#KM Allan

[defense-lawyer]

narrowly missed being torn in two by ranpo vs. poe babygirl competition

[khajiitclaws]

Themis…

[consteladasoieux]

i can scream to the universe and call fate cruel all i want but i know the truth. it is with sorrow i have to face my own faults, i know there is no one to blame but myself (my glasses broke because i’ve slept in them every night for the past 3 years)

[dietdrpep]

i just found this depressing ass poem i wrote a while ago so i hope you like it!

there’s a glass barrier between us.

i always see through it but most of the time it’s foggy for you.

i try tapping the glass to get your attention,

but all you do is look away

i know you hear me.

but you choose not to listen.

once in a while when the glass is too foggy to know if i’m there or not,

you complain about the barrier.

but you never try to break the glass.

i know it would shatter at the slightest touch,

but i think you like the barrier.

it lets me reach my hand over and wipe the water off your glass,

without you having to care about

the glass chipping away on my side.

carefully slicing into my skin.

deeper and deeper it goes,

while i pray for the blood to run under the glass

and stain your side.

maybe you’ll try and break the glass now,

but it’s too late.

you’ll hit the glass and it won’t move an inch,

stationary.

like how i’ve been for you all this time.

[wh0sthatch1ck]

Love english literature 😊🔫

[wheelsgoroundincircles]

NASCAR Pantera ‐ First To 300

A reporter sat in a late-night cafe, sipping coffee and attempting to calm his nerves after a high-speed ride with Gary and his Pantera. The deafening roar of the V-8 engine still echoed in his mind, and his hands shook as he held his cup. It was as if he had just escaped from the clutches of the devil himself. Tragically, a few minutes later the devil caught up with Garry Mitsunaga and his red Pantera!

For students of Japanese car culture, the Mitsunaga Pantera that graced the cover of Option Magazine is a significant page of Asian tuning lore, as it was the first street-legal vehicle to achieve a recorded speed of 300 km/h in Japan.

Actual speed was 307.69 km/h on the infamous Yatabe Test Circuit in November 1981, making it the most legendary Pantera in all of Japan. Figuring Yatabe was too dangerous for civilian drivers, and wanting to take the human element of unpredictability out of things, driving duties at this event were performed by professional racer Kunimitsu Takahashi, who is considered the father of drifting.

Yatabe was the preeminent destination for high-speed testing in Japan from the 1960s to the 1990s. However, it was closed two decades ago due to a tragic accident involving Masa Saito, the editor of the tuning magazine Option. After the accident manufacturers started shifting towards more contemporary testing facilities.

Prior to the Porsche-vs-Skyline dreams of the 1990s, the streets of Japan were ruled by the infamous Midnight Club running Pantera's, Firebirds and American V-8s. For those unaware of the Pantera, it is an Italian-American sportscar with a Ford 351 Cleveland engine and were sold in the early 70's through Lincoln Mercury dealerships.

Leading up to November 1981, top speeds were achieved by vehicles such as the S30 Fairlady, tuned by SS Kubo, which reached a maximum speed of 257.60km/h. The fastest imported car, surprisingly, was the Trust Firebird Trans-Am, which recorded a top speed of 264.71km/h. So when the Pantera eclipsing the 300km/h mark it was a huge leap forward and a landmark achievement, becoming the benchmark for all the street racers and tuners to beat.

Mitsunaga was not entirely content. Only a speed above 320 km/h (200 mph) would suffice. It is said that Takahashi advised him against driving the Pantera outside of a racetrack. Mitsunaga disregarded the warning.

Just before the accident, he was transporting a journalist down a 38 kilometer (24 mile) stretch of the Tomei Expressway. With a recorded time of 6 minutes and 20 seconds he averaged 250 KM/H ( ~160 MPH).

Not long after dropping off that rattled journalist, he supposedly totaled his Pantera while avoiding a taxi. They meet their end at approximately 1:40 a.m. on November 28, 1981. Tragically, Mitsunaga died in the accident, instantly.

