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Das Volk posted:That's very much Laguna Seca .jpg I want to move next to the new track by Austin, and when race days are on, open up the doors
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Das Volk posted:That's very much Laguna Seca .jpg It actually does. You move next to something noisy where home values are lower because of the noise, complain until it gets shut down or silenced, then sell the house for a small profit and move next to something else that's noisy. rinse and repeat until you have made a trivial amount of money ruining everything for everybody who isn't you. Also known as the american way
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# ? Jan 22, 2013 23:39 |
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From a few pages back, but I gotta say it: "When this baby hits 88 knots per hour, you're gonna see some serious ship."
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Astroman posted:From a few pages back, but I gotta say it: "Roads? Where we're going, we won't need roads."
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Powershift posted:It actually does. You move next to something noisy where home values are lower because of the noise, complain until it gets shut down or silenced, then sell the house for a small profit and move next to something else that's noisy. rinse and repeat until you have made a trivial amount of money ruining everything for everybody who isn't you. Also known as the american way There's actually pretty big money in that racket, especially if your target is airports. All the rich morons who built their McMansions out west of the city I live in bitch constantly about the general aviation airport out there...despite the airport having been there since the 1960s. What makes their argument even more frustrating (that we're disturbing their quiet country way of life) is that there really isn't anything quiet or country about their lifestyle; all these houses are on like one acre lots...its just a typical suburban subdivision with slightly bigger houses.
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# ? Jan 23, 2013 03:36 |
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When I become rich enough to do so, I'm buying about 100 acres and building a dirt track, paved track, and 1/4 strip.
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Devyl posted:When I become rich enough to do so, I'm buying about 100 acres and building a dirt track, paved track, and 1/4 strip. grover fucked around with this message at 04:14 on Jan 23, 2013 |
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Don't forget the house Veyron for friends of management.
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# ? Jan 23, 2013 04:13 |
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I've always wondered how much it would cost to build a private race track if i were to win lotto one day or similar. Not anything like a full on FIA compliant Tilke designed (flat) modern F1 track, just something about 5 km long that's on a similar level to an ordinary road.
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Aargh posted:I've always wondered how much it would cost to build a private race track if i were to win lotto one day or similar. There's one in my region but it's in bad disrepair. Some local rich guy bought up a ton of land north of of city and had a small track paved on it. He was already old by the time I moved here and most of the badly poured concrete is cracked and overgrown so there's no hope of saving it. We did hit it in the Jeep once and got chased off the property by State Troopers though.
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Aargh posted:I've always wondered how much it would cost to build a private race track if i were to win lotto one day or similar. This article is for you! http://jalopnik.com/5849231/in-his-front-yard-this-man-built-americas-largest-private-racetrack
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Rhyno posted:There's one in my region but it's in bad disrepair. Some local rich guy bought up a ton of land north of of city and had a small track paved on it. He was already old by the time I moved here and most of the badly poured concrete is cracked and overgrown so there's no hope of saving it. We did hit it in the Jeep once and got chased off the property by State Troopers though. George Barber owned a dairy company in Alabama. When he sold out to the national companies he made a killing. He decided he wanted to build a museum so he could share his motorcycle and car collection with the public. Shortly after hitting on the idea he decided he really wanted a small test track out back so he could play with his collection. Well, the environmental lobby caught wind of the track and sued based on the claim of some endangered insects on the property. Well, pile of legal fees later he decided screw it, go big or go home and enlarged the track. He won, they built the track, he decided he didn't like the layout. He ripped up the track, had them lay down a new one. Bingo, or so they thought, turns out the contractors used the wrong asphalt and track was actually moving in the corners. So, they ripped it up, and paved it again. After all this, the facility is just amazing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barber_Motorsports_Park He's still mad at the environmentalists, at the gate to the facility is a sign meant to inform anyone with a environmental donation license plate they're not welcome. He's also festooned the grounds with various bug sculptures. The spiders being the most obvious.
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EightBit posted:I want to move next to the new track by Austin, and when race days are on, open up the doors I agree with that sentiment, I live right by an expensive set of condos and the local footballers live there. There's a Gallardo Superleggera, SLS with straight pipes(!) a 458 and several other cars whose owners absolutely hammer it down the straight behind our flat. Just about the only thing I'm going to miss about London
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Aurune posted:Barber motorsports park stuff That is the only place I miss in Birmingham, It was so nice. I only wish I had the money to drive it when I lived there. I still have friends that work as mechanics at the museum and they love it.
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This picture is pretty awesome right here.
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Rhyno posted:There's one in my region but it's in bad disrepair. Some local rich guy bought up a ton of land north of of city and had a small track paved on it. He was already old by the time I moved here and most of the badly poured concrete is cracked and overgrown so there's no hope of saving it. We did hit it in the Jeep once and got chased off the property by State Troopers though. Aurune posted:at the gate to the facility is a sign meant to inform anyone with a environmental donation license plate they're not welcome.
