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    Image of bmoreDLJ bmoreDLJ
    12/11/09

    In reply to Second Bertone Mantide Sold To Dubai For $1.95 Million
    I'm sorry, maybe it looks better in person (it probably does) but this thing looks like it was designed by someone dicking around a 3D rendering program in their spare time. I'd buy a ZR1 and with the money I saved, buy the Stig's and Jackie Stewart's tutelage on various road courses around the globe.

    Unless...Jackie Stewart is the Stig...
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    Image of powermatic powermatic
    12/11/09

    In reply to Second Bertone Mantide Sold To Dubai For $1.95 Million
    "...we agree the interior is awful..."

    If I could ever get past the exterior ugliness to take a peek, I'm sure I'd agree.
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    Image of SerialThriller SerialThriller
    12/11/09

    @powermatic: I think Wes was referring to the Corvette interior...and I assume you're referring to the Mantide exterior.
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    Image of powermatic powermatic
    12/11/09

    @SerialThriller: You're right of course. My excuse: still reeling and addled from the wrong brother being chosen as Top Chef. Fortunately, the combination of Thai stick and a streaming vid of last night's 30 Rock is reversing my decline into melancholy. Liz Lemon, is there no room in your heart for this lonely podiatrist?
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    Image of High Speed Indeed High Speed Indeed
    12/11/09

    In reply to Second Bertone Mantide Sold To Dubai For $1.95 Million
    $2,000,000 for a Corvette restyled as a urinal.

    Seriously, why doesn't Chevy just make their own body kits and undercut the shit out of Bertone? Sell a few of those and GM is back on top!
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    Image of FrankGrimes FrankGrimes
    12/11/09

    In reply to Second Bertone Mantide Sold To Dubai For $1.95 Million
    I am now taking orders for the Manateed.
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    Image of FrankGrimes FrankGrimes
    12/11/09

    @FrankGrimes:
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    Image of snapoversteer 'bout to get told snapoversteer 'bout to get told
    12/11/09

    @FrankGrimes: I'll bid $1.95 mm.
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    Image of FrankGrimes FrankGrimes
    12/11/09

    @FrankGrimes: Oh great double.
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    Image of mr_dude mr_dude
    12/11/09

    @FrankGrimes: Fix reflection!
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    Image of FrankGrimes FrankGrimes
    12/11/09

    @mr_dude: Dang you guys are some serious photochop art critics.
    I fixed it...now wheres my money?!
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    Image of mr_dude mr_dude
    12/11/09

    @FrankGrimes: I can pay you *applause*
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    Image of Mobius Mobius
    12/11/09

    In reply to Second Bertone Mantide Sold To Dubai For $1.95 Million
    They already owe a couple zillion to the rest of the world anyways, so what does 2 mil matter?
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    Image of VeeArrrSix VeeArrrSix
    12/11/09

    In reply to Second Bertone Mantide Sold To Dubai For $1.95 Million
    Since Dubai is now a ghost town the buyer must have ordered one in matte black with a snowplow on the front and some machine guns for Mad Max type hoonage.
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    Image of Mr.choppers - Delenda Carthago Est Mr.choppers - Delenda Carthago Est
    12/11/09

    In reply to Second Bertone Mantide Sold To Dubai For $1.95 Million
    Looks like Bertone is trying to become Zagato. What gives?
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    Image of brandegee brandegee
    12/11/09

    @Mr.choppers - Delenda Carthago Est: Nah, I still think this very Bertone...I'm thinking Scarab and Stratos. Heck, I think the notion of a canted, bent wheelarch might have been a Bertone invention.
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    Image of Mr.choppers - Delenda Carthago Est Mr.choppers - Delenda Carthago Est
    12/11/09

    @brandegee: True indeed, but that brutal form of awkward has something rather Zagatoesque about it.
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    Image of brandegee brandegee
    12/11/09

    @Mr.choppers - Delenda Carthago Est: Okay, like an Alfa SZ maybe? Or an AM Zagato from the 80s?
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    Image of Mr.choppers - Delenda Carthago Est Mr.choppers - Delenda Carthago Est
    02:03 AM

    @brandegee: Yeah, except minus the charm. Of course, I haven't looked at any angles besides the one offered right here.
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    Image of Bertone77 Bertone77
    12/11/09

    In reply to Second Bertone Mantide Sold To Dubai For $1.95 Million
    Jay Leno wants one? Say it ain't so Jay!

    For 2 Million I'll build anybody any design they want off a ZR-1 Chassis.
    Hell just gimme a napkin sketch and I'll take it from there.

    (ZR-1 not included in this offer)
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    Image of Scandinavian Flick Scandinavian Flick
    12/11/09

    In reply to Second Bertone Mantide Sold To Dubai For $1.95 Million
    I think Wes is just jealous that this thing's rear end is taking attention away from his.
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    Image of twitchykun(level 10 Jalop-Knight) twitchykun(level 10 Jalop-Knight)
    12/11/09

    @Scandinavian Flick: Blasphemy!

    the gospel according to Wes' Ass 3:16

    "For Ray so loved the world, he gave us his own begotten website, so that whoever believes in it shall not perish, but have everlasting hoonage."
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    Image of powermatic powermatic
    12/11/09

    @Scandinavian Flick: At first I thought you said 'Weis'. Which, frankly, makes a lot more sense rear-end-wise.
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    Image of Mr.choppers - Delenda Carthago Est Mr.choppers - Delenda Carthago Est
    12/01/09

    In reply to Mad Man Crams 12V Cummins Diesel Into '68 Corvette
    This is groundshakingly cool. Yay! More! Howzabout a smaller Cummins in the back of a Corvair?

    Also, "Ryan Lusk" must be the most Iwegian name I've ever come across.
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    Image of Maymar Maymar
    11/30/09

    In reply to Mad Man Crams 12V Cummins Diesel Into '68 Corvette
    Hacking up a C3 - any C3 - isn't really sacrilege. The early ones were crap (so bad Car and Driver sent their test car back early) with good engines, and the later ones were okay, with smog choked engines. Unless he used a ZL1, it's not that rare or special, just sexy. I salute this man of genius.
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    Image of Elhigh Elhigh
    11/30/09

    In reply to Mad Man Crams 12V Cummins Diesel Into '68 Corvette
    These guys suck at dragstrip video. Not a single shot of the timer at the end. C'mon guys, drop the other shoe!

    How the hell fast is it?
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    Image of Elhigh Elhigh
    11/30/09

    In reply to Mad Man Crams 12V Cummins Diesel Into '68 Corvette
    Subscription only, hell, you can get Farm Show at the newsstand at Tractor Supply Company.

    Man, that's my favorite store. In one place you get the smell of fresh manure, new hydro oil, new tires and feed corn. Hot damn I love being a native midwesterner.
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    Image of that ain't the way to have fun, son that ain't the way to have fun, son
    11/30/09

    In reply to Mad Man Crams 12V Cummins Diesel Into '68 Corvette
    That is bitchin'.

    12V Cummins, tweaked significantly, in a vehicle you'd never expect, FTMFW!
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    Image of powermatic powermatic
    11/30/09

    In reply to Mad Man Crams 12V Cummins Diesel Into '68 Corvette
    No E.T.s on the vid, but the 'Farm Show' page from the link claims 7.87 for the 1/8 m, which extrapolates to somewhere in the 12s for the quarter. It should be noted, however, that the same 'Farm Show' article informs us that "Lusk plans to ........boost his power to 55 to 65 hp in the near future", so either 'Farm Show' isn't the end all/be all for news of record, or that motor has an insane hp/torque ratio.
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