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Turbo Tuesday!
Back into the land of Honda... the following features the Top Fuel / Voltex S2000 (from 2012 to 2013) as it shattered the World Time Attack Challenge 2013 (WTAC) Tuner Car Record at Fuji Speedway (Aug. 22, 2013)
An Introduction (2012 WTAC Spec)
Dyno (2012)
Wind Tunnel (2012)
Setup & Testing (2012)
Record Run (2013 WTAC Spec)
Back into the land of Honda... the following features the Top Fuel / Voltex S2000 (from 2012 to 2013) as it shattered the World Time Attack Challenge 2013 (WTAC) Tuner Car Record at Fuji Speedway (Aug. 22, 2013)
An Introduction (2012 WTAC Spec)
Dyno (2012)
Wind Tunnel (2012)
Setup & Testing (2012)
Record Run (2013 WTAC Spec)
I'm no car guy, but I was born a Cornhusker so this auction is interesting to me. If anyone likes vintage cars, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2013/08/21/chevy-chevrolet-auction-nebraska-corvair-silverado-cameo/2682061/
500 vintage cars going on the auction block....50 of them with under 20 miles.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2013/08/21/chevy-chevrolet-auction-nebraska-corvair-silverado-cameo/2682061/
500 vintage cars going on the auction block....50 of them with under 20 miles.
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Here's a good one...
Japan's Retro Car Kings -- Saving Japanese Automotive Culture Through Restoration & Transformation
A unique look inside the shops, hearts and minds of five of Japan's most talented classic car tuners, restorers and re-imaginers; Japan's Retro Car Kings. A 45 minute journey through some of Japan's most influential and trend setting automotive culture, an inspiration for preservation, restoration and restomodding classic Japanese automobiles like the influential S30 Z-cars and KGC10 Skylines.
Discovery Turbo (クルマ特集トップへ) presents a rare look inside five of Japan's most talented classic car tuners; Moon Auto, T.A. Auto, Rocky Auto, RAUH-WELT BEGRIEF, OFFICINA ISHIKAWA and the Nissan Heritage Collection. A journey through some of Japan's most influential and trend setting car culture, showcasing classic Japanese automobiles like the Skyline GT, Datsun S30 Z, and many more!
Japan's Retro Car Kings -- Saving Japanese Automotive Culture Through Restoration & Transformation
A unique look inside the shops, hearts and minds of five of Japan's most talented classic car tuners, restorers and re-imaginers; Japan's Retro Car Kings. A 45 minute journey through some of Japan's most influential and trend setting automotive culture, an inspiration for preservation, restoration and restomodding classic Japanese automobiles like the influential S30 Z-cars and KGC10 Skylines.
Discovery Turbo (クルマ特集トップへ) presents a rare look inside five of Japan's most talented classic car tuners; Moon Auto, T.A. Auto, Rocky Auto, RAUH-WELT BEGRIEF, OFFICINA ISHIKAWA and the Nissan Heritage Collection. A journey through some of Japan's most influential and trend setting car culture, showcasing classic Japanese automobiles like the Skyline GT, Datsun S30 Z, and many more!
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So, as much as I am a Honda boy, secretly inside, I also have a huge fascination with trucks and tractors. Not that I've studied much in this particular arena (yet), but every once in awhile in the middle of the night, when I'm lucky enough... I catch some tractor pulling action on TV.
The following posts are not about tractors. They are about being BIG. and about being AMERICAN.
Top Gear USA brings the heat with this -- Ultimate Dualie Throwdown --
(for the minimalist, watch the third video of tomfoolery as Formula Drift Driver Tanner Foust meets Ford F450)
The following posts are not about tractors. They are about being BIG. and about being AMERICAN.
Top Gear USA brings the heat with this -- Ultimate Dualie Throwdown --
(for the minimalist, watch the third video of tomfoolery as Formula Drift Driver Tanner Foust meets Ford F450)
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[attachthumb=1][attachthumb=2] How about some Americanized Italians. Twin turbo charged 351.
