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Vovchandr

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  1. Two fingers down to greet. One finger back up facing backwards if they didn't do the wave back (yes you Harley owners and squids)
  2. I use on the trailer to monitor for blowouts
  3. Go Behind the Scenes at the All-New Caterham Cars Factory | Bridge Classic Cars
  4. Caterham's Head of Motorsport presents turbocharged Seven for Academy 2026
  5. Caterham Supersport Sunny Friday drive (avoiding the autobahn)
  6. UNIQUE SPEC! - This 2025 Caterham 620R Is Practically BRAND NEW - A Walk Around With Ollie
  7. Caterham Seven 340 S 🏎️ 170 hp and 570 kg on the track. What could go wrong?
  8. Caterham Seven 170R: When Light Is Right | 4K
  9. Yes that was very well written. I want to reiterate that if properly carried out the discussion here can be very civil and educational. The comment from @speedwagon is not a perspective I'd get anywhere else in my life on the regular basis. I come from the opposite spectrum. Not only I'm one of the youngest here, but I'm certainly one of the newest to USA from the youngsters (came here in 2000) so my perspective is pretty much from 9/11 on but I also have memories and families in Russia for that view point. To me America is a service, consumer and technology economy. Farming is ever present and is an important but difficult balance in a global economy where all goods are technically equal. Milk is milk. Chicken is chicken and rice is rice. If the same thing can be grown in two competing countries it can certainly be important to make sure your country's goods have priority. Barring farming Americans establish trends, make entertainment (Hollywood) and employ a huge amount of service workers and many of us start out in that field in our careers living that miserable life that teaches us that a large portion of people are just plain selfish a-holes. "Approximately 79% of the US workforce is employed in the services sector" - source google search. What I gathered while living here is that Capitalism is god and shall not be questioned. If its cheaper to make things overseas, than "thats the rules" and all chachkis are made in China and so all the call centers go to India. Stocks must go up and that shall not be questioned. I always found it amazing that things can cost $4 to be manufactured and to get to my door from China but when I try to ship the same thing to next town over it will cost me $10 just to ship the item, not even counting the cost of making it and profit built into it. Insanity but hey "thats the rules" that support the capitalism/consumer economy. The nuance that Capitalism is dependent on people and government providing manpower and infrastructure is often lost on people who pray to the Capitalist gods. Amazon cannot exist with just Bezos being his own boss and paving his own roads to drive his own trucks and China making most of his goods, yet it is deemed that he owes nothing back to society on which his empire is built. I digress. As of right now the recent year is reminding me more and more of living in Russia from firsthand experience and I don't like it. This is not the America I came to in 2000's and its becoming harder and harder to tell differences. I don't like the military parade like we had there. I dont like rouge police/government forces stopping people on streets like we had there. I don't like our president to be a multi billionaire like we had there. I dont like him having his own press channels like we had there. I can go on with recent similarities. On average people are happier because they have more stuff thats for sure.
  10. Not getting into much of a debate on anything else but this statement rubs me the wrong way. We used to rely on expertise of others who were proven as competent by their own peers to have educated opinions based on their experiences in the field. Now people are starting to value their opinion not just as much as the experts but they value their own opinions and conclusions on stuff we know nothing about above experts in the field. Not to mention paid mouth pieces that help people sway their opinions so nobody truly is unbiased in their choice. The lawyers have a saying that a lawyer that chooses to represent themselves has an idiot for a client. Don't even get me started on self assigned titles the likes of "law abiding citizens" which aren't worth putting more then 3 seconds of consideration for value.
  11. Saw it out live! Great to see you Chris and Charlie @Birkinman
  12. CSR fenders are back on Looks like they need a reinforcement skeleton made inside as they keep flexing and rubbing
  13. There were some year to year differences in design. Id also clarify if that matters to you
  14. Help others help you if you really want results and solutions. Tell people where you're located, post an example of your nose cone as there were slightly different designs through the years, possibly list your budget for such an item including shipping as that would be considerable. Why reach out on email and not here?
  15. Japanese-made Caterham Seven custom parts
  16. Donkervoort F22: a Lotus Seven from the FUTURE | Henry Catchpole - The Driver's Seat
  17. Charlie miles are inspirational. Double so for living in NYC and recording all his trips
  18. Yes a number of them stay dark unless on.
  19. A 7 and a 7 in spirit
  20. https://old.reddit.com/r/spotted/comments/1nbbuaj/saw_a_caterham_7_on_the_highway_today/
  21. Thank you for first hand experienced feedback. So there's regulatory control and cost on back of the house side of things which is expected to some degree. I will stand by my point that at the very least the front end seems capitalistic in having random store fronts selling medical services that are privately owned. Coming as somebody from a "communist" country where back in the day you'd never see that. Ironically they now have private capitalistic alternatives to government medicine coming up as well where you can pay to see doctors you want if you dont want to deal with big hospital or wait times. Not quite sure what their "store front" looks like for the specialists but it is unlikely to be in a strip mall next to Dunkin Donuts and a dollar store as an Urgent Care.
  22. Not quite sure I'd agree with that remark but I'd love to hear your reasoning. Most hospitals, clinics, and insurance companies are privately owned. Drug prices are set mostly by market forces. Medicare, Medicaid and VA are only true full force government involvement. The fact that Urgent Cares are in random offices and Dentists are in random houses still throws me for a loop 25+ years later since I came here. As far as Im concerned, as I grew up it was always : medical needs = big hospital and thats it. Random little homes and strip malls providing healthcare is the strangest thing on the planet and is most certainly capitalistic.
  23. As a foreigner, it never ceases to amaze me how stupidly complicated, cumbersome and overpriced American healthcare system is when there are clearly better alternatives in existence. "but we dont have to wait for specialists" argument used to make sense until I now have to wait 3 to 6 months for every specialist appointment I go to anyway. Waiting 3 to 6 hours in ER is just okay for people?? This is acceptable?? And we pay for this with our own money? Isn't capitalism supposed to sort this sort of thing out. If nobody is happy with service providers new and better services will fill that gap and steal all the customers? Where's this new and better service? I'm sorry but being bankrupted by medical bill shouldn't be an acceptable norm in a first world country/leader.
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