Bob McCown said:
Oh, alright. My speed fixMe in the blue #10 fighting for position
That looks like a blast, Bob.
I used to race karts years ago.
But those mini open wheeler’s look like fun!
That looks like a blast, Bob.
I used to race karts years ago.
But those mini open wheeler’s look like fun!
Garrett said:Oh boy thats one of my pet peeves. Why do they market cars with 500hp super sports package then sell 80% of them to people who will drive them like a 72 Volvo? The way they drive they'd be better off with the Volvo. I'm not a big car fan but I do admit I get that fizzy giddy feeling when ever I see the latest Jag XJs especially the XJ-L Supersport long wheelbase. Just need the coin cause they ain't cheap LOL.
Most BMW owners honestly would be more at home in a Buick Park Avenue but it lacks the image. There are the exceptions, like the friend with a 7 series with a five speed, that car was darn fun!
Well Victor, since you live here in Socal, if you ever see a black BMW M6 with the plates 1OFFM6, it will be me as I blast by at Warp 9 taking the paint off the side of your car from the vacuum I create at speed. Just Kidding.
Whats wrong with a Buick Park Avenue?
Guess my truck ain’t no hotrod
(http://freightsheds.largescalecentral.com/users/johnm/_forumfiles/guess-it-aint-a-hotrod.jpg)
I got my 1958 MGA up to 90 mph once, then it started acting it’s age. Not me, the car. 
Victor Smith said:Hey wait I minute, I had a Volvo 144S....with IPD R grind cam, hollow pushrods, double springs on a '71 B21E head fed by twin 40 mm DCOEs and a fat free flow exhaust...Faster than a friend's Alfa Berlina.Garrett said:Oh boy thats one of my pet peeves. Why do they market cars with 500hp super sports package then sell 80% of them to people who will drive them like a 72 Volvo?
Most BMW owners honestly would be more at home in a Buick Park Avenue but it lacks the image. There are the exceptions, like the friend with a 7 series with a five speed, that car was darn fun!
Nuttn wrong with a Buick Park Avenue, (unles you drive a Lucrne) it is a nice car for riding in comfort. Nice indefatigable cars.
Okay this is as close to driving a fast vehicle as I come. (thoughts on the photo being so “grainy”?
(http://freightsheds.largescalecentral.com/users/johnm/_forumfiles/x5.jpg)
Steve Featherkile said:If you don't want to restore that, give it to me. :) :)
I got my 1958 MGA up to 90 mph once, then it started acting it's age. Not me, the car. :P
John Miller said:It was originally a smaller pic (in pixels) that was enlarged. Thus the grain.
Okay this is as close to driving a fast vehicle as I come. (thoughts on the photo being so "grainy"?
Well, my last run yesterday round trip to San Diego and back I behaved, used cruise control, the 73 toll road and actually got a little over 17 mpg. I am suprised and especially since I had the Warp 9 button pressed (507hp in lieu of just the normal 400). Wonders never cease. My friend Bullwinkle thought I was hot rodding around Mission Beach and came to realize that the M6 behaves like that even when you drive like an old man, which I resemble.
Yes BUT! I have rode with you in the mountains and that thing is a sports car with soccer mom sheet metal.
Guess I’m getting old Had a few cars in the past that I pegged the speedo a few times (66 Mustang - 160, 280Zx Trubo - speedo stoped at 140, but I didn’t). Now drive a plain old middle class SUV. But there is still the bike - Suzuki Boulevard that will cruise easily in the low 100’s. Shh - don’t tell the wife or she won’t let me take it out anymore…
And yes, I’m crazy…
John, I took the X5 photo as a under a full moon at 7000 feet with natural lighting as a time exposure and it came out looking somewhat like daylight.
Only picture I could find…
(http://i273.photobucket.com/albums/jj222/Noble_Dreg/RF%20forum/Sol2-1.jpg)
Much as I’d prefer the Jag, been trying to find something fun to tinker with, maybe an old Miata. Thought about a Karmann Ghia but the dam things are now collectables and are getting top $. That’s when you KNOW your getting old, when you start seeing the claptraps you beat around in high school on the auction block for high 5 figures.
Having had an old Ghia convertible, I would never recommend one. The only way I could get heat in that was to open the window. Seemed to defeat the purpose. I’m on my 3rd Miata and it’s been a MUCH better car. AC, power windows, and a top that goes up or down in about 3 seconds. Fun to drive.
Hummmm. Miata = Rainbow Coalition here in SOCAL. OK looking but no guts. Just my observations.
If I got one I would do some serious tuning to it. Same for any tweeker car I get my hands on. I would love to find an old kit car like a Bradley or a Sterling, something hidious in a Deathrace2000 kinda way, yeah I know some of then were really ugly but a few were really quit cool looking but almost every decent one I find for sale its always eastward of Chicago …there are very few on this side of the Rockies