Post your favourite auto and racing related pics here!
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, Sep 06 2007 03:31 PM
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Posted 12 March 2014 - 02:49 AM
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Posted 13 March 2014 - 03:23 PM
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Robert Kickenapp, AKA RRB (Road Race Bob or when I fell down, I became Road Rash Bob)
"Honest, I swear its stock" My answer to tech officials at post race teardown many a time.
That bike wouldn't do 150mph if you dropped it down a mineshaft!!!
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Posted 13 March 2014 - 03:40 PM
Was "Smokey" a hero or a villain as one of the greatest "innovators or cheaters" in auto racing?
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Posted 13 March 2014 - 04:12 PM
If it don't say can't. that means you can.
Stick that "its not to the spirit of the rules" Bullsh**.
When Penske played with the rules, it was called "an unfair advantage"
I liked the Porsche 917 front brakes with the Rambler part numbers so he could run them on the Javelin.
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Robert Kickenapp, AKA RRB (Road Race Bob or when I fell down, I became Road Rash Bob)
"Honest, I swear its stock" My answer to tech officials at post race teardown many a time.
That bike wouldn't do 150mph if you dropped it down a mineshaft!!!
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Posted 13 March 2014 - 09:45 PM
Smokey had more 'spirit' than ANY Rule book.
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Posted 13 March 2014 - 10:08 PM
10 years ago. My favorite cars. And the combined purchase price of both cars? $4500.
Used cars and new house!
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"Everything you love, everything meaningful with depth and history, all passionate authentic experiences will be appropriated, mishandled, watered down, cheapened, repackaged, marketed, and sold to people you hate." Von Dutch [Kenneth R. Howard] 1929-1992
."If there is, in fact, a Heaven and a Hell, all we know for sure is that Hell will be a viciously overcrowded version of Pheonix." Dr Hunter S Thompson 1937-2005
"Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?" - Jack Kerouac 1927-1969
"Hold my stones". Keith Stone
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"Everything you love, everything meaningful with depth and history, all passionate authentic experiences will be appropriated, mishandled, watered down, cheapened, repackaged, marketed, and sold to people you hate." Von Dutch [Kenneth R. Howard] 1929-1992
."If there is, in fact, a Heaven and a Hell, all we know for sure is that Hell will be a viciously overcrowded version of Pheonix." Dr Hunter S Thompson 1937-2005
"Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?" - Jack Kerouac 1927-1969
"Hold my stones". Keith Stone
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Posted 19 March 2014 - 01:21 PM
I agree with Dr. Gamma. I miss the days when Pro Stocks resembled their street counterparts as well. Up until the end of the seventies funny cars also roughly resembled the street cars on which they were based and I liked that as well.
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Posted 19 March 2014 - 01:47 PM
This picture is "Not too shabby"
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Posted 01 August 2015 - 11:03 AM
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Posted 12 August 2015 - 02:28 PM
Innovation ... no budget for wind tunnel time.
Use a ball of yarn and roll of tape.
Stay and test on Monday.
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Posted 12 August 2015 - 04:38 PM
Me in the back next to the ambulance!!
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Posted 29 August 2015 - 11:59 PM
Not a true favorite but always fun.
"I wanna race the truck" ... or something.? LOL
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Posted 30 August 2015 - 12:44 AM
A much faster truck ... but it couldn't tow itself to the track. 
Only thing left now is the motor. 
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Posted 10 February 2016 - 01:57 PM
Here I've brought a few of my slot cars over to my chief mechanic for a final once-over race day inspection:
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