Tricks that old racers get up to after retirement

[T2x]

Jackie try enrolling in Obamacare...We give it to damn near anybody who doesn't pay taxes in the USA...Of course most of them live here, but I don't think residency matters...and if you get sick tell immigration you snuck in illegally. With that status you get first class treatment and accomodations in our best hospitals.

[jackie wilson]

You can never afford to lose your sense of humour, there i was feeling all washed up and useless when one of my old mates sent me this in the morning mail -----it goes---

"PERHAPS THE MOST PROFOUND PHILOSOPHY I HAVE HEARD IN RECENT TIMES GOES"

LIFE IS LIKE A DICK-----SIMPLE, RELAXED AND HANGING FREE---

"IT'S WOMEN WHO MAKE IT HARD"

[jackie wilson]

Anyone out there notice S&F got me back in france for the last post ------ but back in england for the penultimate, amazing how their minds must work------i know I'm a clever old sod, but, even i can't be in two places at the same time.
Bernie, will answer your last post again, hoping S&F don't wipe it before it gets printed.
Will take a phoggie of the stuff i wasted my time on last week.
Rich ,I'm starting your CBA trophy today while i still got the time, i keep getting these gee up calls.

[jackiewilson]

Heres the piccies I promised you of the tat I turned out last week.
Most of these came from the wood pile which I'm over half way through burning already.
It was made up mostly of spalted beech with beautiful figuring in damn near every chunk .
Could be I might live to regret going to the bother of carving items if we run out of firewood.
Course even carved timber still burns well.

[powerabout]

Hi Jackie

Here's you first Rotary for the new year
http://liquidpiston.com/technology/how-it-works/

[Rotary John]

Hi Jackie

Here's you first Rotary for the new year
http://liquidpiston.com/technology/how-it-works/

If anyone thought the Wankel had heat rejection problems with the rotor, this one is FAR more difficult and will be the demise of this concept.

[powerabout]

Hi John
yes I looked at that surface area and thought mmmm
Maybe it will work with non cooled ceramics and only as a diesel?
Cheers

[jackiewilson]

If anyone thought the Wankel had heat rejection problems with the rotor, this one is FAR more difficult and will be the demise of this concept.

Johnno, my new year resolution is to be nice to my fellow men, particularly the ones I have a tendency to disagree with on the odd occasions.
But, the final statement in liquid Pistons blurb. THIS IS NOT A WANKEL,! What a load of tosh, just because the fox hides in the hen house, it don't make it a chicken!
We both know we could save them years of research, (like a hundred years , again).
Lots of investors dollars, (like millions, again).
Loads of heartbroken engineers (again), by simply telling them -------THE BLOODY THING IS FATALLY FLAWED, ALWAYS WAS AND ALWAYS WILL BE.
Demise of this concept started a hundred years ago when old man Wankel started pulling all your chains, Cosmotheric wankoid reaction is just one of the things the old boy never mentioned, just his idea of fun with optimistic engineers with ambition.
Funny how there's always another engineer somewhere willing to try the unsolvable problem.

​WANKEL!

[jackiewilson]

Hi John
yes I looked at that surface area and thought mmmm
Maybe it will work with non cooled ceramics and only as a diesel?
Cheers

There you two go again, both as smart as Einstein and Newton, I would have thought you would have enough savvy to leave that particular piece of kit well alone!

[powerabout]

So your not investing in it then Jackie? Lol

[jackiewilson]

So your not investing in it then Jackie? Lol

Only ever invest in anything that has a snowballs chance in hell of making a shilling or two.
Even a one in a hundred long shot---------but a certified loser that never made anybody a red cent--------methinks not Pilgrim!

[jackiewilson]

Gods taking a leak again today, he had a touch of the " Collywobbles " last night. We had thunder and both sheet and fork lightening, my sainted mother would have said "must be something he ate".
Got a full day in the shop today, with a couple of new projects in mind. I'm as rusty as an old nail and need to sharpen up a bit. There's cobwebs and dust on all the tools and machines, but the edges are all sharp and shiny, just need putting to good use with a touch of imagination.
Lets put money where mouth is and see what transpires, catch you later!!!j.

[jackiewilson]

That's half the day done, lunch over and done with, been cooking with gas all morning, now it's afternoon nap time. I'm always wary when things go right 'cos I know how easily life can go tits up in the blink of an eye.
If you want the path of life to be smooth, better send the Gardner with the weed killer on ahead!

enjoy your day-----I am. J.

[STEVERINO]

That's half the day done, lunch over and done with, been cooking with gas all morning, now it's afternoon nap time. I'm always wary when things go right 'cos I know how easily life can go tits up in the blink of an eye.
If you want the path of life to be smooth, better send the Gardner with the weed killer on ahead!

enjoy your day-----I am. J.

Hi Jackie sounds good to hear you are firing on all cylinders again I brought this old souvenir program for the 1978 World OZ Championship race to the OFF event but I never got round to showing it to you this last year. I wanted you to look through it because your memory is better than mine sometimes! to see if you can recognise the 2 drivers that were both Yorkshire men see what you think.

[jackiewilson]

It could only have been thee and me Steve.
Jeff Edwards was pure Liverpool
Thornywork lived in the Cotswolds.
Percy pure Suffolk
Sabberton Suffolk
Jenks not even English
Alfie Cockney as they come.

This was the second time out for the Cosworth, best prop got damaged in practice.
Duckworth wanted Seebold to try it, he did, didn't improve my time.

Think I finished fifth, both factories were out in force and the boat had to be singing, it was croaking for the want of a prop, I didn't have a back up, that was the worst result that boat ever had in the eight times I ran it.