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It's becoming almost necessary for hypercars as hybrid tech is also on the new Porsche and LaFerrari.
It's becoming almost necessary for hypercars as hybrid tech is also on the new Porsche and LaFerrari.
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brookyone
Deport Right Wing Nuts
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Someone mentioned that Chevy's modern day Camaro was a complete hack job as opposed to the better done modern day Challenger by Dodge and Mustang by Ford.
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Take your modern day Camaro rag top and do some custom body and paint and I think I could live with it.
Someone mentioned that Chevy's modern day Camaro was a complete hack job as opposed to the better done modern day Challenger by Dodge and Mustang by Ford.
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Take your modern day Camaro rag top and do some custom body and paint and I think I could live with it.
St. Clown
Ideas Posted are Likely Not My Own
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This just in: GM Doesn't Know How to Make Properly Functioning Brake Lights! New Technology Baffling.
http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2013/03/13/bad-brake-lights-could-force-recall-over-one-million-gm-cars/?intcmp=features
This just in: GM Doesn't Know How to Make Properly Functioning Brake Lights! New Technology Baffling.
http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2013/03/13/bad-brake-lights-could-force-recall-over-one-million-gm-cars/?intcmp=features
You shut your **** dirty Ford mouth!!!
bigblue_dl
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dxmnkd316
Lucia Apologist
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False. The Challenger is the biggest pile of **** to come out of Detroit in recent memory. They might as well have taken a dump on the original car. It's just a thugmobile.
The Mustang has more power, more torque, it's quicker, and looks better than both. Combined.
False. The Challenger is the biggest pile of **** to come out of Detroit in recent memory. They might as well have taken a dump on the original car. It's just a thugmobile.
The Mustang has more power, more torque, it's quicker, and looks better than both. Combined.
brookyone
Deport Right Wing Nuts
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I'll have to disagree with the Dodge Challenger opinion. I don't know exactly what is meant by thugmobile. I had a R/T with a 440 Six Pack back in the day, have driven a SRT8 392 a fair number of miles and wouldn't consider it an insult to the first generation Challenger at all. Definitely not a piece of ****. I do wish they were lighter.
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Way back-and i do mean way back-I had a Plymouth Barracuda in Plum Crazy with a white racing stripe. have been through a boatload of cars since then but it holds a special place in my heart.
Way back-and i do mean way back-I had a Plymouth Barracuda in Plum Crazy with a white racing stripe. have been through a boatload of cars since then but it holds a special place in my heart.
Twitch Boy
Defacing this tagline is a MAX foul
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That car was such a monster insurance companies (back in the days when auto insurance was optional) wouldn't touch it with a 10 foot pole. It was "you buy one of those son, you're on your own."
That car was such a monster insurance companies (back in the days when auto insurance was optional) wouldn't touch it with a 10 foot pole. It was "you buy one of those son, you're on your own."
walrus
Wind up workin' in a gas station
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There is no doubt the newer models handle better, stop better, probably have more HP, way more creature comforts, they still suck in comparison
Nice, my first car was a 69 Camero. I still own a 67 Mustang but its been relegated to storage for many years as I have no time. Been thinking of putting on the road this summer just to smell some tire smoke once again
There is no doubt the newer models handle better, stop better, probably have more HP, way more creature comforts, they still suck in comparison
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You are a perfect example why cars that sold in millions back in the day are so valuable. Regardless of how not good they are.
Rationality had very litte impact on a decent amount of car buyers.
(can't say that I'm that much different, I like my '73 Alfa over a '10 Alfa that's faster, more comforable, cheaper, cleaner, etc etc etc)
Nice, my first car was a 69 Camero. I still own a 67 Mustang but its been relegated to storage for many years as I have no time. Been thinking of putting on the road this summer just to smell some tire smoke once again
There is no doubt the newer models handle better, stop better, probably have more HP, way more creature comforts, they still suck in comparison
You are a perfect example why cars that sold in millions back in the day are so valuable. Regardless of how not good they are.
Rationality had very litte impact on a decent amount of car buyers.
