“Oh good grief, here’s Kim grinding on about old stuff again.”
Yeah, guilty as charged.
Watch Jay Leno’s glorious love affair with his 1940 Lagonda 4.5-liter V12. His is a direct, faithful copy of the cars which were taken straight off the street and raced at Le Mans in 1939 — and placed 3rd and 4th, the very first time they were entered.
After watching that, tell me you don’t want to smack him over the head and take his car. And if you feel a little intimidated by the size and manual strength needed to drive the thing, you need to take some double-strength manly pills. Me, I’d do it all in a flash.
Now watch Henry Chan shooting what is, to me, the firearm’s equivalent of that Lagonda: the Mauser K98 bolt-action rifle. (For background, here’s Ian McCollum.)
Same idea, same technique, same principle for both: outstanding performance, infallible reliability and guaranteed to put a smile on your face every time you take it out for a spin.
Like the one on Jay’s face.
I need to get back out to TDSA and shoot my K98, because I want to get that same smile. (And I use a rubber recoil pad, just like old hickok45 does.)
I don’t have a Lagonda, though. Bummer.
