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    Manic Beattie Hill Climb Car With Turbine-Powered Turbocharger, 1.8-Second 0-to-60 Ford Puma
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    Image of TBM-Fan TBM-Fan
    11/26/08

    In reply to Manic Beattie Hill Climb Car With Turbine-Powered Turbocharger, 1.8-Second 0-to-60 Ford Puma
    But are those cars roadworthy?
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    11/26/08

    @TBM-Fan: The roads aren't worthy of the cars.
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    11/26/08

    In reply to Manic Beattie Hill Climb Car With Turbine-Powered Turbocharger, 1.8-Second 0-to-60 Ford Puma
    dis 'ere cah... sheez ah right capubull oh cachin' dat cheeze dey be rollin' down dat dare hill...
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    11/26/08

    In reply to Manic Beattie Hill Climb Car With Turbine-Powered Turbocharger, 1.8-Second 0-to-60 Ford Puma
    Oh, and it's not really a Ford Puma anymore if it's got a Cosworth engine, tube frame chassis, and custom bodywork. It just looks like one.
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    11/26/08

    @elwood: It's like a NASCAR car...but rad.
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    Image of Elhigh Elhigh
    11/26/08

    In reply to Manic Beattie Hill Climb Car With Turbine-Powered Turbocharger, 1.8-Second 0-to-60 Ford Puma
    How veddy British. "Nigel, I've an idea."


    "Wossat, Nic?"


    "How'd it go if we added another engine to the car?"


    "Cor, she'd be some heavy, Nic. Bog in the turns."


    "No no, mate, just a little engine for running the turbo."


    "Oh, ye're givin me the collywobbles! Lessee what we've got in the back..."

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    11/26/08

    In reply to Manic Beattie Hill Climb Car With Turbine-Powered Turbocharger, 1.8-Second 0-to-60 Ford Puma
    When I read the title, "Gurston Down Hill Climb"


    All I could think was how weird the people of Gurston must be to host a down hill "climb".


    Silly Brits.

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    11/26/08

    In reply to Manic Beattie Hill Climb Car With Turbine-Powered Turbocharger, 1.8-Second 0-to-60 Ford Puma
    Is this just a 30-second course and then you're done?
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    11/26/08

    @Ω ß®ªғғ: That's what she said!


    Sorry... I couldn't resist.

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    11/26/08

    @acarr260: after I hit submit, I was pissed I didn't work in a sex joke... my day is ruined
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    11/26/08

    @Ω ß®ªғғ: At least I was nice - my first instinct was to attack your libido in a joke. I went for the old school joke instead...
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    11/26/08

    @Ω ß®ªғғ: It's important to combine submission and sex jokes as often as possible.
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    11/26/08

    In reply to Manic Beattie Hill Climb Car With Turbine-Powered Turbocharger, 1.8-Second 0-to-60 Ford Puma
    I'm sorry....did the presenter just say the words "V8 turbcharged Morris Minor" in the same sentence?
    If you can do this, and THEN build your own turbine-induction, all wheel drive hillclimb car, you can take your place next to Mr Imhoff in the Jalopnik hall of fame.
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    11/26/08

    @SCROGGZILLA RAIDS AGAIN!!: There are loads of crazy home built cars in the U.K. just like this,it's cold & rainy here,we gotta keep busy somehow. I have my own insane plan to get a Z06 engine in a TVR S2, once i get past problems like lack of funds,it'll be on top of my mad shit to do list.
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    11/26/08

    @layabout: Yeah, I've got a mental disorder involving the creation of a Sunbeam Tiger restomod using an Australian Chrysler Hemi-6, built to E49 or better spec, in lieu of the usual Ford lump. Now, if I could only win the lottery.....
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    11/26/08

    @SCROGGZILLA RAIDS AGAIN!!:


    The best Auzie power plant out there is the Turbo Ford I-6, that will bolt into your Falcon Ranchero, or '82 Econoline.

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    11/26/08

    @Feds: True.....but Chrysler killed the Tiger when they acquired the Rootes Group, so there's a certain symmetry to using the Hemi-6 to make a new one. Plus, the Hemi-6 makes a really awesome noise when you put your foot down.



