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    "Experience The Fantastic Feeling of Driving a Race Car!"

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    Image of McHoon McHoon
    08/10/09

    In reply to "Experience The Fantastic Feeling of Driving a Race Car!"
    I'm sure the guy meant well, but that thing looks like it was pieced together from parts left over from an old Farmall tractor and hay baler.
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    Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet promoted this comment McHoon was starred McHoon was unstarred
    Image of Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
    08/10/09

    @McHoon: I believe you have just insulted hay balers everywhere. Farmalls are used to the abuse.
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    Image of joneez wants the clunkers he paid for joneez wants the clunkers he paid for
    08/10/09

    In reply to "Experience The Fantastic Feeling of Driving a Race Car!"
    When Felipe Massa gets back, show him this thing and tell him the rules have changed once again and Ferrari has to meet a much stricter budget.
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    Al Navarro promoted this comment joneez wants the clunkers he paid for was starred joneez wants the clunkers he paid for was unstarred
    Image of Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
    08/10/09

    @joneez helped you buy a new car: Right. Next time he'd better duck. Slacker.
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    Image of MZЯ MZЯ
    08/10/09

    In reply to "Experience The Fantastic Feeling of Driving a Race Car!"
    My eyes need a Tetanus shot.
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    Al Navarro promoted this comment MZЯ was starred MZЯ was unstarred
    Image of superbadd75, now I remember why I left... superbadd75, now I remember why I left...
    08/10/09

    In reply to "Experience The Fantastic Feeling of Driving a Race Car!"
    Why the spoilers? With all that steel, this thing's gotta weigh more than enough to keep it planted all the way up to its 50 mph top speed.
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    Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet promoted this comment Edited by superbadd75, now I remember why I left... at 08/10/09 5:41 PM superbadd75, now I remember why I left... was starred superbadd75, now I remember why I left... was unstarred
    Image of Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
    08/10/09

    In reply to "Experience The Fantastic Feeling of Driving a Race Car!"
    This car easily has ten times the low-carbon steel of any F1 car, for the weight savings, so you're getting a lot of value for the money.

    Also, this fellow is making real advances in the field of suspension-compliance-through-chassis-flex, that has not been seen for decades.

    Too bad the rear spoiler is too wide. Otherwise he could have entered it next year. I hear there's an open slot.
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    Image of philibuster philibuster
    08/10/09

    In reply to "Experience The Fantastic Feeling of Driving a Race Car!"
    #2: Adjusting the front-end alignment.
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    Image of pauljones pauljones
    08/10/09

    In reply to "Experience The Fantastic Feeling of Driving a Race Car!"
    At last, the Chinese brothers in downtown szechuan have a competitor in the F -1 Series.
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    Image of bmoreDLJ bmoreDLJ
    08/10/09

    In reply to "Experience The Fantastic Feeling of Driving a Race Car!"
    If it mowed the lawn, I'd buy one.
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    MrBangBam promoted this comment bmoreDLJ was starred bmoreDLJ was unstarred
    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    08/10/09

    In reply to "Experience The Fantastic Feeling of Driving a Race Car!"
    If I wanted to Get The Feeling, I'd buy an '80s Corolla for the same price.
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    MushyHeirloom was starred MushyHeirloom was unstarred
    Image of BaconSandwich and the generic grey civic of doom BaconSandwich and the generic grey civic of doom
    08/10/09

    In reply to "Experience The Fantastic Feeling of Driving a Race Car!"
    You know what? I was going to completely 'dis this thing because of its tetanus inducing bodywork and used-farm machinery color scheme but then it occurred to me - until I build something cooler and better, I really can't complain. All the more power to the guy who built it. Sure it might not be a basement lambo or a Chinese pseudo- F1 car, but at least the guy who built actually did something.
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    Al Navarro promoted this comment BaconSandwich and the generic grey civic of doom was starred BaconSandwich and the generic grey civic of doom was unstarred
    Image of SlowMo (actually, there's no E on my R) SlowMo (actually, there's no E on my R)
    08/10/09

