"White Sands" Corvette

[Joe C.]

Re: "White Sands" Corvette

I've been scouring cyberspace, but can't find anything about the car. A few of the "Corvette Trivia/Movie Trivia" websites confidently list the car as a "1965 396 Corvette coupe", but I can plainly see that the car is a ragtop just by watching the trailer......................dopes.

I guess I'll have to go and rent the damn movie, but for now I'll cast one vote for an angry power steering pump. Maybe it's a mini Roots blower installed in the lifter valley, you know, like the Mazda Milennia's Miller Cycle engine.

[Chuck S.]

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Geez, you guys are more interested in geology that Corvettes. BTW, the movie does point point that the "sand" is not sand.

Anyway, the Corvette's hood has the "Corvette Sting Ray" emblem, which says it's a '66. There are a couple of shots where if one had the DVD version, you might be able to freeze the frame and read the fender emblem, but all the library had was a VHS.

So since all you guys are such geology nuts, get the movie (on DVD if possible from your library or Netflix) and lets figure out the car!

I did have a sort of "whine" at idle. I figured maybe it had a gear drive cam...

Sorry for highjacking your thread, Duke.

I'll see if I can set the movie up next in the queue, but I'm pretty sure I can't identify the engine from it's sound. Now, if the engine was a GE commercial high-bypass turbofan, I can tell from the sound.

If the car has a whine, I'm betting it has an aftermarket supercharger.

[Mark D.]

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Now, if the engine was a GE commercial high-bypass turbofan, I can tell from the sound.

If the car has a whine, I'm betting it has an aftermarket supercharger.

Speaking of whining and GE, what's the difference between a CFM 56 and a Flight Attendant?

[Clark K.]

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Speaking of whining and GE, what's the difference between a CFM 56 and a Flight Attendant?

Uh-oh, I can see this answer coming from miles away. OK, what is the difference? One sucks and the other blows?

[Mark D.]

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Clark, Clark, Clark...your mind is in the gutter, just like a pilot. No, that ain't the answer...technically.

I'm sure there is a Vettehead that knows the answer.

[Chuck S.]

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Clark, Clark, Clark...your mind is in the gutter, just like a pilot. No, that ain't the answer...technically.

I'm sure there is a Vettehead that knows the answer.

Ahhh...That dude's a Pratt small engine guy.

Uhhh...Technically!?..."Buzzsaw" frequencies?? They've been there since the TF39...Well, at least since the CF6. Back in the day, GE was constantly testing TF39s and CF6s in Evendale test cells. GE high bypass turbofans have a unique set of frequencies at full power that is quite recognizable, if not pleasant on the ears. If you were outside, you could hear those noisy howlers anywhere in the plant. I was surprised to recently hear the same fan noise taking off from DFW, and my son confirmed GE engines were on the latest Boeing commercial aircraft (I'm a little out of the loop now. ) Quite a change from the days of the J79, F100, and F101.

Wow...Sorry Duke, I have personally made this thread unredeemable. I'll make it up to you somehow.

[Michael W.]

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Ahhh...That dude's a Pratt small engine guy.

I know the answer, but I'm saying nothin'!

[Mark D.]

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Speaking of whining and GE, what's the difference between a CFM 56 and a Flight Attendant?

When you arrive at the gate, the CFM 56 quits whining.

[Michael J.]

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Geez, you guys are more interested in geology that Corvettes. BTW, the movie does point point that the "sand" is not sand.

Anyway, the Corvette's hood has the "Corvette Sting Ray" emblem, which says it's a '66. There are a couple of shots where if one had the DVD version, you might be able to freeze the frame and read the fender emblem, but all the library had was a VHS.

So since all you guys are such geology nuts, get the movie (on DVD if possible from your library or Netflix) and lets figure out the car!

I did have a sort of "whine" at idle. I figured maybe it had a gear drive cam.

Duke

OK, OK, it is on my NetFlix list, I'll take a good look at the Vette, as well as looking at the locales and trying to figure out where they are.

[Stuart F.]

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You New Mexico and West Texas fellows might be familiar with the desert road through Fort Bliss on the way to the White Sands Missile Range. The road runs almost due straight for a number of miles (did) before it reaches a 90 degree turn to the right, after which it becomes a curving road from there on to the entry gate. I made that return trip at night from El Paso many times in my 63, and one night I was more fatigued than others (2 am). Well, I came into the corner at about 90 mph plus and had to spin it to avoid being part of a sand dune. I had aircraft landing lights in the high beams and, although they give you long range vision down the road, they also tend to hypnotize you. That, and a few too many Cuba Libres, can be a recipe for diaster.

Stu Fox

[Mark D.]

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I had aircraft landing lights in the high beams and, although they give you long range vision down the road, they also tend to hypnotize you.

Maybe that's why I fall into a trance on every night T/O and Ldg.

CFM 56 powerplants in action.

[Chuck S.]

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I know the answer, but I'm saying nothin'!

HaHaHa...Good one, Mark.

Hey, Mikey, you passed up a politically incorrect punch line?...You must have come out of retirement for a little maintenance consulting gig on the side.

[Michael J.]

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I had aircraft landing lights in the high beams and, although they give you long range vision down the road, they also tend to hypnotize you.

Stu Fox

I know the road well, but you do know you will lose big points on judging for those non-T-3 type lights!

[Stuart F.]

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Michael;

Yes sir, I do know those headlights aren't well thought of. In fact, I would have gotten a ticket in Wisconsin way back when by just having them on the car (those flat clear lenses were easy to spot). But, they were great out in the desert and, of course, easy to hide on a 63 during the day. I took them off soon after returning the car to the north for that reason, and the fact that around the cities there is no place to use them anyway except in anger.

Stu Fox

[Chuck S.]

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OK, OK, it is on my NetFlix list, I'll take a good look at the Vette, as well as looking at the locales and trying to figure out where they are.

Netflix description of the movie sounds pretty good, so the movie is probably worth watching even without the Vette.

But...for the time challenged...Anyone here technically astute enough to simply post a representative audio clip of the Vette? I don't even know if posting audio here is possible...Perhaps a link to a clip stored offsite?