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Das Volk posted:That's very much Laguna Seca .jpg #everyracetrackintheUK
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# ? Jan 23, 2013 18:25 |
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Brighton aerodrome (I think?) has a wonderful sign in the entrance lobby stating you can lodge a complaint about the planes if you bought your house before the aerodrome was built. In 1910.
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MrChips posted:There's actually pretty big money in that racket, especially if your target is airports. All the rich morons who built their McMansions out west of the city I live in bitch constantly about the general aviation airport out there...despite the airport having been there since the 1960s. What makes their argument even more frustrating (that we're disturbing their quiet country way of life) is that there really isn't anything quiet or country about their lifestyle; all these houses are on like one acre lots...its just a typical suburban subdivision with slightly bigger houses. They were supposed to build a 2 1/2 mile superspeedway here with drag racing and everything, on some buffer lands near the regional/ANG base. Got denied because of noise concerns, meanwhile C-5A's flew over it every day until the C-17s took over.
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VikingSkull posted:They were supposed to build a 2 1/2 mile superspeedway here with drag racing and everything, on some buffer lands near the regional/ANG base. Got denied because of noise concerns, meanwhile C-5A's flew over it every day until the C-17s took over. Hey, that's funny. This track opened in 2003. It was closed from 2004-2010 due to noise complaints. Now you may look at it on a map and think it's pretty close to that neighborhood to the south. Then scroll a bit to the north and notice Luke loving Airforce Base. Apparently people that live in the area have no problem putting up with a dozen squadrons of F-16s, but a few race cars from time to time is entirely unacceptable.
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WTFBEES posted:Hey, that's funny. This track opened in 2003. It was closed from 2004-2010 due to noise complaints. Because people are assholes and apparently have nothing better to do. In reality, they were probably told to gently caress off with their complaints about the noise coming from the Air Force Base, and decided to then re-target their noise complaints where it would do something: the race track that is without question quieter than an Air Force Base.
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I live near DIA and my house was built in the past 4 years. It's a non issue. Any house that was built in the last 10 that isn't a huge pile of poo poo should be drat near sound proof to the outside world.
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More: http://www.renaudmarion.com/index.php?/ongoing/air-drive/
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It's almost as if that's what the designers intended originally and the wheels were a crude, inconvenient concession to production reality. Like door handles and bumpers for concept cars.
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You'd sure get a lot less rear quarter panel rust like that.
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Slavvy posted:It's almost as if that's what the designers intended originally and the wheels were a crude, inconvenient concession to production reality. Like door handles and bumpers for concept cars. I'd argue that the Jaguar XK (is that what that silver thing is?) was absolutely designed around wheels.
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WTFBEES posted:Hey, that's funny. This track opened in 2003. It was closed from 2004-2010 due to noise complaints. It's not the noise, it's their perception of the clientele; the noise complaints are just a means to an end.
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Cocoa Crispies posted:It's not the noise, it's their perception of the clientele; the noise complaints are just a means to an end. The clientele are vastly better people than the complaining dickheads
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You almost wouldn't have to edit a Talbot Lago to fit in there. e: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talbot-Lago OK, just the front. I seemed to remember that both ends were skirted, but apparently I remembered wrong. Nash Statesman or Rambler: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/55/Nash_Stateman_2-Door_Sedan_1951.jpg Or Nash Metropolitan: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ed/Series_III_Hardtop.jpg Would fit right in with minimal editing. Darchangel fucked around with this message at 01:30 on Jan 25, 2013 |
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Darchangel posted:e: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talbot-Lago Maybe you're thinking of the Figoni et Falaschi bodied Delahayes?
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The cabriolet 300SL looks like a small boat.
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sadnessboner posted:Maybe you're thinking of the Figoni et Falaschi bodied Delahayes? Jesus christ this is art
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Funzo posted:I just remembered this pic I took the other day. I think this is the right thread for it. That thing is amazing. Those wheels.
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sadnessboner posted:Maybe you're thinking of the Figoni et Falaschi bodied Delahayes? Quite possibly. those are gorgeous cars, as-is, photoshop not required.
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Poster on Viper Club took some pics of Ralph Gilles while he was on his five-thousand mile winter roadtrip. Yes, he and Dick Winkles, SRT's head powertrain engineer, drove it in a snow storm.
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Tekne posted:Poster on Viper Club took some pics of Ralph Gilles while he was on his five-thousand mile winter roadtrip. Yes, he and Dick Winkles, SRT's head powertrain engineer, drove it in a snow storm. Dick Winkles is a very unfortunate moniker.
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sadnessboner posted:Maybe you're thinking of the Figoni et Falaschi bodied Delahayes? I dream of the day when I might own a Delahaye. They look like something out of a Tex Avery cartoon, picture the wolf from Red Hot Riding Hood pulling up in one of these. KozmoNaut fucked around with this message at 08:12 on Jan 25, 2013 |
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Left Ventricle posted:That thing is amazing. Those wheels. The best part is, those are factory.
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Nothing to see here
Afrika Shox fucked around with this message at 16:42 on Jan 25, 2013 |
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McLarens P1 camo is actualy made up of circuits significant to their history which is cool as h*ck imho. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VW2LOgchfno
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