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Doug_Kibbey
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Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2007 5:29 pm Post subject: A little drive in the country....
Le Mans, the way it used to be... (1956, the year after the accident, with Mike Hawthorne at the wheel of a Jag) www.youtube.com/watch?...ed&search=

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Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2007 5:52 pm Post subject: Re: A little drive in the country....
very sweet!

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Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2007 7:29 pm Post subject: Re: A little drive in the country....
Wow.....the thing I expected the least was the traffic! Surprised a chicken didn't run out in the road in front of him! _________________ "Once your reputation is ruined, you can live quite freely."

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Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2007 7:43 pm
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- JG300-Stoopy

Wow.....the thing I expected the least was the traffic! Surprised a chicken didn't run out in the road in front of him!

In 1956, the circuit length was 8.36 miles and you'll notice that in non-race conditions, with public traffic (some of it on the wrong side of the road Rolling Eyes

), he still did a lap in less than five and a half minutes, from a standing start, while chatting up the recorder.

Speaking of "the esses", here's a shot I love from nine years later...

...and my favorite, a GT6 (well, Spitfire Le Mans coupe actually) enters the esses ahead of a Cobra Daytona (probably not for long, though Mr. Green

)

www.triumphspitfire.de/1965-2.html

Guess who's appears on this page... Wink

www.triumphspitfire.de...iends.html

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Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2007 8:26 pm Post subject: Re: A little drive in the country....
- Doug_Kibbey Guess who's appears on this page... www.triumphspitfire.de...iends.html WOW!!!! "Friends from the USA"....Third shot over, third shot down......VERY impressive!!!! _________________ "Once your reputation is ruined, you can live quite freely."

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Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2007 9:03 pm Post subject: Re: A little drive in the country....
HMMMMMMMMMMMM!!! triumphs are nice little rides. my dad used to have one.

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