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    Backyard Lambo Of The Day: Hawaiian Diablo With Big-Block Chevy Power
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    12/04/08

    In reply to Backyard Lambo Of The Day: Hawaiian Diablo With Big-Block Chevy Power
    That shift knob speaks volumes. Make it a globe, make it a skull, make it a soccer ball, make it the DeathStar, make it a balloon or a disco mirror ball, but by all that's reasonable, WTF?

    Still, it must have been magnificent before it was circumcised.
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    Image of Elhigh Elhigh
    12/04/08

    In reply to Backyard Lambo Of The Day: Hawaiian Diablo With Big-Block Chevy Power
    You know what'd be awesome? Somebody slapping together a Vector. How many did Weigert actually manage to build? Each one was a little different from the others. Crazy-ass Donovan dragster engine (now with water cooling!), doorstop profile, linear gauges.


    Imhoff aside - how can you not respect a guy who builds his dream car from individual pieces of metal? - is there a special reason we give replica builders such a hard time? Aside from the crappily done ones, that is. I mean, this one looks not too bad and actually has enough power to back up the looks.

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    12/04/08

    In reply to Backyard Lambo Of The Day: Hawaiian Diablo With Big-Block Chevy Power
    I've often compared Italian supercars to Jewish girlfriends: they're loud, obnoxious, high-maintenance and not likely to get you laid. So in the same vein I guess today's Disablo is a kinda-horny lady mechanic with a Star of David tattoo. She ain't perfect, but she can be a helluva lot of fun.


    Strip off that pussy TBI and screw on a double-pumper. Life's too short for dumbass electronics.

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    Image of MissingPieces MissingPieces
    12/04/08

    In reply to Backyard Lambo Of The Day: Hawaiian Diablo With Big-Block Chevy Power
    yes, feel the hate! everyone one of you know that you'd hoon it. something tells me most of you could afford a $50k car though, hence the hate.
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    12/04/08

    @MissingPieces: Yeah everyone would hoon it,i'd rather have an honest £10k car than a fake wannabe £50k car. It's not hate,just a difference in taste.
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    12/04/08

    In reply to Backyard Lambo Of The Day: Hawaiian Diablo With Big-Block Chevy Power
    Dashboard looks a little sparse - needs a couple more gauges. Otherwise, not too bad for silk-purse-out-of-sow's-ear project. Problem is, everyone knows it's a fake because a real Diablo owner would never pull up to a 7-Eleven for a six pack of Old Milwaukee and some Slim Jims. If you need to copy something, how about something most people wouldn't recognize, like a Cizeta Moroder?


    [www.supercars.net]

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    Image of Plecostomus [Tyrrell] Plecostomus [Tyrrell]
    12/04/08

    @tonyola: That Cizeta is amazing looking.


    The outrageousness of a Testarossa blended with some Diablo and a dash of Esprit nose. I love it.

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    Image of Miscellanea Miscellanea
    12/04/08

    @tonyola: Why copy something that looks like a copy of something? Then everybody thinks you are copying something... which you are, but you usually don't want people to know.
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    12/04/08

    @Plecostomus - Now with 20% more Algae!: I changed my mind, I just saw the Moroder with its headlights on.


    I guess it was never meant to be driven at night...

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    12/04/08

    @tonyola: Because people would be constanly asking "what kind of Lambergeenie is that?"?
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    Image of Rust-MyEnemy Rust-MyEnemy
    12/04/08

    In reply to Backyard Lambo Of The Day: Hawaiian Diablo With Big-Block Chevy Power
    Well, I'm going to give it my Quite Good rating. Apart from the slight wobblinesses everyone has already picked up on.


    Beats the crap out of this "F40"


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    12/04/08

    @Rust-MyEnemy--ymenEyM-tsuR: Is that made out of Legos?
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    12/04/08

    @Rust-MyEnemy--ymenEyM-tsuR: Wow, it's sad that I know that it's an AW11 MR2 (84-89) under there, it's too short to be a Fiero.
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    12/04/08

    @Plecostomus - Now with 20% more Algae!: Are you sure? The windshield might be either, but the factory sunroof and quarter "windows" scream Fiero.
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    12/04/08

    In reply to Backyard Lambo Of The Day: Hawaiian Diablo With Big-Block Chevy Power
    A fake Porsche made from a Camry,why?
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    12/04/08

    @layabout: Gee, thanks, I just puked a little bit.
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    Image of Graverobber Graverobber
    12/04/08

    @layabout: That's so awful it's awesome.


    BTW, I heard Hammond call Mays a "Chav" when they were starting their boat vs Daytona race and I quietly praised you for explaining that phrase to me.

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    Image of Plecostomus [Tyrrell] Plecostomus [Tyrrell]
    12/04/08

    @layabout: Oh jesus, is that a Solara under there? God, that's WAY worse than ANY fauxborghini. This is more awful than that Pontiac Solstice disguised-as-a-Carerra-GT from a few weeks ago.


    Yuck.


    For the money that probably cost, he could've bought a REAL used Porsche.

    A fucking Camry?

    Why?!

