Steve Whitehorn

iTrader: (13)

Dont often post in here but I was wondering today -

Has anyone else been drawn from a young age to things that sound mechanicaly raw and powerfull?

It seems to be something you are tuned into and becomes part of you or you are stone cold dead to it.

It started with me as an obsession with these. As a very young lad I would get up in the pitch black in Kent sneak out the house and go and find one of these to look at as well as take the numbers. I loved breaking into/bunking into rail depots all over the country circa 1979 at the age of 13 and sitting in the cabs pretending I was driving lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBkQQ...eature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2Lgp...eature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5rWTRDrenU

We stopped making beasts like this and scrapped them all...now we have japenese built tubrocharged bacon slicers humming about.


So I totally lost interest in all that and in my 20s moved on to
Spitfires and Hurricanes, especialy Merlin engined ones. I ended up doing Battle of Britain research, you will see my mates doing the digs on time team and those preserved ones you see flying about I will probably know some one involved in it ect ect blah blah blah

I mean what a noise...its just ****ing brilliant, I never get tired of it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2nlG...eature=related

Then they stopped flying at crowdlines and the private airshow I used to go to where a handfull of us turned up and they were flown out of a field and thrown about stopped.


So then in my 30s and now into my 40s
I got into ...you guessed it subarus. TVRs the whole V8 thing sounds great, an R8 or an AMG on the autobahn sounds great, but for me the subaru noise has the edge. For me it is one of the main reasons for owning the car. Tonight I thrashed my 460hp stripped out classic to within an inch of its life, bangs and flames out the back, it sounded brilliant.

OK ignore the man talking gibberish. Ignore the fact he is driving too fast in a built up area.
Listen to the engine note - superb

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEcwDtySEFQ

People own cars for different reasons. Any one else relate to where I am coming from and can trace a similar fixation backwards with mechanical beasts way before subaru ownership

tarmac terror

iTrader: (2)

+1 - there are some motors I could listen to the sound of all day. For me the Impreza in one of the most distinctive sounding motors on the road.

Jamz3k

I want an Alfa 147 GTA purely for the sound of the thing. I just love the Arese V6 sound, tis awesome!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eruk3QRcUf8

shaunywrx

+1 They remind me of a 6R4.

Myles

iTrader: (40)

147 good. Impreza good. Vulcan goooooood.

Jamz3k

its also hard to beat Chinooks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMI-Wa-4RDc

tony de wonderful

You like manly things?

Steve Whitehorn

iTrader: (13)

That Alpha sounds good.

Vulcan. I always remember years back very close to Weston Super Mare one came over at low level and then kind of did a 90 degree low level turn almost over my car. The sound was indescribable. I parked up and watched it.

Myles

iTrader: (40)

I think the emotions the Chinook sound evokes adds to the sound; resupply, evac, etc. for the guys on the ground.

Myles

iTrader: (40)

It has done a few low passes at Brize Norton, and it just dares you to stand and watch, hands away from your ears. Imagine how that would have sounded 20,000 feet over Buenos Aires.

dpb

your scooby compares to this , lol ! ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xfty8MSPtiY

Jamz3k

Oddly seeing it lift off the air gives me goosebumps, it just amazes me completely!

When I was 12/13 I got a lift in one when I attended an army summer camp thing for a week. We only got to go straight up and back down but still the noise was outstanding.

Steve Whitehorn

iTrader: (13)

Yes

(That sounds great btw)

FlightMan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7GIF...eature=related

Concorde.

Steve Whitehorn

iTrader: (13)

Its a Shame it is not about anymore
I was lucky enough to fly that twice to NewYork back in the early 90s

Mooburu

Interesting thread, a few weeks ago I found out the manager of the company I work for likes to listen to the sound of engines when he’s stressed. He’s got sound clips on his computer in his office

What about the sound of these - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g7o-ecf7UE

Leslie

I was parked up once in my classic with the engine idling, waiting as ever for Mrs Leslie!

When I switched off after a while, two elderly ladies came up to me and asked me to start it up again because they enjoyed standing there and listening to it!

Les

howellsy42

for me i love working with machines with raw power i currently dont have a scooby and im now really craving for one i miss being pushed in to the seat when you hit boost ! also im a big kid i love driving heavy plant machinery and listen to then just groan when they start working hard im spent my early teens working on farms driving big tractors then moved on to construction where playing in 45 ton 360 machines was great you movered your lever a litttle bit and your bucket mover tons of soil with ease now i drive road planners and listening to the engine note while there ripping though the road is just some thing else cant explained

kingofturds

iTrader: (1)

I had something similar happen the other week. I had overtaken an elderly gentlemen on the way to pick my son up, when I parked up I saw this elderly gent walking up to my car so I expected the inevitable moan. Instead he commented on the sound of my car as I went past him and went on to list a load of cars that he had owned in his petrol head days. Although I did have to google "morgan" and "sunbeam" as I have never heard of those makes.

jonc

There's no substitute for cubes! Love the sound of these big block V8's!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44WfpDTo9Vs

BOB.T

I remember the second rally I ever went to, I'd latched on to two guys who seemed to know where to go! I could hear a car waaaaay off in the distance, one guy looked at the other, '6R4!' Sure enough, a 6R4 appeared shortly after! It's a skill I've now acquired!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8bO7OfUgqg

g7prs

iTrader: (5)

On the day of the last flights one flew pretty low over my dads house as we were out in the garden and the noise was just incredible! The pilot lived not far from us in Scotland and flew over his house on his way to edinburgh!

bigredrob

most group B rally cars, metro 6r4 ,lancia intergrale, audi quattro, rs200, they all made lovely, whizz, bang grunting sounds, they sounded wonderfully alive, especially on a cold dark morning in the woods in november

Leslie

They still make Morgans now-handbuilt too. The Sunbeam were good old cars in their day.

Les

dunx

iTrader: (3)

Well...

Vulcan going vertical at Kirmington...
Large diesel-electric train hauling granite about 11:50 PM past our house.
Six cylinder Jag on full chat as a kid.
Spitfire.
Concorde over Donnington Park during a BTCC race.
Lightenings taking off from Leconfield as a kid.
Audi deep in Cropton forest, popping & banging.
Most Group B cars.
My STI with it's APS system
VTEC given death.

dunx

bigsinky

just like the ghey boxers. he got a welt in the mouth. And he was beat about the ring.

Steve Whitehorn

iTrader: (13)

One for the Rally fans
These are all displayed 5 mins from my front door - when I am in Germany

bigredrob

nice pics, I remember seeing a pug t16 in the parked in dyfi after it had lost its rear half of its body,

Leslie

What a shame the Tin Triangle is not allowed to use all the power any more. The straight and level flypasts it is restricted to now are an insult to its true capabilities, especially stopping the climb on a full blooded wingover by turning it upside down and pulling the nose down. Not difficult to do but it certainly looked impressive.
I seem to remember that a Vulcan was delivered to Kirmington(E Midlands Airport) when they were being scrapped, and that there were plans to get it flying at displays in the same way as 558.
Les

dunx

iTrader: (3)

Leslie, Kirmington is "Humberside Airport" just south of the river...

I haven't been for years, since the airshows stopped.

dunx