[Rensek]

…. But the girls were at X, Y, and Z ….

Aint that the truth....

 

[Mr Rick]

Got my first license driving my Fathers car. Just like this one

 

[Mr Rick]

Here is my first car. Not the greatest in Illinois winters

 

[Headcase88]

One more reason to listen to well mastered CDs.

For classical music streaming I recommend BBC Radio3. Very good sound quality.

My favourite classical station - All Classical Portland. The SQ, and the wide selection of music they play, is very good IMO.

 

[adias]

My favourite classical station - All Classical Portland. The SQ, and the wide selection of music they play, is very good IMO.

Sounds interesting thanks, but limited to Airplay on iOS and compressed stream. It’s a 256k bit stream.

 

[adias]

For BBC Radio 3 download the BBC Sounds app. It supports Chromecast if your streaming device supports that.

 

[adias]

LINKI want to match actual tube color lol.

Question for our resident cable craftsman expert @Paladin79 :

What speaker wire would you use to make a short 6ft speaker cable?

These pre-made WBC units any good? LINK.

 

[Mike Foley]

I didn't realise that the Ford Crapi (not a typo) came over here. It was quite the muscle car in the UK in 3 litre V6 form.

I got overtaken by a beautifully restored pair of Capris on the M6 last week. What was once a familiar sight is now a novelty. See also the Austin Mini. I’m getting old…

 

[W3WEB]

My favorite of all the cars I've owned was an '83 280ZX. Wasn't all that fast (the '78 280Z I had before it was faster), but man what a road car. Many a trip between Raleigh, NC and central Missouri, 16 hours that I'd usually do in one shot and not even be tired when I got there. And, oh yeah, the chicks dug it.

My mom had one of these, fire engine red. It was super comfortable and had all the bells and whistles. In particular an excellent stereo system where she could play Neil Diamond, Elvis, and Barbra Streisand. Loud.

Even more funny was it's audio warning system - open a door with the car in D; "Right Door is open"; turn car off with the headlights on "Lights are on" -- All done before computer speech synthesis -- this was some type of tape system so the voice sounded real. My mom would talk back to the car when it said something.

It was a nice upgrade from her Pinto station wagon that was also, fire engine red. The Z could go up hills without a running start so there's that.

 

[rkw]

Sounds interesting thanks, but limited to Airplay on iOS and compressed stream. It’s a 256k bit stream.

For BBC Radio 3 download the BBC Sounds app. It supports Chromecast if your streaming device supports that.

But BBC Sounds isn't significantly higher. It tops out at 320 kbps.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/help/questions/about-bbc-sounds-and-our-policies/codecs-bitrates
On a related note, BBC believes AAC 320 kbps to be perceptually equivalent to lossless.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/publications/whitepaper_384

 

[Timster]

Got my first license driving my Fathers car. Just like this one

The drag on that must have been terrible, and noisy, and windy. Unless you were reversing.

 

[Timster]

My first was a Toyota 1973 Celica LT. 1600cc, 4 Cyl, 5 Speed. Updated it with a weber 2 barrel carby, a Clarion Casette/Tuner, 100W amp through 4 x Pioneer 6" 3 Ways.
My mother said she could hear me coming from the next town. Like this one...

Would love to get another one, that had already been restored and had the 2000cc GT engine. Maybe one day.

 

[Derrick Swart]

I had a Vega when I went to college. The only car where efficiency was measured by the quart rather than the gallon -- around 25 MPG of gas and around 200 miles per quart of oil.

Happened on a well-used '72 Mercury Capri for a nice price. V-6, 4 barrel carb, and true dual exhaust from the factory. Not huge horsepower, but light as a feather and it scooted along pretty nicely. Drove that car for almost 6 years and it had over 150k miles on it when I traded it. That was almost unheard of for cars back then without major work.

Ford Capri as I know it, nice!!

 

[HWB3]

A long time ago I told my wife that I wanted a 240Z. She bought me a small model that I could keep on my dresser.

 

[Mr Rick]

My first was a Toyota 1973 Celica LT. 1600cc, 4 Cyl, 5 Speed. Updated it with a weber 2 barrel carby, a Clarion Casette/Tuner, 100W amp through 4 x Pioneer 6" 3 Ways.
My mother said she could hear me coming from the next town. Like this one...



Would love to get another one, that had already been restored and had the 2000cc GT engine. Maybe one day.

Have you been watching Sarah-n-Tuned working on her 1974 V8 swap?