AudioSearch
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Sounds like I need to move to your So Cal Neighborhood. Although I did once have neighbor walk across the street and steal a stereo out of my garage......while it was playing.
A Newb from So Cal
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Mystic
We're all born mad
Welcome to the AK boards @AudioSearch. That's quite a collection of silver (and @ least one Mac) goodies in the photo @ the OP.
re: this...
As a former SoCal denizen (in order over a 15-year period: South Bay, IE, and Santa Barbara), I can attest to your commuting pain (more like a waking nightmare). I recall once an "after work" drive that started out @round 3:30pm in Santa Monica and concluded (in Claremont) approximately 4 hours later. Ugh.
re: this...
As a former SoCal denizen (in order over a 15-year period: South Bay, IE, and Santa Barbara), I can attest to your commuting pain (more like a waking nightmare). I recall once an "after work" drive that started out @round 3:30pm in Santa Monica and concluded (in Claremont) approximately 4 hours later. Ugh.
They are adding 2 lanes each way on the 405 between the 605 and the 55. They will have to replace pretty much every bridge and every on and off ramp. I live less than a mile from the 405 in the middle of the project area. Whoopy 5 years of fun!
Beau Geste
Italia
Welcome & congrats for your gears AS
Beau Geste
Italia
Niki Lauda & Jody Scheckter, sir you are my friend
Mystic
We're all born mad
Oy, that sounds it gonna be hell on earth.
AudioSearch
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Thanks for the welcome.
I made that drive the other morning in reverse. But it only took 2-1/2 hours. The traffic is really not that bad...... as long as you drive before 5:00am and after 8:00pm......unless you have to deal with the 405, 5, or 101.
DerekSmalls
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Might as well say hello as well. SoCal newb in North Hills west of the 405.
AudioSearch
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Thanks Guys! What kind of ride do you have there @DerekSmalls ?
DerekSmalls
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Well, that’s not me in the avatar, that’s Warren Oates the actor in his GTO from ‘Two Lane Blacktop’. I’m a mopar guy with a soft spot for Pontiacs.
kaplang
Works for me !
Cal Trans recently added lanes to the 405 between the 10 and 101 freeways near where I live in both directions. It took a couple of years and was a real mess for commuters that drove that route. Some overpasses also had to be widened in the process. It was suppose to help eleviate the traffic jams at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars and it didn’t really help. That section of the freeway still has bumper to bumper traffic all day long.
david1111
Barba non facit philosophum
@Beau Geste
So excellent to find an F1 friend on an audio forum.
The avatar is actually Niki Lauda and Alain Prost, definitely 2 of my favs. It's hard to tell sometimes when they've only just removed their helmets. I followed Prost's racing all the way thru his carreer. I do manufacturing engineering, so I was always drawn to Prost's steady, somewhat clinical, style of racing. Y'know ... the professor.
But I have a real soft spot for most of the greats of the era, like Jody Scheckter, Michele Alboreto, Keke Rosberg, Gilles Villenueve, Riccardo Patrese, etc.
That was such a classic time for F1, and every race win was available to any of the 10 front-runners. For quite a while now it's been a constructors race.
Back then, they had to clutch to shift gears, and they also had to clutch off the start, instead of a computer control, like now, that gives them max acceleration without spinning the wheels.
Oh well, enuff of the old days; time moves on and so must we. C'est la vie ...
Anyway, sir, you also have a friend in me.
Ciao,
Dave
So excellent to find an F1 friend on an audio forum.
The avatar is actually Niki Lauda and Alain Prost, definitely 2 of my favs. It's hard to tell sometimes when they've only just removed their helmets. I followed Prost's racing all the way thru his carreer. I do manufacturing engineering, so I was always drawn to Prost's steady, somewhat clinical, style of racing. Y'know ... the professor.
But I have a real soft spot for most of the greats of the era, like Jody Scheckter, Michele Alboreto, Keke Rosberg, Gilles Villenueve, Riccardo Patrese, etc.
That was such a classic time for F1, and every race win was available to any of the 10 front-runners. For quite a while now it's been a constructors race.
Back then, they had to clutch to shift gears, and they also had to clutch off the start, instead of a computer control, like now, that gives them max acceleration without spinning the wheels.
Oh well, enuff of the old days; time moves on and so must we. C'est la vie ...
Anyway, sir, you also have a friend in me.
Ciao,
Dave
Beau Geste
Italia
It's true..I apologize..Excuse me but my eyes have betrayed me ... too small image. It 's true that was the time when an F1 driver was a pilot and not a computer operator.
david1111
Barba non facit philosophum
@Beau Geste
Yes. Like it was the time of true passion in F1 racing.
I feel that passion in all of my endeavours. Like the way an Aglianico wine from Campania, will impart the flavours of the earth from wence it came.
I always love that deep, earthy, passion that's associated with these things. I guess that's why I'm drawn towards vintage audio gear.
Ciao.
Dave
Yes. Like it was the time of true passion in F1 racing.
I feel that passion in all of my endeavours. Like the way an Aglianico wine from Campania, will impart the flavours of the earth from wence it came.
I always love that deep, earthy, passion that's associated with these things. I guess that's why I'm drawn towards vintage audio gear.
Ciao.
Dave
Mystic
We're all born mad
Mystic
We're all born mad
My drive was @round Rush Hour and might even have been @ a "regular" Friday afternoon, the worst kind other than "holiday Friday" traffic. It was also I-10 all the way, which has a couple of HOV lanes I was unable to use legally, and there it is. I have quite a few bad memories of traffic @ 101, particularly a stretch from Ventura to SB on several occasions.
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