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Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing
06/21/09

In reply to Big Muscle In The Big Apple
"Big Muscle"...?

"Camaro City Boy"...?

Big Muscle City Boy (Rent Boy? in Boy's Town? Chelsea? The Village?)

I didn't know that Twitter had a Men4Men forum... Ray ought to get LOTS of Tweets with promotion like this...
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Dr. H. F. Danger
06/20/09

In reply to Muscle Car Wars Hit New York!
THERE IS THAT WORD AGAIN! RUN!
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Plecostomus [Tyrrell]
06/20/09

In reply to Muscle Car Wars Hit New York!
Not drinking the twitter koolaid, sorry.
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.357
06/20/09

In reply to Muscle Car Wars Hit New York!
Like I said, Ray, those are some awesome pictures.
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TexanIdiot25- needs moar horse powah
06/17/09

In reply to Big Muscle In The Big Apple
Twitter really?

All it's going to say is

"Ray Wert: Dragoning that 'maro"
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leavethegun-takethecannoli
06/17/09

In reply to Big Muscle In The Big Apple
I want a Camaro. There I said it.

But I have one condition- it must be an IROC version, or I won't fit the stereotype.
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Muscles Marinara
06/17/09

@leavethegun-takethecannoli:

nah, just slap a couple Italian flag stickers on the windows and hang a cornicello from the mirror and you're good
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leavethegun-takethecannoli
06/17/09

@Muscles Marinara: What have you seen my car?
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VolvoFiend
06/17/09

In reply to Big Muscle In The Big Apple
Are we about done with this "Camaro" yet? It's amazing how much fawning coverage a dynamically acceptable, satisfyingly powerful, dubiously assembled, grossly ugly automobile that'll maybe sell 30,000 copies a year can get.

The Camaro is an also ran in the business of building cars, GM isn't going to get Malibu buyers in the door with the Camaro, they aren't going to sell Equinox's with the ZR1, and all this blogographic masturbation over those small beans cars gets annoying as hell.
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leavethegun-takethecannoli
06/17/09

@VolvoFiend: Did you get it off your chest? Do you feel better now?
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dolo54 blows minds and blows engines!
06/17/09

In reply to Big Muscle In The Big Apple
This was my favorite drive around Manhattan, I used to do it just for fun. Best time is weekdays between 11am and 3pm. Rush hour starts a little after 3, so earlier is better. Start at whatever you feel like on the east side, I lived up in east Harlem, so I would get on at 116th street. Take the FDR downtown all the way, go around the southern tip of the island, and up the west side highway. I would just keep going up the Henry Hudson Pkwy which goes into the Saw Mill Pkwy. The Saw Mill Pkwy is beautiful and I would just drive as long as you feel up past Yonkers, then turn around and come back. It's a really pretty drive and you get all the sights of Manhattan plus the countryside up north. During those hours traffic is never heavy (I swear) and you can really open her up. Be careful speeding on the west side, I believe they have traffic cameras there. The FDR is pretty much no limit though. 70mph is normal even though it's a 40 limit.
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.357
06/17/09

@dolo54 blows minds and blows engines!: I cruise through Harlem in the M3...
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Leeeeena the Jalopchick
06/18/09

@dolo54 blows minds and blows engines!: yeah, and the potholes limit me to about 35. Driving in Manhattan made me wish for the first time that I didn't have a tiny car four inches off the ground, and that I had something which could sail over road imperfections with aplomb. Freaking Diddles and TAI were pulling away from me in the Fiesta because I had to spend so much time carefully picking my way around the FDR. They also kindly pointed out that I had a bend in one of my Traklite 2s, which I most certainly did NOT have before coming to New York. :(
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Dallifornia
06/17/09

In reply to Big Muscle In The Big Apple
My mom got her 2SS Black Camaro last week.

She likes it.
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Braff
06/17/09

@Dallifornia: she likes it black?
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Braff
06/17/09

In reply to Big Muscle In The Big Apple
I recently drove a 2009 Infiniti M45x in Manhattan for a probably 45 min of total driving time.

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Good luck Ray...
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AlienProbe
06/17/09

@BrAff: 45 mins? Let's analyze that:

45 mins Manhattan Driving =

appx 15 near-miss collisions

5 middle finger displays

6 maybe 7 missed drunk hobos

14 maybe 15 missed drunk Yankees fans

20 yields to speeding taxis

appx distance covered...

1 block.
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Braff
06/17/09

@AlienProbe: pretty accurate.

My wife had a hangover from the night before and the stop and go traffic was not her friend... she didn't hurl but she was close.

Also, I almost got to see a Range Rover get taken out by an Escort... that would have been interesting.

As I entered the city, I was merging from the right and an older lady was going right, I let her go in front of me and went around the rear of her to get over to the left... I got up next to her and she was out of her window SCREAMING at me. I couldnt understand a word and I just laughed... that town is interesting.

(i DID have the best Italian food I have ever had though... just a random spot somewhere around 75th and 2nd maybe...
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Dr. H. F. Danger
06/17/09

In reply to Big Muscle In The Big Apple
raywert Camaro + hole saw + fleshlight = not seeing me for a week
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MushyHeirloom
06/17/09

In reply to Big Muscle In The Big Apple
Is it possible to balance life with a muscle car in the Big Apple?

Yes, if it's an automatic and you have collision insurance.
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TimTim
06/17/09

In reply to Big Muscle In The Big Apple
If I had a week with a 2010 Camaro SS I'd get out of town for a week, but to each their own. And you kids and your damn peer pressure, I'm not joining Twitter... no way no how.
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Tiberiuswise is all ate up with sarcasm
06/17/09

@TimTim: If only there was another way for Mr. Wert to communicate his adventures besides twitter.
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TimTim
06/17/09

@Tiberiuswise: yes, where might he be able to find an outlet with editorial freedom, broad reaching like the internet, and an audience of unique individuals obsessed with the cult of cars... Think, think.
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.357
06/17/09

@TimTim: Fleshbot?
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Pete Gaines
06/17/09

In reply to Big Muscle In The Big Apple
It's going to be really awkward when Ray tries to explain the white/yellow stains on the paint at the end of the week.
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.357
06/17/09

@Pete Gaines: Attack of the Dragons?
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.357
06/17/09

In reply to Big Muscle In The Big Apple
I'm already following Ray on Twitter. (Ray, protect me from the flames!)
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leavethegun-takethecannoli
06/17/09

@Ambiguously Unfunny Serial Killer: Nothing can save you!

I follow myself on twitter. It's really getting weird. I feel as if I already know what is going to be written.

Tomorrow I'm going to file a lawsuit against myself for $3 million. I figure even if I lose, I win. I'll let you know if it works out.
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.357
06/17/09

@leavethegun-takethecannoli: Alright?
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.357
06/17/09

@Ambiguously Unfunny Serial Killer: Kanye West?
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