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My neighbor has a 928 that I've been lusting after ever since I moved here, sounds amazing. They're not expensive here either, the price I typically see is 7000~ but there's a 2-for-1 deal someone has at 4000$ right now that my rear end in a top hat brother won't join me on.
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NitroSpazzz posted:928's also have pop-up lights and pop-up lights are awesome AI poo poo For some reason I now have Jeremy Clarkson's voice in my head going "where are my reading spectacles Mabel? Oh *pop* there we are"
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Went to a wine tasting thing on the weekend that happened to coincide with a British car meetup. Lots of neat stuff, but this one stood out.  '74 TVR, second owner, 23000 miles on it. New paint and new carpet in the rear under the glass due to FL sun bleaching, but otherwise all original. 
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Friar Zucchini posted:Feast your eyes upon the 1966 Volvo P1800. Single owner, original transmission and rear end, engine rebuilt twice. I believe I was a couple of years out of college in 1987 when I read about this man & his car logging a million miles. Also: 968 
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Jun 24, 2013 00:27
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Stardotstar posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rhu-A9hIOPI Dude leaves people in the dust, check out this rear end-puckering moment at 1:40  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Al3BkAoCdqE
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Jun 24, 2013 01:29
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Hietala posted:My neighbor has a 928 that I've been lusting after ever since I moved here, sounds amazing. They're not expensive here either, the price I typically see is 7000~ but there's a 2-for-1 deal someone has at 4000$ right now that my rear end in a top hat brother won't join me on. They aren't terribly expensive, but they are typically found in a state of maintenance debt and the parts are usually expensive. Especially the model specific ones. 
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Jun 24, 2013 01:36
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What happened to the Chevy swapped 928 project someone in here picked up awhile back?
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Jun 24, 2013 02:02
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I believe that was EnTier, haven't heard about that project in awhile.
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some texas redneck posted:What happened to the Chevy swapped 928 project someone in here picked up awhile back? Must've fallen into the archives, I don't see it in my CP anymore. Here, have a 4.6is towing a F10 
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Jun 24, 2013 04:03
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Went to the yards today to grab a few parts, I parked by the two VWs and was gonna grab a photo on the way out. I found a Geo wanted to play too.  I'm not sure if its horrible or awesome.
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Jun 24, 2013 20:23
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Did you get any closer pictures of that baja bug?
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Jun 24, 2013 20:58
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Wandering around campus I stumbled on this (if the tags are right) 1959 Plymouth Belvedere. The paint's hella rough:  But it's got this rad-rear end flames:  And this  mural on the roof:
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Jun 24, 2013 20:58
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It is a 1959, but that's a Chevy. edit: It's a Pacer and a truck, all at the same time. 
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Jun 24, 2013 21:03
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probably said "Biscayne"
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Seat Safety Switch posted:Did you get any closer pictures of that baja bug? I can. The owner works there and I park beside it usually. Its fantastically ghettofabb'd though. boogerwelds and house spec door hinges hold the front end on. but there is neat bits on it.
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Jun 24, 2013 21:16
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Best engine swap on a lada: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKxpzTYNBhE
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Viking Blood posted:probably said "Biscayne" That would explain it. I swear I saw a chevy badge, but I didn't really note what the Bis-whatever badges said. I knew there was a chevy bis-something. That also explains why it doesn't have as aggressive fins as a '59 plymouth. Also, that pacer truck would only be better if it were a gremlin.
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Also possibly "Bel Air"  e: Chevy made a lot of cars.  (source: http://www.chevy59.com/data.htm) MrSaturn fucked around with this message at 02:31 on Jun 25, 2013 |
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Jun 25, 2013 02:28
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17 models, 2 chassis.  Man that Corvette looks pretty, though.
