Of course we mustn't forget the new ZR1....  638 horsepower, 604 foot lbs of torque in a lightweight package capable of speeds up to 205 mph.....

To ensure that all three American made sports cars are included here I present you with the Dodge Viper ACR.....  I do prefer the over the top cartoonish appearance of the first generation Viper, but the new one has true performance to back it up....

The Trabant...  The favored (essentially only) mode of transportation for East Germans before the fall of the Berlin Wall...  Please compare to automobiles manufactured in the same time period in West Germany such as the BMW 507.....

Funniest car joke of all time.

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sigmoid freud wrote:

http://www.uncrate.com/men/images/2007/ … safari.jpg
Funniest car joke of all time.

Agreed...  Yet another marketing ploy, drop a body which looks somewhat like a HUMVEE onto a Yukon chassis and jack the price up $15,000 while not even attempting to add any of the mechanicals which makes the HUMVEE a capable vehicle...

The new Lamborghini Reventon.....  I was relieved to see that Lamborghini decided to return to their alien spacecraft design roots which were lost with the Diablo and Murcielago, but saddened to see that it comes with a one million dollar price tag...

My first car was a 1980 Honda Civic Wagon with a HondaMatic transmission.  I think they only use it in lawnmowers now.  It was brown, smelled funny, had rust holes in it (except the big ones that I put bondo over), and the radio didn't work.  I sold it for $200 after about a year, and the car died two days later.  What a piece of shit.

Now the 3-cylinder two-door hatchback Geo Metro that I bought after that, now there was a kickass car.  It really did get up to 55 miles to the gallon.  It didn't have much power, but there was plenty of space inside, at the time I could fill up the 8 gallon tank on $10, and the stereo was even nice, right up until some asshole ripped it out of the dash with what appeared to be a screwdriver.

jesusluvspegging wrote:

tojo2000 wrote:

My first car was a 1980 Honda Civic Wagon with a HondaMatic transmission.  I think they only use it in lawnmowers now.

Just for the record, Honda makes a shitty lawnmower.  I used one once.  There's a fucking BELT connecting the driveshaft to the blade.  It claimed to have an overhead cam, don't ask me why.  The blade itself was this convoluted thing that had 2x the cutting surface of a regular lawnmowing blade, which on the horribly underpowered engine meant you were FUCKED except in the shady part of the lawn that is mostly moss and dirt anyway.  Shitty fucking lawnmower.

That seems about par for the course then.  The Hondamatic transmission was sort of like an automatic transmission in that there was no clutch, but basically there were two speeds.  You accelerated up to about 22mph or so and then put it into HI.

It's not that I have anything against Honda.  Currently I drive a Honda Accord 4-cylinder 4-door EX, and I like it a lot.

tojo2000 wrote:

That seems about par for the course then.  The Hondamatic transmission was sort of like an automatic transmission in that there was no clutch, but basically there were two speeds.  You accelerated up to about 22mph or so and then put it into HI.

I perhaps should have made it clear that this was a push lawnmower (though it did have powered wheels on it... the rear ones: you know, the wheels you'd normally use to rotate the mower around on by pushing down on the handle and taking the front wheels off the ground.  These wheels being powered results in you tearing the fuck out of a lawn.  All the powered pushmowers I've encountered, other than this one, had the drive on the front wheels where it made fucking sense.  Terrible lawnmower.).

My ideal ride:



Fuck yeah!

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ah297900 wrote:

My ideal ride:

http://pimannix.tripod.com/craneshot/KilldozerTVAd.jpg

Fuck yeah!

You ride a tripod? Somehow that doesn't surprise me.

Dirckman wrote:

I'm not very good at figuring out kid shuttles, but I do love Volkswagens!!  I took a new Golf GTI for a spin the other day and was amazed by the room, sportiness and utility...

http://www.slotcompeticio.es/images/golf_gti_1_9w.jpg

Their design center is right next door to me here at work - get to see some wild cars over there.

ah297900 wrote:

Reminds me of the car from The Wraith....

Another Chrysler prototype that should have been built

Not building this one was a crime, had the 285HP 2.4L Turbo, weighs in at less than a ton and costs $15k

Dirckman wrote:

In my humble opinion the BMW 507 is one of ten most beautiful cars ever built.....

http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/Fact … mw_507.jpg

The Ford Cobra.  Now that was one hard-on inducing car!

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Here's a hint to what's on top of my old school "must have" list.



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Zookeeper wrote:

The Ford Cobra.  Now that was one hard-on inducing car!
http://i.pbase.com/o6/81/540581/1/48330 … 330668.jpg

Some yes, some not so much.

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You beat me to it. Thank you, burnt orange.

Banjo wrote:

Here's a hint to what's on top of my old school "must have" list.

https://cruelery.com/uploads/thumbs/415_gal07.jpg

Banjo,

what the hell is that?

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#3 of 500


And a link to #001 of 500, Shelby's personal 300HP Omni

Last edited by Emmeran (2008-07-24 15:53:51)

Those are all pretty nice cars you guys are fapping over, but nothing compared to this baby:

This one comes with skank pussy for your stick shift!

If this baby doesn't make your cock hard, nothing will!

This is an ugly dog, but I believe it's sitting on top of a car. Woohoo!


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Banjo wrote:

1983 Hurst-Olds. This car is flying under the radar for collectables. Right now, they going for about 15K if they are in good condition. Only 3000 were made in 1983-84 so I see the value skyrocketing in the future. T-tops and grey interior are extremely rare and are more valuable.

http://www.cardomain.com/ride/460107

I thought that dash style looked familiar. My friend and I had an 88 Royale from those years. It was the stealth mobile. We brought it so we could drive around without getting hassled by the cops. It worked so well we took it on tours with the Dead.

That would be a true find from the last dying days of old detroit power.

I remember these cars, they were popular with the Jersey crowd. I must warn yoiu though that this was a serious guido mobile. Every single one of these was owned by a greaseball who was a serious inflated asshole.

Which brings up a point to remember about old cars, they are often irrepealably tied to a certain personality type. How much time must pass before the stigma is shed?

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They were extremely rare in the south even in their heyday. I didn't know of the guido connection. However, most of my current friends take one look at it and call me a wetback want-a-be.

I have nothing but fond memories of the '83. My buddy had one and it was a pune magnet. It was also the ride that I smoked my first illegal in. Unfortunately that same evening, he took a curve too quickly and hit a tree so hard the t-top center bar popped out. Lucky for me I had gotten paranoid and bailed on him five minutes earlier. I was munching down at the Micky D's and saw the car pass by on the tow truck (adding to my new found paranoia).

some of the '68's are approaching six figures in value and I wonder if this model will eventually do the same.