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Hi Bruce,

can you clerify the car choices please?

The only 66 A3 Mustang is the Shelby, is this correct, or is it the 65 A3 Mustang?

Are the Lotus cortinas available or just the standard Ford ones?

I took the Sprint for a cruise this evening, i got motion sickness from all the body roll and floating!!!

will clarify with numbers etc tomorrow... your on the ball Steve.
You had forgotten the body roll looking through those rose coloured lenses in your earlier post :)

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What night / time?   Am between leagues at KSR.   Installing 1.96 now.

howdy vandem, we on Thursday nights
round 2 tomorrow night in the Mercedes Month. here is the info http://www.xgn.com.au/index.php?topic=199.0

Hope you can make it...

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HistorX 1.96 / Re: Mercedes March Pre-Round 2 Lienz Chat...
« on: March 18, 2014, 04:48:52 PM »
Not that I know of, amazingly fixed straight away  :)
Ah yes the old days of losing your phone line and having to go to a phonebox or use a neighbour's phone at 2 pence are gone and all that are affected barrage them from mobiles hehe
get practicing Glen no excuse(other than a normal life)

tapatalk on an °[●●]°

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Cars & Bikes / Re: So what is sitting in my garage?
« on: March 18, 2014, 04:44:52 PM »
Nice choice lads but to "new"  and I might like to yet the silly approach first

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HistorX 1.96 / XGN's Mustang 50th Celebration Season with Guests.
« on: March 18, 2014, 09:22:58 AM »
4 Rounds, tracks in alphabetic order:

Round 1: Green Valley Raceway
Round 2: Oakhill Raceway
Round 3: Pacific Raceway
Round 4: Paramount Ranch Raceway
( I added the "Raceway" because it looks neater  :-\ )

Sprint 1: 10 25 Minutes Qualifying time grid
Sprint 2: 1 25 Minutes Reverse Grid
Sprint 3:  ?? If your arms are still functioning, this can be added.


Qual: 08:00 pm (20:00hrs) AEST
Warmup: if requested
Race 1: After warmup/qual


Server is up and set to the current round's track.


With the celebration of the Mustang's release 50 years ago... (pitty there weren't any Barracudas in Historics!), you can't leave out the cousins of similar age when it is party time so to celebrate belatedly Cortina's 50th due 2013...

Cars available:
Mustang ('66 A3)
Cortina (All)
Falcon Sprint ('65 GTTC A3) # 5,7,50 & 74

Round 1 April 17th
Round 2 April 24th
Round 3 May 01st
Round 4 May 8th

This will give us a bye between the Mercedes Season and this season... time to download the tracks and get settled and to have a breather.

NOW...
  • You choose the car you like. 
  • All selections must be locked in before the end of the current season.
  • Tracks will be announced/released after the car selection is closed.
  • I have a number of tracks, I will randomly select 4 tracks from the short list.

Having tested all the available cars on 3 tracks, the above list being the lower powered V8s, the 3 cars are balance each other and are competitive with in a second.

Team Speak: IP: 180.189.206.15  or URL; ts.xgn.com.au
Live Racer: http://rfactor.liveracers.com/Live/?server=!%20XGN!%20Home%20of%20Oz%20HistoriX

Details to follow.

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Cars & Bikes / Happy 50th birthday, Plymouth Barracuda
« on: March 15, 2014, 06:07:16 PM »

Available just before Ford's Mustang, so really is the first "pony car" and better looking anyway.

While the Ford Mustang galloped into American culture almost 50 years ago and brought us the term “pony car,” let us not forget that it wasn’t the first sporty American car based on a compact car platform aimed at younger buyers. Instead, Plymouth beat Ford to the punch by a couple of weeks, so let’s take a moment to celebrate the Barracuda’s pending 50th birthday.

Ford’s Lee Iacocca was absolutely correct in his reasoning that the American public wanted a sporty but reasonably priced car that seated four and could be customized to individual owner tastes with a wide array of options. His strategic error, however, was allowing leaks of information about the Mustang, along with the occasional spy photo. As early as 1962, both the American public and rival automakers knew about the Mustang, and Plymouth wasn’t just sitting idly by. As Allpar relates, the brand went so far as to hire private investigators to turn up as much dirt on the new Ford as possible, including details such as wheelbase, powertrain options, available amenities and even the platform Ford was using to create its new sporty car.

Armed with this information, and facing the same budgetary restrictions as its rival, Plymouth began working on a sporty compact of its own, also based on an existing platform. The Valiant, Chrysler’s compact offering, was chosen to donate its chassis, and engine choices would include the same 225-cu.in. inline six-cylinder with a one-barrel carburetor (rated at 145 horsepower), or 273-cu.in. V-8 with a two-barrel carburetor (rated at 180 horsepower) available on Valiant models. Buyers would be able to choose between manual and automatic transmissions, and a generous selection of options allowed buyers to configure their new sporty Plymouth to suit individual tastes. The car’s most distinctive feature, however, was likely its large glass rear window, which flowed into a rear decklid raised to meet the bottom of the glass.

In profile, Plymouth’s new Valiant Barracuda package was unlike anything else on the market at the time. From the front, however, the car looked very similar to the Valiant, a car that conveyed no more sporting image than Ford’s budget-minded Falcon. The fact that the Barracuda was further labeled with the Valiant tag didn’t help sales, as those looking for a young and sporty image car weren’t putting the model, or any of its variants, on the shopping list. From the car’s introduction on April 1, 1964 (16 days before the Mustang’s), through the end of the model year in October, Plymouth sold just 23,443 Barracudas; by contrast, Ford sold 126,538 Mustangs in the same time period. Plymouth may have fired the first shot, but clearly the automaker’s execution was lacking.


