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oh my god the argument is spreading!!!!!

look kids, if you can't play nice you won't be allowed to play together at all.  now let's all go to the kitchen and make some pbj sandwhiches for a snack while you two calm down.....

::rolls eyes::

And don't either of you dare say to me "HE started it!"

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LOL. You'd think at the very least we could limit the foodfight to a single thread 

[quote=SonnyClips]Mike tell me about some of your stories of driving sports cars instead of giving me tech articles. What are you a mechanic? or just another magazine reader?[/quote]<?:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

I never gave you a tech article. I simply pointed out things people who are involved with sports cars (beyond your obvious source of experience, some video game) know. It’s called common knowledge.

If my only choices are “mechanic” or “magazine reader” I’d have to say yes and no to both. Of course I’ve been an avid reader of sport car mags since I caught the bug over 25 years old. As to being a mechanic, well, that’s how everyone I know started out with an interest. We bought junky cars as kids (Dad wasn’t buy and we couldn’t afford better) and had to learn the skills. The next thing you know you have the bug. Then you’re doomed.

I grew up with friends of my father owning (usually British) sports cars. TR4s and TR6s, Spitfires and MG Bs. Learned a little wrenching there and how to double clutch (pre-working synchros). My friends and I owned things like Datsun 510s, Bluebirds and Corvairs and the like. Muscle cars were passé with the gas shortages of the 1970s, so we had econoboxes that we tried to tweak for power and handling. A friend’s father found us back road racing one night and after the lectured us to death, he took us to a proper venue. I started on go carts, moved from there to DE and autocrosses with the aforementioned econoboxes and when I could afford a 914, open tracks. I’ve owned 911s, a Boxster S, the 914 I mentioned, a couple of Jags, a Mustang a BMW 2002 and I’m sure a few I’ve left out. I’ve worked on cars friends own and race.

Since then I’ve raced on tracks in Europe and the <?:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />US at the club level. I have my little pieces of silver, but nothing to write home about. I currently get involved with a DE or track event once a quarter with my local PCA club and sneak in with other clubs when I get a chance. My most white knuckle experience was in a friend’s 930 (more precious to him than his kids) when the turbo lag caught me off-guard exiting the first turn and I found myself 180 degrees off, looking straight into oncoming race traffic. Loads of fun and besides, underwear isn’t really that expensive.

[quote=SonnyClips]Now your talking. My first car was a Datsun 510.

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A fun, cheap car with a racing heritage. I loved mine.

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 and one of those Renault Le Car like Homologation mid engine cars (wow a very cool car).

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To my undying shame I once owned a LeCar. Worse yet, it was not my only Renault.

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Had a few early z cars, GTI, miata..

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I owned a 240Z (great car) and a Miata when thy first came out and it was the only roadster sold in the US.

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What's a Bluebird sounds like a Datsun but I don't know?

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A Datsun roadster. On second thought it might have been called a Fairlady. Either way it was victim to the Japanese weird habit of using English in a strange fashion.

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Believe it or not my mother used to race a Corvair spyder with the turbo ..

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Another great car. Nader, btw, is a jerk.

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 He had both kneecaps ripped off in a car wreck, we were hit by a Drunk Driver.

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Sorry to hear that.

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I've got a Mini now that even though it is front wheel drive handles great and drifts nicely without plowing, hey I like to drive and I'm a lib.

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I like the Mini and see nothing "Lib" about any BMW ;)

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You know earlier I meant four wheel drift when I wrote revearse lock slide ...

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No, I figured you meant reverse lock slide, a really bad idea. I get you now.

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You follow F1 this year? Best season in ten years.[/quote]

This is going to sound strange from a car nut, but I have really limited interest in open wheel racing. I like racing where the cars look like production models. When I lived in Europe I felt the same about F-1 hysteria (and man, is it real) as I do NASCAR hysteria, I just don't get it. I'd rather watch some obscure German Touring Car race or Australian sports car racing.

[quote=SonnyClips]Thanks for the stories though. I wish they would make a big long documentary about late sixties LeMans, CanAm and F1 racing. Or if they have share the title.[/quote]

The closest thing I can think of off the top of my head would be Steve McQueen in "LeMans". Almost 40 some odd minutes of racing before someone ruins it with dialogue.

I'm dating myself, but.... my first car was an Olds Cutlass 442, manual transmission of course.  I loved that car.

Phooey on those little rinngggg dinnnng dinnnng cars.  Just kidding.

Recently sold a 68 Galaxie fast back and made a nice profit. My latest project car is a 72 K5 Blazer.. think I'll keep this one for a while and have some fun with it.  Unless I score the 49 Buick. 

Now isn't this more fun than arguing about variable annuities?

K5 is a full sized Blazer more like a Tahoe or Suburban.  The entire fiberglass top can come off and the truck is fully convertable, over the entire vechile not just the back area.  A lot of fun in the summer.  I think 1975 was the last year of fully convertable tops.

Yep, portholes.

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I'm dating myself, but.... my first car was an Olds Cutlass 442, manual transmission of course.  I loved that car.

Phooey on those little rinngggg dinnnng dinnnng cars.  Just kidding.

Recently sold a 68 Galaxie fast back and made a nice profit. My latest project car is a 72 K5 Blazer.. think I'll keep this one for a while and have some fun with it.  Unless I score the 49 Buick. 

Now isn't this more fun than arguing about variable annuities?

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You have a project car? I wouldn't ordinarily say this to a married woman, but, I think I'm in love 

I do not read posts related to metaphors about cars or stupid posts that quote someone line by line when having a conversation please it goes back and forth

http://www.forbes.com/management/2006/03/15/handr-block-tax- suits-cz_cc_0315block.html?partner=rss

msnbc article, enough said

Reviving this old thread made me long to revive another.  Sorry, but I couldn’t contain my gloating…