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Powershift posted:Goonball $3000. I'd be so down for this. I'd say modding allowed but it's also included in the budget?
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Maker Of Shoes posted:
Wanna be neighbors.
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Jun 27, 2014 16:15
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Powershift posted:Goonball $3000. Make this happen.
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Jun 27, 2014 16:15
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Powershift posted:Goonball $3000. Inaugural winner: geo metro.
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Jun 27, 2014 16:23
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xzzy posted:Inaugural winner: geo metro. Naturally, it would be a rally, not a race, and the winner would be the one who does it with the most style. The guy who shows up on the opposite coast in a geo metro with $2700 in his pocket? get hosed. The guy who does it in a $2500 alfa? that guy has a shot.
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Jun 27, 2014 16:37
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Seriously, I have a $350* Civic here that's dying to go coast to coast. *We're going by original purchase price right?
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Jun 27, 2014 16:44
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Powershift posted:Goonball $3000. So loving in for this. 
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Jun 27, 2014 17:31
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Powershift posted:Goonball $3000. This is a fantastic idea. I have some friends who've done banger rallies in the UK (Staples to Naples, and another one I can't remember the name of), I'll bet I could even drag a few over for it! Now, who's good at organizing things?
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Linedance posted:This is a fantastic idea. I have some friends who've done banger rallies in the UK (Staples to Naples, and another one I can't remember the name of), I'll bet I could even drag a few over for it! 2 man teams? NYC to LA?
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Jun 27, 2014 18:49
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Rhyno posted:2 man teams? NYC to LA? however many people fit, or you could ironman it if you're Billy No-Mates. Got to be more Goony... Seattle to Charlotte?
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Jun 27, 2014 18:53
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Linedance posted:however many people fit, or you could ironman it if you're Billy No-Mates. With modern GPS and cell phones we could map various routes to equal length around the country. That way we could have even more participants.
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Jun 27, 2014 18:57
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Linedance posted:however many people fit, or you could ironman it if you're Billy No-Mates. Portland to Raleigh.
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Jun 27, 2014 18:58
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Linedance posted:however many people fit, or you could ironman it if you're Billy No-Mates. Coast to coast would probably get someone killed. Longest I ever did was 18 hours with a mountain of caffeine and a couple 30 minute stops when I couldn't keep my eyes open. I was younger and stupider back then, I cap around 8 hours now and plan my trips so I can stop someplace interesting and sightsee a bit.
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Jun 27, 2014 19:02
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xzzy posted:Coast to coast would probably get someone killed. It'd be a rally, so you'd have set overnight stops along the way (probably at campgrounds or similar). I don't exactly how they work on the UK banger rallies, but from what I understand, the stage isn't complete until the pub arrives (literally, someone had a van kitted out with a wood bar, pumps, cask ales, dart board, etc.).
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Jun 27, 2014 19:12
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dev null posted:Portland to Raleigh. the goal is to cram as many craft IPAs into your car as you can, and the winner is the one with the most (if any) left at the end of the trip. They must then don the fedora of shame and drink them all alone. (Drivers obviously must be sober)
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Jun 27, 2014 19:16
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xzzy posted:Coast to coast would probably get someone killed. I did Portland to Chicago in like 18 hours and it drat near killed me. I really like this idea and think we should make this happen.
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Jun 27, 2014 19:17
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Linedance posted:however many people fit, or you could ironman it if you're Billy No-Mates. Charlotte to Seattle would be awesome. I wish I had the free time and cash to do this...
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Jun 27, 2014 19:25
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Linedance posted:the goal is to cram as many craft IPAs into your car as you can, and the winner is the one with the most (if any) left at the end of the trip. They must then don the fedora of shame and drink them all alone. (Drivers obviously must be sober) Contest restricted to VW Jettas and Golfs.