    + Watch video




    Besides, I'd rather have that Turbo I-6 attached to a shiny new Falcon. Are you listening Ford?
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    11/26/08

    In reply to Manic Beattie Hill Climb Car With Turbine-Powered Turbocharger, 1.8-Second 0-to-60 Ford Puma
    Why don't we have hillclimbs here in the US? Well, there's Pikes Peak, but in the UK they seem to have purpose-built outrageous hillclimb cars mixing it up on a different course every single weekend.


    Same thing with touge. It looks unbelievably awesome but you just don't see it legitimized and sanctioned here the way it is in Japan.


    America likes the wrong motorsports.

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    11/26/08

    @stoke: Plenty of rally events in the U.K. too,the smaller events are generally more interesting than the WRC. You get to see old rally legends doing what they do best.
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    11/26/08

    @stoke: Duh? Is NASCAR even a sport?
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    11/26/08

    @stoke: We're just generally starved of any motorsport in the US that isn't NASCAR or drag racing. The few places there are tracks are cost prohibitive for a lot of people.
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    11/26/08

    In reply to Manic Beattie Hill Climb Car With Turbine-Powered Turbocharger, 1.8-Second 0-to-60 Ford Puma
    We need more hillclimbs in the US. Mt Washington and Pikes Peak are NOT enough.
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    11/26/08

    @SCROGGZILLA RAIDS AGAIN!!: Pikes Peak is still the daddy hill climb venue. I have visions of group B Audi's & Lancia's going hell for leather leaving a large trail of dust in their wake.
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    11/26/08

    @layabout:


    Have you ever driven Pikes Peak? Those times would be so much lower if the drivers weren't carrying 75lbs worth of iron balls with them!


    I very briefly tried to get exuberant in my Protege5 up there, but reverted back to posted speeds when I realized I might not poo again for a month at this pucker level.

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    11/26/08

    @Feds: No,sadly i've only seen Pikes via the magical picture box that i point my sofa at.
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    11/26/08

    @SCROGGZILLA RAIDS AGAIN!!: Y'know, they don't have "This Car Climbed Pikes Peak" bumper stickers, do they?
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    11/26/08

    In reply to Manic Beattie Hill Climb Car With Turbine-Powered Turbocharger, 1.8-Second 0-to-60 Ford Puma
    Wow. 130 mph in 6 seconds?! Count me in...
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    11/26/08

    @acarr260: Hah...I had the opposite reaction. Count me out! I like speed, but that's positively insane in the hands of anybody but the most capable. Certainly, I am not.
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    11/26/08

    @Sloop_John_B: I was thinking of the old saying about sliding through the Pearly Gates going backward while on fire... hell of a way to go out.
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    11/26/08

    @acarr260: I think it would be more like flipping through the gates end over end over end while on fire and shedding parts.
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    11/26/08

    In reply to Manic Beattie Hill Climb Car With Turbine-Powered Turbocharger, 1.8-Second 0-to-60 Ford Puma
    That is friggin insane,i've seen that car at the Prestbury hill climb,the sound is phenomenal. I'd imagine it'd turn your face into jelly the way the Atom did to Clarkson.
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    11/26/08

    @layabout: Oh yeah,England fuck yeah!
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    11/26/08

    @layabout: Shouldn't that be "fack" yeah?
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    11/26/08

    @SCROGGZILLA RAIDS AGAIN!!: Damn it,the one time England does well at something,i go & screw it up with the wrong f*ck. ;)
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    11/26/08

    In reply to Manic Beattie Hill Climb Car With Turbine-Powered Turbocharger, 1.8-Second 0-to-60 Ford Puma
    The first car would make Jim Hall giddy in excitement.


    The second one, just wow.

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    Image of Six Flags Over Tomsk Six Flags Over Tomsk
    11/26/08

    @Corvette_Thunder: Totally. Hillclimb is probably the last auto racing category left on earth where the cars basically only have to pass a safety inspection.


    While I'm sad I wasn't alive for Can-Am or Indy in the '60s, this is a pretty good consolation.

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