Wednesday, October 6, 2021

I'm Like This Guy

Except I don't have the money.  If anyone knows where I can get one in working order for say 30k, please advise.  Valerie Bertinelli bought one of these for Eddie Van Halen when they were married.  I wonder if she is available... hmmmm.

I fell in love with the car as soon as I read the 1969 Road and Track road test on it.   Here's a short 6:54 vid.




Jay Leno has a couple of them and talks and drives them in more detail in his "Jay Leno's Garage" videos.  He owns everything from steam cars to supercars like the Mclaren F1 and P4, and motorcycles as well - from the earliest to the latest.

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  1. What colors do you prefer? You can choose two and I'll have them delivered to the Kid Kave in the morning, around 10 AM. Someone will have to sign for them, though and I'll have to know about the colors in five minutes from now in order to get those babies on the road. See? This is the stuff that friends do for their friends.

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    1. I would prefer the Red and the Orange please Mustang. To judge the 5 minute interval, be aware that I live in the Ort Cloud so any posting time is within the 5 minute limit.

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  2. I love beautiful cars and LOVE the older styles but have to admit that Lamborghini is INCREDIBLY beautiful and the SOUND of the motor as it accelerates, etc? WOWZA! THanks, Kid, GORGEOUS!

    I'd take Mustang up on it...he's not usually quite so generous :-) Orange and red...ABSOLUTELY! xxx

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    1. Thanks Z. I took a vacation day tomorrow on Mustang's guarantee of bring the two Miura's by. Don't let me down Man !

      I love this as much as the XKE. Not sure which is sexier and at the moment I think they're equal. Definitely the top two going back for forward as far as you want. Yes, there is Nothing that sounds like this. You can see the smile on the engine's face when you press the gas pedal. :)

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  3. Wow. The lines are reminiscent of the Studebaker Avanti!

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    1. ED, a couple 22 year old guys designed this thing.

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  4. I would look so darn good in that car. It's the touch that would make the car perfect...

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    1. My exact thought when I watched this particular vid Adrienne. This car begs for you to own and drive it. It is incomplete without you.

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    2. I forgot to ask Adrienne. Are you driving or in the passenger seat? :)

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  5. Hey Bunk, those are great cars, even today - very popular. My uncle had one back in the 60's and he had the three 2 barrels on it. I was hoping he might will it to me, but no go :)

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  6. If anyone would like a bit more of a tour of the Miura, Here ya go on Jay Leno's Miura P400S

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    1. Jay talks about the front end getting light. It will get a little light if you're low on fuel since the tank is in front. Here's an excerpt from the 1969 R&T road test from the drivers "We were at 120 mph on a 2 lane California highway and a Porche came up behind and blinked its lights to pass. I down shifted Two Gears and accelerated. WIthin a few seconds, the Porsche was just a dot in the rear view mirror. It easily achieved its stop speed of 172 mph and was remarkably stable at that speed."

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  7. Black Lives Matter and Antifa have done considerably more violence and damage than anyone on the far-right fid on that So Called Terrible Day January 6th, or any white supremacy groups in recent years. That's a fact - so let's put this in its proper perspective!

