Beer and Boomboxes!

scored TODAY !

was quite a while i‘m after this great Superscope box - was slleping in a Porsche- garage since years but the owner didn‘t want to let go - so i impressed him with a kaboom today and he swapped !

had to celebrate it with a Tucher in my garage

 

i know, it‘ll be a hell of a job to restore it, but it‘s a rare babe, definitively a keeper (...gosh: agaaain...)

 

i did post a pic of this one somewhere in the forum earlier, maybe in your Superscope- thread (?)

 

@autoreverser Tesla in Germany must be the statement!... folks here in CA have to buy MB to show their worth: here is a photo of a "King of the Road" who STOPPED at Pacific Coast Highway (Highway here is like an Autobahn in Germany):

Screaming and honking did nothing, only when the Dude realized that I am taking photos of his license plate he decided to follow the rules...

 

haha, didn‘t you know that a merc does have integrated right of priority ?

honestly, even here it‘s a certain kinda crowd, who keep on buying those huge, vulgar porn-cars, prefably as huge SUV‘s (...with money they don‘t have, to impress peole they don‘t even know) and somehow my personal impression is, this is the same kinda people who deny covid (or believe it's just a flue wich can be cured within a few days with a stunning cocktail), same people who believes it’s getting globally colder soon - and and and...

sorry, didn’t want to become political here, mod, if you think it’s necessary please edit or delete !

anyway - ev rules !

 

Sadly Auto the virus is a kind of flu and that's why i doubt they will ever find a cure lad

 

well, somewhere on tv i saw this elder fatty guy with a very, very funny hairstyle who said that there‘s a cocktail available to everyone (at least in the USA) wich cures it


...anyway, i go back to the basics, grab me a boomer and a brew for a beaty booze and might post a pic of the event here later...

 

I can't speak for Germany or the USA, but here in the UK there only two American cars are commonly sold. The Ford Mustang, whose V8 version will cost you £475 a year road tax for the first five years, and various Teslas where the road tax will cost you nothing. In fact the Government will give you a £3000 grant towards buying a new Tesla (or a Nissan Leaf, Renault Zoe or other electric car). They are also exempt from congestion charges etc which in central London can be £27.50 a day for the wrong type of car.

Guess which car is more common? A colleague has a Tesla Model 3. Shortly after buying it she took it on a business trip and was able to claim £70 in mileage allowance despite having spent less than £10 in electricity.

 

Even with that still quite expensive, a Tesla 3 costs min £40,490 for the cheapest one according to their UK site. Minues 3K = 37K for that size? Pooh..

 

A different colleague just spent that amount on a Seat Ateca (which anyone in the USA will have to look up). I was very surprised that he chose a Diesel as well.
Regarding the size of the Tesla Model 3 many people, including the lady who bought one, think it is approaching the maximum practical size for a car in the UK. I saw a Model X in the car park at work and it hardly fitted in a space.

 

That's understandable. In St. Petersburg I drive a first gen XC90 turbo petrol, with a mapped ECU,
I love my Volvo, but here in Oxford it would be less convenient sometimes size wise..
Now I see it. A "behemoth" as they call it.
Anyway I am still hungry for real "proper" old school engines, real engineering from 90s - first half of 2000s - the pinnacle of a "proper" car engineering IMO -
so craving for a straight line 6 or powerful turbo -a Beemer or Saab, or.. there are choices.
I think there is still time until they ban them in England.
Can't dare having a V8 here though.. But I'd love owning one.. or V12..

 

...had to go off-topic tonight... went through boxes of floppy‘s and got the old lady running again, with a few lovely tasty bavarian Flötzinger Hell

 

Not in Europe where there were plenty of better alternatives such as the Amiga, Atari ST, and Acorn Archimedes (the first device to use an ARM processor, the grandfather of the one now found in 99% of Smartphones and about to appear in new Apple Macs).

Back to the Amiga, second hand prices show how revered that computer now is. I love this quote from Byte which explains how many people thought is was just a games machine.

"The Amiga was so far ahead of its time that almost nobody—including Commodore's marketing department—could fully articulate what it was all about. Today, it's obvious the Amiga was the first multimedia computer, but in those days it was derided as a game machine because few people grasped the importance of advanced graphics, sound, and video. Nine years later, vendors are still struggling to make systems that work like 1985 Amigas."

— Byte, August 1994

Of course a few power users, like the people using it along with Video Toasters to produce the graphics and special effects for Babylon 5, Deep Space 9, and Star Trek Voyager had realised its potential.

 

A friend of mine used to run the top bulletin boards on the amiga 1200, he eventually sold me the amiga, it had 16 meg of ram an 060 accelerator chip and i think it had a 1 gig hard drive all inside the amiga, those were the days lads, he later sold me the amiga 3000, i really can't remember what happened to that tho
guys..he had thousands of games on floppy and i also had a cd drive for the 1200