Digital Camera Thread III

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McLaren F1GTR
The '06 sports, aren't they based on that Storm concept?
I heard that Land Rover was basing some Range Rover on it.
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Yeah, it's supposed to be sort of like that - wasn't the Storm a 2-door though?

Duke
I didn't buy anything else, yet... I'll have the family in before I dismiss it completely. But thank you for the complement, humbly accepted. I meant "monomaniacal" in the best possible sense, of course.
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Of course. :D

Did you think that posting the information about your own car would get you off the hook on finding the Viper production figures? For the record, is there any special badging or anything on your car that sets it apart from other Neons? Is there a power bump?
 
From what I remember, yes, it was, but it was also a bit larger than a standard Range Rover, not to mention the interior was quite futuristic. The fabric or whatever, that is.
 
Yeah. Well the Sport is four doors and it's smaller - slightly - than a Range Rover. Originally I thought I'd have trouble telling the two apart but it's actually easy; the Sport is notably shorter in height.

As I recall the Storm (it's Stormer, isn't it?) was orange. :D
 
M5Power
Yeah. Well the Sport is four doors and it's smaller - slightly - than a Range Rover. Originally I thought I'd have trouble telling the two apart but it's actually easy; the Sport is notably shorter in height.

As I recall the Storm (it's Stormer, isn't it?) was orange. :D
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Yes.

I wonder what happens to all these concepts anyways? They just sit at the HQ plants of the dealers like GM?
 
Not too long ago Ford auctioned off many of theirs - they made some absurd figure in the millions of dollars, too.
 
What the hell? - I believe this is a C5 Corvette with a bunch of body modifications designed to make it look sort of like a '53. The license plate says "RETRO53". I personally think it's absurd.
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Did you see this in Michigan? Since there are 3 around me, the guy that created it had a business in Rochester, MI which is about ohhh an hour north of Detroit.
 
BlazinXtreme
Did you see this in Michigan? Since there are 3 around me, the guy that created it had a business in Rochester, MI which is about ohhh an hour north of Detroit.
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Is he ashamed?
 
M5Power
Did you think that posting the information about your own car would get you off the hook on finding the Viper production figures?
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I'm looking, I'm looking. It's been remarkably hard to find.
For the record, is there any special badging or anything on your car that sets it apart from other Neons? Is there a power bump?
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ACR sedans are all SOHC and do not get the power bump (unlike SOHC Sport sedans, which do). The ACR coupes are all DOHC and get the power bump because the second cam sprocket sits a little higher.

The only direct way to tell an ACR without the VIN is that it has the Sport fascia with foglight holes, but no foglights. That's why they're such good sleepers.

I did get an ACR decal made up to match the Viper ACR and put it on the trunklid, but that's not factory of course.
 



Buick Grand National - I can't decide what I like best about this car: the fact that it did 0-60 in 4.8 seconds, or the fact that it did it with 235 horsepower. It's actually comical: the current Nissan Altima 3.5SE has 250 horsepower, does 0-60 in 6.9 seconds with its automatic transmission, and weighs 3001lbs. In 1986, Buick actually expected us to believe that a vehicle with 15 less horsepower weighing 520 more pounds was a full TWO seconds quicker to 60mph.

As Car & Driver says in their July '05 50th Anniversary Issue:
- April 1986: "...we test a $122,000 Lamborghini Countach (0 to 60 in 5.1 seconds)..."
- May 1986: "We test a Buick Regal Grand National that weighs 3520 pounds, is shaped like a dishwasher, and makes an advertised 235 horsepower. Somehow, the car blasts to 60mph in 4.9 seconds - quicker than the just-tested Countach. We ask Buick what the car's actual, you know, real life horsepower rating is. Buick asks what the definition of 'is' is."

:D


Chrysler Prowler - seeing a Prowler is rare, but seeing a Chrysler Prowler is rarer; the Plymouth version was manufactured from 1997 to 2001, but the Chrysler model was only sold in 2002.





I was thinking this wasn't real, because real ones are worth like $500k, but Carroll Shelby signed it. Anyone want to give their opinion? Or some fact? It was at a show along with three replicas, and it looked a lot more worn and aged than those three. NOTE: this is Sage's favorite car.

