"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile) 04/09/2015 at 14:24 • Filed to: None

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!!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! . Powered by some of these (ha - GM engines in the post after all!):

Narrow-angle V16, diesel - the 16-278A.

JR1 > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 04/09/2015 at 14:27

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1600hp? I am not impressed.

ttyymmnn > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 04/09/2015 at 14:28

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....originally laid down on 26 January 1945 at the Charleston Navy Yard. Launched on 18 February 1945 and commissioned as USS LSM(R)-409 on 16 May 1945

Built in 23 days. That's how you win a war. Of course, nobody was bombing our factories....

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > JR1 04/09/2015 at 14:31

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Dat 11,000 ft-lb of torque, though.

SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie > ttyymmnn 04/09/2015 at 14:31

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Couldn't bomb us. We were too awesome.

ttyymmnn > SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie 04/09/2015 at 14:35

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Too awesome, and too far away. Although the Japanese did manage to kill 5 people in Oregon with a balloon bomb.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > ttyymmnn 04/09/2015 at 14:35

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Watertight-ish hull in 23 days, another nearly three months of pipefitting, outfitting, and all the other kinds of fitting. Average daily high of 79F that April in Charleston according to the source I just checked - hotter soldering lines in a cramped boat swaying on the waves...

JR1 > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 04/09/2015 at 14:39

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It is a wonderful thing

SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie > ttyymmnn 04/09/2015 at 14:44

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They also took pot shots at Ellwood California for no apparent reason. The Germans got pretty close to the point where they could bomb us, but decided it wasn't worth it since it took so much gas and they were running on E. I read forever ago about an experimental bomber that managed to get here in testing, but apparently the claims are at least unverified, and possibly debunked.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie 04/09/2015 at 14:48

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For a period in the war, the German U-boats were actually operating pretty unrestrictedly off our east coast, including the area near Charleston. Not in '45, obviously, but still.

SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 04/09/2015 at 14:51

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Oh yeah. Supposedly, that was one of the reasons for the Loose Lips Sink Ships campaign. It wasn't entirely to prevent the Jerries from knowing where our boats were, it was to keep people from talking about how many they were sinking.

The Powershift in Steve's '12 Ford Focus killed it's TCM (under warranty!) > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 04/09/2015 at 14:56

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I assume this is related to the locomotive grade (and GM owned) EMD 567 ?

ttyymmnn > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 04/09/2015 at 15:00

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The tanker Dixie Arrow burns off the North Carolina coast on March 26, 1942 after being torpedoed.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > The Powershift in Steve's '12 Ford Focus killed it's TCM (under warranty!) 04/09/2015 at 15:09

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Possible, even likely.

Viggen > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 04/09/2015 at 15:25

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Awkwardly placed 5in gun.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Viggen 04/09/2015 at 15:40

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"when traversing between -20 degrees and +20 degrees, INSERT FIRING LOCK"

Viggen > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 04/09/2015 at 15:44

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I read that as "Avoid North Atlantic"

Wacko > JR1 04/14/2015 at 11:56

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Bonus points for using a picture from the Rodeo du Camion

El rodeo!

this is close to home for me.

MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > ttyymmnn 04/14/2015 at 12:24

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Those fuckers

ttyymmnn > MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner 04/14/2015 at 12:24

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They were getting desperate.

MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 04/14/2015 at 12:26

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They were even in Chesapeake Bay sneaky ass u boats

MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > ttyymmnn 04/14/2015 at 12:31

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It's only fair to associate desperate and "balloon bomb". I can't see any other way to arrive at balloon bomb.

I tend to hold war grudges. I still don't like England because of the Revolutionary War.

ttyymmnn > MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner 04/14/2015 at 12:38

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Don't forget that the Redcoats also burned down the White House, along with many other bits of DC, during the War of 1812. Nobody remembers that little war. But really, they're our friends now since we both hate the same people.

MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > ttyymmnn 04/14/2015 at 12:54

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Doesn't matter still hate them.

I'll tolerate them.

But I don't like them.

And you're right I should hate them more because of 1812.

I grew up in North NJ in one of the towns Washington used as his HQ's during the Revolutionary War. I'm a bit embedded in the history.