At the moment of his death, Garry Allan Mitsunaga was already a legend in the Japanese dragstrip and top-speed racing scene. He was an American, born in Hawaii and employed by the Harman Kardon audio group. The company sent him to Tokyo in 1975 to work for one of its Japanese divisions, in sales.

Upon his passing, he was revered as a patron saint of street racing, inspiring countless individuals to pursue ever-greater velocities. Despite his non-Japanese origin, he was a hero to the local community, and his legacy lived on through the Mitsunaga Pantera, a symbol of both the thrill and the peril of this high-octane pursuit. Although the whereabouts of the Pantera are unknown, its engine showed up for sale in 1995.

NASCAR

Mitsunaga's Pantera, was tuned by Masaru Hosoki from ABR, one of Japans most famous tuners. It also featuring a 600hp engine built by Mario Rossi, an American NASCAR mechanic and crew chief for the likes of Bobby Allison and Glenn “Fireball” Roberts. Rossi was also the guy that built the only Dodge Daytona to compete during the 1971 season. It's only race was finishing 7th at the Daytona 500 with a de-stroked Plymouth 340 TA engine to meet the new 305ci engine displacement mandate for the five Ford & Chrysler aero cars during the 1971 NASCAR season.

Rossi has been embroiled in controversy since his involvement in the $300 million drug smuggling scandal that shook NASCAR in 1982. Four days after the 1982 Daytona 500 in Florida, authorities arrested 66 people, including several associated with NASCAR teams, on what has been labeled “Black Thursday.” Among those implicated in the scheme that authorities believe grossed $300 million were owner Billie Harvey and driver Gary Balough from the team on which Rossi was working as a mechanic. Rossi’s role (if any) in the drug operation is unclear – though his own daughter implicates him.

Rossi's whereabouts have been a mystery since his disappearance, with some believing him to be in the witness protection program in the United States. Despite claims of his death in a plane crash off the Bahamas in 1983, the insurance company asserts that the plane in question has been sold multiple times without any recorded accidents.

What’s legend and what’s fact we are unlikely to ever know for certain. What we do know, however, is that Garry Mitsunaga and his Pantera dared to dance with the devil in the witching hour.

[butchdykenormallen]

im going to kms cause the vanitas no carte equivilant of edgar allan poe (from bungou stray dogs he is literally the love of my life i have devoted hours upon hours of my life to researching edgar allan poe who is in a total of 6 episodes in a 5 season show anyways)

his french straight twin makes me want to die

literally twins.

(1st is poe 2nd is his french straight twin (his name is jean jock or smth idk how to spell it)

i. i see. nods nods (doesn't understand anything being said)

[kwebtv]

Raid on Entebbe - NBC - January 9, 1977

Historical Drama

Running Time: 150 minutes

Stars:

Peter Finch as Yitzhak Rabin

Charles Bronson as Brigadier General Dan Shomron

Yaphet Kotto as Idi Amin

Martin Balsam as Daniel Cooper

Horst Buchholz as Wilfried Böse

John Saxon as Major General Benny Peled

Jack Warden as Lieutenant General Mordechai Gur

Meshach Richards as Major General Allon

Sylvia Sidney as Dora Bloch

Robert Loggia as Yigal Allon

Tige Andrews as Shimon Peres

Eddie Constantine as Captain Michel Bacos

Warren Kemmerling as Gad Ja'akobi

David Opatoshu as Menachem Begin

Allan Arbus as Eli Melnick

Stephen Macht as Lieutenant Colonel Yonatan "Yoni" Netanyahu

James Woods as Captain Sammy Berg

Harvey Lembeck as Mr. Harvey

Dinah Manoff as Rachel Sager

Kim Richards as Alice

Aharon Ipalé as Major David Grut

Mariclare Costello as Gabrielle Krieger

Larry Gelman as Mr. Berg

After the Uganda–Tanzania War, Tanzanian troops discovered Bloch's body in 1979 in a sugar plantation around 20 miles (32 km) from Kampala, near the Jinja Road. Visual identification was impossible because her face was badly burned, but the corpse showed signs of a leg ulcer. A pathologist working with the Israel Defense Forces formally identified Bloch from the remains. Her remains were returned to her son in Israel, where she was given an Israeli state funeral. She was buried in Jerusalem's Har HaMenuchot Cemetery. (Wikipedia)

