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I still think the best thing honda could have done with the nsx was to give us the hsv-010.
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I dunno man, HSV-2 is bad enough
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Performance car timeline. <3
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Looks about right, yeah.
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Wild EEPROM posted:I still think the best thing honda could have done with the nsx was to give us the hsv-010. I've never seen that before. It's pretty awesome, and looks astoundingly like the Mazda Furai concept.  Well, the front clip at least. The butts are quite different.
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I had an extra week off so I decided a trip to the car museum was in order. Cellphone panorama  Vampire  'Audi'  Stanley Steamer  Early electric  Ferrari 750 Monza  300SL  Mercedes 28/95 (24000cc 1000hp six cylinder)  Unrestored Stutz  Delorean  I don't even know what the gently caress (Phanomen Phanomobil)  Early Morgan  Tata Nano (or just another reason I'm glad I don't live in India)  Porsche crashed during land speed record attempt  What's a VL Commodore doing here?  NSU Ro80  Elswick wheelchair car  Terrifying interior  The eminently practical Purvis Eureka   Toyota Sera (basically a Starlet with weird doors)  Civic + Corolla  'Rat rod'  Hiltermobile. You don't get much of a sense of scale from the photo - the thing was absolutely enormous in person.  RHD Nazi-era Mercedes (allegedly intended as a gift from Hilter to the Duke of Windsor for after the invasion of the British mainland)  Gangster Cadillac  Some think glass  America.jpg  Think I was about the last one to leave 
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Neat pics. I always thought the Toyota Sera was kind of cool in a weird 90s way. And holy gently caress that window glass.
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Previa_fun posted:Neat pics. I always thought the Toyota Sera was kind of cool in a weird 90s way. I drove one once. It's a much nicer and more interesting car if you never actually drive one.
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Slavvy posted:I drove one once. I always wanted to get one and throw a 4AGE into it. However they all seem to be autos
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You Am I posted:I always wanted to get one and throw a 4AGE into it. However they all seem to be autos This is what lots of people think would be cool to do with the endless hordes of 4E/4E/5E/7A powered vehicles around here and all of them turn out sort of impractical and awkward and not really as great as your brain is insisting they would be. You basically just get a really tidy [random jdm corolla variant] with worst fuel consumption and (modestly) improved power that you can never use unless you're in the countryside because it's obnoxious and cunty as gently caress. And then when you are in the countryside you realise you're basically just driving a 90/100 series corolla with a powerful engine and it's all rather underwhelming. Speaking from experience with a black top swapped 4AGE into a 90 series sedan.
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dissss posted:I had an extra week off so I decided a trip to the car museum was in order. Where is this?
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I reckon the VL Commodore in that museum was there because it is the last unmolested VL Turbo on this planet.
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dissss posted:The eminently practical Purvis Eureka
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Ghost Farts posted:What the gently caress is that thing behind the Eureka? Now, that really looks like the Inspector Gadget car, but seeing the company it's in I'd guess VW based kit car?
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Jan 16, 2015 15:38
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giant doorstop
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Two Finger posted:Where is this? About an hour out of Wellington, New Zealand You Am I posted:I reckon the VL Commodore in that museum was there because it is the last unmolested VL Turbo on this planet. Wasn't a turbo, just a normal 3l. There was also a non-turbo Mitsubishi GTO there  Ghost Farts posted:What the gently caress is that thing behind the Eureka? Something home built I think. I didn't take a picture of the little information card but I did get one of the car itself 
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If Homer Simpson could work sheet metal.
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dissss posted:Something home built I think. I didn't take a picture of the little information card but I did get one of the car itself I actually like that and would like to know more about it, but what about the UFO behind that one?
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dissss posted:About an hour out of Wellington, New Zealand Space Shuttle: now available as a car! Actually it kinda looks like an AT-ST.
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Happy 80th, AJ
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The patron saint of shredded tires.
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Jan 17, 2015 06:10
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I was hoping it'd spin fast enough to throw one out.
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I bet someone would flip their poo poo if you tried to logo up a car with a beer company saying "Be a better driver" now. You can't see it properly in the photo, but the Labbat's livery has a "Don't drink and drive" thing down either side, which is what the bumper text is actually referring to.
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Dick Johnson is an unfortunate name, unless he's just bragging.
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Somewhat Heroic posted:Dick Johnson is an unfortunate name, unless he's just bragging. You wish your name was that awesome.
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Somewhat Heroic posted:Dick Johnson is an unfortunate name, unless he's just bragging. My high school orchestra teacher was Dick Long. My freshman dormmate was Max Harry Johnson.
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Jan 18, 2015 02:43
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Dick Trickle probably got some laughs in middle school, too.
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There was a guy in my phone book back in the day named Harry Dick, and we pranked him like a billion times. Who the gently caress with the last name of Dick names their child Harry? That should be child abuse.
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Jan 18, 2015 02:58
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His dad's name was Tom Dick.
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One summer when I worked retail, we had the following customers, in ascending order of hilarity: 3) Steve Gooch 2) David Ramsbottom 1) Harry Dickener On topic, generally I think that car show photos are cheating, but I think we can make an exception for KITT.    
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Nice, Peter Brock's and Dick Johnson's Turbo Sierras. I love the way Brockie got pole position at the 1989 Bathurst 1000 - he wired up a fire extinguisher so it would fire directly on the intercooler, dropping the temperature of air going into the motor.
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drat! That's a Yunick level cheat right there.
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I would like to drive that. Very much.
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It's a shame, that variant was designed for the 1970 Japanese Grand Prix, which in 1969 was similar to Group 7 rules. In '69 it used a 5 liter normally aspirated V8 making 600hp, while that particular car was to use the same 5 liter, albeit twin turbocharged (you can see the intakes mounted to the turbos under the wing), making up to 850hp. However, the style of car was changed to open wheel for the 1970 JGP series, and the twin turbo never turned a lap in anger. Toyota had plans to ship it to North America to compete in the 1970 Can-Am series, but drivers Sachio Fukuzawa and Minoru Kawai were both killed in accidents before the plan could be implemented. In a car weighing 620kg, that combo would have been devastating, and given a year or two of development, it could have challenged both the McLaren M8 variants and Porsche 917/10's and /30's, maybe extending the life of Can-Am by removing the dominance seen at the end of the series' life. What could have been... Seizure Meat fucked around with this message at 10:10 on Jan 18, 2015 |
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Somewhat Heroic posted:Dick Johnson is an unfortunate name, unless he's just bragging. One of my coworkers brothers is named Hugh Johnson. I couldn't stop laughing for at least a few minute when I found that out
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A kid in my elementary school was named Peter Johnson. He was a bit of a bully and yet I was too young to know his name was basically dick dick. It wasn't until many years later when I was looking through my old year book that I found out his middle name was Richard. His parents named him penis penis penis.
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kill me now posted:One of my coworkers brothers is named Hugh Johnson. I couldn't stop laughing for at least a few minute when I found that out 
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