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Boomerjinks posted:Shhhhiiiiiii I kinda hope that same bird was the one in this video (at 3:24) and he just spends his time flying from racetrack to racetrack checking out all the various cars at said race.
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Terrible Robot posted:For a minute I thought it was an interior shot of the Pantera that some crazy (is there really any other kind of Northern European?) Swede threw a Hemi into. Would you like to know (a lot) more? The website is straight out of 1999 but has a dizzying amount of information on his build and all the custom parts he designed and built for it. Oh god I love Panteras, and this car is amazing. I want one with with pretty much everything he's done except the motor. I want to put a Coyote in one so bad.
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Previa_fun posted:Holy poo poo that guy is AI as gently caress. We've hit peak AI (again) jesus christ this guy's loving insane in the best way
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Video from last weekend of them setting a new buttonwillow record isn't up yet. Here's last year: http://vimeo.com/53130736 The year before has a better camera angle: http://vimeo.com/31915490 This one is older but a little more fun to watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8ACPjGfGZo&t=34s jamal fucked around with this message at 22:35 on Dec 11, 2013 |
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That looks like such a handful to drive, hahahaha. Beautiful.
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The big limitation of that car right now is that it is on stock suspension links and geometry. With all the downforce it is hard to stay off the bumpstops plus down that low the front end toes out so the car is pretty unstable at high speed. The faster it goes the worse the handling gets. Kind of the opposite of what you want with a high power, high downforce car. Thankfully they've got Billy Johnson to drive it (he races grandam, rolex DP, and some nascar) so it managed to go 1:37.5 around there last weekend. I think if the current top Japanese and Australian teams like Scorch, Tilton, and Nemo come out next year they will go even faster than that. Here's how far they are ahead of everyone else in the US right now: http://hellafunctional.com/?p=1468 Also I like the center console: 
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Dec 11, 2013 22:59
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poo poo i need to get me some of those 52A fuses
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I thought this was cool - MTA in NYC has some vintage stuff out for the holidays - this said it was the M42 bus, and there were a few people on it, so I got in. Metrocard reader and everything. Took it cross-town at noon today to some work stuff. Got off, it continued on its route. It's a GM bus from the 1960s.
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That video of the Ford GT flyby led me to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzwALcR98N4 A guy does some really strong LSD and goes to a monster truck show.
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Hit an Apex posted:I thought this was cool - MTA in NYC has some vintage stuff out for the holidays - this said it was the M42 bus, and there were a few people on it, so I got in. Metrocard reader and everything. Took it cross-town at noon today to some work stuff. Got off, it continued on its route. It's a GM bus from the 1960s. 
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IOwnCalculus posted:You forgot "WRX more like WR-ecks" when there was a seemingly neverending stream of photos of WRXs embedded into homes. Oh man, the OH NO A HAUSE gif was gold. I wonder if it still exists anywhere.
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 Haven't been able to track down any info, just a ton of tumblr posts. Looks bad rear end.
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I want that in my life so bad. I would literally do everything in that.
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NitroSpazzz posted:
Team Zorro trophy truck for the Baja. 
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angryhampster posted:PD4106 flying  It has a sibling  With a 8v92 shoved in the rear. (the 4106 came with a 8v71.)
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BlackMK4 posted:Team Zorro trophy truck for the Baja. Holy christ, thank you. I just spent 10 or 15 minutes straight digging through Google trying to find out something about it.
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That thing is cool as poo poo - dude got a petition signed by all of the other TT drivers to allow it in because SCORE rules require trophy trucks to resemble a truck. I love desert racing. There used to be a fuckin Purple Rolls Royce a cool dude (RIP) used as a chase 'truck' too.
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Trophy Trucks are just the best loving things.
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BlackMK4 posted:That thing is cool as poo poo - dude got a petition signed by all of the other TT drivers to allow it in because SCORE rules require trophy trucks to resemble a truck. I love desert racing. There used to be a fuckin Purple Rolls Royce a cool dude (RIP) used as a chase 'truck' too. What's their reasoning behind that rule, just for the name? They're all tube-frame chassis underneath so what does the thin shell of "truck" on the outside really matter anyways?
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Depending on the class, some of them have to use a stock cab and firewall. Similar to doorslammer drag racing rules. Awhile back someone posted a pretty kick rear end pre runner conversion street vehicle. AI got all pissy because it wasn't a 4x4. (Desert runners are mostly 2wd with a solid rear axle because its hard to get 35+" of wheel travel on an independent front suspension. Better to just safe the weight).
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Some pics from Autoweek's coverage of Bonneville Speed Week 2013: It went 120+ For 13":  Yeah, that's a Honda Z600.   The Woodland Camo "woodgrain" is epic. Many more in Autoweek's gallery: http://www.autoweek.com/article/20130821/CARNEWS01/130829987 Somebody fucked around with this message at 20:05 on Dec 12, 2013 |
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At the risk of being a huge pedant that's not woodland camo, which refers to a specific pattern developed by the US and used in the 1980s and 1990s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Woodland That's one of the more photorealistic patterns developed for hunters, maybe something like Realtree.
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this showed up on facebook. I have no other information
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BlackMK4 posted:Team Zorro trophy truck for the Baja.     Just makes me want one for street and dirt fun times. Or the Local Motors Rally Fighter which is kind of similar, you get to build it with the team and comes with a BMW diesel powerplant...but $75k 
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Not sure if this fits here. I stumbled on this from over in CC I think. It's a Swedish Artist who does "post Scifi" landscapes with a touch of the surreal. He likes to toss in old Volvos and Saabs.  Here is his site: https://www.simonstalenhag.se
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I have some prints of his work hanging in my living room. My wife gave them to me for my birthday. I really like his stuff.
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Isn't this basically from Jurassic Park?
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NitroSpazzz posted:Or the Local Motors Rally Fighter which is kind of similar, you get to build it with the team and comes with a BMW diesel powerplant...but $75k $75k is a big chunk of change for a vehicle, but it's only a tenth of the price of a high end pre runner.
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drgitlin posted:At the risk of being a huge pedant that's not woodland camo, which refers to a specific pattern developed by the US and used in the 1980s and 1990s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Woodland You're right. Realtree was what I was thinking of. Obviously didn't make it out of head properly, though.
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jonathan posted:$75k is a big chunk of change for a vehicle, but it's only a tenth of the price of a high end pre runner. Also, the price has gone up a wee bit. It's now $99,900. Of course, if I had a hundred grand burning a hole in my pocket I'd be all over it.
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Mercury Ballistic posted:It's an Enormous Hipster who does "post Scifi" landscapes with a touch of the surreal. He likes to toss in old Volvos and Saabs. Fixed  Still pretty awesome though.
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Slavvy posted:Fixed Swedes don't come out hipster - they're just that hosed up.
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Linedance posted:this showed up on facebook. I have no other information Wait a second there. A radial engine? I assume there's some ridiculous transfer case/differential to take the power 90 degrees so it's not pointing down?
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Timage posted:Wait a second there. A radial engine? I assume there's some ridiculous transfer case/differential to take the power 90 degrees so it's not pointing down? There also a lack of cooling and generally everything else I'd expect to have under the hood of a vehicle. kinda thinking it might just be for show.
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