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I am a huge car guy. Been a mechanic for as long as i can remember. REstore pinballs now but i turn wrenches almost every day.
Here is my baby now. 1973 Datsun 240z L28 Triple weber carb. Fresh coat of mopar sublime green paint. I also paint cars on the side :)
http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/d...e/P1020589.jpg
That's fucking sweet.
I've always been a big fan of the early Datsun/Nissan Zs.
It's.....it's beautiful!
"wimommy2boys", you have terrible taste in screen names but fantastic taste in automobiles.
The 240z is such an amazing car. Does it have the original 4speed transmission or one of the newer 5speeds?
Screen name was a joke between my wife and i lol. The Power plant is actually out of a 83 280zx i ripped the fuelinjection off and threw a set of triple webers on it. It has the 5 spd. I will be doing a carbed blowthrough turbo this winter. I just won a Hks Surge tank for the carbs of yahoo japan yesterday. If I am not happy with the power i will put a rb26dett out of a skyline in it. :) I dont care about modding the 73 plus cars as they are series II cars and not as rare, pre 73 is uber rare and a sin to modify.
My daily driver is a 99 Ls1 Transam
I cant be the only one on here with some nice rides throw them out there people.
http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/d...e/P1020519.jpg
that' a pretty fine Z.
Would like one myself someday.
Here's my whip, yo:
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y85...0602-z4-sm.jpg
Fun to drive, that's all I care about.
http://www.toyotamotorhomes.com/manu...54916478_1.jpg
The stripe is blue on mine, but that's the right year and model.
Don't be jealous.
Is that a m3????
95 camaro 3.4l
http://eden.rutgers.edu/~notsonic/camaro/01s.JPG
http://eden.rutgers.edu/~notsonic/camaro/11s.JPG
pics are a few years old by now but i havent done much appearance wise since. lots of mods, and is getting an engine one day.
88 fiero gt 2.8l
http://eden.rutgers.edu/~notsonic/fiero/show.jpg
taken when i took it to the local car show. about to be garaged for a 3800sc swap.
this was in front of my house in Germany. Now I live in my parents house in Mississippi :(
http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c3...e/P1000900.jpg
http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c3...e/P1000897.jpg
http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c3...e/P1000916.jpg
Not exactly totally "super fly", but I love it.
http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/7654/dsc03224s.jpg
I've had this for about 5 hours now:
http://soniku17.googlepages.com/car7.JPG
First car I ever bought.
http://soniku17.googlepages.com/car4.JPG
This has got to go, or at least be replaced (and yes, the head is there, the reflection just sucks).
That sticker is gonna run you about 300 bucks. If you remove it you will see the ghost image from where the clear coat is dull around the bird sorry man. If you wanna do it right gonna have to remove bird and wetsand the hood cut and polish it. :(
I ain't blingin' it but DA TRUCK is all me.
http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/1097/datruck.png
pic taken of me and my daughter @ Pop's house, while
playing "Wild Guns" as she refers to playing old west gun
games, after falling in love with that particular SFC/SNES game.
This:
http://www.faniq.com/images/blog/Ford%20Pinto.jpg
is not my car.
but if it was......Quote:
Originally Posted by SouthtownKid
I can just see you on that bonet all oiled up :loco:Quote:
Originally Posted by SPINMASTER X
I hate you so muchQuote:
Originally Posted by Sn00t
I did used to drive one exactly like that one, though. Same color, even. Girlfriend's car; would drop her at class in the morning, then drive it from Northridge to Long Beach State to get to my classes then back again in the evening, a good hour each way. Best part was that it had almost no brakes. Even when I say "almost no brakes," and you form a picture in your head, it was less brakes than that. Even when I say less brakes, and you think, "Okay," and form a new picture, it was still less brakes than you are thinking. You really had to plan ahead in that car and start stopping early. Real early (If anyone has ever seen Fletch Lives, it was kind of like that car). Even without the constant narrow avoiding of ramming into everything, every time driving in that car was like mainlining adrenaline because of the knowledge that if the rear bumper even just got tapped, the car would combust like a roman candle and turn into a rolling metal coffin of fire.Quote:
Originally Posted by SPINMASTER X
Still... good memories now.
