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[67 Mopar]

67 Mopar, I don't recognize Your Axe but i love what shape i can see...trem looks sorta like Bigsby but i don't recognize the logo...Then Play On

Thanks
That one is a Italia Modena.... cool guitar, even the neck is pearl.
Heavy suck'a though... maybe not LP heavy, but with Glass/Mahogany construction it's right up there.
(3) Wilkinson Mini Humbuckers, a 5-Way selector switch, roller bridge with Wilkinson Vibrato.

 

[67 Mopar]

Patriotic

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[Bladecutter]

67 Mopar....That is Gorgeous. The black squire has Seymour cool/cool/hot rail mini humbucks back in 98.....The Samick Paul knock i stuck a D'Armond Gold tone in neck. I've never even heard of Wilkinson(lot i don't know). Are they Pole PU's or Rails? I see the same logo on back of tuning machines, tho they look similar to Grovers......Italia uses under license or are those their own design?

Samick is heavy, but lighter than LP....the Strat is a toothpick.....i Love it in spite of it's inconsistencies, will go just as fast as the operator can muster...just strangleable....Korean(probably Samick) 87 SQ ll, but the headstock is it's own size..between American & CBS, and THE shallowest strat neck i've seen to date....the fingerboard is FLAT, no crown...clean bars are difficult @ times, but just shredds into ribbons. Have a nice 4th...place looks Sparkling Clean...jim


Looking at Your tuners again, , the bodies look like Schallers, but the butterfly knobs look Grover,....so i'm guessing their own hardware.

 

[Pops1967GTX]

 

[67 Mopar]

Potters Place

 

[Bladecutter]

silodrome.com/california-1000-air-race/

If link won't hilite just punch it inthe clay Lacy entry which took sixth....a Le Mans style line up on two parallel runways, all fired at same time, releasing in pairs...DC-7 couldn't be in line up though because he would have blown some of competition OFF RUNWAY, so the ungainly entrant also started with a bad handicap. Lacy AVERAGED 325 mph and the winning F8F Grumman Bearcat Averaged 344mph....pretty stunning and totally off the hook....never say never. They prepped a 1049 Super Connie to "friendly" compete for 71, but sanctioners banned the big birds from ever running again...kinda like Bill France banning Aero Cars from nascar....no balls, no heart. Now if a Guy can take an airliner & give challenge to unlimited warbirds.....then i can take thisView attachment 264252and Drift/Autocross it.....stay tuned, because next year the pipe dream will become a reality.

Some interesting factoid...right now, the low altitude unlimited speed record holder is a F-51 named VooDoo flown by Hinton of Chino's Planes of Fame,,His Son actually.....the record is 472mphnow in 1934 for the Schneider Trohy low altitude amphibian races, this italian Macchi Mc.72 w/ counter rotating two blades did 444mph!!now....take the MAJOR DRAG of those pontoons off and...You figure it out....life can be surprising, so before You laugh Your *** off at me because i want to counterlock an RV.....refer to the above.
And i mantain my opinion that a P-51 on ground looks better with inner gear doors open, such as VooDoo above
Airgrabber is absolutely correct about hydraulic bleed down...i have seen. birds with mods that keep system under pressure...something similar to Accusumps...a device made for Vee Wee's back in 70's, to pressurize oil galleys prior to start up.

Typo on the Lacy rundown above...winner was not an F8F, but a Hawker Sea Fury...i always get them mixed up because they are similiar in size & look....couple of Baddass Sea Fury's out @ CNO (Chino) notoriously loud on low hi speed passes....The Grumman is Pratt R-2800 and the Hawker is A Bristol . DC-7's & Connies were the CW 3350's.......not many people realized that the DC-7C & last variant of Connies. the 1649 Starliner, were both over 400 mph airliners at altitude.....the Howard 500 also uses the same variant R-2800 as Douglas DC-7 (pretty sure DC-6 as well) & Convair 280's. @ stage blowers...the Howard was built to cruise @ 41,000, tho grumman played the feds into restricting it to 25K w/ Pax & 35K for cargo, just pencil pushing horseshit...my point is a recip that breathes in turbine territory. Any way, winner of 1970 California 1000 @ Mojave was a Hawker Sea Fury @ 344 avg speed. Still think the Macchi with conventional fixed gear would match VooDoo's 472mph record.. The Macchi did 440 in 34....32 mph isn't much difference to 81 years of tech advance...know what i mean Vern?

 

[Dennis H]

Las Vegas Airport. No lack of disposable income here.

 

[71airgrabberRR]

And i mantain my opinion that a P-51 on ground looks better with inner gear doors open, suchas VooDoo above.

Hey BC,

The inner doors on a Mustang are normally up just after it lands. As the hydraulic system bleeds down after engine shut off, gravity does it's magic. That's why sometimes you will find them still up if the picture was taken shortly after the engine was killed.

 

[Bladecutter]

Yep, that's cuz the Man upstairs decided that the airplane looked better like that, so he put the bleed on, and said "Live With It" LoL. How You doin AirGrabber? Happy Independence Man......after watching Lacy fly that behemoth on the deck.....i want to see a Howard 500 Dice it with the Unlimiteds....that would be a hell of a contest....off the hook....Peace

 

[71airgrabberRR]

Here's one for ya. Part of our "security system"

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Except of course this makes it look like she's laying down on the job.......

Gotta love phones.

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[67 Mopar]

Typical NH stream...

 

[PP1RT]

Mama I'm hungry!!

