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Leather straps (thelemmy.club)

1950 Simca-Gordini T15s, as raced, and retired, at the 1950 24 Hours of Le Mans by José Froilán González and Juan Manuel Fangio

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[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 1 points 2 months ago

Rant. I hate google. Hate-hate-hate-hate. I need to google google. I had to spend a couple of highly annoyed minutes to get the following quote in a meaningful context. And it ended up being for something else.

It was only being held by the leather straps as the mechanics had forgotten to use the sprung metal clips.

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