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Title: Guess who's on the cover of this month's Motor Trend?
Post by: DiabloTX on February 29, 2008, 07:41:40 PM: Well, it aint' Car & Driver but who gives a ****.

(http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g308/txflood77598/08019e5ca2f18b12a40b48665c580069_MO.jpg)

:D
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Post by: Airscrew on February 29, 2008, 07:52:29 PM: Must have been hell getting that picture taken... all that glare from dome in the middle... :cool:
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Post by: vorticon on February 29, 2008, 07:56:40 PM: a BMW m3?

meh.
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Post by: Redlegs on February 29, 2008, 08:03:53 PM: is the dude on the left FPS-Doug?
(http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c108/inycxeddy/fpsdoug.jpg)
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Post by: trax1 on February 29, 2008, 08:06:45 PM: Is that a Camaro? If so have you seen the new one?
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Post by: texasmom on February 29, 2008, 08:19:53 PM: I recognize the gal as the one who's in your avatar. Is the guy you?
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Post by: DiabloTX on February 29, 2008, 08:44:34 PM: No, that's not Doug, lolz.

Yes, that's a Camaro, same one in my avatar, same one I drive daily. Yes, I've seen the new one.

Yes that's me on the left and Ginger, or as 88 calls her "Spider Lady" on the right.
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Post by: texasmom on February 29, 2008, 08:46:54 PM: Cool, how nice! =)
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Post by: Lumpy on February 29, 2008, 08:56:49 PM: Lol, nice edit Texasmom. I thought the first version was much better. ;)
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Post by: USRanger on February 29, 2008, 09:05:47 PM: Does Texas allow tinted windows? If so, blacken that baby out.
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Post by: DiabloTX on February 29, 2008, 09:07:06 PM: When that pic was taken the windows weren't tinted. Now they have the darkest allowed under Texas law.
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Post by: ChickenHawk on February 29, 2008, 09:08:06 PM: Hey man, where's the new wheels?
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Post by: DiabloTX on February 29, 2008, 09:10:13 PM: The new wheels are sitting at the Mercedes shop waiting for the new tires to drop next week. Should have them on sometime Thurs. or Friday. :cool:
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Post by: texasmom on February 29, 2008, 09:34:38 PM: Lumpy, I often go back & edit my posts. My father & husband & one of my sons browse through here sometimes. I don't ever want to put them into a position where they think: "Oh man, I can't believe my (daughter/wife/mother) just said that."
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Post by: LePaul on February 29, 2008, 10:14:54 PM: I see the gal..what car? :D
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Post by: SteveBailey on February 29, 2008, 11:22:31 PM: how fast is it in the quarter?.. I don't remember
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Post by: Lumpy on February 29, 2008, 11:30:41 PM: Heh, well it wasn't THAT bad Texasmom. ;)
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Post by: DiabloTX on February 29, 2008, 11:32:48 PM: Quote
Originally posted by SteveBailey
how fast is it in the quarter?.. I don't remember

Have to ask whiteman. He's tracked his and I haven't. Other than his being an A4 and mine being an M6 our cars are mechanically identical. I think he ran a 12.9 at 108 or so.
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Post by: SteveBailey on February 29, 2008, 11:48:14 PM: In the twelves... that's quick :)
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Post by: texasmom on February 29, 2008, 11:52:28 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Lumpy
Heh, well it wasn't THAT bad Texasmom. ;)

Bad is all relative ;)
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Post by: DiabloTX on March 01, 2008, 12:10:27 AM: Quote
Originally posted by SteveBailey
In the twelves... that's quick :)

HAHA, compared to what I'm used to it's lightning quick. But on LS1Tech just breaking into the 12's is slowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww. :D
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Post by: SteveBailey on March 01, 2008, 12:44:38 AM: Quote
Originally posted by DiabloTX
HAHA, compared to what I'm used to it's lightning quick. But on LS1Tech just breaking into the 12's is slowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww. :D

Nah, I think anything under 13.0 is pretty darned quick. Besides being faster than that has it's downside. I could break any time even though I've beefed everything up. With the IRS, the half shafts and spindles become the weak part after you put in a d44
12 secs is fast without really twisting the car and asking it to do things it wasn't originally built for. IMHO
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Post by: DiabloTX on March 01, 2008, 01:00:42 AM: Well, like I was saying, 12's is lightning fast compared to what I'm used to, my old 3.8 Camaro. Back in high school if you had a car in the low 14's you were competitive. If you could get it in the 13's you were pretty much king. 12's was like the holy grail for most of us back then. And I know what you mean by taking it easy on the rear end. When I get my 295's tires on the back I am not going to be dumping the clutch at all.
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Post by: acfireguy26 on March 01, 2008, 01:34:34 AM: (http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q37/acfireguy26/wtf.jpg)

