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  1. #Australian #Supercars legend Allan Moffat passed away today aged 83. Moffat won four Australian Touring Car Championships, four #Bathurst victories, six Sandown wins, & more than three decades of extraordinary #Motorsport achievement.

    #Moffat, famously a #Ford man, had a longstanding rivalry & friendship with legendary #Holden (General Motors) driver, Peter #Brock.

    Article on Moffat: speedcafe.com/supercars-news-a

    Here is a piece I wrote on the 2018 XC Falcon Cobra 40 Years PMC: coinofnote.com/2018-xc-falcon-. I didn't mention Moffat in the piece, he drove several XC falcons. He won Bathurst 1977 in an XC Falcon (pictured). In 1978, he drove the Cobra variant (like in the PMC), securing Pole position with a record time of 2:21.59 and a speed down Conrod strait of 159 mph, although ultimate forced to retire that race with a broken engine.

    #SuperCars #CarRacing #History #Histodons #Numismatics #Medallion #Philately #Stamp #StampCollecting #SaturdayNightCoinShow #OnThisDay @numismatics @histodons

  2. #Australian #Supercars legend Allan Moffat passed away today aged 83. Moffat won four Australian Touring Car Championships, four #Bathurst victories, six Sandown wins, & more than three decades of extraordinary #Motorsport achievement.

    #Moffat, famously a #Ford man, had a longstanding rivalry & friendship with legendary #Holden (General Motors) driver, Peter #Brock.

    Article on Moffat: speedcafe.com/supercars-news-a

    Here is a piece I wrote on the 2018 XC Falcon Cobra 40 Years PMC: coinofnote.com/2018-xc-falcon-. I didn't mention Moffat in the piece, he drove several XC falcons. He won Bathurst 1977 in an XC Falcon (pictured). In 1978, he drove the Cobra variant (like in the PMC), securing Pole position with a record time of 2:21.59 and a speed down Conrod strait of 159 mph, although ultimate forced to retire that race with a broken engine.

    #SuperCars #CarRacing #History #Histodons #Numismatics #Medallion #Philately #Stamp #StampCollecting #SaturdayNightCoinShow #OnThisDay @numismatics @histodons

  3. Ane body teuk up a brock, than anither, an anither, an sot 'em ontae a cloot she wad bunnle up, later. Anither body follaed 'er lead.

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    (Ah'm nae native spikker.)

    #Scotstober 2025-25t - #brock
    #WriteInScots #Scots #Doric
    #WritingCommunity

    @DrMDempster @writingcommunity

  4. 👺 Hey kid, what's your name? Yeah... right. 🤔

    Why don't you uh... go and throw balls as many dangerous types of animal as you can. 🤓👆

    Don't come back until you've uh... made friends with all of them. 🤡

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  5. David Brock on Clarence Thomas and supreme court hijack: ‘The original sin’

    #David #Brock once attacked #Anita #Hill,
    who accused #Clarence #Thomas of sexual harassment.

    ♦️His new book slams Thomas♦️

    Thirty years ago, David Brock made his name as a reporter with 🔸"The Real Anita Hill",
    a book attacking the woman who accused Clarence Thomas,
    George HW Bush’s second supreme court nominee,
    of sexual harassment.

    After tempestuous hearings, Thomas was confirmed.
    Brock
    – who memorably characterized Hill, a law professor, in sexist terms as “a little bit nutty and a little bit slutty”
    – was launched as a rightwing media star.

    Thirty years on, Thomas still sits on the court, the longest-serving hardliner on a bench tilted 6-3 to the right by three confirmations under Donald Trump.

    But Brock switched sides long ago, disillusioned by rightwing lies.

    He apologized for smearing Hill and eventually became a prominent Democratic operative, close to Bill and Hillary Clinton.

    He founded watchdogs and Super Pacs and kept on writing books.
    He dealt with his political conversion 20 years ago in 🔸"Blinded by the Right: the Conscience of an Ex-Conservative".

    Now, with🔸 "Stench: The Making of the Thomas Court and the Unmaking of America",
    he has returned to what he calls “the original sin” of the modern supreme court:
    “Thomas’s perjury to get on the court”
    and his allegedly untruthful answers to questions about his treatment of Hill and other women.
    theguardian.com/us-news/2024/s