Your Golden Epoch?

The Studebaker prototype was Porsche Type 542.

The Type 547 is the four cam in the 550 et alia.

Rob

Quite right, Rob. Thanks for the correction. Eyesight prob again. Apologies.

Who would have thought it possible to build an even slower than normal beetle.😄

Trisha said:

The destruction of the Hindenburg in 1937 left a legacy of concern about the safety of hydrogen.

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And here we are seriously considering it as fuel for heavy trucks etc. Can you imagine the result of a multi-truck pile up on a motorway in the future?

I DO hope someone's actually thought about that.............

You don’t really think that the green brigade actually gives any thought to the ridiculous ideas they dream up do you.they still think the electric car revolution will be powered by pixie dust.instead of nuclear which to supply just our current needs as they stand today.is our only real option. let alone what will be required come 2035 when everyone will have to go electric or walk ,just you wait and see it’ll be like the lampoon Christmas vacation.everyone will get home from work plug in there cars and you’re lights will go out you see if I’m wrong,oh you won’t be able to your lights will be off cause next door has plugged in again 🤪

Kit Spackman said:

And here we are seriously considering it as fuel for heavy trucks etc. Can you imagine the result of a multi-truck pile up on a motorway in the future?

I DO hope someone's actually thought about that.............

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Hydrogen is likely be less dangerous than a tank full of petrol. The Hindenburg was spectacular but there were a lot of survivors. Hydrogen burns with a low flame temperature and is also so light that when free in air it goes upwards rapidly, as does the heat. There is an eyewitness account of a survivor of the Hindenburg standing amongst the wreckage with fire all around and above, and calmly looking for a way out - which was found - and then walking out to safety.

If the hydrogen is liquified and contained in a pressure vessel though, I am a bit apprehensive. Cold burns a re nasty.

Spill petroleum spirit on the ground and the vapour, the part that ignites stays at ground level as it is heavier than air. As stated above hydrogen is lighter than air so spilt liquid hydrogen will vaporise and raise up away from the spill, but then hydrogen and oxygen can be quite explosive

Nice and easy for the spectators to identify the drivers in those days! Legible names, large numbers, simple but different and unchanging helmets.

If I could turn back the hands of time . . .

I just feel so blessed to have known the times I have known in so many respects, because I hold out little hope of such pleasures from an increasingly sanitised future.

Mark's comment above is one with which I concur. We are, indeed, lucky and privileged to live through this amazing era.

In my lifetime, we've gone from front- to mid-engined cars, treads to slicks, spokes to alloys, alloy bodies to composites, drums to discs, carbs to injection, superchargers to turbos, gear levers to finger-paddles, and a whole lot more besides.

Years ago driver fitness sometimes meant cutting down to ten cigarettes a day. When I was young, tracks were lined with oil drums and straw bales, and the former doubled as a lavatory.

Progress has been made, I suppose, but not in all ways. If we could turn the clock back........?

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Four abreast on the start line? How incredibly dangerous! I'm amazed they all survived the first corner!

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Rover SD1 and Lotus Elan +2. Possibly the Ferrari Daytona too.