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I've heard lead has a sweet taste, but I wouldn't know from experience. I must have read that on the internet once. I know they have asbestos in them, that's why you aren't supposed to use shop air to blow them off.

Plus Vectors look like cheesy kit cars. I vote Espada, everybody needs a 425hp v-12 station wagon. You know, for those times you need to haul groceries AND ass! That Countach wouldn't happen to have a front spoiler, would it?

Not just one, but TWO! In the same pic! Chelle is the BEST!

Brandon, is that you in the background? (you know i love to mess with you about the Z.I...) Chelle, as soon as you convince my wife to move to Utah, we're all getting married.

Hey Brandon, I was kinda surprised to see you chime in on this one...think you could take him in the Magnum Z.I.? I think it would be awesome if you did a remake of the black gold commercial with a fake Tom Sellick mustache... I bet this guy's kid has a 1990 honda civic hatchback (dx model) that has matching spray painted rotors/drums and spray painted a/c vents and dash accents...

That model was released in calender year 1989 as a 1990 model year, so when he said "80's" I can only guess that's what he meant.

I did that once, but the fact that I also had a girl in the passenger seat offset the weight advantage (even though she left her clothes at home as well)...we ended up not even being able to leave the parking lot for about an hour...

Pretty much any picture of 240hoke's car would work...

The funny thing about that steering wheel is that the knight rider wheel is still available from www.markscustomkits.com. guess a hacksaw is cheaper though. When I was in Paris I saw a moped with ferrari badges on it, but wasn't able to snap a picture in time.

here are some guys with slightly more time on their hands than me: http://www.armory.com/~images/?s=solsticeCook2001

Helix, you mean that you all DON'T go around saying "Croikey" and "That's a beaut!" ? Next you're going to tell us you don't wear Croc tooth hats and carry gigantic bowie knives around saying:"That's not a knife, THIS is a knife!" I can see how he was pretty embarrasing, but we don't all have that perception of everybody walking around Australia. There have to be some people running around in football pads with spikes breaking stuff, or they would never have filmed the Road Warrior there, right? (In case you couldn't tell-it's hard to tell a decent joke on the internet-, this was all a joke, except the part about knowing you aren't a country of Steve Irwins walking around jumping on any animal that crosses your path. I'd probably be mad too if somebody latched on to like Pee Wee Herman as an example of what should represent America to foriegn people, so I can sympathise)

I'd guess that my spare time total falls somewhere between Larry's and Big-phil's... Speaking of free time, I've investigated that photo a bit, and I have eliminated the exhaust theory based on the fact that it has zoomie pipes that terminate before the cooking surface. Now, i don't know of a method of generating enough heat to cook 240 hot dogs in three minutes just by turning something, but there is probably one out there. In the words of comment number 21 from RacerX's link: "That's Dope as the Pope on a Rope!"

I've swam with stingrays many times, we have them all over here in Florida. I don't know how many of you are familiar with stingrays, but this was one of those accidents that is so far off the realm of things that might happen as to almost be beyond belief. I don't know exactly what he was doing, but stingrays have their barb right above the base of the tail, and it only exists as a means of protection from getting stepped on or attacked from above. Usually stingray accidents involve people walking in shallow water, and stepping on one, thereby getting the barb in the ankle. We have signs posted all over every beach in Florida that explain the "stingray shuffle" in detail, with pictures, and of all the stingray incedents I've heard about over the years, this is the first deep water stingray accident I've EVER come across. Steve Irwin was a passionate educator, and I think this is a huge loss. I also enjoyed imitating his voice...

I bet if it had the LED wheels showing pictures of turbos it would have been faster...

Muspuppis, there may be some truth to that: The two fastest man-made objects ever were both made from reflective material. Helios I and Helios II were space probes launched in the 70's to study the sun at close range, and achieved a maximum velocity of 150,000 miles per hour. They appear to have been constructed from some highly polished material, and I can only imagine they would have been at LEAST one or two miles per hour faster if they were green... *edit* Gasoline, I don't want to make you feel unwelcome to the board, we're just having a little fun. I suspect that there is nothing to be gained or lost by choosing a particular color over another, except as far as weight is concerned. A car with absolutely no paint at all would be lighter, and therefore slightly faster, assuming all else to be equal. I doubt that any standard formulation of wheel paint would significantly affect brake performance either, otherwise a quick glance at what they're doing to f-1 cars should tell you what color to paint both your car, and your wheels.

Only a girl would ask a question like that, Olie. It's a HEMI! I heard hemi's can cook an entire cow from across the farm, just by being in the farmer's pickup truck. Also I heard that Chuck Norris broke the sound barrier while riding on a hemi that didn't even have a car around it. Just Chuck and the Hemi...eatin some hot dogs...

Terry, those drawings were at age 12? He's definitely going places. I started drawing around that time as well, self taught mostly from american style comic books. I eventually got my bachelors degree in studio art, and now I'm about to go after a masters degree in video game design. I just started getting into photoshop, and I'm not very good with it at all yet...Robots are really my thing though, so all the car drawing threads I've been involved in lately are really outside my comfort zone and just for fooling around. I was actually going to make some copper autobot badges for the front and rear of my z to replace my long-missing datsun ones. If I get them finished, I'll post them up somewhere.

I heard he hunts tail...

Well, the red car would be stuck on the side of the road, not going anywhere, because everyone knows that red cars are more prone to getting tickets...

One of the three wires should be a ground, what color wires are you using, and which one is left over? Usually, a tps gets a power in, a power out reference signal, and a ground.

I wish you luck with that one man, on a 30-ish year old car, NOTHING goes smooth...At least not on my 30-ish year old car. Nice project though. Those guys at Mazworks might convince you to do an SR20DET after you see their super fast 240sx.

Black Gold is the winner, hands down. Best commercial for a car ever. The actual best commercial ever award goes to the one for the allergy stuff where the giant sunflower beats down the tennis playing girl.

Pull back Salmon eggs you say...wonder what the full size electric version of THAT one looked like...

I was just joking, I've got all the respect in the world for Grumpyvette.

I like it, it looks pretty cool. You need some of this:http://alsacorp.com/products/retroglow/retro_show.htm for the green part, and you'd be all set! I don't have a turbo motor or a rebello special, but I might have some N/A fuel injectors laying around.