(can't say that I'm that much different, I like my '73 Alfa over a '10 Alfa that's faster, more comforable, cheaper, cleaner, etc etc etc)
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Mine was a 69 GTO, 400 4 barrel. Of course, I bought it right before the oil crisis, so I didn't keep it long.
Mine was a 69 GTO, 400 4 barrel. Of course, I bought it right before the oil crisis, so I didn't keep it long.
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We put the insurance (as i remember) in my dad's name and stated i was located more than 200 miles from home. For some reason that meant a big deduction in the insurance as i was still young enough to be charged the surcharge for my age. I had another car like that but later in life-in 1973 I bought an AMC Javelin (yes, there actually was such a thing) with a 401 engine. All black exterior but interior was special Pierre Cardin design with all sorts of stripes and things even on the headliner. It was rated at 255HP but someone put two 4 barrel Holley carbureters in the thing and it could just snap your neck when you hit the gas.
We put the insurance (as i remember) in my dad's name and stated i was located more than 200 miles from home. For some reason that meant a big deduction in the insurance as i was still young enough to be charged the surcharge for my age. I had another car like that but later in life-in 1973 I bought an AMC Javelin (yes, there actually was such a thing) with a 401 engine. All black exterior but interior was special Pierre Cardin design with all sorts of stripes and things even on the headliner. It was rated at 255HP but someone put two 4 barrel Holley carbureters in the thing and it could just snap your neck when you hit the gas.
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This. I wouldn't trade my '65 GTO for pretty much anything. (exception being a certain Ferrari or two)
Although, unless the car is truely worth restoring or keeping original, I am all in favor of adding modifications to make said care handle better, stop better, etc. My GTO, due to is combination of rarity of it (tri-power, automatic tranny, hardtop, and factory AC), I will not modify. My '73 Camaro on the other hand, had been heavily modified to make it even more driveable.
This. I wouldn't trade my '65 GTO for pretty much anything. (exception being a certain Ferrari or two)
Although, unless the car is truely worth restoring or keeping original, I am all in favor of adding modifications to make said care handle better, stop better, etc. My GTO, due to is combination of rarity of it (tri-power, automatic tranny, hardtop, and factory AC), I will not modify. My '73 Camaro on the other hand, had been heavily modified to make it even more driveable.
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Memories of being a corner worker at Mosport in the golden age of Trans Am racing, dreaming of being able to be behind the wheel of one of those monsters.
Ear plugs are optional!
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Memories of being a corner worker at Mosport in the golden age of Trans Am racing, dreaming of being able to be behind the wheel of one of those monsters.
Ear plugs are optional!
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walrus
Wind up workin' in a gas station
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Javelin pace car, sweet.
I took a tour of Daytona one time in the late fall, its was the last SCCA race of the year and they were practicing. My wife and kid went inside to see the sights in the museum I stayed out and watched, 69 Cameros, Mustangs, XKEs practice, it was awesome. Then out came the exotics, Lambos, Ferrari and the like, god they were even better. They were running Daytonas road course not the oval, talk about loud, wow
Javelin pace car, sweet.
I took a tour of Daytona one time in the late fall, its was the last SCCA race of the year and they were practicing. My wife and kid went inside to see the sights in the museum I stayed out and watched, 69 Cameros, Mustangs, XKEs practice, it was awesome. Then out came the exotics, Lambos, Ferrari and the like, god they were even better. They were running Daytonas road course not the oval, talk about loud, wow
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Time seems to have taken 5-10 seconds off of their lap times...
They may look fast, but they are not, relative to cars that are prepared almost identically based on production cars. It's just that we like to see cars in 4 wheel drifts.
Memories of being a corner worker at Mosport in the golden age of Trans Am racing, dreaming of being able to be behind the wheel of one of those monsters.
Ear plugs are optional!
Time seems to have taken 5-10 seconds off of their lap times...
They may look fast, but they are not, relative to cars that are prepared almost identically based on production cars. It's just that we like to see cars in 4 wheel drifts.
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