And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
My older brother worshiped him and a couple other F1 racers. While living in Germany, my brother went to a number of major races. He still has a big 'Continental Tires' banner that he stole from the Schwalbenschwanz curve at the Nuerburgring. I was very saddened Jim Clark died at Hockenheim. I went to the 'Jim Clark Memorial Race' at the Hockenheimring some years after his death. There was a small memorial near the spot of the crash. Now that the Hockenheimring has been greatly altered, it is difficult to access his memorial.
When I was a kid I had the green one in die cast metal. The steering wheel actually worked, it had actual rubber slicks - and it would be right at home sitting on your desk or bookshelf today. They don't make toys like that anymore.
If I had it today I could sell it to a collector for big $$$.
They were powered by A BRM flat 16 183 cubic inch engine. If you go to you tube and search BRM, you can listen to the sexiest howling engine you will ever hear.
Jim Clark?
ReplyDeleteI believe you are correct, Ed.
ReplyDeleteMy older brother worshiped him and a couple other F1 racers. While living in Germany, my brother went to a number of major races. He still has a big 'Continental Tires' banner that he stole from the Schwalbenschwanz curve at the Nuerburgring.
I was very saddened Jim Clark died at Hockenheim. I went to the 'Jim Clark Memorial Race' at the Hockenheimring some years after his death. There was a small memorial near the spot of the crash. Now that the Hockenheimring has been greatly altered, it is difficult to access his memorial.
When I was a kid I had the green one in die cast metal. The steering wheel actually worked, it had actual rubber slicks - and it would be right at home sitting on your desk or bookshelf today. They don't make toys like that anymore.
ReplyDeleteIf I had it today I could sell it to a collector for big $$$.
They were powered by A BRM flat 16 183 cubic inch engine. If you go to you tube and search BRM, you can listen to the sexiest howling engine you will ever hear.
ReplyDeletehttps://youtu.be/rRNoRlLlsD8
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