    In reply to "Experience The Fantastic Feeling of Driving a Race Car!"
    I wonder what else this person could have done with their time/energy rather than build this thing?
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    SlowMo (actually, there's no E on my R) was starred SlowMo (actually, there's no E on my R) was unstarred
    Image of tempesjo tempesjo
    08/10/09

    @Bring back the Jalopnik9: I try to look at it from another perspective: What truly terrible and destructive thing might this person have done if not wasting time building this custom racing car? I'll take this car and its harmlessness to the general population over a pipe bomb hobby or a meth lab.
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    Image of SlowMo (actually, there's no E on my R) SlowMo (actually, there's no E on my R)
    08/10/09

    @tempesjo: Like Bacon Sandwich above, I didn't want to dis it because I respect that fact that a guy had a dream and he built it. Sure, it's rough, (and probably almost undriveable) but at least he was doing something productive rather than playing video games, dragoning random people's cars, or surfing the web while "working"...
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    MrBangBam promoted this comment SlowMo (actually, there's no E on my R) was starred SlowMo (actually, there's no E on my R) was unstarred
    Image of tempesjo tempesjo
    08/10/09

    @Bring back the Jalopnik9: You know, I can't argue with that. If my son and I put something together like that someday, I'm sure I'd be proud of it, no matter what anyone else thought. Although I hope I have the presence of mind to forbid my son from driving it.
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    tempesjo was starred tempesjo was unstarred
    Image of PowerTryp, Starless wonder. PowerTryp, Starless wonder.
    08/10/09

    In reply to "Experience The Fantastic Feeling of Driving a Race Car!"
    You know it's funny, you never see a 'murican build a backyard NASCAR. You think you would cause they all look the same, heck go to enough races you'd have enough metal off of crashed cars to make an original one.
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    discontinuuity is missing Uncle Pete, the Auto Insider, and the Banhammered Nine promoted this comment PowerTryp, Starless wonder. was starred PowerTryp, Starless wonder. was unstarred
    Image of tempesjo tempesjo
    08/10/09


    @PowerTryp: True, but we do have the next worse thing. [www.waasadata.com]
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    acarr260 promoted this comment tempesjo was starred tempesjo was unstarred
    Image of discontinuuity has left the Jalop until further notice discontinuuity has left the Jalop until further notice
    08/10/09

    @PowerTryp: People do make their own NASCARs in their backyards. They're called Dirt Modified cars.
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    Image of pauljones pauljones
    08/10/09

    @PowerTryp: Clearly you have never been to Tennessee, Kentucky, or West Virginia. People there have been known to take 70s and 80s hunks of junk and turn them into surprisingly cool replicas of their old NASCAR iterations.
    On a side note, isn't this Krewson first day as an official, full-time Jalop?
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    08/10/09

    In reply to "Experience The Fantastic Feeling of Driving a Race Car!"
    I was at least hoping it was based on one of the newer VW-Skodas so it would go fast enough to kill you, rather than merely severing your legs at the knees.
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    Image of dolo54 blows minds and blows engines! dolo54 blows minds and blows engines!
    08/10/09

    In reply to "Experience The Fantastic Feeling of Driving a Race Car!"
    this would make one badass riding mower.
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    Image of Flying_Finn Flying_Finn
    08/10/09

    @dolo54 blows minds and blows engines!: if rusty lawn mowers had comics where the hero gained their power from a nuclear waste dump, this would be that hero.
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    Al Navarro promoted this comment Flying_Finn was starred Flying_Finn was unstarred
    Image of Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
    08/10/09

    @Flying_Finn: You've never seen Toxic Avenger, have you?
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    Image of Das ASHloch (achtundsiebzig) Das ASHloch (achtundsiebzig)
    08/10/09

    In reply to "Experience The Fantastic Feeling of Driving a Race Car!"
    Skoda? So it's like a Formula Vee car that predates the ownership of Vee.
    [www.formulavee.us]
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    Das ASHloch (achtundsiebzig) was starred Das ASHloch (achtundsiebzig) was unstarred
    Image of Paul Y. don't drive too fast. Paul Y. don't drive too fast.
    08/10/09

    @Ash78: That's a generous assessment. Formula Vee cars generally have such posh features as "front suspension."
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