[finn-savotta]

OUR HISTORY

SAVOTTA – MADE TO ENDURE SINCE 1955

“Pylkönmäen Nahkatyö” (Pylkönmäki Leatherworks), later to become Savotta, was founded by Allan and Marjatta Halme in 1955 in the town of Pylkönmäki, 30 km from our current headquarters and factory in Karstula.

In the very beginning Pylkönmäen Nahkatyö made equipment for loggers, gloves, bags and backpacks. The focus was on durability, and the motto was “let’s make them to last”. After World War II Finland had to pay significant sums of war reparations to the Soviet Union, and with one of our main natural resources being the vast forests a lot of this money came from logging sites, thus there was a great demand for suitable equipment.

The company quickly grew and began producing backpacks and bags for recreational use. In the 1960’s “Pylkönmäen Nahkatyö” was renamed “Savotta Retkeilyväline” (Savotta Hiking/outdoors equipment), taking it’s new name from the Finnish word savotta, which means a logging site or operation, and the company moved from Pylkönmäki to the current site in Karstula.

The selection expanded further to include tents and the demand for large external frame hiking backpacks started growing. During this time Savotta began working with the Finnish Defence Forces, designing and manufacturing tents and load carrying equipment.

In the 1970’s the company name was again changed into it’s current form, Finn-Savotta Oy, and the business continued growing and expanding. Allans and Marjattas children Anita and Riitta took over the business. They continued to run the business until ownership was again passed down to Anitas sons Elmo and Julius in 2016.

Throughout the decades Savotta has stayed on the same course as established in the very beginnings of the company. We’re still making tents, backpacks, bags and other load carrying equipment for recreational outdoors and military use, and we still make them to last.

To see what we are about today, check out our website https://www.savotta.fi

[grusik]

Throwback Picture. Graffiti. GEEKS . Near Bushwick. ESCAPE. KMS. Photo taken May 2017. Can anyone ID the other Writers? Street Art completed 2016. by Allan Ludwig

[mango-shpango]

its barbie day at my school and everyones wearing pink and km wearing my fucking allan shirt 😭😭

[tuvieja0399]

El Porsche 911 GT1 es un automóvil de carreras diseñado por el fabricante alemán Porsche para competir en la clase GT1 de deportivos, que también requería una versión de calle para fines de homologación. La versión de calle, producida en edición limitada, se llamó 911 GT1 Straßenversion (versión de calle). Aquí tienes toda la información existente sobre el Porsche 911 GT1:

- El 911 GT1 se presentó en 1996, como respuesta al McLaren F1 y al Ferrari F40, que dominaban la categoría GT1. Sin embargo, el 911 GT1 tenía muy poco en común con el 911 de la época, solo compartiendo los faros delanteros y traseros con el deportivo de producción. Su chasis frontal se basaba en el 911 (993), mientras que su subchasis trasero se derivaba del 962C, al igual que su motor bóxer de 6 cilindros biturbo de 3.2 litros, refrigerado por agua, que generaba unos 600 CV de potencia. El motor se montaba en posición central-trasera longitudinal, en lugar de la posición trasera habitual de los 911. El 911 GT1 debutó en las BPR Global GT Series (el predecesor del campeonato FIA) en las 4 horas de Brands Hatch, donde Hans-Joachim Stuck y Thierry Boutsen ganaron cómodamente. También ganaron en Spa y Ralf Kelleners y Emmanuel Collard triunfaron para el equipo oficial en Zhuhai. El 911 GT1 alcanzó una velocidad máxima de exactamente 330 km/h en la recta de Mulsanne durante los entrenamientos de las 24 Horas de Le Mans de 1996¹².

