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Hey I have a couple of those just laying around! To bad I ditched the 931s
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El postino just drop off this!
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Eric no cars...yet "Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports... all others are games." -Ernest Hemingway "ALL OBJECTS IN MIRROR ARE LOSING." |
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Noticed your signature. In Hemmingway's day, "auto racing" was a bit lacking in safety gear...
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Peter (not "Pete") K. 2016 Cayman S 1999 Miata ("SM") race car 2016 Toyota Highlander--tow vehicle/wife's DD 2017 VW GTI SE (DD) Gone and missed: 1992 Miata ("SSM") race car 2009 911 C2S Coupe 2004 Toyota Prius - sold to son's girlfriend 2006 Dodge Durango 2003 Acura MDX 86 Black 911 Coupe race car 86 Gold 911 Targa 82 WineRedMetallic 911 Targa |
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well I'm pretty sure it's still possible to die doing it. I think an Indy car driver helped prove that last week.
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Yeah, and Hillary wasn't using the same level of gear thats avail even at the local climbing gym. So whats your point?
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That perhaps the reason Hemingway considered it a sport was because of how dangerous it was then. But you knew that, didn't you Stephen
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Peter (not "Pete") K. 2016 Cayman S 1999 Miata ("SM") race car 2016 Toyota Highlander--tow vehicle/wife's DD 2017 VW GTI SE (DD) Gone and missed: 1992 Miata ("SSM") race car 2009 911 C2S Coupe 2004 Toyota Prius - sold to son's girlfriend 2006 Dodge Durango 2003 Acura MDX 86 Black 911 Coupe race car 86 Gold 911 Targa 82 WineRedMetallic 911 Targa |
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Perhaps the main point here is that in Hemmingway's day you had to be prepared to take great risk to do many things. Money or position was no help when driving a race car [or climbing Everest, or....]
Today, any schmuck can buy their way into almost anything. Pay $40K and an experienced guide and sherpas will drag your sorry arse as far up Everest as you can go before your body gives up or you summit. People have died on the mountain because of the human traffic jams caused by slow and unprepared 'climbers' at the choke points above C5. Pay even more and you can be a race driver. Hemmingway would not have wanted to live in this time.
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Tony K PCA Potomac, Rennlist Member 89 944 Turbo 85 Carrera - Sold TrackVision 944Cup Last edited by APKhaos; 10-26-2011 at 10:25 AM. |