The Surfers! A good friend had a model of that car. Funny Cars weren't a big deal yet. Rails ruled.
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Thunderbird Club
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- Jun 30, 2010
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Are those 6" speakers?
The SurfersThe Surfers! A good friend had a model of that car. Funny Cars weren't a big deal yet. Rails ruled.
Sorokin, Skinner, and Jobe. In terms of the mechanical aspects with the fuel system, they were a big deal and years ahead of other teams. They mopped up a bunch of the other racers and basically disappeared
Mike Sorokin died in a car in 69. Jobe just passed not long ago
Such a freak accident. Car torn in half by exploding clutch. But those clutches had to be monsters to handle the power (even though that one didn't), and monsters can do a lot of damage. The Surfers were brilliant; if they could have made a better financial go of it and stayed together, I doubt anything like that would have happened to Mike. Wish I could have known them.
I visit Ovako (the steel plant in Imatra) for business regularly. You can see the former Finnish mill from the melting shop control room too.
Swedish is generally much easier to understand for foreigners, belonging to the germanic languages. My mother tongue is actually Swedish, as for about 5% of the population over here
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Wow! I lived in Ruokolahti until I was about 20 and in a certain weather the factory stank felt for us too. Usually it was the Imatra people who could enjoy it...nowadays I live in Imatra.
Luckily it doesn't stink like it used to.
I've never been inside the factory but have drived and cycled in front of it (the so called "mill road") many many times. A lot of my school buddies ended up gettinga job from there. Me? I took the wise road and chose music...
Good choice
Is that the Orville/Epiphone you mentioned earlier? I had an Orville from 1991, but sold it in favour of my Gibson 1990 TB (my current main player). And as it usually turns out, now I regret selling it…
- Jun 30, 2010
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In just under the wire for Thunderbird Thursday! 
Black and White....in black & white
Black and White....in black & white
Finally in on Thunderbird Thursday…
…a bird in Paradise
…a bird in Paradise
Very cool pic!In just under the wire for Thunderbird Thursday!
Black and White....in black & white
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The film noir of bird pics!Thanks
Ftwelvestring Fthunderbirdpickup Ffriday...
Looks crude but I'll get the wood plates painted/dyed etc.
Soundbites attached. Just jammed with a drumtrack, changing pickup confiqs along tge way. The cab sim is Acoustic 301 which colors it a bit but if one bass doesn't need a clean DI signal it's the 12-string. And it's relatively clean anyway, no added distortion.
Looks crude but I'll get the wood plates painted/dyed etc.
Soundbites attached. Just jammed with a drumtrack, changing pickup confiqs along tge way. The cab sim is Acoustic 301 which colors it a bit but if one bass doesn't need a clean DI signal it's the 12-string. And it's relatively clean anyway, no added distortion.
For some reason, I've always felt Thunderbirds lend themselves well visually to the noir esthetic
This is always my concern whether it's props or turbine jets or any combination therein. I never choose a seat that's inline with the go-unit.
Not if the debris takes off your arm or leg or the smaller bits hit you like a shotgun blast...
I'd prefer the decompression induced nap on my way to nonexistence so perhaps I'd not bother with the oxygen source if things look like we're not making it to a runway.
