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Why do I only weigh ~180 lbs despite having lived here for almost 60 years now?
Truth be told, I could drop ~20 lbs, but I'm not sufficiently motivated to do so.

-Uwe-

Because SWMBO tied one of your hands behind your back 60 years ago! :D

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Why am I NOT surprised???? :(
 

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Why am I NOT surprised???? :(
The only thing that surprises me is that a 2021 Jetta would get any kind of OTA update at all.

And of course, I'd love to see a scan of that car.

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OTA updates can be useful - if they are proper. That however seems to be rare... :(
 

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Herbie vs Goliath ...

 

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That brings back a few memories. I did the NHRA national tour for 13 seasons with a record setting NA 2025cc VW air-cooled engine long before turbo VW's like Herbie were a thing. Herbie just ran a 10.51 ET with a turbo. My SS/CA Ghia ran 11.15 ET @ 120 mph NA. ;)

Those were fun days until NHRA handicapped us out of competition because we were racing "foreign" cars and VW didn't pay NHRA any bribe money. FWIW, eventually NHRA did the same to MOPAR in the Pro Stock class because the Hemi's were crushing the Chevy and Ford powered cars. There was and still is a lot of politics in NHRA which has created a lot of success for competing sanctioning bodies and special race series.
 

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... My SS/CA Ghia ran 11.15 ET @ 120 mph NA. ;)
Now that brings back memories for me. My very first car after my enlistment in the USN ended in 1969 was a used 1966 Karmann Ghia. Great car and my first mod was to install a gasoline heater (which was manufactured in Cleveland, where I lived at the time). My second car was a brand new 1972 Karmann Ghia, also a great car. A lot of cars after those two, mostly VWs, BMWs, a couple of Porsches (356B Cab and a 944) and then got into Audis, most recently an S4 and now a '23 S5. Hope it lasts a very long time because the new B10s just aren't doing it for me.
 

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Porsche built a really great museum in Zuffenhausen across the street from the factory. If you are fortunate enough to be in the area it is a fabulous display of street and racing Porsches over the past 75 years.
 

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Here's the back story: https://www.magnetomagazine.com/art...kyrie-racing-porsche-356-conquers-antarctica/
 

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Here's the back story: https://www.magnetomagazine.com/art...kyrie-racing-porsche-356-conquers-antarctica/
That's not a car, that's an enclosed snowmoibile!

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The sound from that clip reminds me of the background noise of the USS Enterprise (TOS, not newer ones). Is this an archival video taken with a tricorder?
 

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Here's an excerpt from the link posted above, with relevant details:

Renée Brinkerhoff and her Valkyrie Racing team have completed the Project 356 World Rally Tour: a record-breaking, 17,000-mile odyssey across all seven of the world’s continents in a 1956 Porsche 356A. Project 356 was conceptualised to raise awareness for Valkyrie Gives, a charitable foundation designed to end the scourge of human trafficking around the world.

Valkyrie Racing’s daunting adventure began in Mexico, 2017, with the perilous Carrera Panamericana. From there, Renée and her team had the 356 shipped to the start line of the Targa Tasmania; the fastest Tarmac rally in the world.

Next came the equally challenging and treacherous mountains of the Caminos del Inca in Peru, followed by the epic Peking to Paris and the rain-soaked East African Safari Classic Rally. But with exactly 356 miles remaining and six of the world’s continents crossed, the final leg of the journey was by far the most difficult – and dangerous.

And that’s because the only continent yet to be graced with the wheel tracks (or ski tracks in this case) of Valkyrie Racing’s Porsche was Antarctica; a desolate, frigid and punishing wilderness where no classic car had ever been before.

The trials and tribulations of the team's time in Antarctica is detailed in the back story link: https://www.magnetomagazine.com/art...kyrie-racing-porsche-356-conquers-antarctica/

A couple pics from that final stage:

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Someone is in to pain... :eek:
 
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