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Boaz MacPhereson posted:The F1 was and shall forever be my impossible dream. No turbos, no million horsepower unicorn-tear-fuelled engine, no fancy AWD or active aero. Just a perfectly engineered masterpiece that shocked the world. I will love the F1 forever. The F1 did use fans to assist in generating downforce. Murray did also design the Brabham fan car.
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More F1 action: The lady behind the camera is a little tough, but I had no idea about the luggage that makes an appearance at 4:20 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5wMu41t2Ok
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Feb 27, 2015 23:44
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Boaz MacPhereson posted:Thread is now F1 chat. I've never found the F1 to be a looker, but this right here has sold me. Goodness.
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Feb 28, 2015 00:07
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 Jalopnik link, I know, but click for more.
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Slavvy posted:Possibly the only car in history to brag about aerospace technology and actually have aerospace technology 
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Collateral Damage posted:But but.. Saab? Mitsubishi makes cars, that doesn't mean there's Zero parts in your Lancer.
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I saw the Sky F1 show with Gordon Murray and he said his proudest racing achievement was winning Le Mans with the F1. His only regret was that they didn't drive the car back to England after the race.
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Feb 28, 2015 02:05
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Human Grand Prix posted:The F1 did use fans to assist in generating downforce. Murray did also design the Brabham fan car. Didn't know it had fans. Also, I believe the LM had some active aero with the rear wing, so that's a bit of a caveat as well I suppose.
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I remember reading somewhere that the F1's shape was so slippery that it would match the veyron's top speed with a mere 800-odd horsepower; a figure easily attained by sticking a couple of turbos on the existing engine. Murray declined because that isn't the point of the car.
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Feb 28, 2015 04:09
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Krakkles posted:Veyron? EB110.
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Feb 28, 2015 05:12
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Teach posted:TinEye didn't like it - what is it? A McLaren, yes? Why the NART vents all over its bum? NACA ducts? NART was a racing team.
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Feb 28, 2015 05:14
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Local art museum finally got some good sculpture:
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Feb 28, 2015 05:34
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I'm getting better at IDing Ferraris. My first guess was 250 GT Lusso 
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Feb 28, 2015 05:39
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 A helicopter, an RX-7(?) mid-drift, and slow motion. It's a big gif, so click the link to see. http://i.imgur.com/rIVSDEW.gifv
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Feb 28, 2015 20:04
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Man, I wish my car handled uneven surfaces that gracefully. Then again I suspect 3 feet of travel helps 
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Feb 28, 2015 20:08
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Saw this the other night, owned by a local shop. ZO6 with light motor work, most intensive thing being valve guides. 345 rear tires, extra widebody kit, wide sideskirts, no sideviews... 3100 pounds and 600 to the wheels. 
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Feb 28, 2015 20:37
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Looks like an un-textured 3d model.
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Feb 28, 2015 22:11
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Or, you know, the motherfucking Batman's daily.
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Mar 1, 2015 00:23
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Tinted head and tail lights?  Everything else about it is cool, I guess
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Mar 1, 2015 00:59
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InitialDave posted:Porsche 904? Yup. not sure if its original or a clone though.
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cursedshitbox posted:Yup. not sure if its original or a clone though. There's an easy way to tell. If it's being driven around, it's a replica.
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cursedshitbox posted:
I've never seen one of these on the street before, but I have seen some rare ones driving around. Probably the rarest:  XK220 just tooling around on Sunrise Rd in Tucson.  Shelby Series I. One of the guys in my karting league owns one. He's pretty fast, too.  And yeah, an F1. A German dude brought one to a trackday in Phoenix a few years ago. It still had some kind of plastic covers on the seats. It sounded like a chorus of metallic angels. Finally, saw one of these the other day driving around in phoenix with a "MYC7Z06" plate. loving staggering how much better they look in the flesh: 
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Stardotstar posted:I've never seen one of these on the street before, but I have seen some rare ones driving around. Probably the rarest: The ever-elusive beachfront property in Arizona, found at last!
