Automotive things going-on
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Whoa! I never knew about this: The annual Sun Valley Tour de Force charity closes off 3.2 miles of highway in Idaho, and will let participants drive as fast as their car will go / they have the balls for. You pay $3,500 for the privilege.
But - check your car, first! A Porsche 911 Turbo veered right at the end and crashed, approaching 200MPH! Me-thinks a tire blew; front right, probably.
https://autos.yahoo.com/porsche-911-turbo-crashes-almost-180000598.html
But - check your car, first! A Porsche 911 Turbo veered right at the end and crashed, approaching 200MPH! Me-thinks a tire blew; front right, probably.
https://autos.yahoo.com/porsche-911-turbo-crashes-almost-180000598.html
Video of the pending / new Corvette ZR1, with 1,064 HP (!), hitting 204/205/206MPH on their 2.5 mile straight-away test track.
https://www.motortrend.com/reviews/...rce=braze&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=print
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Mr. Daystar
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I wonder which NFL/NBA player will be the first person to total one, while driving 150mph in a 35, on public roads, at 3:00am, while holding coke. And a gun.
I will always remember the sight of a blackened hand wearing a gold wedding band on the driver of a Corvette that became airborne and crashed South of Tawas City on US 23. Not much left of the fiberglass body either.
Mr. Daystar
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https://autos.yahoo.com/porsche-cayman-gt4-rss-near-222900235.html
As someone who's been in two motorcycle wrecks, I feel for this guy, and give him mad props for not losing it. I also figure eventually Sup will swing by, and tell me what the hell the Nurburgring is. The guy with the camera in his car appears to be wearing a helmet, and I'm wondering if this is a race, or if people regularly wear helmets when driving on roads that don't seem to have a speed limit. At least I didn't see a sign with a posted speed
As someone who's been in two motorcycle wrecks, I feel for this guy, and give him mad props for not losing it. I also figure eventually Sup will swing by, and tell me what the hell the Nurburgring is. The guy with the camera in his car appears to be wearing a helmet, and I'm wondering if this is a race, or if people regularly wear helmets when driving on roads that don't seem to have a speed limit. At least I didn't see a sign with a posted speed
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Incidentally, here's my dream car when I was sixteen:
...and here's the car I actually owned:
...and here's the car I actually owned:
I once owned a red-colored, 1975 Chevy step side pick-up truck. As time wore on the back fenders and the tail gate were held together with wire coat hangers. When I asked a local farmer for a load of cow manure for my vegetable garden he agreed. Together, he on his tractor and myself in my truck went out in his field were he kept his pile of cow manure. He used the front loader to scoop up a big scoop of manure, turned, then dropped the load of manure into the back of my truck, causing the sides of the bed and both back fenders to collapse onto the back tires. We both got a good laugh out of that.
Holy crap!! "Yanking the engines from over 100,000 vehicles (an estimated 98,600 Tundras and 3,500 LX SUVs), and then replacing those engines, will be eye-wateringly expensive for Toyota, both as measured in the pure cost of the replacement engines, the labor involved, and production of new engines for new trucks and SUVs potentially lost to spinning up enough replacement engines to cover the recall."
In regards to the twin-turbo V6s on the Toyota Tundras randomly stalling.
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In regards to the twin-turbo V6s on the Toyota Tundras randomly stalling.
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maildude99
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The errant engine fragments problem is more common than the industry admits. Random metal shavings not related simply to engine wear often come up in oil pans and cataltic converters. Toyota has had a bad go of it with recalls over the last fifteen years. The 2010s were especially bad for them.
Mr. Daystar
In a bell tower, watching you through cross hairs.
A friends sister had a toyota pickup, can't tell you the year or model, but they recalled it, and replaced the whole frame. As far as things in engines, that's something anyone that rode and worked on an old Harley. Once you got it running, you needed to adjust the carb, and sometimes you would have to kind of tinker with it,on the go. More than one guy ended up losing an adjustment screw in the engine, thru the carb. When I redid my old shovelhead, one of the pistons had a couple of screw dings from it being bounced around for a while.
Don't know if peeps have heard of The Nationals. It is a MAMMOTH car show held the 3rd weekend in July, annually, at the NY State Fairgrounds in Syracuse, NY. I've been meaning to attend since 2020, but then the pandemic hit.. I finally was able to get there, this year. Saw a: Lambo Aventador, Dodge Viper GTS, Shelby King Cobra Mustang (825HP!), Demon 170 (yes, 1,025HP!), a Rousch Mustang, around 8 Corvette C8s, one of the original mimicked "Starsky & Hutch" Ford Torinos, a fake Dukes' General Lee Dodge Charger. Oh, and THIS bad boy! Roughly 1,650HP!
More cars ceasing production.. Including the Nissan GT-R!
https://www.usatoday.com/picture-ga...ls-you-wont-see-in-2025/74740964007/?tbref=hp
https://www.usatoday.com/picture-ga...ls-you-wont-see-in-2025/74740964007/?tbref=hp
That's a wide range, from rice-rockets to family vehicles. I wonder if it's just to retool for upcoming EVs, or these lines were no longer profitable?
At least for the Skyline (Yes, I will always call it that), it will still be made in Japan, so the line itself will live on.
Quite a few .. restomods - but also some real beauties!
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Mr. Daystar
In a bell tower, watching you through cross hairs.
You weren't kidding. I love the Superbird in "Petty blue", which I think usually fetches a little more, and the white '69 Mustang.
Butler performance is the way to go if you want top performance engine for a pontiac car. This one is a prostreet not a protouring car but very nice muscle car
old muscle cars especially correct matching numbers cars fetch high$ , not listed here but a 1969 Charger Hemi Daytona is 500000$, 1970 Hemi Cuda convertible 1000000$, 1970 Chevelle SS 454 LS6 350000-450000$, 1970 Buick GSX Stage 1 350000-450000$, 1970-1971 Pontiac Firebird Transam 455 HO 150000$, 1969-1970 Pontiac GTO the Judge Ram Air IV 150000-250000$, 1968 Stang GT Fastback 428 cobrajet 180000$, 1968 Hurst Olds 250000-350000$, I must have forgotten a few but these car never depreciate in terms of value
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