RIP Sir Stirling
RIP Sir Stirling
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Re: RIP Sir Stirling
The last time I saw Sir Stirling he was shirtless in the pits at LeMns, directing an all English, all female driver team in a Cobra. I named my son after him and also after an American presidential candidate who was too young to serve and died in 2018. Those two did manage together to win a race in the wonderful but impossible birdcage Masarati.
I think Moss, as an all time great driver, was second only to Fangio. And his sister was pretty good too.
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I think Moss, as an all time great driver, was second only to Fangio. And his sister was pretty good too.
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For years in Britain, and maybe still, if you were stopped for speeding, the standard police line was: "Who do you think you are, Stirling Moss?"
Legend has it that once the driver said: "Well actually I am." The legend doesn't say whether they let him off.
That's a lovely picture of Hamilton and Moss. Two legends from two eras.
Legend has it that once the driver said: "Well actually I am." The legend doesn't say whether they let him off.
That's a lovely picture of Hamilton and Moss. Two legends from two eras.
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Another childhood hero gone. My dad's Scalextric set came with two Lotus cars but later he bought a #7 Vanwall. It was crap on our track as well, as was the D-Type.
The real thing.
The real thing.
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Moss did lose his license for a year for his driving on a public road in a Mini. Later when he had to re-qualify for his license there were pictures of him with a big L learners permit on his car, on front pages of papers around the world.
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RIP Sir Stirling
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"A rolling Moss gathers no stones." (Sorry.)
"A rolling Moss gathers no stones." (Sorry.)
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AMC had the movie "Grand Prix" on late last night (OK, early this morning), and of course I had to sit up and watch it. Moss was the inspiration for the character Scott Stoddard (played by Brian Bedford).
(Incidentally, Jackie Stewart was the in-car stand-in for Bedford; even though his face is always covered by a balaclava during the on-track scene to disguise the fact that it is NOT actually Bedford in the car, he is easily recognized by his signature white helmet with the Scottish tartan band.)
Have to say I still love — and miss — the classic, clean, streamlined, torpedo-like look of those 1960s F-1 cars, and I think they provided a better test of the driver's ability to handle a car. Nowadays, with all the wings, airfoils, and other aerodynamic effects to create 'downforce' to hold the car to the track, I don't think they're driving cars as much as taxiing airplanes that are designed to NOT fly.
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(Incidentally, Jackie Stewart was the in-car stand-in for Bedford; even though his face is always covered by a balaclava during the on-track scene to disguise the fact that it is NOT actually Bedford in the car, he is easily recognized by his signature white helmet with the Scottish tartan band.)
Have to say I still love — and miss — the classic, clean, streamlined, torpedo-like look of those 1960s F-1 cars, and I think they provided a better test of the driver's ability to handle a car. Nowadays, with all the wings, airfoils, and other aerodynamic effects to create 'downforce' to hold the car to the track, I don't think they're driving cars as much as taxiing airplanes that are designed to NOT fly.
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That's because you didn't the official "Stirling Moss-endorsed" race set as shown here....MajGenl.Meade wrote: ↑Sun Apr 12, 2020 1:23 pmAnother childhood hero gone. My dad's Scalextric set came with two Lotus cars but later he bought a #7 Vanwall. It was crap on our track as well, as was the D-Type.
And neither did I. I had the larger sized 1/32nd scale race set made by Strombecker.
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Sorry Bill - I get the 403 error on the image
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Me too.
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Hope it wasn't this abomination:
Yeah BB - those were the days. Scalextric jumped the shark by (a) improving the shiny, slippery track so 4-wheel drift became a thing of the past and (b) improving the cars so they either boringly stuck to the track or went flying into the air, nothing in between the extremes. Putting the old toy Lotus "torpedoes" around a corner used to be a real test of skill and nerve.
Yeah BB - those were the days. Scalextric jumped the shark by (a) improving the shiny, slippery track so 4-wheel drift became a thing of the past and (b) improving the cars so they either boringly stuck to the track or went flying into the air, nothing in between the extremes. Putting the old toy Lotus "torpedoes" around a corner used to be a real test of skill and nerve.
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Was it this?
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I had a picture of a different set — the box cover featured two sleek-looking Corvette-like cars instead of the Ford Mustangs, but yeah.
And Meade ... I'm getting the same 403 error on your image and the url isn't the same as the one I was using —although I see it's from the same site (worthpoint), so maybe it's something on that site where you need to view the image; then it's saved into a cache on your computer so when you pull it up in a link you will be able to see it again.
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And Meade ... I'm getting the same 403 error on your image and the url isn't the same as the one I was using —although I see it's from the same site (worthpoint), so maybe it's something on that site where you need to view the image; then it's saved into a cache on your computer so when you pull it up in a link you will be able to see it again.
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Still bogus - what was Stirling thinking of???
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Re: RIP Sir Stirling
I remember that.
I believe I received that set one fine Christmas.
HO Scale vs. the larger "slot cars" during the day.
Your collective inability to acknowledge this obvious truth makes you all look like fools.
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Check, BB. It's the same image that exkA and Dales put up.
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