Thunderbird Club

[Chucky Stiletti]

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Teague was an industrial design genius imho…

 

[GonePlaid]

I love The Fixx, great '80s band, they had a couple of really good bassist' the work on "One thing leads to another" is stellar. We recently discussed playing that song so I looked up a YT bass tutorial where the fellow was playing a Wal and really copping it well, needless to say probably above my abilities! '80s was actually a great decade of music, easily my fave, so many cool bands and different styles and influences.

This guy here,

99 outta 100 people are never gonna notice you not playing all the fill riffs. They're gonna be listening to 'the song'. I've heard that song a ship(sp?) load of times and I never noticed all the fancy [stuff].

 

[BklynKen]

Makes perfect sense. A friend from long ago flunked his driving test 3X. Went into The Marines. They made him a driver.

Actually, math and linguistics aren't that dissimilar.

 

[GonePlaid]

Well, here we are......This is actually from a different source than the clip I was talking about earlier, we doinked the pauses - you can see me laughing about it.

Violent Femmes on a Lull.

Well. Now I know the name of that song. Good job.

 

[GonePlaid]

Inertia is just another name for laziness, which, as previously discussed, pays off immediately, unlike hard work and perseverance.

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

was tooling back to Hol from Monterey on Sun on 1 in the AMX, 390 roaring at 2700 (orgasmic) when I saw one of these sneaking up in the rear view mirror….

I gunned it hard when he got next to me (one lane over) and gave him a good run until I ran out of top end (4 vs 5 spd manual) and as he's about to pass me, he pulls into the adjacent lane, looked at me and saluted before tearing away…..just one of those really cool moments……when Rosa asked, "why didn't you chase him?" I explained we did really good up against a 4 million dollar car…..

 

[GonePlaid]

was tooling back to Hol from Monterey on Sun on 101 in the AMX, 390 roaring at 2700 (orgasmic) when I saw one of these sneaking up in the rear view mirror….View attachment 5455337
I gunned it hard when he got next to me (one lane over) and gave him a good run until I ran out of top end (4 vs 5 spd manual) and as he's about to pass me, he pulls into the adjacent lane, looked at me and saluted before tearing away…..just one of those really cool moments……when Rosa asked, "why didn't you chase him?" I explained we did really good up against a 4 million dollar car…..

 

[PhR75]

Always dug this bassline. Slightly subdued, a little dirty, down to business.

The amazing John Gustafson who actually played a T-Bird when he was a member of The Merseybeats for a while in the sixties.
Can't be a bad guy if a bass model is named after him:


Wal JG.

 

[Stealth57]

was tooling back to Hol from Monterey on Sun on 101 in the AMX, 390 roaring at 2700 (orgasmic) when I saw one of these sneaking up in the rear view mirror….View attachment 5455337
I gunned it hard when he got next to me (one lane over) and gave him a good run until I ran out of top end (4 vs 5 spd manual) and as he's about to pass me, he pulls into the adjacent lane, looked at me and saluted before tearing away…..just one of those really cool moments……when Rosa asked, "why didn't you chase him?" I explained we did really good up against a 4 million dollar car…..

Gearing makes a big difference.

 

[SubHuman]

was tooling back to Hol from Monterey on Sun on 101 in the AMX, 390 roaring at 2700 (orgasmic) when I saw one of these sneaking up in the rear view mirror….View attachment 5455337
I gunned it hard when he got next to me (one lane over) and gave him a good run until I ran out of top end (4 vs 5 spd manual) and as he's about to pass me, he pulls into the adjacent lane, looked at me and saluted before tearing away…..just one of those really cool moments……when Rosa asked, "why didn't you chase him?" I explained we did really good up against a 4 million dollar car…..

Crazy cool encounter!

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

Gearing makes a big difference.

yeah, the the scream of that 390 at about 4500 in 4th is a blood curling thing of beauty…….don't do that often…

 

[SubHuman]

yeah, the the scream of that 390 at about 4500 in 4th is a blood curling thing of beauty…….don't do that often…

That '85 Ferrari is an Engineering Car designers dream. Very well designed so you pay $$$$.
EV's are cool too but I love the roar of a real gas engine.
EV's are fast but NOTHING beats a gasoline powered high HP engine packaged in a Classic car!
Plus go where you wanna go…EV's are always looking for charging stations. Ha!
It's coming but the internal combustion is still king for now. And I hope that's true for many years!

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

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That '85 Ferrari is an Engineering Car designers dream. Very well designed so you pay $$$$.
EV's are cool too but I love the roar of a real gas engine.
EV's are fast but NOTHING beats a gasoline powered high HP engine packaged in a Classic car!
Plus go where you wanna go…EV's are always looking for charging stations. Ha!
It's coming but the internal combustion is still king for now. And I hope that's true for many years!

totally agree, even though it looks like a 308 it's a totally different animal….that motor is probably the closest you can get to an F1 motor of the time…..I think 100 years from now we'll be known as yucky primitive people who burned fossil fuels…….it's undeniable EV is the way forward….similar sentiments probably occurred when the motor car replaced the horse after thousands of years… anyway..
THUNDERBIRDS will be like Stradivarius violins by then…

 

[JIO]

Before the 80's theme ends-

Kate Bush - "Mother Stands for Comfort"

With Eberhard Weber killing it with his upright electric-

Big Kate Bush fan

 

[SubHuman]

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totally agree, even though it looks like a 308 it's a totally different animal….that motor is probably the closest you can get to an F1 motor of the time…..I think 100 years from now we'll be known as yucky primitive people who burned fossil fuels…….it's undeniable EV is the way forward….similar sentiments probably occurred when the motor car replaced the horse after thousands of years… anyway..
THUNDERBIRDS will be like Stradivarius violins by then…

THUNDERBIRDS will be like Stradivarius violins by then…
Us TBird lovers will carry the torch!

 

[RedVee]

Yes, one of my faves and I dig Björk's version also! My current fave that we play w/BG is Skyfall - big theatrical drama.

Yep, I like Skyfall… and Live n Let Die.

Is it coincidence that they are the only JB 007 movies I've seen in a cinema when newly released?

 

[RedVee]

I saw one of these this afternoon.

S1 RX7 Convertible.

Evidently, a mob in Melbourne did a batch of 8 cars for some promotion or other. Looks well thought out, they used a Mazda 626 boot lid.

 

[JIO]

was tooling back to Hol from Monterey on Sun on 1 in the AMX, 390 roaring at 2700 (orgasmic) when I saw one of these sneaking up in the rear view mirror….View attachment 5455337
I gunned it hard when he got next to me (one lane over) and gave him a good run until I ran out of top end (4 vs 5 spd manual) and as he's about to pass me, he pulls into the adjacent lane, looked at me and saluted before tearing away…..just one of those really cool moments……when Rosa asked, "why didn't you chase him?" I explained we did really good up against a 4 million dollar car…..

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

I saw one of these this afternoon.
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S1 RX7 Convertible.

Evidently, a mob in Melbourne did a batch of 8 cars for some promotion or other. Looks well thought out, they used a Mazda 626 boot lid.

factory? first one I've ever seen…

 

[RedVee]

factory? first one I've ever seen…

Factory arranged I think.