- En 1997, Porsche presentó una versión evolucionada del 911 GT1, llamada Evo, que tenía un aspecto más aerodinámico y una carrocería más ligera. El motor también se mejoró ligeramente, alcanzando unos 630 CV. El Evo dominó el campeonato FIA GT, ganando seis de las once carreras y logrando el título de constructores y pilotos con Stuck y Boutsen. Sin embargo, en las 24 Horas de Le Mans, el Evo sufrió varios problemas mecánicos y accidentes, y solo uno de los tres coches inscritos logró terminar la carrera, en el segundo puesto detrás del McLaren F1 GTR²³.

- En 1998, Porsche desarrolló una nueva versión del 911 GT1, llamada simplemente '98, que tenía un diseño completamente nuevo y más parecido al 911 (996) que se lanzaría ese mismo año. El motor se modificó para cumplir con las nuevas normas de la FIA, que limitaban la cilindrada a 3 litros y la potencia a unos 550 CV. El '98 también tenía un sistema antibloqueo de frenos (ABS) y un control de tracción (TC). El '98 se enfrentó a una dura competencia por parte del Mercedes-Benz CLK GTR y el Toyota GT-One, pero logró ganar las 24 Horas de Le Mans con Laurent Aïello, Allan McNish y Stéphane Ortelli al volante. Fue la última victoria de Porsche en Le Mans hasta el año 2015²⁴.

- Para poder homologar el 911 GT1 como un GT1, Porsche tuvo que producir un mínimo de 25 unidades para uso en carretera. Estas unidades se denominaron 911 GT1 Straßenversion y se vendieron a un precio de unos 900.000 dólares cada una. El Straßenversion tenía un aspecto similar al Evo de 1997, pero con algunos cambios para adaptarse a las normas legales, como faros elevados, parachoques más grandes, retrovisores exteriores más grandes, intermitentes naranjas y un alerón trasero fijo. El motor se redujo a unos 537 CV para mejorar la fiabilidad y el consumo. El Straßenversion podía acelerar de 0 a 100 km/h en unos 3.7 segundos y alcanzar una velocidad máxima de unos 310 km/h² .

[khajiitclaws]

Agh I’m gonna need a graphics card to run ffxiv with the graphics update and I’m stressed about it already

[motorsportverso]

História do Rally Safari no Kenya

Começou em 1953, com vitória de um Volksvaguen Beetle (fusca) com uma dupla da casa ,más acho que era edição de campeonato nacional,da dupla Allan Dix e Johnny Larsen.

A dificuldade na savana africana era grande.

E as especiais tinham as vezes distância de 280 KM,300 KM e levavam o dia inteiro para ser percorridas como no rally Dakar,rally dos sertões.

E porcausa das dificuldades da áfrica os carros eram modificados com suspensões mais altas,mata boi nos carros snorkel,bagageiro com estepe em cima da capota.

Em 2001 ultima edição do wrc  tinham especiais com 117 a 124 km

A volta do prova como etapa do mundial de rally estava prevista para 2020,más por causa da pandamia de Covid -19 foi adiada para 2021,más com o formato padrão de 4 dias de programação com especiais mais curtas em relação a essas,com carros normais só as suspensões um pouco mais altas.

Imagens e vídeos do Rally Safari

Porsche 911

Datsun 240z

Audi Quattro

Video Rally Safari 1983 (WRC)

[sleepy-vix]

I saw the most beautiful hardback 'completed works of edgar allan poe' book today but it was too expensive and i had to walk away gonna kms it was so fucking beautiful i could cry :(

[schoje]