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    12/04/08

    @layabout: I will kill the bastard who did this birthed this abomination
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    12/04/08

    @graverobber- My Yugo Nova!: Cheers,you may like this site full of urban words,my current favourite is gunt [www.urbandictionary.com]


    @Unevolved: Haha,nice one

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    12/04/08

    @marc2068: You kill him & i'll give you a solid alibi.
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    Image of Six Flags Over Tomsk Six Flags Over Tomsk
    12/04/08

    @layabout: I take back what I said in the Knight Rider cancellation article; there is no god.
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    Image of Graverobber Graverobber
    12/04/08

    In reply to Backyard Lambo Of The Day: Hawaiian Diablo With Big-Block Chevy Power
    The Pep Boys bubble mirrors on the side-views are the capper. That and the tumorous shift boot.


    Where does one get a compound-curve laminated windscreen cut for these things?

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    Image of Plecostomus [Tyrrell] Plecostomus [Tyrrell]
    12/04/08

    In reply to Backyard Lambo Of The Day: Hawaiian Diablo With Big-Block Chevy Power
    I wanted a carbon fiber 8-ball shifter, not a carbon fiber MAGIC 8-ball shifter!!


    All in all though, this one's pretty nice. I'd drive it. Proudly. Just remove the badges and change the shift knob.

    The car gets better when you take parts OFF of it.


    Hey, I thought of a great Hawaiian expression for this one: this Lambo is "Grown, not flown".


    You know dakine I talk about, bruddah? /pidgin

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    Image of combat chuck combat chuck
    12/04/08

    In reply to Backyard Lambo Of The Day: Hawaiian Diablo With Big-Block Chevy Power
    The shifter would look better on a fauxborghini tractor. Hmm, I wonder if anyone has made a fauxborghini tractor? Maybe there's kits for John Deere tractors.
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    12/04/08

    @combat chuck:


    That's genuis! Let me know when your IPO is.

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    12/04/08

    @Feds: Ha. If I started such a company, within 24 hrs I'd be cutting in line to get a piece of the GM bailout money. And yes, I would drive my fauxborghini tractor all the way to DC.
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    Image of Ash78, tryptophanatic Ash78, tryptophanatic
    12/04/08

    In reply to Backyard Lambo Of The Day: Hawaiian Diablo With Big-Block Chevy Power
    Let's say you have a very attractive girlfriend, but then she becomes obsessed with some celebrity and gets a bunch of plastic surgery and new clothes in an attempt to look just like said celebrity. So in the end, you no longer have a hot girlfriend, you just have a second-rate celeb impersonator with serious mental issues.


    That's sort of how I feel about Lambo kits. Fantastic gusto and workmanship, but I still think it should have been a Cobra or a Se7en or something.

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    12/04/08

    @The Name's Ash78, Housewares: Couldn't have put it better myself. Italian exotics should be left alone & never cloned. The ones i've seen in real life just make me think the owner is just trying to be flash on a cheapskate budget.
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    12/04/08

    @The Name's Ash78, Housewares: I've rationalized the existence of these things by assuming the people who build/buy them have one goal in life only: getting laid*.


    "wow it looks just like a real lambo. Lets take it to the club and prowl for puss! Those girls won't know any better, but we'll put an extra badge on the center console just to be sure."


    *this excludes Imhoff, who really seemed to have a genuine passion for fabrication.

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    Image of Almostbanned Almostbanned
    12/04/08

    @YankBoffin: I'm not defending the faux-supercar genre, but the real Diablo had the center console badge too.
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    12/04/08

    @Almostbanned: Where?
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    12/04/08

    @The Name's Ash78, Housewares: That is true unless your plastic surgeon's name is Ken Imhoff.
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    12/04/08

    @The Name's Ash78, Housewares: As anyone who's ever made a copy knows, the more you copy something, the further the quality deteriorates...
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    Image of Ash78, tryptophanatic Ash78, tryptophanatic
    12/04/08

    @Sloop_John_B: Ken gets a pass for his ground-up, straight-from-scratch ethic. Rules don't apply to that level of awesomeness.
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    12/04/08

    @layabout: But that is exactly what they are trying to do, right? Con the world into thinking they have a real Lambo or Ferrari when they've got some p.o.s. fake instead. To match their Rollex watch!
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    12/04/08

    In reply to Backyard Lambo Of The Day: Hawaiian Diablo With Big-Block Chevy Power
    For even less money i'd sooner buy an old Esprit & put a 4.2 Audi V8 engine in it...

    [uk]
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    Image of Danimal Danimal
    12/04/08

    @layabout: That sound probably suits a Lambo much better, but it's hard to beat the rumble of a Chevy big block...


    Wait till 30 sec. Cool as it may be, this would just sound confusing coming from a Lamborghini.

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    12/04/08

    @Fourstring85: Wow,that does sound great,& so right in that car. As you point out,not quite right in a faux Lambo. Now if you'll excuse me,i'm going to listen to that again.
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    12/04/08

    In reply to Backyard Lambo Of The Day: Hawaiian Diablo With Big-Block Chevy Power
    Whats this based on?
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    Image of Dr. H. F. Danger Dr. H. F. Danger
    12/04/08

    In reply to Backyard Lambo Of The Day: Hawaiian Diablo With Big-Block Chevy Power
    Why is that shifter soo long?


    They need to cut about four feet off that thing.

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    12/04/08

    In reply to Backyard Lambo Of The Day: Hawaiian Diablo With Big-Block Chevy Power
    The front third doesn't look right,fairplay to the guy he did a good job. Still something about Lambo & Ferrari copies that makes me never want one.
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