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[Alfisti]

Hiya.

This is my first post here..... figured i'd be polite and say hello.

I won't be posting too much as I have only missed one race since Adelaide 93' (missed Melbourne this year)so I have not been following the sport that long (I am 23).

I know a few of you from the readers forum, especially Ray who lives in Oz as well.

Anyway, fo those of you who love their old sportscars, I just bought an Alfa 105 series GTV 2000 Bertone coupe. I'll post some pics of it on my site... feel free to check it out by the way!!

[BRG]

With a handle like Alfisti, this should feel like home for you....

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BRG

"all the time, maximum attack"

[Ray Bell]

Like a return from the dead - the ordeals of the AGP weekend forgotten, his life brightened by a new car... come, Alfisti, prepare to meet Art (and his nurse)...

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[Alfisti]

no, not forgotton.

[Art]

Good Morning Alfisti.

Nice to have you on board. Being as you are from OZ would you kindly explane to Mr Bell that (down under means down under). He can't face the reality that he has lived 54 years hanging upside down. And if Ray had a Nurse built like mine he wouldn't be playing around with the Computer.

Art

[Ray Bell]

Not 54 yet a while, Art.. and my wife cuts quite a line herself, if you don't mind.
And, unlike you, I never talk about viagra.

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[Art]

Not 54 yet? You were 54 three months ago I guess the clocks run like water in the drain backwards from what they do in Yankee Country. You would be using Viagra to if you were hitting it six times a day.

Art

[Art]

Wow if that isn't a bunch of Bull ****.

Art

[Alfisti]

I can't believe the number of old devo's in this forum. And to think that at my age I should be sowing my oats wherever i can plant them but the events of the AGP weekensd still haunt me and i just spend a week amongstthe many bikinis of the Gold Coast and the Whitsundays (Mr Bell will know where they are).

As for hanging upside down...... well I think Mr Homer J Simpson sums up Yankee town and it's slack jawed inhabitants whilst looking at a map....

"Canada??? How was i supposed to find it all the way down there???"

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[Art]

Alfisti.

I'm glad you purchased the Alfa I havn't seen one in years. A friend of mine use to have an Alfa Velocci. I guess that is what they called it? A beautiful 2 place roadster and it was quite quick for its size. Don't mind Ray and I were practicing our second child hood.

Art

[Don Capps]

Alfisti, welcome to the Forum! I hope you enjoy your stay here.

As for Art & Ray....even the best of families...

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Don Capps

Semper Gumbi: If this was easy, we’d have the solution already…

[Ray Bell]

I can tell - we're not even remotely related.
Alfisti - if you were in town, why didn't you call?
No more favours for you, old chap...
By the way, don't get the idea I'm in any way aged, I'm only 53. Of course, Art's got a few years on me and is starting to show it - hence the need for the nurse. He's talking about a Sprint Veloce there, isn't he? Probably a 1300 if they let him in it... an old railway man, can't handle real speed... always thinks he got right of way, you know the type... anyway, get posting, add your intelligence to this lot and we'll be improving that bit more.

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[Alfisti]

Yeah it's probably a Sprint Veloce but they used that name variation a little so it could be a few models. I am in the process of dropping a 94' model Twin Spark (4 cylinders, 8 plugs)2 litre engine into my car. I think the oldies int he club are going to die because it is no longer original.

As for using my intelligence... i am actually here to learn a few things as my knowledge of pre 93 F1 is very poor.

[Ray Bell]

Is it their car or yours, and if you do it can you change it back?
Be very mindful of their feelings, but explain it all to them ... if they don't get the message, forget them!

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[Art]

Can't handle real speed.

This is a real life experience and excuse the language. we are coming down Sandpatch grade heading for Cumbrland Md. We are going through Roddys Sag a dip that slows you down then the front end speeds up then the center of the train slows you back down. The engineer is a radio preacher with 42 years survice on the RR. He deliberately puts to much air on the train to show me how you knock the air off so you don't stop. But if you have an ABD brake on the first car it will release the whole train in 12 seconds. Down past my mother in laws bar at 70 mph the old brick works at 90 mph the preacher yells get the **** out the window. My answer up your ass one bend to go at around 100 mph feet on the wall eyes closed waiting for the big bang and the end of everything. Go by Hyndman Tower at 100 mph+ The operator yells what the hell is going on answer **** you ass hole. We finally get stopped shaking like a leaf and to this day the engineer preacher swears that he never useed a cuss word in his life. Now tell me I don't know what speed is.

