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chrisgt posted:These cars can be made to handle REALLY well on pavement with the right mods. I appreciate a nicely done street subaru as much as a rally one. Put wheels/tires on that aren't stretched, and put good suspension in that car, it'll be a monster on the road.
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can we just agree that this is going to turn into a stupid discussion and should have been posted in the HF thread? I'm pretty sure TT put it in here just to piss people off anyways. I personally don't like the way that subaru looks but I don't feel like reading a bunch of mad posts about it either.
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chrisgt posted:These cars can be made to handle REALLY well on pavement with the right mods. I appreciate a nicely done street subaru as much as a rally one. Put wheels/tires on that aren't stretched, and put good suspension in that car, it'll be a monster on the road. I have owned and driven a GC coupe for 8 years now, I'm well aware. I just threw K-sport coilovers on mine, haven't even touched the engine, and it's already the best money that I've ever thrown at a car.
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Backov posted:That was awesome.
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Backov posted:That was awesome. Because the driver was supposed to be a mystery until after the jump. It was Tanner Foust.
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Tanner Foust is The Stig? That's rather awkward.
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 I keep looking for beater exotics now, but have only seen a bentley.
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Light Fields posted:I keep looking for beater exotics now, but have only seen a bentley.
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General_Failure posted:Is there something I'm not seeing or is it just that it's a little dusty from having been taken for a drive? From my trip there, I'd say the things you can't make out in that pic are: -visibly never washed (brake dust on front wheels is permanent) -entire lip of alloy wheel is ground off from rubbing against curb stones
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I don't know about that, looking at the full res image I can't see any real curbing. Also that brake dust could just be from particularly dusty pads - my Skyline for instance would look just like that after a 1000km journey off the main roads.
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It's in the UK in November. It'll look like that after a day or two anyway. If it's in that state all the time, fair enough.
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Here were a few interesting ones around town lately, I haven't taken any of the exotics in a while. Legit:    I had no idea AMG made Diesels, I actually thought this was just someone adding badges until I learned otherwise.  I think this was Laguna Seca blue, I'm bummed I couldn't get a better picture of it. 
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Das Volk posted:Here were a few interesting ones around town lately, I haven't taken any of the exotics in a while. Is that Brighton? Are you named after the seafront railway (or maybe a club near it)?
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New favorite car.
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        http://namesakemotors.tumblr.com/
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The person who came up with that is brilliant. I want to see Heidi Fleiss in front of a Ford Escort.
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This is a stupid kit on a miata but I still want one.   http://www.simpsondesign.net/index.html
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Boomerjinks posted:New favorite car. I would change the paintjob a bit, and drive the absolute poo poo out of that. Daily.
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It's brilliant, the invasion stripes are a great touch.
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mattmofob posted:This is a stupid kit on a miata but I still want one. 
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Das Volk posted:Here were a few interesting ones around town lately, I haven't taken any of the exotics in a while. AI as gently caress, take a picture of old 911, ignore newer Aston Martin in background.
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VikingSkull posted:AI as gently caress, take a picture of old 911, ignore newer Aston Martin in background. To be fair, a 964 Carrera RS is probably worth twice what that Aston is.
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Yeah but only idiots like ourselves know that.
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Crankit posted:Is that Brighton? Are you named after the seafront railway (or maybe a club near it)? No, that's Fulham. If it's a real 73 RS, £300-500k? A recreation would be ~£50k if you could get someone to pay that, and it seems that good 964 RSs are going for as much as £100k now. drgitlin fucked around with this message at 15:07 on Nov 24, 2012 |
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DVLA check says it's a '73, but that's all it says about it other than the engine being the correct size for the RS, 2.7l. It had some Historic Sports Car Club badges on it, for what it's worth.
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Rhyno posted:The person who came up with that is brilliant. Yes, but I can't help but think they should've found a midget to dress as Alice Cooper instead. Unless, of course, he's got a MG Midget coming along.
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That's the only one that seems out of place to me, but for a different reason - in that it's the only one that is definitely named after a apecific person. Also, I want to know what they've swapped into that Mini. Bike engine? VTEC?
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InitialDave posted:Also, I want to know what they've swapped into that Mini. Bike engine? VTEC? Mini-Hayabusa has been done more than a few times. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzcC738XMqw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RmVjBVq1TU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znBg3pKzOXI
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Boomerjinks posted:New favorite car. I feel like this would have been 10x cooler if he'd done it to a Triumph Spitfire
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I had to go to the page for this one because all I could think was it's a Honda Moses.
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davebo posted:I had to go to the page for this one because all I could think was it's a Honda Moses. The yarmulke is pretty confusing.
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I figured that Odyssey=>Odysseus, but I can see how it would be hard to make the connection (Odysseus wasn't that loving old, for one). Edit: it's loving Homer. Yeah that's a stretch. Dude was not really a shepherd, he should be carrying some kind of musical instrument. EightBit fucked around with this message at 20:48 on Nov 24, 2012 |
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mattmofob posted:This is a stupid kit on a miata but I still want one. Jim Simpson is an awesome AI dude. He has an amazing collection of Alfas, a couple of other beauties (concours winning Fiat? Two of the Nardi Blue Rays?) too. My father (who is kind of AI awesome himself  ) has a Miata with that body kit, a Ford V8 / 5-speed and Dayton knock-offs (I mean "use a hammer to take them off" not "they're fakes"). It's an absolute hoot to drive. At the dyno facility. I road-tuned it (it's a bored / stroked Mustang engine with a Quarterhorse ECU piggyback board) the day before.  Strapped in. Note the plate (heh) and watercut aluminum logo (my sister designed it!). MTM = Mel's Torque Monster. Yes, it actually displaces 5.8L after the bore / stroke.  I'ma let this speak for itself. I suspect that there's something wrong with this dyno, but it pulled strong and consistently so 6 times. I was mostly concerned about the AFR which we tweaked a bit in between pulls.  A bad picture of my father and the car. He daily drives it until it starts to snow. So yeah. That body kit and Jim Simpson are both pretty awesome and AI in my humble.
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ultimateforce posted:Those goofy NA door handles! I think you're confusing "goofy" with "awesome."
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IOwnCalculus posted:Yes, but I can't help but think they should've found a midget to dress as Alice Cooper instead. Personally I'm disappointed that the Ranger's Ranger wasn't painted silver.
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sofullofhate posted:Jim Simpson is an awesome AI dude. He has an amazing collection of Alfas, a couple of other beauties (concours winning Fiat? Two of the Nardi Blue Rays?) too. Goddamn this is cool as poo poo. How did he get the knock-offs to work? Conversion kit, hub swap?
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You can buy kits which are a spline-drive for the wire wheel bolting onto the regular hub, so I'd guess it's one of those types of things. Edit: Did the coupe version ever get anywhere? Because drat, it looks nice.  There's one in the UK called the MX250, but I don't think it's quite got the same appeal. InitialDave fucked around with this message at 23:52 on Nov 24, 2012 |
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2ndclasscitizen posted:Goddamn this is cool as poo poo. How did he get the knock-offs to work? Conversion kit, hub swap? InitialDave posted:You can buy kits which are a spline-drive for the wire wheel bolting onto the regular hub, so I'd guess it's one of those types of things. This is exactly it. The wire knock-offs and the Ferrari mirrors really make the look of the car work, I think (the Cobra rear-view mirror is pretty cool too). And it is silly, silly fun to drive. 
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