are reading a post and that person has posted in it, you DO see an entry but it states "you are muting this person".  It also shows WHO it is, in case you have several members on mute.  The post will include a small link to "Click here to view this post".  SO if it's a topic that you are interested in (you are reading the thread), and think the muted person might have contributed, just click the link to see.  You consider it still just noise?  Don't bother to click the other muted posts and just read what you wish. 

The Bots/Spyders and such, are scrubbing for information.  I don't think they post anything.  But now with AI....perhaps that will change next.
The Bots and such, show up in the "Who is Online" type counts.  On our old drum forum, it was common to see 5 to 10 actual users on, then the count would show "22 online", translation, about as many bots scrubbing for data as there were actual users. 

Quote from: Bill on February 19, 2024, 10:59:05 AM
I find it quite childish to view the number of posts as something to strive for, as it's not the quantity of ones posts that makes for a productive member on a forum, but the quality of the posts that you make.


I'll leave it at that.


Bill

+1.
I moderated a Drum Builders forum for a time.  The competing forums got into such antics.  And then people within our forum did also.  Some forums also put rules in place like "You can't post items for sale until you have 50 posts".  Then someone just posts "Yeah!" or "Great IDea" in 25 topics and magically have their post count and then post something for sale.....possibly a scam.
We, as Moderators/administrators got tired of the childishness.  We edited posts counts for the children and they went from "264" to "-5000" (NEGATIVE) over night.  And just for yucks, we all changed our own to "12,573,873"  (yes....millions of posts!). 

Looks like the Count doesn't show up in "The Lounge" and perhaps other Sub-Forums

I have a book about TF Dragsters and I believe it listed the G-Forces the drivers and cars experience.  Both on Launch and braking.  IIRC, they were pushing the limits on having things like detaching eye retina's due to braking G-forces at some tracks.   

Quote from: S7MS427 on January 26, 2024, 05:55:10 PM
Race tracks and airports are under attack all over the country.  In most cases, they were there first.  Then more people move in and they begin to complain about the noise.  And in the end, the race track or airport is forced to shutdown.  They were there first, the residents knew that when they moved in.  And yet somehow the residents win.  I see NO justice in that.

Happening every few years here in Dallas TX.  Love Field was the grass strip during WWI.  It became commercial aviation after that.  My dad was born in the early 1930's and said Love Field was SO far out of town, it took an hour or more to drive there (pre interstates).  Now?  totally surrounded by Dallas.  Shoot we are 30 miles north and see the flight patterns for both Love and DFW International.  But there is another side of all this.  The airlines and air freight DO petition to increase the number of flights.  They DO petition to increase the hours earlier in the day and later (yes they are 24 hours, but certain planes can't use the airfields over night).  Every day there are several older 747 air freighters landing at DFW and I can tell those airplanes because they are much louder than newer planes.  They do petition to land some of the older louder airplanes. 

We bought in 1986 and knew full well we were under the DFW flight path.  But also knew we were far enough north that the planes would, for the most part, still be several thousands of feet above us.

Race Tracks  I spent time in the late 1970's at Green Valley Raceway/drag strip.  That was where Ken Miles was famously photographed jumping one of the first GT350's.   That track closed in the mid-1980's. It's now houses.  But there is also a walking path there.  And there are now informational signs about the track.  There is still a section of the starting grid left and there are two barriers still left  The barriers were over a small creek that was along the starting grid and not down the strip.

It's important to research land and what is within 5 miles of you.  Our little village was 5000 people when we bought in the older part of it.  They were building a huge new housing area to our west, and around the lake.  The place is now 15000.  There is a Kansas City & Southern rail line, been here since WWII if not before.  There is the landing patterns.  The state built a new 4 lane road, up through some of all that new housing.  Those people were petitioning to stop the trains!  To stop the highway (gee....it was platted in the early 1970's, you built in the late 1990's).  petitioning to Stop (OH!  THE HORROR!) a Walmart (where they shop now). 
But change is constant also.  Maybe it's great now.  And maybe in 5 or 25 years......

Anyone see the new story about some $5 million mansion in Beverly Hills CA?  Doctor owned it, he fled the country.  Not real clear who owns it now but there is all sorts of partying and noise and goings on. 

Quote from: TA Coupe on January 06, 2024, 05:32:23 PM
I wonder if Carol Shelby had anything to do with that as I see a guy wearing a CS tshirt in the background?

       Roy   

Could it be Dave MacDonald? 

Quote from: 68krrrr on January 03, 2024, 08:11:25 PM
The old Mustang II cobra  takes a lot of heat, but at the end of the day it's part of family

Yes.  While there were "Cheapness" qualities about the car, it was the right car for the time.  Massive shift in the auto industry for polution control coupled with a few oil embargo's and greatly increased fuel/oil costs.  When the II was new, Boss cars, Shelby's, 426 Hemi's were going for pennies because people couldn't afford to operate them.  The II was a great car seller at the time also.  It kept the Mustang name going and we are thankful that the Mustang name continues.  Most of it's rivals can't claim that. 

^^^ And it included a sun-screen dispensing device!  Good sales people would include a years supply of sunscreen.