Cars, Man

[LukeA]

some actual "donks" i know alot of people dont like em but some do. i would assume members here have enough integrity to keep the overly negative comments to themselves as i dont care for every custom genre, i still have respect for the work/time/cost involved and dont bash people for their different tastes.

I would respect them much more if they upgraded brakes or steering equipment. The drum brakes on those cars were barely adequate to lock up wheel/tire combos with relatively much lower mass moments of inertia and with lower 1970s coefficients of friction between the tires and road.

[Jep]

i agree most dont but if you look close at some you'll see rear discs and some big big brake kits. like most genres you have the good and bad. there are plenty of this type of car with brake kits, a few i posted ^^ have them.

good example

[Monocrom]

Is that real?

If it is, that's a helluva pic. Looks like a painting by a master artist.

[StarHalo]

Less donk, more resto

"Red Devil" Pro Touring Camaro, 756hp, 1.0g skidpad

[Jep]

nice camaro.

yes this is real.. one more shot:

[PJ]

Sept. 16 and 17, 2011 Mid-Michigan Motorplex in Stanton, Michigan is hosting the Pure Stock Drags.

These are cars from about 1958 to 1974, classic American muscle cars with factory appearance, stock size tires and engines and transmissions that at least appear stock. I'm sure some have been tweaked and tuned but there are a few original cars.

Here is a link to the website with info, some videos and pictures.

www.purestockdrags.com

[peterpetrickgo]

Yes I'm a car photographer. Taken from another moving car, you don't need to be going fast
maybe 30mph, dependant on the road surface shooting at about 1/15-1/40 second.
Here are a couple more examples.

C-Type



Aston DBS

oh my gosh! this 2 photos seems great. Especially the first one, the car looks awesome.

[StarHalo]

Here come the hot subcompacts: Ford Fiesta ST, 180hp and greenlighted for production..

[Launch Mini]

Here is a link to an 11 "supercar" 1/4 mile race
http://www.wimp.com/dragrace/

Sadly, the car similar to mine didn't win, but at least one like mine ( less 50hp and about 100 ft Tq) didn't finish last, and was still chosen for the race.

[tjswarbrick]

Here's mine. Basically stock, except for front discs and electronic ignition. In the family since new:

[StarHalo]

The last Ford Crown Victoria rolled off the St. Thomas, Ontario assembly line today at 12:30PM local time, after 32 years of production - a record surpassing the Model T.

[Monocrom]

. . . And every single cab company owner in NYC is royally pissed.

Honestly, I can't blame them. Those old Crown Vics and Grand Marques are absolute tanks. If I wasn't into sports cars, I'd own one myself. I honestly would. Sheer tanks able to easily do 200,000+ miles. You don't need crumple zones when you're driving a tank.

Only downside, other than a lack of sporty performance, is that they don't handle too well in the snow. But if the weather is that bad, screw it! Stay home. A truly sad day for an American icon.

[5.0Trunk]

Like someone said in a earlier post, here is a pic of my new project for us POOR folks... Next Thursday it's going in to have a FRPP/Whipple installed with a custom tune, should be ~550RWHP... Can't wait...

[LukeA]

Only downside, other than a lack of sporty performance, is that they don't handle too well in the snow. But if the weather is that bad, screw it! Stay home...

That would be mostly the fault of the tires.

[kwak]

Absolutely pointless.
Absolutely fantastic

[TyJo]

Nice video, GTR for the win.

[LukeA]

The last Ford Crown Victoria rolled off the St. Thomas, Ontario assembly line today at 12:30PM local time, after 32 years of production - a record surpassing the Model T.

I considered getting one of these once, but good riddance to all Hotchkiss drive vehicles that don't have USDOT numbers on the sides. It's not 1979 anymore.

[Monocrom]

. . . It's not 1979 anymore.

In some ways, that's too bad.

Remember when cars didn't have crumple zones. Get into an accident, both you and your car would survive. Trunk space bigger than studio apartment nowadays. Full-sized adult could stretch out and fall asleep on the backseat. Yeah, 1979 wasn't a perfect year, but I'd honestly prefer it over 2011.

[Jep]

saw this saturday (4x4/off road jamboree was in town)

[Jep]

some pics i've taken at carshows in Indiana and Florida. im pretty much a fan of anything custom..

Florida

[Jep]

Indiana various shows over the years

[Jep]

hill climb Newport, IN. a few years ago

[RBR]

Destillery District, Toronto, Canada, June 2010.



Cheers

RBR

[StarHalo]

1200 horsepower, 70 to 215 mph:

[Jep]

[Empath]

Jep, your last post was removed due to being composed of several hot-linked images. Hot-linking is not permitted.

I haven't checked all your images, but any other hot-linked images will need to be removed.

As an addition point of information, your extended use of "tinypic" has been creating a situation for some of extended loading time. Some of the images don't load, but leaves the browsers in a state of constantly awaiting the images to load. I don't know the extent of the problem or the number of members having to deal with the situation.

[StarHalo]

Today on EBay: 2004 Ferrari FXX Evolution, 7 miles, 1 of 17.

[Monocrom]

7 miles???

The guy bought it, it was delivered, and after 7 miles he realized he couldn't fit into remotely comfortably??

One of the oddest listing I've ever seen on the Bay.

[StarHalo]

The guy bought it, it was delivered, and after 7 miles he realized he couldn't fit into remotely comfortably??.

Oh that would be too easy - the guy bought it, and then even though it had been driven 7 miles or less at the time, he paid more to have the Evolution upgrade added to it. And then he somehow came in full possession of the car despite the fact that Ferrari doesn't allow FXX owners access to the cars outside of track days. And then he didn't do anything else with the car, because it's not street legal, and driving it on a non-Ferrari track day would have made news.

Quite the mystery.

[Monocrom]

My gut tells me there's something wrong with that FXX . . . Something terribly wrong.