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MrOnBicycle posted:What car is this? I love this. That's a pair of Tucker 48's, of which only about 55 were ever built. They're easily worth $2m each. This topic is amazing and I can't wait to see where it goes. You're living the life Lobsterboy.
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This topic is fantastic, I'm glad Lobsterboy continues to live his best 1950's life. That said, Mods, please remote the "it" from the title, it drives me nuts every time I see it.
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PainterofCrap posted:
The United States is incredible. 38 knots in trials, supposedly 42 knots once in service, which was confirmed as the design top speed when those documents were declassified. For comparison that's about the same top speed as Boeing's 929 hydrofoil ferries. It was built with a significant chunk of government money and used the same boiler and steam turbine tech as the US fleet carriers of the time. At 240,000 horsepower it has the most powerful engines ever fitted to a civilian ship, only beaten by the aforementioned fleet carriers. The US government saw the utility of ocean liners as troop transports in WW2 and in exchange for contributing a significant chunk of the funding to the project got to dictate several design aspects they wanted in a troop ship. The United States could have moved 20,000 troops to Europe in under 5 days had the Soviets ever pushed the Fulda Gap. Unlike the Queen Mary the United States still has her boilers and engines installed, so restoration is possible, however unlikely.
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ExplodingSims posted:That was pretty common for a certain Era of ocean liners. Yeah there are some pretty great stories about some of the liners' service in war time. The Queen Mary was so fast she did all her runs unescorted because nothing could keep up with her, and the Olympic (Titanic's badass sister) killed a uboat in WW1 by ramming it.
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I went through a similar process to this with the transmission in my Volvo S60R. Took the guy 4 tries to get it right. This was a transmission specialty shop too which had fantastic reviews and was specifically recommended on multiple forums for the exact valve body issue I was having.
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