For 1965, Plymouth dropped the Valiant name from the Barracuda lineup, offered a four-barrel carburetor on 273-cu.in. V-8 models (raising output to 235 horsepower), and introduced an S packkage with improved handling, but sales remained unimpressive. The same held true for 1966, when the Barracuda got a unique dashboard to further distance itself from the Valiant, but Ford had already cemented its reputation for performance among new car shoppers. In the final year of the Barracuda’s original styling, sales totaled just 38,029 units, to the Mustang’s 607,568.

Help was on the way. For 1967, Plymouth released a newly styled Barracuda that offered buyers the choice between fastback, coupe and convertible models and further strengthened the car’s performance with the addition of an updated Formula S model, which boasted 280 horsepower from its available 273-cu.in. 383-cu.in. V-8. The changes helped, and sales rose to 62,534 units (including 30,110 fastbacks, 28,196 hardtop coupes and 4,228 convertibles); they likely would have risen further had GM not introduced their own pony car variants, the Chevrolet Camaro and the Pontiac Firebird, for the 1967 model year.

Having played its hand with the 1967 restyling, Plymouth knew that another redesign would be years off. To further promote Barracuda sales, however, the division increased 1968 engine offerings to include the 318-cu.in., 340-cu.in., and 383-cu.in. V-8 variants. A Super Stock 426 Hemi package was also available, but produced in extremely small quantities exclusively for drag racing. By 1969, the 383 V-8 was producing 330 horsepower, but for those who still wanted more for the street, the Barracuda (now called the ‘Cuda in performance trims) was also available with the 440-cu.in. V-8, rated at 375 horsepower.

No matter what V-8 version customers selected, performance was more than acceptable. Hot Rod reported a quarter-mile time of 14.32 seconds at a trap speed of 99.7 MPH for a 1969 Formula S package model equipped with the 340-cu.in. V-8, while the 440 equipped Barracuda could run the quarter in 14 seconds flat at 104 MPH. Cars built with the Formula S package were set up for handling, while those with the 440 option box checked (which eliminated the chance of power steering and the four-speed manual transmission) were intended to go fast primarily in straight lines.


- See more at: http://blog.hemmings.com/#sthash.rY9pbT1l.dpuf

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Spam / Re: golf
« on: March 15, 2014, 08:33:42 AM »
her left shoe lace is undone.

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HistorX 1.96 / Re: Fifty Years of the Ford Mustang, April
« on: March 14, 2014, 08:42:55 AM »

1963 Lotus Cortina Mk1 in typical cornering pose driven by Jim Clark (Image supplied by VMP)

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The Lotus Cortina began its remarkable career on the circuits of the world in late ’63, as the model was only homologated in September of that year, but the legendary battles that ensued with the Mini Cooper, Alfa GTA, Mustang, the 3.8-litre Jaguars and the mighty Ford Galaxy thrilled crowds around the world. Jim Clark of course was the name that became inseparable from the Lotus Cortina. To record all of the Lotus Cortina’s motor racing and rallying achievements would require no less than a book, as the car raced on all continents where the Ford Cortina was sold, as well as notching up a victory in the East African Safari Rally in 1964…but we are not going to dive into that part of the models history here, perhaps another day!


"and the mighty Ford Galaxy" Well the closest we can get.

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HistorX 1.96 / Re: Mercedes March Pre-Round 2 Lienz Chat...
« on: March 14, 2014, 08:32:19 AM »
You fellas mind if I rock along tonight?

EDIT!!!   Scratch that. Had no idea that it's a torrent full  version only download, and optus throttles torrents during peak times, so
will try next week maybe, sorry about that.

Steve your always welcome
Luckily through Torrent throttling you weren't dispanointed as you missed the "postponement"
But next week you will be ready!

ps A little birdie tells me that mid April, Mustangs (some), Cortinas and Falcons (some) will be battling it out in the celebration of 50 years of mustang, a belated celebration of the 59th Anniversary of the Cortinas and I like the Falcon  :P

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HistorX 1.96 / Re: Mercedes March Pre-Round 2 Lienz Chat...
« on: March 13, 2014, 05:54:18 PM »
Great news, I like changing series each month,  hopefully this wont effect the stangs of April.

May see how everyone feels, have a week bye between the Mercs and the Mustangs... start mid month.

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HistorX 1.96 / Re: Mercedes March Pre-Round 2 Lienz Chat...
« on: March 13, 2014, 09:34:11 AM »
Now that is good news, postponed it is.
I will just push out the calendar by 1 week on the remaining races.

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HistorX 1.96 / Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR March Calander Move
« on: March 13, 2014, 09:15:08 AM »
Race rounds shift by 1 week...

Lienz GP Short March 20th
Liepzig Stadpark March 27th
Bremgarten GP '54 April 3rd

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HistorX 1.96 / Re: Mercedes March Pre-Round 2 Lienz Chat...
« on: March 12, 2014, 10:22:08 PM »
Hi guys, wont be around tomorrow night as im going to see Neil Finn.

Crap, you just reminded me, I won't be able to be there either as I am going to see Deke Dickinson!
Why did I do all those laps... my daughter bought some tickets as a pressie for Denise and I....

Postpone?

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Cars & Bikes / Re: So what is sitting in my garage?
« on: March 12, 2014, 08:30:11 PM »
Looks cool, I would def get a cheap set to modify and wrap up the other ones for safe keeping.
I just had a silly thought after you mentioning "cheap", I may try and make them out of light weight balsa and give it the "woody" look!

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HistorX 1.96 / Re: Fifty Years of the Ford Mustang, April
« on: March 12, 2014, 04:02:43 PM »
thinking...  ::) 66th Anniversary of the Humpy! Now that would be a season.

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