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    Crazy Czechs Build Tatra V8-Powered Trabant Drift Car, Will Sell It To You!

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    Image of voodoojoo voodoojoo
    11/21/08

    In reply to Crazy Czechs Build Tatra V8-Powered Trabant Drift Car, Will Sell It To You!
    Man, as far as the video is concerned, it seems like the DAFs have met their mafs? I mean match.
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    Image of dontknoa dontknoa
    11/21/08

    In reply to Crazy Czechs Build Tatra V8-Powered Trabant Drift Car, Will Sell It To You!
    The best part is at 2:22.
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    Image of Murilee Martin Murilee Martin
    11/21/08

    @dontknoa: The kind of racing with cars that flip over at 15MPH, without hitting anything? I'm already looking at plane fares to the Czech Republic!
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    Image of Tanshanomi Tanshanomi
    11/21/08

    In reply to Crazy Czechs Build Tatra V8-Powered Trabant Drift Car, Will Sell It To You!


    I can make women hot for a Trabbie. Worship me.
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    Image of DoctorNine DoctorNine
    11/21/08

    In reply to Crazy Czechs Build Tatra V8-Powered Trabant Drift Car, Will Sell It To You!
    I am loving the crunchy organic epoxy goodness of the shell, and the crazy V8 beef rolled up inside. Where do I buy a copy of this delicious morsel?
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    Image of AmishJohn AmishJohn
    11/21/08

    In reply to Crazy Czechs Build Tatra V8-Powered Trabant Drift Car, Will Sell It To You!
    I'm in the seperate brakes for different end camp.


    You guys working on Nibbles' Habitrail again? 'view comments' on the main page... doesn't.

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    Image of tek_nic tek_nic
    11/21/08

    In reply to Crazy Czechs Build Tatra V8-Powered Trabant Drift Car, Will Sell It To You!
    I want to talk him down to $500... and then race that in leMons.


    Does the cost of shipping get counted as part of the total cost?

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    Image of Murilee Martin Murilee Martin
    11/21/08

    @tek_nic: No, shipping costs don't count. And I guarantee that anyone showing up with this car will get no penalty laps, even if it sold for more than 500 bucks.


    However, getting it past the safety inspection might be tough. Remember, some Czech "race officials," after swilling 27 beers, thought it didn't meet the safety standards for rodeocross... which clearly sets the safety bar pretty low.

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    Image of TR3-A TR3-A
    11/21/08

    In reply to Crazy Czechs Build Tatra V8-Powered Trabant Drift Car, Will Sell It To You!
    Hey, if you can't register the car in California, come register it in Oregon. You can get away with things like that up here.
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    Image of voodoojoo voodoojoo
    11/21/08

    @TR3-A: Yeah, but, like, won't you be eaten by trolls over there? I thought the state to the North was nothing but forests and tree-devils. You mean people live there?
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    Image of biminitwst biminitwst
    11/21/08

    In reply to Crazy Czechs Build Tatra V8-Powered Trabant Drift Car, Will Sell It To You!
    They didn't put a Tatra V8 in a Trabant?
    Yes.
    They.
    Did.
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    Image of Murilee Martin Murilee Martin
    11/21/08

    @biminitwst: Well, actually they put a Trabant body on a backyard-built chassis with a Tatra engine/transaxle. Even better!
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    Image of brandegee brandegee
    11/21/08

    In reply to Crazy Czechs Build Tatra V8-Powered Trabant Drift Car, Will Sell It To You!
    Is this why 70's American iron is being shipped from California to the Eastern bloc? Heck, even a Reliant K would tear through that field.


    The irony of caging a Trabant is delicious.

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    Image of Mad_Science Mad_Science
    11/21/08

    In reply to Crazy Czechs Build Tatra V8-Powered Trabant Drift Car, Will Sell It To You!
    When the Czech Rodeocross officials say it's too dangerous, you know you're doing it right.
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    Image of Boosted Lego Wagon Boosted Lego Wagon
    11/21/08

    In reply to Crazy Czechs Build Tatra V8-Powered Trabant Drift Car, Will Sell It To You!
    Sideways Czechs? I was expecting a Morovian Cabernet.
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    Image of scroggzilla raids again scroggzilla raids again
    11/21/08

    In reply to Crazy Czechs Build Tatra V8-Powered Trabant Drift Car, Will Sell It To You!
    Murilee, that video may be the best thing ever. Better than the Speed Racer, Death Race and Italian Job remakes, plus all the Fast/Furious movies combined.


    It's LeMons meets Trophee Andros meets dirt meets beer, with a low-fi, Eastern Bloc soundtrack that's equal parts Motorhead and Rainbow. If it had "booth professionals", it would win ten....NO....TWENTY Oscars.


    BRA-F@%#ING-VO!!

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    Image of UDMan UDMan
    11/21/08

    In reply to Crazy Czechs Build Tatra V8-Powered Trabant Drift Car, Will Sell It To You!
    Is that a Tatra V-8?
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    Image of UDMan UDMan
    11/21/08

    @UDMan: Never mind.... I must have had a brain fart....
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    Image of tenbeers tenbeers
    11/21/08

    In reply to Crazy Czechs Build Tatra V8-Powered Trabant Drift Car, Will Sell It To You!
    I raise my Kozel to this most excellent Trabby.
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    Image of smalleyxb122 smalleyxb122
    11/21/08

    In reply to Crazy Czechs Build Tatra V8-Powered Trabant Drift Car, Will Sell It To You!
    That rodeocross looks like fun. Borederline suicidal, but fun.


    Now if a car is deemed to dangerous for that, it certainly gets my seal of approval.

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