[attachthumb=3]I was on a job, Eric who was on his way to pick up some material we needed, texted me this photo. It is a '71 push button, one of 89 built, there are less than 50 left. I can tell from the photo, it is as stock as the day it rolled out of the Lincoln Mercury dealer. When I got home, I showed my wife the picture and told her "if I had know it was there, two phone calls would have been made---first to the bank to transfer the funds, second to her to see if she wanted to go for a ride after I hooked up the hauler". Her only question---"where where you gonna put it"?
In the '70's we built about 50 cars for show and go. The first date with my future wife ended up being set up night for the World of Wheels when it was held at McCormick Place.
Tom
[attachthumb=3]I was on a job, Eric who was on his way to pick up some material we needed, texted me this photo. It is a '71 push button, one of 89 built, there are less than 50 left. I can tell from the photo, it is as stock as the day it rolled out of the Lincoln Mercury dealer. When I got home, I showed my wife the picture and told her "if I had know it was there, two phone calls would have been made---first to the bank to transfer the funds, second to her to see if she wanted to go for a ride after I hooked up the hauler". Her only question---"where where you gonna put it"?
In the '70's we built about 50 cars for show and go. The first date with my future wife ended up being set up night for the World of Wheels when it was held at McCormick Place.
Tom
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First time ever Nascar truck series is racing in Canada at the Canadian Tire Motorsport Park. This is a phenominal track that has had some major upgrades by the new owners over the last year !! Watch this race live today on Speed chanel.
http://www.canadiantiremotorsportpark.com/news/65-news/686-buescher-wins-the-pole-for-inaugural-chevrolet-silverado-250
http://www.canadiantiremotorsportpark.com/news/65-news/686-buescher-wins-the-pole-for-inaugural-chevrolet-silverado-250
Rick Christopherson said:K119Phil said:lol... :
my cubicle (from a parallel universe when I used to wear a suit and tie) was plastered with magazine tearouts --
Cubical?
I wish I had that luxury these days.
This is what my kitchen table currently looks like. [scared] Ya'd think that without being able to eat, I could hold my girlish figure....but alas, no!
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Rick, At least you have the right priorities.
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Paul G said:
LOL... I knew that statement would be at my own risk :
I'll first acknowledge my ignorance towards both Koenigsegg and SSC; frankly, I know very little of both, except for the obvious that they are incredibly fast.
While I was selling Nissans (however brief that period may have been; and boy sure seems an eternity ago), I often talked about the GT-R to potential clients. My terms then, and still now, is that at that level of car, the supercar, the hypercar - lap times, aerodynamics, horsepower figures, G's; they all lose their meaning -- they are no longer the point.
The point then becomes a mere, "which club would you like to be in, sir?"
A prancing horse. A raging bull. A Porsche Club racer. A three-pointed star. A red H.
The issue becomes of lineage, of proven racing pedigree and history, of which to me defines a marque, a name, and frankly... a genre.
Truthfully, if I had to name the one trump card, the one qualifying metric that aces the McLaren F1... well, it's in a name -- Gordon Murray. Maybe it tickles the essence of an absolute purist in design, a one-man show. Maybe it's my own bias that Murray owned and daily drove a Honda NSX, and took many inspiration from. Of which, to add to, the NSX was largely, nay, the NSX IS Ayrton Senna's legacy -- that adds quite a bit to it all too.
Of course all in all, who am I to judge? I've never driven any of these incredible machines. But I think that is precisely the tingle, the dream, that makes this all so mesmerizingly amazing. As Shakespeare put it, "what's in a name?"
Two very good reads, written by Gordon Murray himself!
http://www.roadandtrack.com/car-reviews/road-tests/technical-analysis-anatomy-of-a-supercar
http://www.carzi.com/2008/11/22/gordon-murray-reflections-on-the-acura-nsx/