:huh
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Post by: Brownshirt on March 01, 2008, 01:50:33 AM: Yep. One day people will learn to read the fine print.
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Post by: DiabloTX on March 01, 2008, 01:52:56 AM: LAWLZ x2
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Post by: acfireguy26 on March 01, 2008, 01:58:16 AM: Wow you got away with that for a while, im surprized, what with all the sharp tools we have here in the O club and all.
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Post by: texasmom on March 01, 2008, 02:16:48 AM: Awe, you're bad. :lol Maybe I should have left the unedited text that first time around after all. ;)
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Post by: mg1942 on March 01, 2008, 02:21:54 AM: that "Germany V-8 Thunderbolts" below came from this actual MT issue :)

(http://cache.jalopnik.com/cars/assets/resources/2007/10/MotorTrendNissanGTR.jpg)
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Post by: Nilsen on March 01, 2008, 02:22:38 AM: Quote
Originally posted by texasmom
Bad is all relative ;)

Yes all relatives are bad :lol
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Post by: Grayeagle on March 01, 2008, 05:26:14 AM: -puzzled look-

Camaro never had an 'IRS' or half shafts to worry about.

There are some people runnin 9's in the quarter with their Vette's IRS ..most use hardened shafts just in case, there are some who dont tho.

There's even one guy runnin *eights* in the quarter ..on an IRS, in a black C-5.
And yes he drives it on the street.
Because he can.

They're pretty tuff these days.

-GE aka Frank
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Post by: DiabloTX on March 01, 2008, 05:42:03 AM: No, it never had an IRS but it does have a really, really weak rear end. Not unheard of for even a stock engine to break them.
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Post by: Grayeagle on March 01, 2008, 06:05:49 AM: Ya .. dana 44 is an ok replacement I hear .. unless you wanna go really fast.

If it's gotta be there every time, no matter what .. there can be only one.

Dana 60.

Everything else is second-best.

-Frank
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Post by: texasmom on March 01, 2008, 10:37:01 AM: LOL ~ Diablo ~ you know what this reminds me of? About 20 years ago my little brother (about 10 yrs old at the time) cut out his face from a photograph and taped it into a body building magazine ~ onto one of the guys who had a pretty gal draped all over him ~ buff muscles, grinning girl & all that.

But he didn't tell anyone about it. He just let whoever flip through it find the thing & crack up laughing.

Heh ~ LOL ~ who needs photoshop?
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Post by: Jackal1 on March 01, 2008, 12:05:10 PM: Here ya go DT. Revised photo. :rofl :aok

(http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh194/fastblastus/DT.jpg)
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Post by: SteveBailey on March 01, 2008, 12:23:52 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Grayeagle
-puzzled look-

Camaro never had an 'IRS' or half shafts to worry about.

.

-GE aka Frank

I never said it did. And here are plenty of people out there who are breaking half shafts. I would bet sums of money that any 9 sec vette w/ IRS has broken a half shaft or two.
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Post by: MORAY37 on March 01, 2008, 12:53:43 PM: Quote
Originally posted by DiabloTX
Well, it aint' Car & Driver but who gives a ****.

(http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g308/txflood77598/08019e5ca2f18b12a40b48665c580069_MO.jpg)

:D

Yup. Nice try.

"Make your own Fake Magazine Cover"
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Post by: Masherbrum on March 01, 2008, 12:56:47 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Brownshirt
Yep. One day people will learn to read the fine print.
Nah, let fireguy1 make more pictures declaring "WTF" about the first picture. Maybe after a couple times he'll get it.
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Post by: eagl on March 01, 2008, 12:57:43 PM: Heh... You guys...

I saw it was fake and figured it was so obvious, I didn't bother commenting. Back when I was your age (haha) you'd usually see these things at carnivals. For $10 they'd take your picture and put it on the cover of almost any magazine in print. I never had $10 so I never did it, but I guess it was a popular thing to do.

I guess I'm still puzzled how anyone could have thought it was real :)
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Post by: SteveBailey on March 01, 2008, 01:37:20 PM: Quote
Originally posted by MORAY37
Yup. Nice try.

"Make your own Fake Magazine Cover"

There were people that missed it was a mockup? hehe