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Murilee Martin
09/28/09

In reply to Jalopnik's 9 Favorite Vintage Mazda Commercials
I just can't get over the awesomeness of a car called the Cosmo Big Run Genteel!
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Novaload
09/28/09

@Murilee Martin: Yeah, that there is some effective marketing. Civilized but big, making big runs and of course cosmic...now available at Cosmo's Factory. (obscure vinyl reference).
What would the US equivalent be? After all, Ford only went as far as "Galaxie"-- but they also took "Elite" --so the Pan-Nebulae Huge Powerful Sohisticate...?
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Novaload
09/27/09

In reply to Jalopnik's 9 Favorite Vintage Mazda Commercials
No, this is how a Maz SHOULD sound:

[jalopnik.com]
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tonyola
09/27/09

In reply to Jalopnik's 9 Favorite Vintage Mazda Commercials
Here's an annoying but unforgettable one from 1972 - "Piston engine goes boing, boing, boing but the Mazda goes hmmmmm"
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tonyola
09/27/09

@tonyola: I remember a strange emission-control-related quirk about these early RX-3s. If you gave it a long full-throttle blast then suddenly let off the gas, the car would sometimes give off a backfire that sounded like a 12-gauge going off under the floorboards. It supposedly was not harmful (except to the hearts of unprepared riders), but one was always tempted to look under the car expecting to see the exhaust system blown off.
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If FromaBuick6 has to watch one more Chevy commercial, he's going to punch Howie Long in the face
09/27/09

In reply to Jalopnik's 9 Favorite Vintage Mazda Commercials
I was really hoping Jim Garner would pull a J-turn in that 929.
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Theimbellis
09/26/09

In reply to What's It Like When Your Mazda Sheds A Wheel On The Race Track?
Watching Miatas wrecking isn't as interesting as watching blind cockroaches walking into each other.
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Murilee Martin
09/26/09

@Theimbellis: RX-7. It's in the first sentence.
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Gaseous Clay
09/26/09

@Theimbellis: I see it's contagious.. Miata comment on the RX7 post.
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Theimbellis
09/26/09

@Gaseous Clay: Yeah, so? RX-7 is pretty much useless, just as useless as a Miata.

...Just like a Rolex watch, it's good for 4-5 years then dies.
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vr6john
09/26/09

@Theimbellis: your first troll was better even though you got the car wrong...this troll you didn't even try...
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Murilee Martin
09/26/09

@vr6john: He (or she) does contribute to the discussion sometimes, so the trolls are tolerated as a necessary byproduct.
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mechimike
09/26/09

@Murilee Martin: I've never seen anything but troll-esque comments emanate from that username, and strange third person comments. I tend to ignore them myself- if they aren't troll-ey, they are obviously ignorant and not worthy of response.
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quayzar
09/27/09

@Theimbellis: I'm surprised I didn't see a Suxs0rs or Ro0LeZ in your comment somewhere.
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mechimike
09/26/09

In reply to What's It Like When Your Mazda Sheds A Wheel On The Race Track?
Our Amazon lost a wheel in the first race, while I was driving, and the car simply skidded to a stop (I was fortunate enough to be able to get it off course!) Of course, that was a front wheel- losing a rear wheel is much, much more dangerous- especially in a turn!
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Gaseous Clay
09/26/09

In reply to What's It Like When Your Mazda Sheds A Wheel On The Race Track?
It amazes me that a car as low centered as a Miata would flip like that rather than just sliding off into the grass. If it had slid then hooked the edge and rolled, sure - but this sucker jumps like it had an ACME hydraulic ram underneath it.

One moment, rolling through the corner - the next.. yard sale.
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mechimike
09/26/09

@Gaseous Clay: It was an RX-7, but yeah, pretty freaky still. I think the wheel got shoved under the back of the car, since he was on a corner, and that poped the back end up and initiated the roll. Sort of like when a swing-axle car gets lose in back around a turn. (Think Tatra, VW, Corvair, Porche)
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Gaseous Clay
09/26/09

@mechimike: dOH! Pretty bad how my eyes read RX7 & my brain thought miata... must have been due to the spec miata post I had just read.

Regardless, I bet you are right that the wheel became a ramp.
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Murilee Martin
09/26/09

@Gaseous Clay: The driver of the RX-7 was sure that he'd been hit, which is what it felt like in the car.
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UnlimitedRevs
09/26/09

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He was on a roll.

...sorry.
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Nick
09/26/09

@UnlimitedRevs: do it right.

He must be butter 'cause he is on a roll.

/RIP Steve Mazur
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area_educator
09/14/09

In reply to People's Curse Winner Gets Pardon From Not-So-Bloodthirsty Crowd!
has anyone thought (or has this change already been made) to count abstaining teams as 'crush no car'?
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Murilee Martin
09/15/09

@area_educator: There's a "nobody" option on the ballot. Just about everybody votes.
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area_educator
09/16/09

@Murilee Martin: If just about everybody votes, then the point is moot. But, in at least one case where you guys provided numbers, there was a non-trivial portion of teams not voting. And in that case (IIRC), the winner received slightly more than half of the votes.