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Here is an idea: have a set dollar amount. That's all you get, for gas, the car, etc. BUT....you can sell parts off the car as you make the journey to earn extra cash, and you cannot sell more than 2 parts in the same city. And the car must still be able to move on its own at the end. The person with the most cash left at the end wins.
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Jun 27, 2014 19:31
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Isn't there an antique motorcycle rally called the Cannonball or something? It goes coast to coast. If I recall, they have a very sensible handicap system to the points for winning. The older the bike, the more points, the smaller the engine, more points, older rider, more points.
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Jun 27, 2014 19:38
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Mighty Horse posted:Here is an idea: have a set dollar amount. That's all you get, for gas, the car, etc. BUT....you can sell parts off the car as you make the journey to earn extra cash, and you cannot sell more than 2 parts in the same city. And the car must still be able to move on its own at the end. The person with the most cash left at the end wins. In many states you will get pulled over for having no hood, doors etc.
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That would have to play into your strategy....for example, need a hood in Nevada, but not in Arizona, so you wait until Arizona to sell your hood. Or you could get run a 3cyl Geo Metro and hope for the best.
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Jun 27, 2014 19:57
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Nocheez posted:Charlotte to Seattle would be awesome. I wish I had the free time and cash to do this... Charlotte isn't on the coast though.  Arguably Seattle isn't either. Nor is Portland. Unless that's the joke and I'm an idiot. You'd have to pick some podunk town like Astoria to get an actual town on the ocean in the pacific NW. Astoria to Wilmington.. 3077 miles, 46 hours of driving.. $400 in gas at 30mpg.
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Santa Monica pier is the only correct west coast option.
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Jun 27, 2014 20:33
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xzzy posted:Charlotte isn't on the coast though. Long Beach, WA to Charlotte NC: ~2900mi ^^ lol no, PNW > CA
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Astoria to DC would make sense - Lewis and Clark ended at Astoria, and even though they didn't technically start in DC, the command came from there.
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Solar Coaster posted:Long Beach, WA to Charlotte NC: ~2900mi I like that, the rally can finish in "Cape Disappointment State Park." We need a similarly goony starting line on the east coast.
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Jun 27, 2014 21:25
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The route for Goonball has to follow the original Cannonball Run route. Anything else is just wrong.
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xzzy posted:I like that, the rally can finish in "Cape Disappointment State Park." Boring/Sandy/Beaverton, OR to Intercourse, PA
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Wait, people know that Charlotte exists? Well I'll be damned.
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SyHopeful posted:Boring/Sandy/Beaverton, OR to Intercourse, PA Intercourse has got to lead to Cape Disappointment
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I interrupt this wall of text to bring you true, gritty loving commitment to vehicular humor: That is all.
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Vlad the Pedestrian Impaler.
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Stardotstar posted:I interrupt this wall of text to bring you true, gritty loving commitment to vehicular humor: Man that new Carmageddon game is looking good!
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Linedance posted:Intercourse has got to lead to Cape Disappointment Intercourse to Cape Disappointment via Boring
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MrChips posted:The route for Goonball has to follow the original Cannonball Run route. Anything else is just wrong. I like this idea.
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Spotted in morning commute traffic at the 280/85 interchange in the SF bay area. 
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xzzy posted:Coast to coast would probably get someone killed. I know for a fact that, from my mom's house in WI near the shores of Lake Michigan to Las Vegas, you can drive it in 27 hours solo with a half hour nap at a rest stop in Nebraska or Iowa (I forget which one) I sure as gently caress wouldn't do it again though
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You can do Atlanta to Omaha in about 19 hours solo, but you'll be ready to put a bullet in your head out in the middle of a corn field by the time you get there. edit: I drove my wife and two kids, ages 5 and 2, from Atlanta to Kirksville, MO (about 2 hours north of Columbia) a month ago and it took two days to cover just over 800 miles with the whine generators in the backseat. bandman fucked around with this message at 04:04 on Jun 28, 2014 |
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