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Topic: Heads up, Houston IOE contenders: I need photos of your cars!

You know who you are: The fools with the Brava. The idiots with the VW Fastback. The lunatics with the AMC Gremlin. The chuckleheads with the Karmann Ghia. What the hell could you have been thinking when you chose those terrible cars?

In other words, you're the kind of racers we like best, and I need photos of your cars for the "Get Ready For Yeehaw It's Texas Lemons" Jalopnik post this weekend. Please email me ASAP.

As for the Frogmasters, Team Israel, Little Buckaroo, and the rest of the returning Houston IOE veterans- I've already got good shots of your cars in action.

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2 Reply by kalpol (edited by kalpol 2009-10-15 12:07 PM)

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Re: Heads up, Houston IOE contenders: I need photos of your cars!

done! (responded to Nick's email)

a Fastback! a Ghia!! a Gremlin!!! oh man, this is going to be so much fun.

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Re: Heads up, Houston IOE contenders: I need photos of your cars!

Our Hopeless Z doesn't count?

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Re: Heads up, Houston IOE contenders: I need photos of your cars!

Troy wrote:

Our Hopeless Z doesn't count?

A Z? Especially your cheatin' ass, 300 hp, finely fettled, numbers matching Z?

oh Troy... you don't get this whole Lemons thing, do you?

"This is the scene where I get shot," Bronson said. "I have these little squibs that explode to make it look like bullets are hitting." "Fascinating," said Bergman. "I never knew how they did that." "You mean," asked Bronson, "you don't use machine guns in your movies?"
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Re: Heads up, Houston IOE contenders: I need photos of your cars!

Gremie for the win!!!

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Re: Heads up, Houston IOE contenders: I need photos of your cars!

I keep feeling like I shoulda went for that 1962 Alpine i found for $300...

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Re: Heads up, Houston IOE contenders: I need photos of your cars!

Judge Jonny wrote:
Troy wrote:

Our Hopeless Z doesn't count?

A Z? Especially your cheatin' ass, 300 hp, finely fettled, numbers matching Z?

oh Troy... you don't get this whole Lemons thing, do you?

I won a free hour on a dyno.  Sajeev and I took it 2 weeks before the February race and it made 129hp about 10 to 15 minutes of run time later the motor seized at Harris Hill Road.

Needless to say we figured out what "that noise" was.

Regarding "getting it," it is a Pre-Renault Nissan/Datsun product with a hopeless chance of doing well.  Ya, ya, I know it was way to mass produced and popular for you guys.

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Re: Heads up, Houston IOE contenders: I need photos of your cars!

Troy wrote:

I won a free hour on a dyno.  Sajeev and I took it 2 weeks before the February race and it made 129hp about 10 to 15 minutes of run time later the motor seized at Harris Hill Road.

Oh, we totally believe you!

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Re: Heads up, Houston IOE contenders: I need photos of your cars!

Troy's new theme:

<Cue Don Adams voice> Would you Believe...

10 Reply by Troy (edited by Troy 2009-10-16 09:54 PM)

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Re: Heads up, Houston IOE contenders: I need photos of your cars!

Not that this has anything to do with IOE but here you guys go.

Let me see if this works:

240Z Dyno Certificate

240Z Dyno Curve

I was trying to get it to displace the images but that didn't work.

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Re: Heads up, Houston IOE contenders: I need photos of your cars!

OK, you're reproducing that dyno curve on your car's hood, in Sharpie!

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Re: Heads up, Houston IOE contenders: I need photos of your cars!

MurileeMartin wrote:

OK, you're reproducing that dyno curve on your car's hood, in Sharpie!

The hell with the Sharpie.... can we rent this?

http://www.livescience.com/technology/0 … t_pen.html

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