Today, Ford has announced it will stop building vehicles in Australia in 2017, that is 91 years of producing cars there. This follows GM and Toyota, as Holden and Toyota were citing expensive production costs. Sad day indeed!
Today, Ford has announced it will stop building vehicles in Australia in 2017, that is 91 years of producing cars there. This follows GM and Toyota, as Holden and Toyota were citing expensive production costs. Sad day indeed!
Quoted from ramegoom:My game room where the cars meet the toys.
Not only awesome rides, but three nice Bally (and a Jennings) slots.
I run a slide show of my cars on a 23" TV next to my Mustang premium (with projector light "COBRA" topper).
mystic paint '96 SVT Mustang Cobra (with 7 miles on odometer)
mineral grey '01 SVT Mustang Cobra (with 55 miles on odometer)
torch red '08 Shelby GT500 Mustang (with 9 miles on odometer)
inferno orange '13 Camaro ZL1 (with 8 miles on odometer)
deep impact blue '13 Mustang GT premium (my wife's car)
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Quoted from littlecammi:I run a slide show of my cars on a 23" TV next to my Mustang premium (with projector light "COBRA" topper).
mystic paint '96 SVT Mustang Cobra (with 7 miles on odometer)
mineral grey '01 SVT Mustang Cobra (with 55 miles on odometer)
torch red '08 Shelby GT500 Mustang (with 9 miles on odometer)
inferno orange '13 Camaro ZL1 (with 8 miles on odometer)
deep impact blue '13 Mustang GT premium (my wife's car)
Quoted from littlecammi:I run a slide show of my cars on a 23" TV next to my Mustang premium (with projector light "COBRA" topper).
mystic paint '96 SVT Mustang Cobra (with 7 miles on odometer)
mineral grey '01 SVT Mustang Cobra (with 55 miles on odometer)
torch red '08 Shelby GT500 Mustang (with 9 miles on odometer)
inferno orange '13 Camaro ZL1 (with 8 miles on odometer)
deep impact blue '13 Mustang GT premium (my wife's car)
Quoted from littlecammi:mystic paint '96 SVT Mustang Cobra (with 7 miles on odometer)
mineral grey '01 SVT Mustang Cobra (with 55 miles on odometer)
torch red '08 Shelby GT500 Mustang (with 9 miles on odometer)
inferno orange '13 Camaro ZL1 (with 8 miles on odometer)
I just would never be able to do it... Do you just go and look at them every now and again?
Quoted from ramegoom:Actually the Bally's and Jennings are stashed away:
Do those Jennings' have a TJM ID tag? If so, made in your state....
Yep, made in Chicago by TJM. Circa 1978-1979. I used to live in Chicago, right near the facility that built them, and a few years ago, bought a storage unit full of those J400's - over 30. That was the deal - take all or none, so I went for it. All from a casino and had been sitting for many years. So I have them stacked up, needing cleanup and minor restoration and it seems like I'll never get to them. I moved them from Chicago to Loveland CO and there they sit.
Someday...
Quoted from Darcy:Today, Ford has announced it will stop building vehicles in Australia in 2017, that is 91 years of producing cars there. This follows GM and Toyota, as Holden and Toyota were citing expensive production costs. Sad day indeed!
Yeah a livable wage is one of those "expensive production costs" for it's workers. Makes me sick!!!
Quoted from littlecammi:I run a slide show of my cars on a 23" TV next to my Mustang premium (with projector light "COBRA" topper).
mystic paint '96 SVT Mustang Cobra (with 7 miles on odometer)
mineral grey '01 SVT Mustang Cobra (with 55 miles on odometer)
torch red '08 Shelby GT500 Mustang (with 9 miles on odometer)
inferno orange '13 Camaro ZL1 (with 8 miles on odometer)
deep impact blue '13 Mustang GT premium (my wife's car)
You need my leg Light-Ups on that Premium.
My 1980 Triumph TR7 I have been working on the last few years.
Has a Buick 231 ,3.8 L V6. Even fire.
Still not done yet.
The interior left to finish off. Maybe finally have it on the road by next summer. Fingers crossed.
Those ugly steel rims are not the rims I am using. That's just to roll it in and out of the garage.
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Quoted from Kingsley73:My 1971 Corvette LS5
Oh snap, my dad had one just like that except yellow. The side pipes had little diamond shapes cut out of them. My stepmom would get out and burn little diamonds into her legs. I loved that car.
Quoted from Kingsley73:My 1971 Corvette LS5
But that steering wheel is on the wrong side
Yeah every once in a while I forget to pay attention and lose a little more skin off of the back of my leg
I dunno....I think left side IS "right side"
Quoted from Skypilot:I have always loved corvettes, especially stingrays
I like the electric Blue color, very nice! I have to ask-what's up with the custom plate-Arrr?
Quoted from erak:Those ugly steel rims are not the rims I am using
Those wheels would look way better if they were painted argent, instead of white.
My current rides are a '12 Land Rover LR4 which I traded my same aged Jaguar XF-R for a couple of years ago. The Jag was awesome with 500hp but just too fast and a little too small hauling my 3 kids to school and stuff and regularly going near 100mph with them in the car without even realizing it. I'll have to find some photos of hat some other time as I'm camping now.
Other vehicle is a '15 Yukon XL Denali. Amazing vehicle for its utility. Can fit a crap ton of people and stuff as evidenced by the photo below. I've actually hauled 1 pin and 4 people comfortably. Usually haul pins in the Land Rover.
Before the Jag, my last "fun" car was a Porsche 968 convertible which was a fun car and very rarely seen.