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  8. Personally, I don't give a rats ass about what these Liberals, say or think. I think that they are born with a mental disorder. Especially their view on Illegal Immigration.
    Some of these big Cities in America like Detroit, Chicago, and New York, are nothing less than a SANCTUARY’S for the HIP HOPPER’S, DOPERS, MURDERER’S, and they are mostly either Illegal immigrants, or members of another minority tribe ..I have lived and worked the majority of my life here in Manhattan, New York, and I’ve seen this one-time wonderful city go from a great place to live in to a cesspool of crime and destruction. ..
    Many cities do not allow police officers to arrest illegal’s any longer especially if they are people “of Color”. This has happened ever since the so called Unarmed People of Color being Killed by Police! (As they call it). Like the shootings of Michael Brown in, Ferguson, and the Gentle Giant Eric Garner in New York.
    Our Mayor in New York, Bill De Blasio is a patsy for minorities, he has been in a war with the Police since the first week that he came into office. Instead of being tough on crime, he told the police that THEYmust change their ways!
    As for our Unemployment rate that Former President brought to ALL TIME RECORDS is now in the Toilet since Joey Bidumb took offer. In fact this past weeks numbers
    as no one should be surprised are further down the tubes than when Biden launched his campaign to Un-Constitutionally force Americans to be vaccinated, resulting in his putting Ten’s of Thousands of Americans out of work. However, I’m sure that the
    Lying Democrats will come up with some convoluted excuse for why the Biden economy sucks ass compared to the GREAT Trump economy.
    The Senile, Delusional Marxist Un-Constitutionally mandates are working because companies and organizations are firing thousands of Americans for refusing to comply with Biden's edict, for exercising their Constitutional freedoms, because medical institutions are refusing to treat / refusing to give these people organ transplants, because Americans are being extorted and forced into compliance.

    Now lets talk a bit about how BiDumb has Screwed Up Race relations.
    If the truth be known the Police kill more whites than blacks, but minority deaths generate more outrage, and protest from the Black community led by the race baiters like Al Sharpton, and the Loons in the House and of course the Drunken Speaker herself. .
    But the lying left doesn’t seem to have any problem with Bidumb and his government demonizing and name-calling unvaccinated Americans, calling them murderers and threats to America and calling concerned parents “ DOMESTIC TERRORISTS” if they disagree with or disapprove of the Left’s Marxist, Liberal Ideology and Agenda. The Majority of Americans have a serious problem with that, as shown by BiDumb’s 38 percent disapproval rating that just recently droped again.
    Our previous Muslim President Barack Hussain Obammy goals is to flood our system with illegals from Mexico and Arab countries like Syrian’s who where flown and released here by the thousands to drain our off our benefits to those who have done nothing but drain our resources..

    It pisses me off to no end when our own President, and his idiots in government, refer to illegal aliens as Immigrants, or simply called Undocumented aliens, and Undocumented immigrants. Describing an illegal immigrant as illegal is legally accurate! So why bother changing the correct term?

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  9. Well guys, the people who get it, got it long ago. Those who haven't got it by now never will, outside of an insignificant number of young people who aren't going to make a difference.

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  10. We have an old Delusional, fool in charge of our Country at a very dangerous time. Because you idiotic Progressives called the Orange man bad.
    Well Potato head IS MUCH WORSE! The Senile INEPT president, the WORST President in American history has a 38% approval rating. And the people are chanting "F*CK Joe Biden" at sporting events now because...why?
    Because we ALL KNOW THAT WE HAVE A LUNATIC RUNNING THE COUNTRY!

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  11. PS…… Kamala Harris will never become President

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  12. On last nights news, they had the story of a father who wanted to tell the “School Board” the story about his daughter who was raped in a school bathroom by a transgender sBoy who was dressed in a skirt and who attacked, and raped his daughter in the Girl’s bathroom and HE was prevented from speaking to school board officials at a public meeting and then thrown to the floor, and thrown out of the room by at least 4-5 Police officers .These are the Domestic Terrorist that President Xiden has sent his storm troopers out to oppress!. Is this the sort of "Terrorist Parents” Biden wants to set the FBI on? The victim becomes the criminal in Biden's dysfunctional America. This is where we are in Joe Biden Land. It is TOTALLY Sad, to see that has become of this Country in such a short period of time. Because of the ILLEGITIMATE, MORONIC President that was INSTALLED by the Democrat Socialist Party.

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    1. Well Ms Chick, it's not so much Chief poopypants, it is the Democrats and they started this shit a long time ago.

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  13. I have two comments and two only.

    YES.

    YES.

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    1. Thanks LSP. Next post too I think. It's coagulating..

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