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Jun 25, 2013 02:43
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Sebastien Loeb has a pretty insane car for pikes peak. It appears to be an engine attached to a rear wing and a splitter   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouQ-KFv7jLk
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toplitzin posted:Best engine swap on a lada: Let me guess, it runs on pure alcohol? Loving Africa Chaps posted:Sebastien Loeb has a pretty insane car for pikes peak. It appears to be an engine attached to a rear wing and a splitter You forgot the best part: 875hp for 875kg = 1000hp/ton. 0-240kph (top speed) in 7 seconds.
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KozmoNaut posted:0-240kph (top speed) in 7 seconds. times a million
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beedeebee posted:
0-100kph in 1.8 seconds and 0-200kph in 4.8 seconds. indeed. E: vvvv With the headlights from a Fiat Punto, no less 
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What do you do when your car company is going bust and your cars are poo poo and nobody is buying them? Flood the market with cheap rebadged superminis to recoup losses? Jump on the SUV high profit margin bandwagon and hope that helps? Radical cost cutting measures? Not if it's MG. You build this:    Then the whole company goes bust, all the factory equipment gets sold for a few mil at auction and parceled off to China, and you retire to a quiet life of academia. But let's not forget that for a while, something this mental actually made production at a large, and not Australian, car manufacturer.
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KozmoNaut posted:0-100kph in 1.8 seconds and 0-200kph in 4.8 seconds. This is genuinely beyond my level of comprehension.
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cursedshitbox posted:
Well see, son, when two ATVs love one another very much they will do strange things. Wonderful things. ...and that's how we get Big Wheels. Any questions?
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Zenostein posted:That would explain it. I swear I saw a chevy badge, but I didn't really note what the Bis-whatever badges said. I knew there was a chevy bis-something. That also explains why it doesn't have as aggressive fins as a '59 plymouth. Just so you aren't confused again.. 1958 Plymouth...  Wow...this thread made me google image search 1958 cars. '57 gets all the attention but IMHO was the best year of 50's design. 1958 Buick  1958 Imperial  1958 Dodge Sweptside Pickup 
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Nice. On a related note, was in Dallas this weekend and spotted this J10: 
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It's awesome, right up until you see the fact that despite the four-link, drag slicks, and skinnies, it's putting down a quarter mile E/T that you could beat with quite a few (admittedly fast) bone-stock cars on street tires. Even more so, a 100mph trap speed tells me that without the slicks and four-link, it'd be more like a 14-second run. Although, since I'm guessing that thing weighs pretty close to what my GMC does, making an AMC 4.0 put out the same power as a LS1 certainly counts as AI. 
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IOwnCalculus posted:It's awesome, right up until you see the fact that despite the four-link, drag slicks, and skinnies, it's putting down a quarter mile E/T that you could beat with quite a few (admittedly fast) bone-stock cars on street tires. Even more so, a 100mph trap speed tells me that without the slicks and four-link, it'd be more like a 14-second run. Yeah, I thought the pic was awesome and then saw the times and was like "really?  "Stock ones weigh in at around 3200lbs. Give or take. A base/base/base/base/NOTHING model (2.5, 4 speed, shortbed, 2wd) weighs 2898lbs, an Eliminator with skid plates, 4x4, 5 speed, 4.0 is 3316lbs.  I suspect this one does a little better. e: here's an article on it - http://www.hotrod.com/featuredvehicles/hrdp_1106_1986_jeep_cherokee/ It does low 9s 9.15 seconds at 149mph
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leica posted:Dude leaves people in the dust, check out this rear end-puckering moment at 1:40 Holy poo poo, whats the saying? Indecision almost killed the cat.
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kastein posted:Yeah, I thought the pic was awesome and then saw the times and was like "really? I've seen and heard that jeep in person, its certainly the tits.. It put a big smile on everyone's face when they fired it off at the jeep show.
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Linedance posted:What do you do when your car company is going bust and your cars are poo poo and nobody is buying them? And remember, they didn't even design the thing themselves! It dates to the mid-1990s and was at various times the De Tomaso Bigua and then the Qvale Mangusta, before they paid Peter Stevens to fiddle with the exterior.
