I love you man!
@Jesse Slaton: Not sure I follow what you're saying, but I like the ABA a lot, and use it in my own race car. Again, it's never going to break any dyno records, but it's also unlikely to break anything at all.
Please do not reveal the route. Please please please please. There are enough douchenozzle cyclists out there on those roads already.
Don't get me wrong, I'm happy to share the road with my two-wheeled brethren, but when three of them line up across the road and refuse to let a car pass, even somewhere safe, I get a little bent outta shape. Really, just let us go by, we'll get out of your way, and you won't have to deal with us any more. Seriously. I don't want to look at your be-lycra'ed tuckus, I just want to drive.
And don't even get me started on the "I want my bicycle to have the same rights as a car on the road but I don't want to obey the same laws" Critical Massholes.
That said, woohoo! Y'all are boneheads! Grats!
Don't get me wrong, I'm happy to share the road with my two-wheeled brethren, but when three of them line up across the road and refuse to let a car pass, even somewhere safe, I get a little bent outta shape. Really, just let us go by, we'll get out of your way, and you won't have to deal with us any more. Seriously. I don't want to look at your be-lycra'ed tuckus, I just want to drive.
And don't even get me started on the "I want my bicycle to have the same rights as a car on the road but I don't want to obey the same laws" Critical Massholes.
That said, woohoo! Y'all are boneheads! Grats!
@Novaload: That's fugging hysterical.
Those gearboxes don't really need much lubricant, anyway. It's more of a suggestion than anything. The worst that's going to happen is that it will pop out of 5th gear from time to time and maybe continue to shred the (already weaksauce from the factory) 2nd gear synchro.
Go go Golf!
Oh, and if you're saying 2.Slow, you're a [something else] fanboi or haven't spent any quality time in a capably-driven ABA. No, it's no monster, but it's also about as likely to break as Max Mosely is to wear a yarmulke. ENDURANCE racing. It's not about the fastest, it's about not breaking and not breaking.
Go go Golf!
Oh, and if you're saying 2.Slow, you're a [something else] fanboi or haven't spent any quality time in a capably-driven ABA. No, it's no monster, but it's also about as likely to break as Max Mosely is to wear a yarmulke. ENDURANCE racing. It's not about the fastest, it's about not breaking and not breaking.
@Number_Six: From what I've heard, they were told to run it or get many many bad jujus foisted upon them.
Waitwaitwaitwaitwait....
A 2-stroke SAAB finished 26th?!?!
Let me say that again.
A 2-stroke SAAB finished 26th!
How are people not having trollgasms about this? I'm not even a SAAB guy and I think this is just plain fanfunkingtastic! A sub-one-liter engine with 7-ish moving parts (that's 40+ years old) ran at WFO for long enough to finish in front of 50 other cars!?!?
I applaud you loons. Bravo. Good show, indeed.
Having driven a friend's 1963 96 around town a time or two, I'll guess that the drivers on this team each wore three helmets. One for their melon and one each for their grossly oversized gonads.
A 2-stroke SAAB finished 26th?!?!
Let me say that again.
A 2-stroke SAAB finished 26th!
How are people not having trollgasms about this? I'm not even a SAAB guy and I think this is just plain fanfunkingtastic! A sub-one-liter engine with 7-ish moving parts (that's 40+ years old) ran at WFO for long enough to finish in front of 50 other cars!?!?
I applaud you loons. Bravo. Good show, indeed.
Having driven a friend's 1963 96 around town a time or two, I'll guess that the drivers on this team each wore three helmets. One for their melon and one each for their grossly oversized gonads.
Dang. I wish I'd have asked you if it had chrome bumpers. I have a perfect place for them.
@MushyHeirloom: Ionno. Don't even know what the stars have to do with. :shrug: It's not my car, but I have had a small part in making it, uh, more "entertaining".
@something_unique_and_descripti...: Following that car on the freeway for three hours from the Super-Secret Mopar Cave to the Mostly-Secret Mopar Cave gave me hope for humans as a species.
Some people gaped, some pointed, some laughed, some pointed and laughed, and some people pretended not to see it at all.
The gapers, pointers, and laughers all seemed to have a pulse.
The not-seers, not so much.
As hysterical as pictures of this car are, the full measure of the awesomeness is not apparent until you smell it in person.
Erm, I mean "see"...
Some people gaped, some pointed, some laughed, some pointed and laughed, and some people pretended not to see it at all.
The gapers, pointers, and laughers all seemed to have a pulse.
The not-seers, not so much.
As hysterical as pictures of this car are, the full measure of the awesomeness is not apparent until you smell it in person.
Erm, I mean "see"...
Fleep?
BTW, huge bonus points for using the phrase "higgledy-piggledy". Oft-ignored and oft apt.
BTW, huge bonus points for using the phrase "higgledy-piggledy". Oft-ignored and oft apt.
@RadioFlyerPartDeux: It's actually a Chevy "dog dish" hubcap. :D
@Murilee Martin: The Road Crew! They were awesome people to race with at Reno.
Like any Vega, they "worked better" with a small-block. Ask me how I know... :headdesk:
@87CapriceEstate: Erm, V4? Not so much. Inline fours were all you got to choose from. It really wasn't a horrible engine, as long as you didn't want it to rev quickly. My parents have been driving ChryCo minivans since the day that they debuted. The earlier 2.2l four was pretty good, the 2.5l four had more torks but didn't "feel" as good.
@87CapriceEstate: 'Twas truly a 2.5l Caravan. Super-nice folks, and threw down some not-horrifyingly-fast-but-ultra-consistent laps. I was hoping to see more minivan-on-minivan action, but the Mystery Machine was extra slow that weekend.
@Psiu! Puxa!: Your 244 is the coolest car I have ever seen!: You should have seen it coming up in your rear-view mirror. It had all of the tires and nearly all of the awesome.
@Number_Six: I like the way you think!
I'll bet that guy wears three helmets. One on his melon, and one each for the boulders he calls nads.
I'da shat myself.