Art

[Fast One]

Alfisti--

Returned to town to find you've joined us. Welcome! I always enjoyed your posts in the Reader's Forum.

[Art]

Alfisti.

If you have the original engine keep it and rebuild it. Then if you want to sell the car you can make it original.

Art

[Art]

Ya know I ought to find a good Railroad Forum and get on it.

Art

[Alfisti]

Thanks Fast One....

Art... no.. I hate carbs ... can't stand them. The Twin Spark is so much better refined and the old engine HATES the heat and well...... it gets hot here......very hot. I like the broader power band, the fact it is quieter and the reliability factor. I might just keep the old engine just in case.

[SteveB2]

Saw this Somewhere...

Do people in Australia call the rest of the world "Up Over"?

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[Art]

Yes and bats sleep standing up.

Art

[Alfisti]

and our pet Kangaroos are used to ward off unsavoury types from the Northern hemisphere..... where your water drains the wrong way.

[Rainstorm]

That's what Ray Bell and Art remind me of:

[Don Capps]

Thanks, Rain!! That same thought has often entered my mind!!!! Great job!!!

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Don Capps

Semper Gumbi: If this was easy, we’d have the solution already…

[Art]

Rainstorm.

I must say a job well done. Ray bell is the guy without the teeth.

Art

[Art]

Alfisti.

You missed the great debate a while back. Do F1 cars get better traction in Australia or Europe. It took these Bozos a week to figure what I was talking about.

Art

[Alfisti]

oh yeah... Ray is definitely the one on the right. That's apearler Rainstorm.....

What teh hell are you going on about Art??? I don't get it???

[BRG]

Alfisti

Don't start Art off again. He wound us all up for days with that thread!


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"all the time, maximum attack"

[Art]

Alfisti.

it was a good one! We had the future engineers and designer's spouting fire and brimstone and quoting the book. And in the end I had to give them the answer.

Art

[Ray Bell]

Go back through the thread, Art, you'll see that I put the answer in a question.
By the way, I can't bring up the picture, but I can guess.
Don't you guys realise that I'm just trying to humour an old man while his nurse is out of the room?

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[Falcadore]

Ray: it was a picture of Statler and Waldorf from the Muppet Show. Did you guess that right?

[Alfisti]

You guys are really starting to worry me.... i dread getting..... er sorry... "older". Hey Art do you have a nurse?? COOL! Can i have one too??

I'm curious about this mystery thread that caused so much trouble.

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[Dennis David]

How about a wet nurse?

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Dennis David
Grand Prix History

Life is racing, the rest is waiting

[Ray Bell]

Alfi - you must be younger than thirty to think that way. Barry Jones (Commodore Cup, Mazdas etc) bumped into me once and we got talking... I told him I felt just so good about being forty. "Funny you should say that," he said, "I remember the day you turned thirty - you buzzed into our workshop about midnight and you were really down, you thought it was terrible to be getting old..."
So get over that hurdle and start living.
I'm not getting older, just carrying higher numbers. As for Art, he's not getting older either, he's already there!
Art - that was a great railway story, sounds like the kind of ride you're glad to get to the end of. Ask Don, maybe he'll let you start a thread?

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[Alfisti]

yeah i'm less than 30.... 23 in fact.

I'm dreading turing 25 let alone 30.... especially how the good ladies are pretty much all taken by now.

Do you guys have pics on the "post a picture of yourself" thread???

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[Ray Bell]

Somehow I think that the image one has of his father is an influence on his attitude to age. My father has just slowed down in his seventies, so I see myself as more active than him for another twenty years... you can only remember twenty years.
Youth of today do have a problem with looking forward to maturing, a universal problem. I have spoken at length to many young people about it, all too many don't see anything past 30, which they see as old age.
Did you know that 29 was the age for the draft (into the army) in ancient Israel? So 30 can hardly be old... the saying that life begins at 40 doesn't stem from the number of divorces that happen at that time, it's a realisation of how much living there is still to be done.
Ask Art, he's an expert on the subject, even though he's fallen on hard times.

