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Thunderbird Club

I was wondering why/how this subforum has literaly over 17k pages, but now I get it : 90% of posts don't relate to the subject :) Not planning on reading up from page one :smug:
Bienvenu! Today would be WW, white Wednesday (Mercredi blanc)....
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I was wondering why/how this subforum has literaly over 17k pages, but now I get it : 90% of posts don't relate to the subject :) Not planning on reading up from page one :smug:
It’s kinda like the “Six degrees of Kevin Bacon” game around here. No topic in this forum is more than six degrees of separation from a Thunderbird.
Example - Steak Tartare…
1 - comes from cows
2 - cows eat grass and weeds
3 - The Who band undoubtedly at some point smoked grass and weed
4 - John Entwistle was the bass player in The Who band
5 - at one time Entwistle played a Thunderbird

See how simple that is :laugh:
 
It’s kinda like the “Six degrees of Kevin Bacon” game around here. No topic in this forum is more than six degrees of separation from a Thunderbird.
Example - Steak Tartare…
1 - comes from cows
2 - cows eat grass and weeds
3 - The Who band undoubtedly at some point smoked grass and weed
4 - John Entwistle was the bass player in The Who band
5 - at one time Entwistle played a Thunderbird

See how simple that is :laugh:
Somehow in the Thunderbird Club Universe, that actually makes perfect sense.
 
But, Redding Dragstrip is the oldest continuously operating NHRA drag racing facility in United States. Score one for NorCal :cool:
LOL - that’s like saying College Park Airport (KCGS) in Maryland which is the longest continuously operated airport in the country (opened in 1909 by the Wright Brothers and still operates today) is where flight originated - not Kitty Hawk in 1903.
As a NorCal born native who has lived in both Northern and Southern California I gotta give the Drag Racing nod to SoCal.

Now if you want to credit the Hippie movement to a specific area I’d guess it originated in NorCal. Most likely San Francisco and probably around the Haight-Ashbury area.
 
Back in the day, when Irvine was just a few developments and the University, we could hear the races at OCIR from the dorms. Went to a few of the meets and had a blast. Good times!
Back in GA, there was a guy a block up the street and over a hill who used to work on his dragster on weekends he wasn't racing. You could hear that sucker from a loooong ways off.
 
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