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I like a lot of the Alpha's though... Either would be a dream that'll never happen...
This is a shot from a very similar viewpoint but much wider field of view...
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I'm on the quadrapuke bandwagon. They were a great balance of power and economy until they weren't.
They had a nasty habit of wearing out the shaft bushings and causing vacuum leaks. Hence the puke part.
Their biggest fail was the Thermoquad emissions compliant boat anchor.
I'm on the quadrapuke bandwagon. They were a great balance of power and economy until they weren't.
They had a nasty habit of wearing out the shaft bushings and causing vacuum leaks. Hence the puke part.
Their biggest fail was the Thermoquad emissions compliant boat anchor.
That's what they were called by the group of friends I associated with in high school. Was waiting to see if anyone else was going to use that name...
Yeah, I guess I should've stuck with what I initially thought. Seeing pics of pre-'58s with what must have been bed-swaps kinda lead me astray. That's what I get for looking at pictures, instead of reading. Very misleading. Kinda like looking through a Playboy.
At least @ColoJeep had it right. 
Very misleading. Kinda like looking through a Playboy.
No idea what you're on about, I always bought it for the articles...
As far as I'm aware, the only racing circuit in the world to sport powder blue armco barriers, very distinctive. Up there on the list of my favorite circuits and one I've actually visited, though never for a race (but did witness a blue formula car testing there in the late '70s...Tyrrell?).
The shot shows the uphill "Esses" complex, the tower in the foreground is the location of the original start/finish line with the original pit exit just to the right of the tower. The quantity of barrier in this area as noted by @BlueC, particularly beyond the crest of the hill, is there as a direct result of incident (as is true with most racing venues).
During run-ups to the 1973 F1 USGP, driver Francois Cevert clipped the inside curb of the left hander, which shot his car across track into the right barrier. The car spun violently back to the left, striking perpendicular to and splitting the left barrier, then inverted and rode the top of the rail, effectively bisecting Cevert in the cockpit.
Cevert's teammate was Jackie Stewart. He, as well as the team, withdrew from the event out of respect for Cevert. The race would have been Stewart's 100th and final in F1, having already clinched his 3rd F1 driver's championship a few races earlier in the season and made the decision to retire from racing (though hadn't told anyone). Cevert would have assumed #1 driver duties for the team the following season and had pretty good odds of winning a driver's title at some point in the future.
I have found that sometimes "double humps" give me trouble.
I think they make pills for that.
All the people on drugs in society legitimately scares me. I'll guess there is a pill for that too, but I ain't taking it.
I agree with most of this , The Q-jets did wear out the shaft bushings on carbs 20+ years old . I never had a vacuum leak issue that caused me problems.
Rochester built the Quadrajets used by GM ,and Ford used them on some Cobra jet FE engines.
MoPar used the Thermoquad built by Carter , it had issues. Carter was also contracted to built Q-jets for Rochester when they couldn't build them fast enough.
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