Hasbeen,

It'll indeed be an interesting year, hope that you and yours have a happy time of it.
Your recent post on the Formula 2 Brabham was very interesting, I can imagine what it was like rebuilding it and the determination to get it right; which paid off.
The only full rebuild that I've done was my 1926 "Ducksbaack" Alvis Super Sports; not only was it a full rebuild but the sump pan had to be rescued from a fowl yard where it was doing duty as a drinking bowl.

Joe,

Echo what you said and I find your website a mine of information and interesting reading, keep up the good work.

Thanks, Is Mise. On the weekend, I saw a 1928-1930 Ford (or maybe Studebaker or Overlander ?) two-seater lorry, painted gold. Beautiful ! Very zippy too.

Cheers,

Joe

Wow Is Mise, I would have loved to be in on that. My real love is the oldies. I wonder why?

I currently have recently retired from daily driver duties, my 1980 Triumph TR7, that I restored & used as my DD 15 year ago. Still my favourite weekend car. The Honda S2000 that replaced it as a shopping trolley is nice, [claimed to do 150 MPH], but all these modern things have lost the "FEEL" & the plot to some extent. I'd love to have back the 1940 MG TB I had in my teens. It was lucky to see 70 MPH, down hill, with a good tail wind, but was such great place to be, at any speed.

On that little Brabham, I raced it for 2 seasons, it not only finished every race it started, it won its class in every race. They often used the F2s to fill up F1 grids back then. It earned me the F1 drive.

In 68 I won the Bathurst 100, second in importance only to the Australian GP back then, in the BT23A Brabham Repco. Somehow it was no where near as satisfying as racing my own car with my mates. Even taking second in the gold star, our Formula 1 Championship was not enough. I walked away from racing & went sailing, but not competitively, apart from navigating in a few Hobarts. I have seriously avoided competition since then, once you get too serious, you have no life left except the racing.

Dear Graham,

Thank you for conducting this forum and for remarking that 2017 is a prime number. Prime numbers are fascinating.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_number tells more about them. There are infinitely many primes as Euclid demonstrated about 2,300 years ago. Prime numbers are less frequent as numbers get larger.

Prime pairs are 3,5; 5,7; 11,13; 17,19; etc. It seems there should be infinitely many prime pairs, but no one has been able to prove it. It is one of the unsolved problems in mathematics. In 2017 perhaps someone will prove there are infinitely many prime pairs.

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Dear Graham,

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Happy New Year to you and yours too, Graham, as well as to all our fellow Olonauts.

The forum has nothing to envy of the ancient Agora of Athens. It is its worthy successor.

Thanks to your excellent governance, this “place outdoors” functions to the delight and satisfaction of all. A breath of fresh air blows through its columns, clearing the atmosphere of many antagonistic tendencies.

It helps remove the veil of dogmatism that all too often obscures the precious value of tradition. It is a constant challenge to our certainties. Arouses our curiosity. Opens our minds to new ideas, new interpretations, new insights. And, most important of all, helps us embrace the paradox of reality without the insupportable fear and apprehension that the unknown seems to provoke in many of us, to the point of compelling some to seek refuge in illusion.

The first few steps are always the more difficult in any new initiative. Exposing one’s ideas and convictions on the internet, in writing, is to expose one’s intimacy (the cogito ergo sum), potentially, to the whole of humanity. It involves risk and engages the person.

It is a rich and enlightening experience, something we share with everyone.

Whatever 2017 has in store for us, OLO and its forum will continue to be my daily companions to help me see, understand and comment on world events as they play out in all their complexity and intricacy.

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Hi BP,

Same to you, bonne annee ! I hope 2017 is a good productive year for all of us OLOnuts.

Cheers,

Joe