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    • #32
      Originally posted by BigDad View Post
      I have a friend well , more than one really that get their personal buzz doing it ..

      Now, whatever tickles your pickle I say but , I just don't understand why the masses don't get together and rent a track for a night, or whatever to eliminate the chance for disaster , tickets, etc ? have a riot with your people, keep it semi-underground, heck turn off the track lights ?

      Now have I done silly things in automobiles and motorbikes, sure ..but even back in the day they never ran what todays "street cars" can run , or even close ..good lord

      Just a topic of discussion , if you dig it you do , don't take no offense to my non understanding of it
      I tried to rent an airport (closest thing to place that had the space/runout/paved surface) to run some cars ... no flipping way would be the PG version of what I was told... and it wasn't the airport - it was the county. In a place where cops come $20/dozen, to say I got an adverse response would be like saying an atomic blast has a bit of a noise.

      yeah, blame the lawyers... oh wait
      Doing it all wrong since 1966

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      • #33
        Originally posted by Cyclone03 View Post
        Nothing has changed EXCEPT I believe because of our cars WE where BETTER drivers,we had no help,traction control,ABS,P/S our cars required us to drive them,not just point them down the track.If we got out of shape we had to drive it or loose. I don't think the "kids" now drive as well as we did(had too).
        that is true when talking about some dumbass kid who "street races" his sisters stock mk4 jetta on the weekend, but ive never owned a car with traction control, most were rear wheel drive, the only awd one was probably a low 13 second car and was a 5spd with no power steering, only a couple were automatics, i drive the hell out of them and break most of them and drive them all winter...

        and before you think im some kid bragging about how "good" of a driver he is, im not, i know mine and the cars limitations and dont do anything stupid unless theres nobody around, ive still yet to be pulled over for anything but having lights out on my car or the cops thinking i was drunk because i was trying to dodge the bumps on these shitty maine roads that the tax money should go to instead of useless cops salaries
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        • #34
          Originally posted by Stich496 View Post
          oh no. now you've done it.. here comes D/G
          oops, sorry, missed your awesome posts because I was out working on actual running cars. It's been a busy month for imports, they're all faster than yours in case you wondered :-)


          Streetracing is less interesting to me now than it was 5 years ago, for me it was an education process and seeing a few people get killed (usually on bikes) in person.
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          • #35
            Originally posted by dieselgeek View Post
            oops, sorry, missed your awesome posts because I was out working on actual running cars. It's been a busy month for imports, they're all faster than yours in case you wondered :-)


            Streetracing is less interesting to me now than it was 5 years ago, for me it was an education process and seeing a few people get killed (usually on bikes) in person.
            they should allow street racing, kills off the dumb weak and stupid.
            ..and puke green 2.3 liter ford rangers in bangor maine with bellmouth "jdm yo" window vibrating exhaust.

            the whole scene has changed because of idiot.

            the power sounds of what used to be one slow thumping long gear pulling ten times as much reality is 6 speeds and screaming 3 foot tall ninja midgets.

            I go back to being a giant fly swatter soon...call it surreal.
            I witnessed only one death, never did learn specifics, appeared to be outright car fail on a turn. Rumors of street racing had to be put to rest.. it is then I learned entire locations are completely plagued, mentally retarded and deserve to stay in their land of lack of plenty.

            as always..have nice day.
            Previously boxer3main
            the death rate and fairy tales cannot kill the nature left behind.

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            • #36
              Originally posted by dieselgeek View Post
              oops, sorry, missed your awesome posts because I was out working on actual running cars. It's been a busy month for imports, they're all faster than yours in case you wondered :-)


              Streetracing is less interesting to me now than it was 5 years ago, for me it was an education process and seeing a few people get killed (usually on bikes) in person.
              If they're so good, why do you have to work on them (something my wife asks me all the time about my junk)

              The street racing scene in Seattle is one where if your car isn't an honest 8 second car - go home.... I wonder how that will affect the scene? (honestly - seems to have actually reduced the big street races because most just can't compete)
              Doing it all wrong since 1966

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              • #37
                Originally posted by stoneshrink View Post
                I tried to rent an airport (closest thing to place that had the space/runout/paved surface) to run some cars ... no flipping way would be the PG version of what I was told... and it wasn't the airport - it was the county.
                I am in no way defending the airport or the county, but it should be mentioned that there are lots of FAA regs that have come down in the last couple years involving the use of airports. Municipal airports do not have the liberties they once did in allowing stuff like the flashlight drags, etc. Special permits have to be granted and my understanding is that they are close to impossible to get. There are actually cities that want to use their airports for small events like you wanted to do, but they FAA has told them no way. In one case, a small airport was going to close (there was another airport in close proximity that could handle the traffic) in order to be able to host events (it would have actually put the place in the black instead of it being a drain on resources) but they had taken government grant money to repair a runway years ago and they are not allowed to do anything with it but land airplanes.