But, noticably fewer than half of the teams voted for them.
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olmy
09/14/09

In reply to And The Winner Is... NOT This 1979 Dodge Omni!
I saw the broken con-rod from the Omni as I was leaving the awards ceremony yesterday. Best bent then broken con-rod I've ever seen! It had at least a 60 degree curve to it before it snapped off, and they drove the car like that a few laps!
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something_unique_and_descriptive
09/14/09

In reply to And The Winner Is... NOT This 1979 Dodge Omni!
So who actually won?

IOE and Heroic Fix are the ones that matter, nobody cares who did the most laps...
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mechimike
09/14/09

@something_unique_and_descripti...: IoE was a '75 BMW with a very orange and very corrogated body treatment, and Heroic Fix went to the "Keep Yer Damn Change" CRX team that swapped a bunch of engines over the course of the weekend.
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mechimike
09/14/09

@something_unique_and_descripti...: Oh, and the Organizer's Choice was the Batmobile Saturn.
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Mudduck67
09/14/09

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Greetings fellow workers and members of the proletariat known as the White Lightning racing team.
Allow me to introduce myself. I am Kim Song-jin, party member and director of the Pyeongwah Motors Company of the glorious Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
I would like to personally invite you to bring your award-winning RX-7 along with your technical team to the lovely land I call home. If you accept the position of lead automotive developer in the People's Republic, you will receive many benefits beyond the simple joys of joining the movement, including immediate party membership, an extra food allowance every month, and a bicycle to share among every two team members.
If you are interested, please send me a letter via your country's postal service--our email access is curtailed to further the goals of the supreme leader.
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Fast_Nel
09/13/09

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Can you bring this sport to Europe? Please, please, pretty please?!?!
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Braff
09/13/09

@Fast_Nel: I live in the US, but the chance to run this in Europe might be too good to be true...

I would convince the wife this is a vacation...
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Schm, enjoying his first desert winter. .
09/13/09

@Fast_Nel: I'll give a Lemons worthy RX7, an Omni and a Volvo in exchange for a Focus RS or two. Fair deal, no?
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AlienProbe
09/13/09

@Fast_Nel: hey... You got Banger Racing over there... you can't have all the fun.
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Mobius
09/13/09

@AlienProbe: Hey, you've got NASCAR!

Oh, wait, yeah, you can keep that.
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Mookinator
09/13/09

In reply to And The Winner Is... NOT This 1979 Dodge Omni!
that's not an Omni, that's an 83-87 Charger.
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brickyard
09/13/09

@Mookinator: It would be hell to be a car mag editor. Who in the world knows a '83 Charger from a '79 Omni? I was impressed she could identify it as a malaise era Chrysler.
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MushyHeirloom
09/13/09

@brickyard: The first one was still known as an Omni 024. When they blocked out the C-pillar windows and gave it four square lights instead of two, it became a Charger/Turismo; the former was available in Shelby form just like the Omni.

EDIT: ...so yeah, at the very least, the front clip is from an '83/'84 Charger/Turismo/Rampage/Scamp.

Oh, and all this is from memory. Oh, God.
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mercury_marine
09/13/09

@FP: Your Volvo is awesome! Anyway: Nose is '84+...the rest looks like it could it be a TC-3 perhaps?
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Uncle Bo
09/13/09

@FP: Your Volvo is awesome! Anyway:

I can't decide whether you knowing this info from memory is deeply disturbing or a strangely exciting, like meeting a interstellar brother or something. I mean, yeah, you are plenty weird, no question about that, but you're kinda cool, too.
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MushyHeirloom
09/13/09

@mercury_marine: TC3, that was the name of the Plymouth-badged O24. Good call.

I honestly can't tell them apart year-by-year by hood and door/rear-quarter sheetmetal alone. Which is a good thing, as Uncle Bo may have implied.
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Murilee Martin
09/13/09

@Mookinator: It started life as an Omni, but a bunch of junkyard body parts got Frankensteined onto it.
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LTDScott
09/14/09

@Mookinator: I'd give you shit for being a FWD Mopar nerd, but if it was an incorrectly identified Fox body, I'd be on it like stink on shit.
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MushyHeirloom
09/14/09

@Murilee Martin: Which explains why everything behind the A-pillars and above the beltline seems to have relocated (or maybe that's part of the original roof, I can't tell).

Junkyard bastardisations are (often) awesome!
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AlienProbe
09/13/09

In reply to And The Winner Is... NOT This 1979 Dodge Omni!
Does this mean that some adjustments to the "Peoples Curse" is in order? Like... maybe there should be a dual curse vote now? Vote for two cars... the one you want to see put out of the race and the other you would like to see penalized somehow to put them back but not break their spirit. Could it be possible to bring a "cursemobile" to track (old hearse comes to mind) and the team that gets the most votes still gets to race, but has to race in the cursemobile? I dunno... just spewing what is on my mind.

Congrats to the RX7 though!
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MushyHeirloom
09/14/09

@AlienProbe: Hearse? No, no, not a hearse. A Driver's-Ed-themed '76-78 New Yorker Brougham with a junkyard 170-cube Leaning Tower and three-speed on the column.

Slower than frozen treacle, and of course the no-contact rule would be strictly enforced.
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