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ThreeLitre
11/20/09

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That Corvair is quite mental.
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Turboner
11/20/09

@ThreeLitre: I saw an LS powered RX7 at an autocross last year, and it scared the semen right out of me :)
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turbo1168
11/20/09

@Turboner: Well, both of my "projects are going to be scary then! We (my brother and I) bought an '87 Rx-7 FC. The rotary is going into his Bug and the shell will be receiving a LS engine. The bug weighs maybe 1800lbs and getting the engine from a 26-2700 lb car and the rx is getting the engine from a 32-3800 lb car! Nothing better than a good.. I mean great power to weight ratio.
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Turboner
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@turbo1168: Better than great. I was kidding about being scared, but not about the semen!
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Kaiser-Machead
11/20/09

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I'm caught between the uber lovely Porsche Turbo and the Caparo T1. Oh wells, gotta go with my old love from Stuttgart.
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ThreeLitre
11/20/09

@Kaiser-Machead: I love that car too much to be scared of it. It's so pretty.

That Speed 12 on the other hand...

What padded-cell delinquent did they let out for a day to think up that concept?
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Clown Shoe Pilot
11/20/09

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I'll cop to being scared of the 930. A co-worker/LeMons team mate of mine has one that she let me drive.

The turbo lag is terrifying - when you finally get into the boost, it comes on like a crazed serial killer in your bed that you've somehow overlooked until you're just about to fall asleep.

I'd still not mind having one though!
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bmoreDLJ
11/20/09

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Carful with sayin' "Shelby" so much...you tryin' to get sued?

Nice Caliber photo, though.
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Mobius
11/20/09

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Anything on the LeMons track is enough to scare the **** out of everyone.
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tonyola
11/20/09

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My '75 Duster 360 had a good punch off the line - quite entertaining for a malaise-mobile and the handling was fairly respectable at moderate speeds. Try to cruise it above 85 or 90 though, and it felt like it was going to dart off in unpredictable directions or even go airborne - that mid-'60s-vintage cart suspension gave only a tenuous grip of the road. A couple of sudden 540-degree spins on wet pavement was enough to shake my faith in the car. I wasn't all that sorry to see it go.
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GreenN_Gold
11/20/09

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Can't decide between the Miata rat-rod or this.
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Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
11/20/09

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An old Rabbit diesel trying to merge into Houston highway traffic is the scariest thing I can imagine.
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DrLemming
11/20/09

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It would have been interesting to be a fly on the wall during the development of the Chrysler Sebring. Clearly, cost cutting was the order of the day. Can you hear the guys with the german accents trying to convince their American "assistants" that no one will notice if they cut a few more corners.
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Alfisted
11/20/09

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Lookin down a couple of posts, perhaps we ought to fear this...
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evoCS-Hench-Minion to the stars
11/20/09

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I completely understand the 930's inclusion here, but you could almost make it any pre-993 911. We have my late father-in-law's '69 911 in our stead, and I swear that car really does mean to harm you if you aren't on top of your game. Albeit, his car is still mostly set up for the Street Prepared class autocrossing he did, so there is that. I know dad wouldn't want anything bad to happen to us, but that car has other ideas...

You want to get more kids interested in physics? Take 'em to a track day chock full of 911's and give ride alongs. You really can feel the physics of that raucous flat 6 threatening to pass the rest of the car in any given corner.
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bmoreDLJ
11/20/09

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I already have plenty of reasons to want to visit Japan. Now I have at least three more!
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brandegee
11/20/09

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World's longest bridge over water that's covered by ice for part of the year
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Elhigh
11/20/09

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Don't forget the Big Dig in Boston. Using federal money for a local project, your tax dollars hard at work...for someone else! Thanks, guys.

And right after it opened, it started breaking, and leaking, and squashing people in their cars. Way to pick the lowest bidder! Your tax money hard at...oh, forget it.

I guess this was really a page for awe-inspiring and aesthetically remarkable structures, not aw-hell inspiring, underground structures.
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Elhigh
11/20/09

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In the States we seem to save our most remarkable infrastructural efforts for bridges.

My personal favorite, the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel. It's damned long - I can't remember exactly how long, but you're on it long enough to get tired of it, I think over ten miles - and in at least one spot you dive under the water for a mile or so. Because of ships, you know. They can't dive to go under the bridge.

One wonders - wouldn't it have been cheaper to make the bridge taller for a while? Then the ships could go under. No need for bilge pumps and vent fans. Just saying.
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