Awesome Thread... [Automotive Edition]

^Perhaps an improvement on the original?

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Nice riding gear...<_<
 
If you don't like this car, you don't belong here and need to https://pic.armedcats.net/t/th/thedguy/2009/08/31/gtfo2.gif


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http://speedhunters.com/archive/2009/08/30/car-feature-gt-gt-a-littleboy-s-rat-rod-dreamin.aspx

Linh said:
In the front of this massive engine sits two McCullough superchargers. When Ken took the car for a little jaunt around the pit area (let me remind you again that it is 5 miles long), you can hear these twin super charges whine from miles away. That sound, accompanied by the Hemi V-8 roaring out of its two collectors which exit both sides of the engine, is a sound that only mythical gods have the privilege of hearing to. Heavenly is an understatement.
 
if i clean up in my garage, i'm pretty sure i'll have some spare space for it :D

but, euhm, ...drumbrakes? :|

EDIT: never mind the brakes, there isn't even a brakepedal :eek:
 
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I don't get rat rods. The engine is great but the car itself is pure shit.
I just don't see the appeal of polished crap.
 
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^that's the whole idea

you don't need a shiny car to go fast, just a very powerful engine, so that's all they look at, if the car is broken, you can always transfer the engine, so that's the only thing they spend money on
 
I don't get rat rods. The engine is great but the car itself is pure shit.
I just don't see the appeal of polished crap.

The whole idea is to get away from all these Boyd/Foose/Trapanier etc... cars that cost absurd amounts of money in body work alone and many owners are afraid to drive. I understand these far less than I do a rat rod. Honestly what the hell is the point of a car that you have to keep so clean you wrap the tires/wheels to protect them from dust when rolling it off the truck in to a show hall?

These may look like shit on the outside, but many of them are just unfinished projects, but they also do this to show off the other parts of the car and what makes it work.

This is one thing I absolutely love about the car, the exposed shifter linkage of all things. So many builders of Ridler/AMBR cars do everything they can to hide or smooth things out that they begin to no longer look like functioning cars.

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The irony of much of what I said, this thing likely makes for a horrible driving car, with hand operated rear brakes, and solid mount suspension. Plus it's got front Buick drums but they aren't actually used. Still it's a wicked looking piece of machinery IMO.
 
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can't decide what i like more the 500bhp RS2 or the volvo?!?!?! hotrod...

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I see your Pantera and raise you a Longchamp.

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This thing never made it to production, but I really do like it:

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I see your Pantera and raise you a Longchamp.

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Holy shit! That?s awesome!
 
Might as well post the Vallelunga as well. It came a year or two before the Lamborghini Miura and Lotus Europa, so it's one of, if not the, first road going mid-engined cars.

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That pic gets progressively worse the more cars you identify - after the first couple obvious ones, it becomes... Well, a lot like the sampling of cars you get on the road.
 
I can honestly claim that I have seen every single of those cars at the Nordschleife! I am so awesome! :p
 
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