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Veeb0rg posted:I've seen and heard that jeep in person, its certainly the tits.. It put a big smile on everyone's face when they fired it off at the jeep show. Doesn't have a 4.0, don't care.
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Guys! I found a thing! Well, 500 old things... [url] http://autos.yahoo.com/blogs/motoramic/scores-chevys-hidden-50-years-finally-sale-160911547.html[/url] Some owners of a small dealership for 50 years are selling 500 classic Chevy cars, from Vegas, Corvairs, and Impalas to a 78 Corvette and more. 11BulletCatcher fucked around with this message at 05:03 on Jun 26, 2013 |
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big eurotruck suspension from the ZF suspension booth at mid america truck show:                
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IOwnCalculus posted:It's awesome, right up until you see the fact that despite the four-link, drag slicks, and skinnies, it's putting down a quarter mile E/T that you could beat with quite a few (admittedly fast) bone-stock cars on street tires. Even more so, a 100mph trap speed tells me that without the slicks and four-link, it'd be more like a 14-second run. I can chime in a bit on this - This was built by a secondary school in my city for kids, 16 - 19, to drag race in. The main idea being that building a race car is a teamwork based project, and that you can get your 'go fast' rocks off in a somewhat safe environment, instead of street racing. In that class, we were limited to running 12.000 or slower, or faced being given fines or kicked out of the class for the remainder of the year. The engine was built to the tits originally, but choked down and limited to comply with the rules. One weekend at the track for a non highschool class, they had it opened up a bit more and it was chipping away at low 11s no problem. My school had a fairly decent 70 Nova that we took into the HS drag class. The graduating class the year before me blew up the anemic stock 350 doing brake stands. From scrounging parts together, we (with help) were able to build a stout 400 with Edelbrock heads, intake, super lumpy cam and some other goodies. The first day out at the track, our teacher didn't really have an idea what time we would run, so we teched for 12.2. I got the first run of the day and threw up an 11.990  We got fined $100 for that and warned that one more offense like that would get us kicked off the track for a while. Boy was that car fun to stop with 4 wheel drum brakes 
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Today I actually managed to get up to my brother in law's place. He has a long-standing relationship with his car(s). His baby is a 1963 Ford Fairlane 500 Compact. He bought it around 20 years ago, immediately did a bare metal respray, then moved to Adelaide. It's something of a long running joke (other than the "things being older than me: his ug boots, ownership of the Fairlanes") that he may actually grow up once it's 'finished'.. but we'll see if he ever gets there. I didn't get a photo of any engine bays, stupidly, but neither of them have stock engines. His Baby has a 289 crate engine from.. somewhere, I don't remember, which was originally going to go in the white one, which proceeded to die. It's been a hilarious line of unluckiness, none the less!  The interior on this one is absolutely immaculate. It feels like you're floating (which is what I imagine you would feel like after your face goes through the steering wheel in an accident!).   And his other exact same car, only in cool white! This was his and my sister's daily driver for around 10 years. Has a 302 Windsor in it, and runs on gas. The reason it's AI? Because using a car like that daily takes brass ones in Aus.. and on gas it uses 15L per 100km.. or 3.5 MPG (  ) for you backwards Imperials.  As he lives in the hills, he's managed to finagle a deal with one of his rather eccentric neighbours (no, not the TV show) into letting him use one of their empty sheds. Turns out, since I was last there, the owner's daughter has started moving some of her cars in.. whilst completely blocking the Fords. But apparently she's going through a divorce, so no great shocks there! Anyway, the other cars in there: Some kind of 50s Bedford? I have no clue!  I actually prefer the look of this one; the patina and dust just.. suit it somehow! (Also it doesn't have a bad paintjob, unlike the red one).  And finally, the car that is apparently being restored there. All of it's bodywork is behind the green Fairlane, but the badging on the back of the truck says Vauxhaull. The ID plate states General Motors, so I think it may be an FJ or FX that was.. sent to Europe or something? I'm not sure!   And sorry for the bad photos, wasn't thinking I would get to see these today, so all I had on me was my phone.
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