                Orange Airport in Massachusetts is having an event this year, which I am excited to check out, and in the 1990s a group staged a successful event at the Quonset Point air station in Rhode Island.

                It works, and works well, but in typical fashion, red tape screws the whole thing up.
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                • #38
                  Originally posted by stoneshrink View Post
                  I tried to rent an airport (closest thing to place that had the space/runout/paved surface) to run some cars ... no flipping way would be the PG version of what I was told... and it wasn't the airport - it was the county. In a place where cops come $20/dozen, to say I got an adverse response would be like saying an atomic blast has a bit of a noise.

                  yeah, blame the lawyers... oh wait
                  whom owns the airfield? the county, well, sorry but the hell no. is because they don't want to get sued..
                  you're a lawyer say it couldn't happen, you might not be, but for every good lawyer there is 50 ambulance chasing lawyers..
                  nevermind the FAA
                  Last edited by Stich496; May 24, 2011, 11:02 AM.

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                  • #39
                    Originally posted by dieselgeek View Post
                    oops, sorry, missed your awesome posts because I was out working on actual running cars. It's been a busy month for imports, they're all faster than yours in case you wondered :-)

                    .
                    and your hot rod is... funny you always post crap like this, it's great that you worked on someone elses junk, want a medal..

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                    • #40
                      lol
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                      • #41
                        LOLx2
                        Here are my 2 things to say about drag racing...

                        1) I am sick of everytime there are two idiots (usually in imports) on the freeway trying to out bitchen each other, everyone calls that drag racing.

                        2) We have an 1/8th mile track near us...yeah I know it's an 1/8th mile but at least it's there...the key to it being there is it is on the Barona Indian Reservation. They have all kinds of stuff...paintball, casino, great hotel, concerts, motoX track where kids can learn...Guarded parking, because on the reservation it is actually legal for a native american member of that reservation to steal your car and keep it. Weird huh?

                        ~Gail
                        That awkward moment when you realize it IS your circus and those ARE your monkeys!

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                        • #42
                          Originally posted by Stich496 View Post
                          and your hot rod is... funny you always post crap like this, it's great that you worked on someone elses junk, want a medal..
                          Whats wrong with working on someone elses stuff, what did you do last week?



                          I'm taking my camaro out this weekend....don't worry, it won't be a town near you, you'll never hear about it, and your life will remain the same.
                          Last edited by A/Fuel; May 24, 2011, 07:20 PM. Reason: I forgot to say something!
                          Originally posted by TC
                          also boost will make the cam act smaller

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                          • #43
                            last time i went street racing was in a 13.8 1982 grand Prix racing a high 14 second Mustangs and LT1 F-bodies


                            no way i would ever do it agian lol oh to be back in high school and be stupid agian
                            Originally posted by Remy-Z;n1167534
                            Congratulations, man. You've just inherited the "Patron Saint of Automotive Lost Causes" from me. No question.

                            75Grand AM 455:Pissed off GrandMA, 68 Volkswagen Type1 "beetle":it will run some year

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                            • #44
                              Originally posted by LORENSWIFE View Post
                              LOLx2
                              Here are my 2 things to say about drag racing...

                              1) I am sick of everytime there are two idiots (usually in imports) on the freeway trying to out bitchen each other, everyone calls that drag racing.

                              2) We have an 1/8th mile track near us...yeah I know it's an 1/8th mile but at least it's there...the key to it being there is it is on the Barona Indian Reservation. They have all kinds of stuff...paintball, casino, great hotel, concerts, motoX track where kids can learn...Guarded parking, because on the reservation it is actually legal for a native american member of that reservation to steal your car and keep it. Weird huh?

                              ~Gail
                              wait what?

                              not sure about there but are local tribe still has to fallow fedral laws and last i checked stealing a car is not fedraly leagal
                              Originally posted by Remy-Z;n1167534
                              Congratulations, man. You've just inherited the "Patron Saint of Automotive Lost Causes" from me. No question.

                              75Grand AM 455:Pissed off GrandMA, 68 Volkswagen Type1 "beetle":it will run some year

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