so what you are saying is that your car should have been in the movie "Crank"? That's how nonexistant the breaks were?Quote:
Originally Posted by SouthtownKid
My current car...2008 Mazdaspeed 3:
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y42...09_front_1.jpg
Car before that, 2004 GTO:
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y42.../GTO/AZA_6.jpg
The wheelbase on that is fucking ridic.
Few stangs I have owned over the last 5 yrs
90 GT vortechsupercharged
http://i38.tinypic.com/5aev7p.jpg
93 SVT Cobra
http://i36.tinypic.com/34ypkdh.jpg
90 GT (current toy Turbo kit this winter hopefully when it hibernates)
http://i34.tinypic.com/2yzlkbn.jpg
Why the change? I thought you loved that GTO.Quote:
Originally Posted by smokehouse
I test drove one of those in 05 with the new ls2 motor. Fast little bugger.........they just look to much like grand prix's and after all it is a Holden nothing really special. Insuanrce was killer
My ride.. Im not really a car guy and this is the first time I have ever posted something like this.
http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/m...haw/lancer.jpg
EVIL NICK needs to post his awesome Lancia Delta.
nice evo. Lancia rules if its old school
Nice car man.Quote:
Originally Posted by wizkid007
i can't let myself get a new car while i keep buying bikes. Testing out some Duc Monsters this weekend, hoping to get a good deal at the end of riding season.
http://www.sneth.com/images/bike1.jpg
http://oldschool-games.com/mercedes.JPG
Got it in early July, took it on a cross country trip form Indiana to San Deigo last month.
Buell Lighting for the ftw or a triumph 955 :)
It had quite a few issues for being a '04 with 12,xxx miles on it, the final straw was the leaking rear main seal.Quote:
Originally Posted by OMF2097
On top of that I really needed a 4-door as hauling my daughter around in that thing was a pain in the ass...
The MS3 is a good little car, not perfect but good enough for now.
Rear main seal leaked becasue it sat most of its life and dried up then got put to use again and BAM! leakage. Sucks i could not be there to help you could have dropped the trans and changed it in a afternoon.
I apologize for the crappy cell pic....but here is my 07 GTI
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f1...aludes/gti.jpg
Not too much work done too it...but so far
Modlist
Vogtland sport springs (50mm lowering)
Koni adjustable shocks
Nuspeed P-flo intake
Corsa Cat-back exhaust
Revo Stage 1 ECU tuning
17" VW Goal Anthracite Wheels
Yokohama s.Drive tires
I like!:)Quote:
Originally Posted by Nakoruru
This is how I roll:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/45/10...695e759a37.jpg
It was driven routinely...just not for long distances...that rear main seal was one of MANY problems that car had...it was the straw that broke the camel's back...it was a piece of shit.Quote:
Originally Posted by wimommy2boys
Here are my 3 cars.
1991 Honda CRX Si(had it for quite a while)
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e3...tties011-1.jpg
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e3...kitties010.jpg
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e358/jessecrx/crx.jpg
1991 Honda Civic Si(selling it soon)
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e3...ludeWheels.jpg
1989 Honda Civic RT4WD Wagon(current family car project)
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e3...rx/wago050.jpg
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e3.../wago002-1.jpg
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e3.../wago001-1.jpg
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e3.../wago003-1.jpg
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e3...rx/profile.jpg
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e3...rx/icanhas.jpg
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e3...x/frontlip.jpg
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e3...rx/BMXplus.jpg
http://photos-a.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-...33536_3147.jpg
This is my baby.
all the hondas i just had to post this hehehehe......
