For $19500, quoth the raven, never lift
Edgar Allen Poe imagines a diabolical death machine involving an arcing scythe. If Poe were alive today, he might find this Nice Price or Crack Pipe Porsche 930 equally fiendish for its pendulum-like handling properties, but would he also find its price horrific?Sunday, Monday, happy days! Tuesday, Wednesday, happy days! Thursday, Friday, happy days! The weekend comes, my Chevy hums, ready to race with you! - was Porsche's attempt at taking the tricky handling characteristics of their rear weight-biased 911 and turning it into something that demanded its driving mastery to be earned like a Dairy Queen Blizzard birthday clown . In contrast, when Honda released the Acura NSX they touted its benign handling characteristics, and those who have driven one say its a super car that drives like an Accord.
Thanks, land of the rising yawn.
Porsche's 930, on the other hand, takes the 911's legendary tendency to oversteer and gives it two snaps up and a twist. Of course Ferry and the boys didn't set out simply to create a car that would - as Poe might have envisioned it - kill people. As you can see on this silver over black '77, the rear fenders have been stretched to cover a track and tires have both been widened substantially - as have the fronts - to ameliorate the tendency of the car to switch ends. Still, with its short 89-inch wheelbase and rear-biased center of gravity, the 265 horsepower 3.0-litre six can get you in lots of trouble should you choose to lift in a turn after going in hot. Finally, turbo lag was a real problem on these cars, and only exacerbated the unique driving proclivities with its on-off switch power delivery.
But does all that make it a death trap worthy of one of Poe's dark and stormy nights? Quoth the raven: oh hells no . With a zero to sixty time of around five and a half ticks and a top speed of 150 miles per hour, it has performance creds that were extraordinary back during the Carter administration, and are still pretty good today. Also driving a 930 needn't be like sharing needles with Amy Winehouse, it can be done with care, and eventually mastered, but it does require a steep learning curve.
This 47,000 mile 930 appears a hell of a lot better than Winehouse and its chrome headlight trim is a ton more subtle than the hillbilly crackhead Cleopatra look she favors. The basic 911 design is timeless, but this one channels the ‘70s with its funky TURBO decals spanning the fenders. Aside from that it's everything you would expect in a rear-engine Porsche, including black out Fuchs, the aforementioned whale tail, mail slot sunroof, and externally-mounted driving lights above a subtle rubber airdam up front.
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Tonight's event draws inspiration from the “The Pit and the Pendulum,” a story told from the perspective of a prisoner condemned to death during the Spanish Inquisition. Expect cookies shaped like rats and pendulums, but curator Chris Semtner promises
graverobber —In The Pit and the Pendulum Edgar Allen Poe imagines a diabolical death machine involving an arcing scythe. If Poe were alive today, he might find this Nice Price or Crack Pipe Porsche 930 equally fiendish for its pendulum-like handling
Condensed versions of the following Vincent Price films will be screened on Super-8 sound film: THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM, WAR-GODS OF THE DEEP, THE RAVEN, MASTER OF THE WORLD, ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN (Yes, Price is in that !
Vincent Price stars in "The Pit and The Pendulum" at 11:15 pm at the Frank Banko Alehouse Cinemas. MGM Today is Friday, June 10, 2011. Happy 83 rd birthday, Maurice Sendak, children's author and illustrator,
The banning of pit bulls is once again making headlines. The borough of Rivière-des-Prairies/Pointe-aux-Trembles (RDP/PAT) is considering a breed ban, raising the ire of animal-rights activists. A mandatory muzzling law for the breed
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It was the mid 1980s, and I was sitting in a screening room in Hollywood, trying to watch a preview of John Boorman’s THE EMERALD FOREST. Sitting next to me was composer-conductor Les Baxter. The reason I say “trying” is that Les was well into giving me a non-stop audio commentary of how this film would have been if he were scoring it. As I was beginning to learn, Les Baxter had zero tolerance for rival composers in this field; however, there was a good reason for this, as I would discover much later on. I was a close personal friend to Les for the better part of the 1980s. At that time he lived on a large, ranch-style estate in Chatsworth, California, surrounded by mountains. Les loved living large and had done so most of his adult life. The royalties from his film-scoring and album sales allowed for this lifestyle, and Les made no apologies for doing whatever came his way to keep himself in the manner he felt he deserved. In order to be his friend, one had to make allowances for his bitterness towards the music industry, particularly the Music Academy, which he felt (sometimes rightly so) had gone out of their way to malign his work and character to the point of spreading rumors that he employed ghost writers to do some of his composing, which was indeed a lie. This situation cost him dearly as he lost important friendships with colleagues like Nelson Riddle and John Williams, whom he sued during the time I knew him. The tragedy of Les Baxter is that he really was a genius whose musical talents were towering, and in a perfect world he would have been in the Hall of Fame with Grammys, as well as, be revered by his peers. One of the things he felt held him back was having scored so many grade-Z potboilers. The industry simply would not take him seriously. When Les had been considered for the big-budget film GREEN MANSIONS, he was shot down by those within the MGM music department who said film required class and style and Les possessed neither. MGM finally gave him their B-titles, such as THE INVISIBLE BOY, instead. When I met him, the fact I was so enamored with the American International Pictures films that he had scored pleased him greatly, because it meant I sort of got who he was and wasn’t just another young guy being taken to lavish meals by a wealthy musician.
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