Quoted from Darcy:Those wheels would look way better if they were painted argent, instead of white.
These are the style of rims I have to put on it.
Quoted from hardware:Nice Spyder! There are DSM people out there who appreciate that car. The 4G63 motor is a legend. I built one once, fastest car I ever owned or rode in. Waste of money though, lol.
Total money pit. But I love it. My mother bought it for me when she was diagnosed with cancer for the 3rd time and was told she was going to die back in the late 90's.
Well she is still here so I keep the car going as well.
Quoted from Kingsley73:My 1971 Corvette LS5
Back from the days when a Corvette looked like a Corvette!
Quoted from TheDrewster:My daily and pin-hauler is a 2013 Honda Fit Sport.
I'm always impressed that a pin can be carried in a Honda Fit.
Quoted from Skypilot:I have always loved corvettes, especially stingrays. If I can just figure out how to get a pinball machine in the back I'll be all set.
You just need someone to do a truck conversion on your Vette. Then your pins can ride in style.
Quoted from dmbjunky:You just need someone to do a truck conversion on your Vette. Then your pins can ride in style.
What no topper.
Quoted from dmbjunky:You just need someone to do a truck conversion on your Vette. Then your pins can ride in style.
That's the elcorvetto model.
Quoted from MustangPaul:What no topper.
I think you're looking for the Corvette wagon variant, the Corvette Aerowagon with optional Aerowagonette trailer. The trailer is for up to 3 unruly small children and is capable of speeds of 200 mph.
i already posted these pics in the other car thread, but for anyone who is wise enough to have that poster blocked, i'll post them here too. (apologies to those who already saw these pics).
2 weeks ago i picked up a Tesla P100DL (with Ludicrous Mode). the first one in the VA/MD/DC area.
0-60 in 2.5 seconds. fits a pin in the back. 315 mile range. no gas. puts out over 800 lb-ft of torque off the line.
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honestly, my plum crazy purple Challenger attracted a lot more attention. i guess the Tesla is kind of a sleeper -- either you know what it is or you don't. I miss the Challenger, that was a great car, but the Tesla is ten times more fun to drive. the acceleration even at highway speeds is just ... indescribable. i'm having a blast.
Quoted from KeithinMI:My first trans am was a 1978 solar gold y88 special edition with the w72 400, 4 speed, ws6. I promptly built the shit out the engine, including balance and blue printing, bored 30 over, 10.75 compression and a 3/4 race cam, port matched and polished heads, forged titanium connecting rods, sodium filled valves. It dyno'd at 600 plus hp at the wheels and ran 10.55 in the standing 1/4 on race slicks at Milan raceway. I used to race people light to light on Woodward on fridays and saturdays long long before the Woodward cruise ever existed.
For fuel I used to buy 55 gallon drums of jet 1a (or was it ll100?) and mix it with premium.
That car replaced my first car - my '66 gto convertible with 389 factory tri power, 4 speed. Did a frame off restore on that.
10 second pass is MOVING! I'd probably be scared in a RWD car going that fast to be honest, lol. I built a car once. A little over 400WHP on a mustang dyno which I'm told would be around 480 on a Dynojet. AWD so street tires weren't a problem at that power level. Probably be mid 11's on a perfect pass. Pretty impressive for 2.0 liter 4 cylinder. 28psi, single turbo, 93 octane.
Those Trans Ams in 78 didn't have a NOS hookup from the factory did they?
Quoted from pezpunk:i already posted these pics in the other car thread, but for anyone who is wise enough to have that poster blocked, i'll post them here too. (apologies to those who already saw these pics).
2 weeks ago i picked up a Tesla P100DL (with Ludicrous Mode). the first one in the VA/MD/DC area.
0-60 in 2.5 seconds. fits a pin in the back. 315 mile range. no gas. puts out over 800 lb-ft of torque off the line.honestly, my plum crazy purple Challenger attracted a lot more attention. i guess the Tesla is kind of a sleeper -- either you know what it is or you don't. I miss the Challenger, that was a great car, but the Tesla is ten times more fun to drive. the acceleration even at highway speeds is just ... indescribable. i'm having a blast.
Have any Photos with a WPC game in it?
Quoted from Hdmike444:New pin hauler
What a beautiful truck.
Is there a pinball machine in that sideless Stern box?
And maybe the group can identify this car for me?!! I have wanted to know what it is for about 30 years.
On a cruise in the early 80s down in Jamaica and Cozumel. Took this pic of a car in Jamaica, supported by some of the upstanding young locals. (And a pic of me enjoying the Cozumel sun...)
Quoted from Fulltilt:And maybe the group can identify this car for me?!! I have wanted to know what it is for about 30 years.
On a cruise in the early 80s down in Jamaica and Cozumel. Took this pic of a car in Jamaica, supported by some of the upstanding young locals. (And a pic of me enjoying the Cozumel sun...)
Looks like a Dodge to me. Maybe a Coronet?
Quoted from Fulltilt:And maybe the group can identify this car for me?
Ford Cortina, 1970 or 1971. Door handles, and the FORD lettering, with the Cortina logo, the logo is hidden by the kid on the right.
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Quoted from Darcy:Ford Cortina, early 70's. Door handles, and the off set FORD lettering, with the Cortina logo, the logo is hidden by the kid on the right.
I got the Ford lettering but couldn't find the model. I wanted to say a Taunus. It had a similar back end but the hood shape didn't quite match.
I love regional cars that didn't come to America. The Taunus has some unique square headlights.
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