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Topic: Concept?

Not sure WHY or HOW this popped into my head... but would building a life-size version of this be considered for Lemons? If it's based off a production car of course...

http://www.spielwarentreff.de/media/gr302041.jpg

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Re: Concept?

Hmmmm... "wheels and tires are safety".  You'd have a hard time getting around the track and not hitting stuff like other cars with it, though.  Also wouldn't be very fast.  Would eat wheel bearings, yadda yadda.

Goin "donk" might be more appropriate, and equally as silly.

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Re: Concept?

Loren wrote:

Hmmmm... "wheels and tires are safety".  You'd have a hard time getting around the track and not hitting stuff like other cars with it, though. .

exactly... besides a set of lightweight hoosiers can be had... get something like a metro and the 4 tires on truck axles could potentially look a bit freakish... need to protect the side walls though... cadillac transversed powered metro with 4WD truck axles and 36x18 tires...

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Re: Concept?

Could save you from a roll over penalty flip and just keep going

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Re: Concept?

Riktor wrote:

Not sure WHY or HOW this popped into my head... but would building a life-size version of this be considered for Lemons? If it's based off a production car of course...

http://www.spielwarentreff.de/media/gr302041.jpg

I see someone has leaked our Wartburg build plans.....

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Re: Concept?

JThw8 wrote:
Riktor wrote:

Not sure WHY or HOW this popped into my head... but would building a life-size version of this be considered for Lemons? If it's based off a production car of course...

http://www.spielwarentreff.de/media/gr302041.jpg

I see someone has leaked our Wartburg build plans.....

This is why peope should tell me EVERYTHING... I can't leak everything if I know its a secret.

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Re: Concept?

What I want to know is: why hasn't anyone run a full-on donk yet? Talk about IOE and/or Organizer's Choice dominance!

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Re: Concept?

MurileeMartin wrote:

What I want to know is: why hasn't anyone run a full-on donk yet? Talk about IOE and/or Organizer's Choice dominance!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8znD7-l5Tmo

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Re: Concept?

I actually thought about getting chrome dubs for the buick just for this, lol

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Champ wrote:
MurileeMartin wrote:

What I want to know is: why hasn't anyone run a full-on donk yet? Talk about IOE and/or Organizer's Choice dominance!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8znD7-l5Tmo

ROFLMAO!!!

We need a donk on some 22.5's... talk about no tire wear...

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Re: Concept?

The Caprice at NL appeared to have been a former donk, presumably one whose dubs were repossessed by Rent-A-Wheel...

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Re: Concept?

Looks stock to me...

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Re: Concept?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z15uev6gPrg

Here is real Donk'n

I did not know they made rims this darn big!  I saw these Donks for first time about 2 years ago, and had not seen any since, but they have gone even more extreme lately looking at these cars.

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Re: Concept?

Stovebolt wrote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z15uev6gPrg

Here is real Donk'n

I did not know they made rims this darn big!  I saw these Donks for first time about 2 years ago, and had not seen any since, but they have gone even more extreme lately looking at these cars.

I'm just waiting for someone to create the crossover between this and a 4x4. Much of the suspension ought to be the same - it's just a matter of the size of the tires and the composition of the massive rims.

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Re: Concept?

cbustapeck wrote:
Stovebolt wrote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z15uev6gPrg

Here is real Donk'n

I did not know they made rims this darn big!  I saw these Donks for first time about 2 years ago, and had not seen any since, but they have gone even more extreme lately looking at these cars.

I'm just waiting for someone to create the crossover between this and a 4x4. Much of the suspension ought to be the same - it's just a matter of the size of the tires and the composition of the massive rims.

Most of the ones with huge rims pretty much already are. They take the body off anf bolt them to a truck from. I have seen this a few times now.

DONK and BUBBLES are pointless IMO... but it's amazing what ignorance and drug money can create.

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