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pointlessdude
07/10/09

In reply to Tehran's Got Mad Love For The Screamin' Chicken
Firebirds were hot imports for US Navy people getting stationed in Bahrain back in the 70's if you were permitted to ship a vehicle, was a quick profit turn around to a local.
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Al Navarro
07/10/09

In reply to Tehran's Got Mad Love For The Screamin' Chicken
My wife and I were just talking about Smokey and the screaming chicken. It's amazing that there was a time when moustaches and Trans-Ams were not ironic in any way.

A return to sincerity is definitely in order.
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leavethegun-takethecannoli
07/10/09

@Al Navarro: I agree. My cousin has one sitting in his garage- with about 19,000 miles on it. It is pristine, and it has a CB.
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jpech
07/10/09

In reply to Tehran's Got Mad Love For The Screamin' Chicken
I'm suggesting that we get Playboy covergirl, and TV/movie star Sally Field to follow in the tap dancing footsteps of Shirley Temple, and be the next ambassador to Iran. In Smokey and the Bandit she was a dancer, just like Shirley. She was a flying nun, so she's good with the religious stuff. She was on the cover of Playboy, and who doesn't like scantily clad women? And in Forrest Gump she proved, she'd do almost anything to help out children. What could go wrong?
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mytdawg
07/10/09

In reply to Tehran's Got Mad Love For The Screamin' Chicken
This is nothing new. In the late 70's we had an influx of young Iranians in the town I lived in. They bought up like an entire apartment complex or something like that and went to high school and college in the area. They bought nice cars like kids buy candy but their favorites by far were the Trans Ams. Strangely, most of the pretty girls hung out with them too. How does that work?

/sarcasm
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smalleyxb122
07/10/09

In reply to Tehran's Got Mad Love For The Screamin' Chicken
Am I the only one who misread the photo credit as "manhood"?

Yes?

Carry on, then.

It's nice to see that F-body love knows no borders. Curious lack of mullets, though.

Full disclosure: I love 2nd gen F-bodies, and haven't had a mullet for nigh on 2 decades.
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Graverobber
07/10/09

In reply to Tehran's Got Mad Love For The Screamin' Chicken
Actually, I think there they call it Smokey and the Great Satan

Eye,eye,eye,eye,eye,eye,eye,eye,eye!
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pauljones
07/10/09

@Graverobber: Alladin and the Forty Thieves.
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leavethegun-takethecannoli
07/10/09

@Graverobber: You've never seen "Three Kings?" Only women go "eye-eye-eye-eye-eye-eye."
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beercheck
07/10/09

In reply to Tehran's Got Mad Love For The Screamin' Chicken
That's obviously a general F-body meet, not specifically Firebird.
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engineerd
07/10/09

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The Koran does say, "Do you not see that Allah is He Whom do glorify all those who are in the heavens and the earth, and the (very) birds with expanded wings? He knows the prayer of each one and its glorification, and Allah is Cognizant of what they do." (The Light 24.41)
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TTopJohn
07/10/09

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Trans Am - the kind of awesome that brings different cultures together. Or these guys could hate us even more on account of Uncle Sam killing off Pontiac. Could go either way.
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pauljones
07/10/09

In reply to Tehran's Got Mad Love For The Screamin' Chicken
You know what, I call bullskovich.

Iran and other countries in the region frequently complain about the lower quality of life that their respective populations often experience, and here they are with frickin' Firebirds. To the best of my knowledge, Firebirds were never sold anywhere near there, which means that they imported them gray market, a very expensive thing to do with a car.

And how the hell is it that Tehran is apparently more American than Los Angeles? Granted, there are lots of car meet-ups, but it's been a damn long time since I have seen one for Firebirds.
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TTopJohn
07/10/09

@pauljones: I suspect that Iran doesn't bother with US style DOT and EPA federalization requirements.
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POLAЯ ON PЯOBATION
07/10/09

@pauljones: Hey, that silver one...
THAT'S MY STOLEN IN THE 80'S FUCKIN' FIREBIRD!!!!
...or at least that's how I picture it being said when the original owner sees it.
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Edited by POLAЯ ON PЯOBATION at 07/10/09 10:49 AM

MaxSmart32
07/10/09

@pauljones: It's actually probably not all that hard to get a GM product, considering how many oil-rich countries in the middle east buy American cars (think Saudi Arabia, or even Israel), and once its on land, it wouldn't be that hard. I wonder if Tehran has it's own version of the EPA? I highly doubt it...

I just did a little poking around, and oddly enough it looks like the taxation on importing a car (most likely new) is 100%. And you think our taxes are bad. I don't know how much of a 'classic' car market there is in Iran, how many people really want a used Paykan, a 'new' 38 year old Hillman Hunter?
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pauljones
07/10/09

@TTopJohn: Yeah, but they still have to pay shipping, and that can be pretty pricey.
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Tier 5 royal, the Manic King
07/10/09

@pauljones: Grey market import is never that expensive, that's why people do it in the first place.
Cars are always cheaper in US and you just need shipping company to take care of logistics (cheap again) and that's it, you got your Firebird in Tehran for meet-ups and hoonage. Maybe exporters have emptied LA by now.
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pauljones
07/10/09

@Manic King 2: Shipping a car is not cheap, particular considering the currency exchange rates.
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nataku8_e30
07/10/09

@pauljones: Just because 90% of the population is starving doesn't mean the other 10% can't import Firebirds and the like. These numbers are obviously not accurate, and I don't think Iran has a lot of starvation, although they do have a decent # of poor, who are the ones that support Ahmadinejad, since he basically gives handouts to the poor. Same thing goes in countries like China - the majority of the population is living in hovels, doing subsistence farming or other menial labor jobs - that doesn't mean that it's not a huge market for Ferrari. There is certainly a lot of hypocrisy in the middle east, though...
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Tier 5 royal, the Manic King
07/10/09

@pauljones: well, I think couple of years ago it was approx. $1000 per car from east coast of US to Europe, then it went up with boom and with lack of containers and now it's down again because there's over cap. of vessels and containers. But I don't have exact prices.
Same with other places in the world, ships are moving goods and maybe cost is $2000 NJ- Iran, some people have this money there, so why not.
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Gearhead_42 - Nibbles ate my garage!
07/10/09

In reply to Tehran's Got Mad Love For The Screamin' Chicken
That blue 71-ish one with the 3rd gen Camaro wheels looks awesome...
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beercheck
07/10/09

@Gearhead_42:
It does pull off the vinyl top remarkably well.
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jpech
07/10/09

@Gearhead_42: I was thinking the same. I'm 50/50 though on whether I might get rid of the white vinyl top.
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Dr. H. F. Danger
07/10/09

In reply to Tehran's Got Mad Love For The Screamin' Chicken
Nice cars, needs more T-Tops though.
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TTopJohn
07/10/09

@Dr.Danger owns the city turkeys: Well yes, but really, that's true for any car.
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Novaload
07/03/09

In reply to Scott Listfield: Astronaut Dinosaur
Oh, and didn't Rod Serling sort of play all this out back in the late 50s/early 60s?
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Novaload
07/03/09

In reply to Scott Listfield: Astronaut Dinosaur
Is that the Stig of the Future in the paintings?

Some say he evolved on Earth but launched a Veyron through another dimension...
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Maymar
07/03/09

In reply to Scott Listfield: Astronaut Dinosaur
It feels like this is what Bill Watterson would've done if he were a post-millenial hipster artist. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
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