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GramCracker posted:Post more F1 poo poo! I saw one on the road once, as a young man. It must have been sometime about '93. I was walking home, about 10pm, in my home town in the Midlands of the UK, and it was fuelling up at the BP station. It was K8MCL, which I think was one that McLaren used as a press car, or something. The driver came out of the garage, popped the door, spent a minute getting straight, then drove off down the long straight A-road out of town. I just stopped walking for a minute, and stood under a streetlight, listening as he went up through the rev range a couple of times. Lovely.
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Stardotstar posted:Finally, saw one of these the other day driving around in phoenix with a "MYC7Z06" plate. loving staggering how much better they look in the flesh: Honestly I didn't like it in person. The clear tails look weird and the hard angles don't work nor the stuck-on look of the aero bits. It's better in white but not by much.
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Das Volk posted:Honestly I didn't like it in person. The clear tails look weird and the hard angles don't work nor the stuck-on look of the aero bits. It's better in white but not by much. The busy mess of stuck on looking poo poo has been creeping onto American cars for a while now. It's like the glue on AutoZone fender vents PT cruiser crowd has had some subtle influence on the big three. My main beef about the design is that the four in a row french horn looking exhausts just look silly given the rest of the styling. I mean I get it, it looks like a skull face, but c'mon a car with futuristic hard lines like that doesn't need a set of chrome horns out the rear. It needs a big rectangular heat vent that maybe starts to glow red and shoot flames on hard acceleration.
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Stardotstar posted:
Saw one of these yesterday, in red. Easy to tell apart because that spoiler looks humongous, I saw it from the other side of a divided highway.
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Saw one in orange just before winter hit. You can see a vague hint of C6 that doesn't show through in pictures, but I couldn't make any sort of meaningful conclusion on it because I was with my stepmom and all she could talk about is how it doesn't look like a C3 and that was the last Corvette that looked any good so I had to sit there and defend the thing with the ol' 'form as a result of function' argument.
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McLaren P1 having fun at Circuit of the Americas. Kills it on the straights. As captured by a Corvette Z06. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cy6rRgMCD0w&t=167s
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holocaust bloopers posted:McLaren P1 having fun at Circuit of the Americas. Kills it on the straights. As captured by a Corvette Z06. I had to keep reminding myself that the camera car is not slow by any stretch of the imagination 
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Tommychu posted:Saw one in orange just before winter hit. You can see a vague hint of C6 that doesn't show through in pictures, but I couldn't make any sort of meaningful conclusion on it because I was with my stepmom and all she could talk about is how it doesn't look like a C3 and that was the last Corvette that looked any good so I had to sit there and defend the thing with the ol' 'form as a result of function' argument. The problem with the C7 is it looks exactly like a car that would be in GTAV. I'd still roll one though.
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revmoo posted:The problem with the C7 is it looks exactly like a car that would be in GTAV. "Would be"?
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holocaust bloopers posted:McLaren P1 having fun at Circuit of the Americas. Kills it on the straights. As captured by a Corvette Z06. Probably should ask this really stupid question in the racing thread but just curious how much does it cost to have a crash during a track day at a track like that? By crash I mean if just you go off the track and smash your car into a wall. (obv not counting the car and any injuries to you) Like do they just send you a bill for loving up the track?
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OhnOmyMuddaFada posted:Saw this the other night, owned by a local shop. ZO6 with light motor work, most intensive thing being valve guides. 345 rear tires, extra widebody kit, wide sideskirts, no sideviews... 3100 pounds and 600 to the wheels. Considering the z06 comes with 335 width tires stock and 345's fit on the stock wheels just fine that's the least impressive part about the car.
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holocaust bloopers posted:McLaren P1 having fun at Circuit of the Americas. Kills it on the straights. As captured by a Corvette Z06. Where is the green racing line?
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This should probably go in a different thread, but I assume everyone in this thread will have seen project binky, and I have a question about project binky. Anyone know what those rubber/plastic things were that they used for bumpers on the pivoting front end? Cone shaped, male and female ends, looked like black rubber. Do those things have a name? Any idea where they can be found? I got a project that needs something a lot like that. Seen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_H8bK8o3UM&t=19s
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