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWsT192dtac
Cute.Quote:
Originally Posted by wimommy2boys
But FYI, I don't drag race nor do I even know how to. But I do auto-x. Never been a fan of drag racing. Believe me, I get revved on all the time by musclecars and I tell them the truth. My cars are slow grocery getters :) But on the twisties I do quite well
HEy the z and i are no strangers to the autox.
These rods and pistons are all balanced within 1 gram of each other :)
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I realize this is a car thread but I'm more interested in the (2) GT BMX bikes ontop of your car, didn't realize we had more BMXers on the NG.COM site, save Kernow, myself and I believe two others. What year are those GTs? I'm wanting to say mid 80s from the looks of it but I could be wrong. I personally ride around on a customized (SCOPEDOG ATM-09-RSC) 2008 GT Fueler these days, but 80s wise I was always more of a Mongoose rider, and had like (1) Kuwahara Magician before it was stolen and then reclaimed horrible painted blue. :(Quote:
Originally Posted by jsjesse
Never seen a short lower tube like that before. Some kind of Flatland Freestyle frame?
You got a good eye.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mercenary X99
1987 GT Pro Performer. 99.9% complete(missing the mallet stem). I've had this bike since 1991. I've only wiped out on it maybe twice. I am super careful when I ride it.
The other is a 2001 GT Fly. I also have a 1981 Mongoose Supergoose and an 86 FS1 in storage. The mongoose bikes were my beaters, but they still look pretty darn good for their age.
I can't do what I used to do thanks to some knee injuries, but I still ride quite a bit and stick to ramps instead of flatland trickery.
I started in BMX back when I had a Team Murray X20R. I rode that bike til the wheels fell off..literally. Then I moved onto freestyle and flatland up until 1993.
After I graduated I moved onto cars as a primary hobby, and I think you can guess which type of car too :loco:
I bought the 89 Honda Wagon to fit both my bikes and my family comfortably. The bike rack looked like crap on my CRX and on my hatchback Civic.
You should start a BMX thread :)
looks cool yet small; is it comfortable? How tall are you?Quote:
Originally Posted by NeoSneth
Interesting history you have there.Quote:
Originally Posted by jsjesse
I started off merely a rider on a DiamondBack (chrome) in 1984, then had me some Montgomery Wards bike called "Open Road", then got the Kuwahara Magician ('87 model) for Xmas 1988, but some so-called friends (dudes about 4 years older than my age 10) stole the bike right from under the front porch. The idiots had mentioned they were going to get a blue Kuwahara from a friend about a week before the theft, but my father just matched the serial numbers and we got the bike back. But they crapped that KM by spray bombing it a nasty blue. Best friend (still is of 22 years, now on Boise Police Department) ended up with that bike because he didn't care if it was blue, he didn't like his banana seat supermarket bike.
...then I got some okay looking Huffy. Always was jonesing for an '84 Mongoose Californian *Expert* (like the one Bill Allen rode in RAD, as authenticated by none other than Eddie Fiola himself, who rode for Allen on OS-BMX.COM to me via PM), but I never knew what the bike was because it was de stickered. Rode mostly flatland freestyle and what we called SGPX (Street Grand Prix) races back then, then around 1989 I took up skateboarding and BMX was dormat for like 18 1/2 years.
Flashfoward to July 2008 and I purchased a Mike Poulsen white Schwinn Sting off of eBAY, then after Fiola LMK what bike it was Bill Allen was riding, I went about looking for that '84 Mongoose and ended up with an '83, which was good enough for me. Thing is, I'm like 235lbs these days and those old 80s frames aren't handling that, along with it's 1-piece cranks, which led me to purchasing that 2008 GT Fueler.
I SHOULD START A BMX THREAD, maybe I will. :smirk:
Take that puppy to Sturgis!
No pics, but I have a 370z now, and I just today put down an order for a torred srt8 challenger. Will take all sorts of pics of the hally when she arrives.
PS: how the fuck is someone not a car guy and end up buying an evo 10?