BY THE WAY: Duke, you're off the hook on the ACR numbers if you can tell me whether the Cobra is real.
 
Well, any idiot can see a Grand National... imagine an '80s Regal coupe, in black. And the Chrysler Prowler had a weird thing on it so I didn't take its picture. I have a picture of a Plymouth Prowler, but how hard is it to Google one?
 
M5Power
I can't decide what I like best about this car: the fact that it did 0-60 in 4.8 seconds, or the fact that it did it with 235 horsepower. It's actually comical: the current Nissan Altima 3.5SE has 250 horsepower, does 0-60 in 6.9 seconds with its automatic transmission, and weighs 3001lbs. In 1986, Buick actually expected us to believe that a vehicle with 15 less horsepower weighing 520 more pounds was a full TWO seconds quicker to 60mph.

As Car & Driver says in their July '05 50th Anniversary Issue:
- April 1986: "...we test a $122,000 Lamborghini Countach (0 to 60 in 5.1 seconds)..."
- May 1986: "We test a Buick Regal Grand National that weighs 3520 pounds, is shaped like a dishwasher, and makes an advertised 235 horsepower. Somehow, the car blasts to 60mph in 4.9 seconds - quicker than the just-tested Countach. We ask Buick what the car's actual, you know, real life horsepower rating is. Buick asks what the definition of 'is' is."

:D
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That is just too awesome! :lol: I noticed this car on the road for the first time in 1990 or so. It was because of the shi*ty condition it was in. I was looking looking looking and then BAM! it took off so fast. It still is one of the fasted acceleration I've ever witnessed on public roads. I was in shock, and later, very impressed.
 
Did you know its successor, the Buick Regal T-Type, was even quicker? Everyone knows Grand National and very few people know about the T-Type.
 
McLaren F1GTR
I just proved that fact of yours. I had no idea there was a T-Type.
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Pretty cool, huh? The best part is it was available in different colors than just black. I actually saw one earlier this summer and got two poor pictures of it; they're in a previous digital camera thread buried somewhere on GTP.
 
Ah the Grand National, one of my favorite cars of all time. I like the GNX version as well. Some day if I get a ton of money I would love to own one just for the fact that it could beat the pants off many high end sports cars. Plus its a Buick, I can't recal nowadays people that put Buick and fast in the same sentence.

Plus I love how car companies discovered turbos during the last 80s to early 90s. There just wasn't a need for some of the stuff they did.

The T-types are cool, but I don't know much about them.

Finally a Chysler Prowler? Wow I think I've seen one at the Chysler Tech center last year and that is the only time I've seen one. What a stupid car the Prowler was, but the design was ahead of its time.
 
M5Power

Volkswagen Phaeton W12 - you won't see one of these. Neither will I, ever again
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I saw one this morning on the way to work. I made special efforts to verify that it was in fact a W12 badge on the back.
 
danoff
I saw one this morning on the way to work. I made special efforts to verify that it was in fact a W12 badge on the back.
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:D Good find.


Aston-Martin DB9 convertible - seen 7/26. I've now seen 2 coupes and a convertible. That's more than you. And even when people come here and say "I've seen nine coupes and a convertible and four prototype sedans" just remember: I have pictures, and you suck.

Oh yeah.

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Since there isn't a need to make another thread I saw this in Grand Haven (M5 should know where that is). Yes it is a real Grand Sport, I was at a gas station picking up some cigars (I know they were cheap) and saw it across the street. I almost had to take a picture.



 
One of those (Grand Sport) was at the strip two times ago. And of course, I owned one, but disliked it strongly. Great shot though - those things are rarer than God.


2006 Chevrolet Impala



Mercedes S65 AMG - second-most expensive Mercedes ever


Ferrari F355 Spider

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Coolest off-the shelf license plate number ever
 
I know - looks a little like an SLK from that shot, but it's much longer in real life. I sort of panicked when taking that picture, though, because the valet was staring at me.
 
06 Impala? It isn't cool nor is it rare. There are a million around hear, hell I've even driven one. But then again I do work for GM :D.
 
That DB9 is gorgeous.
Also, that S65 is incredibly sexual.
Damn, I need to carry my camera more.

But, Doug, I have you beat. Ten times over.













....My neighbor. He's a playah-pimp when it comes to whips. O.o.
 

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