Reunião entre diretoria da CASAN e representantes da JICA. Foto: Acervo CASAN. A diretoria da CASAN (Companhia Catarinense de Águas e Saneamento) aproveitou a visita de uma comitiva da Agência de Cooperação Internacional do Japão (JICA) ao estado para tratar de uma segunda linha de crédito em reunião nesta terça-feira (05). A ideia da Companhia é projetar futuros investimentos em sistemas de esgotamento sanitário de Santa Catarina. O contato entre a CASAN e a comitiva já havia começado na segunda-feira (04), quando o diretor de operação e expansão Pedro Joel Horstmann e o Gerente de Construções Felipe Costa Leite guiaram o grupo por estações de tratamento na Grande Florianópolis. A equipe da Agência visitou as ETEs Ingleses e João Paulo, em Florianópolis, e a obra da nova ETE Potecas, em São José. Visita da Comitiva da JICA à ETE Ingleses na segunda-feira (4). A estação foi inaugurada em Novembro. Foto: Allan Carvalho/Cinemáquina. “Nós da CASAN já temos uma relação de 15 anos de parceria com a JICA para garantir o saneamento básico no nosso litoral”, explicou o diretor Pedro Joel. “Agora com essa visita, estamos trabalhando em conjunto para expandir o tratamento de esgoto em mais sete municípios, na linha do compromisso assumido com o governo do estado de atingir 50% de cobertura até 2026”. Buscando atingir essa meta, a CASAN enviou em julho uma proposta de empréstimo de R$ 796 milhões para a JICA. O maior valor previsto é o da ampliação do Sistema de Esgotamento Sanitário de São José (R$ 515 milhões), somando a obra da ETE Potecas e a instalação de novas redes coletoras. A obra da ETE Potecas, visitada pela comitiva da JICA, está inserida na proposta enviada pela CASAN. Foto: Allan Carvalho/Cinemáquina Além de São José, a Companhia também propôs investimentos para o tratamento de esgoto em Barra Velha (R$ 67 milhões), São Miguel do Oeste (R$ 62 milhões), Canoinhas (R$ 50 milhões), Braço do Norte (R$ 40 milhões), Pinhalzinho (R$ 33 milhões) e Passo de Torres (R$ 29 milhões). Estações no litoral A JICA tem investimentos de mais de R$ 570 milhões em cinco sistemas de esgotamento sanitário no litoral catarinense, com três deles já em operação. O primeiro SES executado foi o de Balneário Piçarras, inaugurado em 2020. O Sistema conta com uma rede de 36 km e uma estação de tratamento de vazão de 110 litros por segundo, atendendo 2550 unidades. ETE de Balneário Piçarras, parte do Sistema de Esgotamento Sanitário da cidade inaugurado em 2020. Foto: Acervo CASAN Em 2023, a CASAN inaugurou duas estações de tratamento com financiamento da JICA. Em agosto, foi inaugurada a ETE de Balneário Barra do Sul, no valor de R$ 72 milhões e com capacidade para atender 52% da população do Centro do município, que pode chegar a 17 mil habitantes no verão. Já em novembro, a Companhia inaugurou a ETE Ingleses, em Florianópolis. A obra recebeu investimento de R$ 132 milhões e aumenta em 5% a cobertura de tratamento de esgoto da capital, atendendo a 42 mil pessoas nos bairros Ingleses e Santinho. ETE Balneário Barra do Sul, inaugurada em agosto. Foto: Acervo CASAN/Cinemáquina. Atualmente, a JICA investe em duas outras estações de Florianópolis. Uma delas é a ETE João Paulo, parte integrante do SES Saco Grande, será inaugurada em fevereiro de 2024. Com orçamento de R$ 123 milhões, a estação vai atender os bairros João Paulo, Monte Verde, Saco Grande, Cacupé, Santo Antônio de Lisboa e Sambaqui, beneficiando 25 mil habitantes. Comitiva da JICA na ETE João Paulo, com inauguração prevista para fevereiro de 2024. Foto: Allan Carvalho/Cinemáquina. A outra obra com investimentos da JICA é a da ampliação da ETE Insular, no Centro, com novos tanques e expansão das estruturas de tratamento. O investimento é de R$ 194 milhões, incluindo o assentamento de mais 52 km de rede coletora nos bairros Itacorubi, Parque São Jorge, Jardim Anchieta, Córrego Grande e Pantanal. A parte ampliada começa a operação em agosto de 2024 e os assentamentos finalizam até o início de 2025.