10 Things I Love About the United States of America

Miss my Omega Salon. 350 four barrel, 2 dr hatchback.
Passing on the highway was a breeze. Stomp on it, four barrel kicks in with a throaty roar.
Now, with the Honda, have to make sure conditions are perfect in order to pass. Wind, gradient, temp all factor in a pass nowdays.

 

I don't know what an Omega Salon with a 350 was but I bet if you look it up the numbers a 2016 Honda V6 will run run rings around it in any category you like, including 1/4 mile and 0-60.

EDIT:

The current Honda will probably equal or better anything that 1970 'Cuda could do as well

These are the best days.

 

Bring em to Darwin...we have an open speed limit on our 3000km straight highway...from Darwin right down to Adelaide...

 

Speaking from a long way away, I know, but somehow...Kowalski in a Honda ?

I dunno........

( OK, I know it was a Challenger and not a 'Cuda, but anyhow....... )

 

It was always as much about the cubic inches, size and noise, as the speed and acceleration. Stick on some glass pack mufflers and you could feel the noise hit you like a wave from those big engines. Sure, some of those sporty European cars could match them on the road and kick their ass in a turn, but that really wasn't the point. The point was to rattle windows when you passed somebody. Give it a custom paint job, metal flake and flames, then blow down the road with Iggy and the Stooges blasting away on your eight track through some enormous speakers just to really scare the squares.

 

1 Doris Day
2 Howard Keel
3 Wagon trains
4 Chowder
5 California wine
6 Sourdough bread
7 Indigenous Native culture
8 Gold Rushes
9 Adirondacks
10 The history!

 

I'm not going to lie.

I like the people.
I like the land.
I like the TV.
and I find American history slightly fascinating.

 

I am an historian so am fascinated by any nation's history plus I like to explore regional recipes and wines. Every country has their own particular ways conditioned by their past experiences and it can be problematic trying to comprehend their culture. It can be difficult to compare your own ideals to others and therein lies world conflict. Everybody thinks that their nation is the best.

 

Except me; I know it's the best.

Where Slash was born and Jimi Hendrix rose to fame. (London). - The Jimi Hendrix Experience were formed in The City of Westminster...
Marshall amps and the Magna Carta Baby. (Surrey)

Also,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaUsWfeULks

& this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NB3NPNM4xgo

 

As I just had one, McDonald's apple pies.

 

Really? You're going to claim Jimi? Were I present I'd smack you sharply across your smug British face with my leather gloves, knocking your monocle to the ground! Then run away while you looked for it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xpdw0ouogQo

 

Like you can deny Jimi Hendrix being part of the British Invasion of the era with The Jimi Hendrix Experience..
Srsly?

Don't forget, this place is real, that band came from that borough, I don't know where in that borough, but it's good enough for me!..
You have a bunch of cool stuff in the City of Westminster..
Shoot; Jimi Hendrix wrote Foxey Lady about Roger Daltrey's girlfriend and Purple Haze was written and recorded in London.
Fire was written on the South Coast (outside of London) one winter's night at Bassist Noel Reading's mother's house, and Jimi Hendrix kicked the dog from the warm spot next to the fire, that cold night.




Another thing about London...

It was said that Vincent Van Gogh was a happy man before he lived in Brixton, and I am not making that one up either.

 

You can have him...he may have been influential for a few years...but talk about an overated guitarist! Cant listen to most of his scrappy clanking...

 

It's a case of... "I know Soho" and "I love" that part of town.



Denmark Street Baby Yeah!

Where I bought my Gibson Custom Shop Les Paul Standard (I really do love America still)...

 

By God sir! One more insulting remark about Jimi and I'll send Bronk or one of the other Marines over there to settle this once and for all. I'd come myself, but with the garden just starting and washing my hair I just don't have the time.

 

Your the last person I want to upset Kodiak...remarks withdrawn : )

 

Oldsmobile Omega Salon. 350 cubic inch engine, 4 barrel carburetor. ..KB is correct, there is no replacing raw loud horsepower.
My Honda Fit sport develops 98 hp. It is peppy around town, like an overgrown go cart. It is VTECH, and can hear it kick in about 3500 rpm. Often go over 5000, and red line is 6500. It likes to be driven hard. Really fun to drive around town. Go through a lot of tires...then can fold seats down flat and sleep in it. Very comfortable...Only beef would be low clearance. End up snowplowing after a big snowfall.

 

Well, guess we (NA) can take credit for some of the Stones best work.
Surely you know about Alabama's Muscle Shoal sound?
http://www.bmi.com/news/entry/Tales_From_the_Top_The_Rolling_Stones_Sticky_Fingers_1971

While here, have to say that the Beatles made mostly childrens and little girl music. In retrospect, the Stones win most important band in RandR history. My opinion.

 

Thankful for Lou Reed- Sweet Jane- Live in Paris, 1974.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uc26EFI1_nw