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[Dennis David]

Art, do you ever dabble in model railroads?

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Dennis David
Grand Prix History

Life is racing, the rest is waiting

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[Art]

Dennis David.

I use to collect model Locomotives but my step son took them and sold them while I was working.

ART

[Ray Bell]

Working in cahoots with the nurse, of course, who was so sick of the noise of the model engines.
Though it could be that this was the start of the complex...
I had a Minic windup engine in 1948, Art, but it went long ago... my son has some Tri-ang stuff, OO-HO gauge... too small, eh?

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[Alfisti]

Ray.. yeah i'd agree with the whole problem of people looking forward to mature. I am an old 23........ i've been working since i was 10 and never got too much out of clubbing or drinking until i drop..... i'd prefer to have nice wife and a coupelof kids rather than a dimmish GF with breasts up around her throat.

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[Ray Bell]

So hard to find... so rewarding when you do...
Most unfortunately, however, they come with no guarantees these days... even more evidence that today:

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[Eric McLoughlin]

On the subject of models, does anyone collect scale model racing cars or slot cars? I have a small collection of 1/43 models and one 1/43 resin kit I made myself (Matra MS80). I've also recently revived my interest in Scalextric. I've been building up new track and buildings (the older the better). I have a vague plan for a layout based loosely on Goodwood (one track mind - literally - or what?). In fact, the original Scalextric buildings and track accessories WERE based on Goodwood, which was local to the factory. I've currently got the following slot cars:
Ferrari 512 - looks great, drives erratically.
Lotus 7 - looks great, drives brilliantly (I'm biased of course)
Caterham 7 - as for the Lotus
Auto Union C Type - slow but a handful on corners - no grip, probably like the real thing in fact. It's actually modelled as one of the hillclimbers with twin rear wheels and no, I don't plan on running a scale model of the Eifelrennen up my staircase.

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[ZippyD]

What's the problem with breasts around the neck? Remember, it's who the breasts are attached to that's important.

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"I want to tell you something, not about the others but about myself."
"When I saw something like that I used to go to pieces."
"But I'm older now. When I see something really terrible I put my foot down. HARD! Because I know the other person is lifting his."
"What a terrible way to win."
"Cher mademoiselle, there is no terrible way to win. There is only winning."

[Ray Bell]

Zip - you speak from memory (mammary?) of course?
Eric - Yeah, roll with one of the mountain climbs up the stairs! Maybe the Auto Union needs an uphill slope to get traction at the back?
Alf - Never give up, they are out there. I was almost tempted to introduce you to Nomad... sorry Sallyann!

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[Alfisti]

Zippy..

the breasts should be attached to the girl not the girl attached to the breasts..... some are out of proportion.... Jennifer Love Hewitt is a good example.

Eric.. do you have any 1/43 scale models that you buy already put together (metal not plastic) and jusat sit there??? I wouildn't mind a few of old Alfa's or F1 cars but they are pricey here.... $100 at least for the F1 models.

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[Chris_Noto]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Alfisti:
[B]Hiya.

Hi, "Alfisti", welcome to the party! I would suggest, though, that you consider changing your handle to "Alfisto".

While Alfisti sounds good in this environment, echoing "Tifosi", the ending "i" denotes a plural for masculine nouns. "The Tifosi" is the name of a group of fans.

I agree with Mark Twain, who wrote that "The first person plural should be reserved for kings, editors, and people with worms."

All the best,
Chris Noto.

[Alfisti]

The term is actually Alfista and i thought about changing it but "alfisti" has so much history on this BB now ... besides.. Alfista or Alfisto sounds ridiculous for some reason.

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[Ray Bell]

It's okay having worms, as long as the Alfa doesn't have termites.
Just think what Art would have put in here...

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[Darren]

I'll bite, Ray and Alfist*. I have a completely termite-free 1982 Alfetta GTV, and that's without rust-treatment and rust-removal. Must be the only batch of Russian steel that didn't contract steel cancer before being built by a half-hearted Milanese assembly line jockey. Never should have opened that blighted southern factory, did the whole enterprise a disservice.

[Alfisti]

Darren,

in what nick??? restoed?? modified?? Check out my site and wing us a pic if you like.

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