 

[Budnicks]

Bladecutter I love the ol' Drag Boat stuff,
my next door neighbors owned, tuned & ran Driver Al Bush "Crazy Horse" #535 BFFB
world record holder still, class was eliminated too many deaths,
I once asked Al how many of Pete & Marlene's
Hondo, Keith Black, Joe Piasono's Venolia, Childs & Alberts sponsored Blow Fuel Flat Bottom
boats he flipped or sunk racing,
he said "all of them at one point"
Phoenix/Chandler, Red Bluff, Collinga,
Oakland Estuary, Shasta,
Hog Back, Camp Far West,
Marbel Falls, Tulsa, on & on

Smoke on the Water

Hillbilly

Nightmare

Mystical

Morgan's Flying Machine

Fast Eddie/Texan Eddie Hill

among so many others I don't remember names of
I'm having a Brain Fart...LOL

 

[67 Mopar]

Farg'n Turkey...

 

[Bladecutter]

Budnick....nice old Paraphenalia!! I remember talking about Crazy Horse with You before.....Yep , every one slammed would be accurate....i hauled the Black Rush'n (in last form w/ Brendella Hull, but still the cast Landy Motor, which beat the newer alloy motor in a grudge[ Rush'n began as Sanger, the the Hondo which is the unbroken record, then Brendella] but always the cast Landy motor) around to races in 75 i saw Al go thru three hulls one day......one day they showed up w/boat in just gel coat and the bow wrapped in duct tape, probably about 5 rolls, the cap glue wasn't dry yet, they had just barely gotten it installed, to make the race....1st heat, , not enough down plate, got up on the transom, danced, and then laid over to the right, came down with enough force to shatter the bow....the 70's run what ya brung, even duct tape. Too bad they don't run true 1/4 any more, & the open boats were hairier & more exciting IMO, but seeing those jack rabbitt dead starts with the counter rotater BFH s is a jaw dropper, wild the way they leap out of the water. I lost all the photos(hopefully a Friend has some in storage)in 91 i painted a BAH (open Curtiss 601) that went to IHBA world finals that Year @ Firebird Name was Blue Bayou, lavender & sky blue panels, pinned w/ process & royal blues, no sponsorship emblazonment, many compliments from a lot of the 225 boat teams that were there......Mc D' was running 8 sec bracket...busted it every time...but the race was a gas and the Bikinis...Gawd. There was a Friend with us who was on antabuse....nobody thought...standing in pits during a run up, listening to motor....15 min later, was taking Friend to ER for an antabuse reaction....stay away from alky burners if You're doing antabuse...crazy, take poison to try to not drink poison...that's a head scratcher. Speaking of which...July 14 is my 24th anniversary of sobriety...i smoke the dog out of weed, but everything else has been off my plate for long time now. Great Stuff Bud, Thanks for sharing Man....Happy Independence...even though obeyme just signed away our sovereignty, aye yiyi

 

[Budnicks]

I vaguely remember Blue Bayou,
I was pretty young & it was way back in the 70's too,
my memory isn't what it use to be either...

I do love them old days of IHBA & drag racing in general all over the west coast...

this old video looks like the 70's, maybe early 80's

Tim Morgan's "Flying Machine" from Walnut Creek & Texan, Eddie Hill "the trill"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsERnugT1hs

here's another newer version Hot Rod Unlimited Episode #22
IHBA world finals Firebird albeit just sportsman Brackets
pretty much everyone will recognize the crew chief guy, from Roadkill fame...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knUneRfvY_o

Chowchilla & Red Bluff Ca. were always my favorites
then Firebird/Chandler-Phoenix

 

[YY1]

I used to live 10 min from the "Hydrobowl" in Dayton, OH.

Long, skinny lake that sanctioned high power outboard races were held on.

Could hear the engines for 20+ miles.

Goooood partyin' around that lake too, despite alcohol ban and regular enforcement.

 

[Richard Cranium]

Chrysler Proving Grounds.....

 

[Bladecutter]

Nice post Budnicks.....There was a boat in the seventies, a flatty i think called "Blew By You" The BAH i painted Blue Bayou i don't think came to be until in to the eighties. Only boat i,ve ever painted and i wasn't up to speed on boat tech & physics,,,, & honestly, i've only done a mere handful of graphic layout jobs...this boat i werked offthe previous color scheme, but rearrange panels to balance better with boat lines...strange colors but correctly female to express the "Blue Bayou" feel..easy association...most everybody thinks of Linda Ronstadt when they hear the name...anyway..i was using a compass to lay out lines and kept coming up different side to side, finally grabbed tape measure and discovered pilot right side of boat was an inch & a half longer. the right sponson was wider than right..and more chord or depth....kicked the compass to the curb and spent the next two days with rolls of fine line & cases of beer, just eyeballing differnt pattern until i gelled out a really pleasing layout...last of my drinking days. So i learned that a lot of boats are built crooked, larger starboard to compensate against torque roll...at least the Curtiss 601 is.

YY1.....the Vee Your's?, lessee a big pic...You ever come west Brau'...gotta peel off some licks with each other....i remember when You posted to me when i threw my gear into a thread, told You i had just re configured and got my ART to hump the Behringer digi......usually when i make a change, add a piec of gear, i'm usually already staring to get stale on it within weeks....i still have a big grin on my face...i don't even have a grand in my stuff...not like i'm spending Diesel, Soldano dough....but i got good assed durty tone now and extremely phatt...Robin Trower phatt & most of the reviews say that external gain doesn't work w ith digi....well i got the odd out on that..cuz it still sounds to me like a 58 Bassman on steroids about ready to light up.....frying bacon....no thin strat/tele menue here...and my neck SD cool rail in squire ll is the BOMB...Holy deep hollow tone Batman...yeah Bro post up some of Your wares, if You've go any recording video, i'd like to hear...i got a thread on here with a vid on utube...just garage


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Hey RC....You up in a 737?

 

[67 Mopar]

Love that aerial shot! That would make such a cool playground