capt_furious Posted November 13, 2014 Share Posted November 13, 2014 (edited) Hey, folks. Haven't been around much, but I had to come post this after an encounter at a parade yesterday.I got dressed up in my AF blues(reserve KC-10 crew chief) and took a friend's '37 Olds to a local parade. He's out of town and I'm housesitting and have permission to flog on the car.I was in the assembly area, waiting for the parade to begin, and a guy in his ~30s in a pleather jacket sporting a barbell bridge piercing comes up to me and chats me up about he car. We get to talking about car in general and he says he likes Japanese stuff, I mention that I've got a Miata and a 260Z. He says he's got a '71 240. Hey, cool, kindred spirit!...then it gets weird. He says it's been modded a bit. I ask him what he's done, and I don't remember everything, but he quickly rattles off a list of mods that sound - almost - legit, but pretty extreme. Carbon fiber this, cage that, seats whatever, blah blah coilovers, as if he'd been rehearsing it.Then the Duesie: He says he 'stretched the frame' 4" and put in a stroked, twin turbo Ferrari V-12.I told him I felt as if he was bullshitting me. Nope, he says, it was a 'Scarab' before, his dad bought it and put the 350 in, the 350 was blown up, and he found the '5.3 liter V12 from a 556' from some guy in Idaho that wrecked his car. He stroked it & bored it out to 6 liters, put in 'titanium pistons and rods and had a full port and polish job done', and had the ECU custom built along with the turbo plumbing.The whopper was that he somehow caught Guy Fieri's attention, was challenged to a race, and met Guy at Sears Point(fine, Sonoma Raceway), who hired a 'professional driver' for his Lambo. He says the race was 5 laps, and he lapped the pro driver in the Lambo twice.I told him that was an amazing story and it must be one hell of a car, and the folks on HybridZ would love to see it. Of course, he had no idea what HybridZ was.So, yeah...look out for a stretched Z with a twin turbo Ferrari V-12 out of a '556'. Thing must be Indycar fast. Edited November 13, 2014 by capt_furious Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnc Posted November 13, 2014 Share Posted November 13, 2014 That must have been Joe Izusu. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RB26powered74zcar Posted November 13, 2014 Share Posted November 13, 2014 That must have been Joe Izusu. " It's ok.... I can't say Chebroray " Anybody remember that Isuzu commercial? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SleeperZ Posted November 13, 2014 Share Posted November 13, 2014 " It's ok.... I can't say Chebroray " Anybody remember that Isuzu commercial? Like it was yesterday. HILARIOUS! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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