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RE: Non-hypothetical question, 1098 vs. 1275 - now 'sounds'

To: <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Subject: RE: Non-hypothetical question, 1098 vs. 1275 - now 'sounds'
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:00:39 -0500
Well, at least you still have a memory.

I just don't want to be the one running behind with the microphone . . . 

RD

> From: "Bud Osbourne" <abcoz@hky.com>
> Date: 2005/12/20 Tue PM 01:48:15 EST
> To: "Robert Duquette" <robertduquette@sympatico.ca>, 
>       <spridgets@autox.team.net>
> Subject: RE: RE: Re[2]: Non-hypothetical question, 1098 vs. 1275
> 
> More importantly, who's gonna RECORD 'em?  And, while they're at it, I've
> got a list of other mechanical sounds (music, to MY ears), that I'd like to
> have recorded, before it's too late.
> The list is:
> 1.) Porsche 917K
> 2.) Ferrari 512S
> 3.) Any big block Chevy, PROVIDED it is installed in a McLaren, or Lola
> CanAm chassis
> 4.) Early Cosworth-Ford DFV
> 5.) Matra V-12
> 6.) Lockheed P-38, including start-up, warm-up, and take off.
> 7.) Any Lockheed Constellation, same sequence as above
> 8.) Pair of EMD model 16-645E7(turbo-charged & after-cooled), as installed
> in a Dravo-built towboat, shoving a very heavy tow against a very swift
> current.....OH YEAH!!!! (similar to an early{pre-noise reduction} Boeing
> 707, but with heavy rumbling/thundering....very difficult to describe, but
> the most powerful, soulful, mechanical sound I've ever heard)
> 
> With the exception of item #6, I've heard all of them (lived with/aboard
> item #8, for weeks on end), but they're starting to fade from my memory.
> Bud Osbourne
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-spridgets@autox.team.net
> [mailto:owner-spridgets@autox.team.net]On Behalf Of Robert Duquette
> Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2005 12:20 PM
> To: spridgets@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: RE: Re[2]: Non-hypothetical question, 1098 vs. 1275
> 
> 
> So, who's going to set up a website with the various 'sounds' for
> comparison? :)
> 
> 
> > From: "Robert E. Shlafer" <pilotrob@webtv.net>
> > So you really like the sound of the rear MGB box on the Spridget, eh?
> Really nice
> > to know. Glad we had this conversation!! :)
> >
> > Cap'n Bob




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