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SportWagon
I often wonder if that family name was derived from the name of the wife of Brutus. (I.e. Portia or Porcia)
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Um. Isn't the guy's name Ferdinand Porsche? Something like that.
 
Parnelli Bone
Um. Isn't the guy's name Ferdinand Porsche? Something like that.
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Used to be, he's dead now. He also designed one of the turrets for the King Tiger tank but the company continues. I don't know if the Porsche family still run the company or not.
 
This thread makes me feel old. I started playing Gran Turismo when I was around 12-years old. I sort of feel sorry for the older people who didn't have video games when they were children. I know I couldn't live without mine.
 
Sakiale
:lol: My dad yells at people who say 'porsh' instead of 'Porscha'.

My friend says 'Portch-ee'.

And when I say 'you idiots its not 'portchee' or 'porsh', its PORSHA!!! They say im wrong.
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You are. It's Poor-shuh.
 
I know how to pronounce it. Its not like i say 'porsh-ay', I just couldnt type it so that you understood. But thanks for teaching me how.
 
Condraz23
This thread makes me feel old. I started playing Gran Turismo when I was around 12-years old. I sort of feel sorry for the older people who didn't have video games when they were children. I know I couldn't live without mine.
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Really? I'm GLAD I didn't have videogames when I was a kid! I was such a clueless boy as it was. I had Attention Deficit Disorder in the days before anybody knew what A.D.D. frickin' was!!! By the time I got an Atari 2600, I was 14...most of the damage hadn't been done yet. :)
 
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I remeber one time when i was 5 or 6 i had finally done the sunday cup enough times to buy a dodge viper GTS (it was the only race i ever did). I was so friggin excited iran into the dodge dealer and accidentaly bought a
RT-10. I was so mad i nearly threw my controller through the living room window! lol:dunce:
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But you know, yo ucan always "not save" and do it again:idea:
 
Parnelli Bone
Yeah, i was an Aurora/AFX kid myself!! I still have 30 of my cars....one day i'll sell 'em on eBay, some have to worth a bit of cash by now. I hope.
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I have quite a few also, I even have the aftermarket screw on rims and AFK and Quad replacement Engines, We even use to rewind are engines for extreme power, LOL! Foam colored tires etc... I was Hooked, I'm glad there weren't so many video games when I was growning up, Thows were great times! I sure love the VIDEOS games now though!!!-)
 
HYBRIDLVR
I have quite a few also, I even have the aftermarket screw on rims and AFK and Quad replacement Engines, We even use to rewind are engines for extreme power, LOL! Foam colored tires etc... I was Hooked, I'm glad there weren't so many video games when I was growning up, Thows were great times! I sure love the VIDEOS games now though!!!-)
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Remember G-plus with the horizontal armature? Yeah, we had those funny tires, too! Green and red and Yellow! I had a jeep and one day I sat there and carved little grooves into the tires with a razor blade. we also used to set up jumps--most of the time the car would land into the groove, but sometimes it wouldn't! That meant a crash usually.
 
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Yes, I do remember G Plus and the Tyco series! I even at this moment have some vintage AFX and Tyco Lexan unpainted bodies, They might make great Ebay items? May be one day but not yet!:--------)
 
Yeah i had a bunch of those lexan bodies, too! I have no idea where they went, tho. :( Here's what i have, actually...(or at least the highlites)

An orange ChevyVan with yellow slicks on the rear and ultra-slim hard tires up front

• what looks like a Model A or something. has wood paneling in the back.

• A black Chapparal with giant silver wing on the back!

• what looks like a 30's jalopy. I apparently sawed off all the fenders so it's open-wheeled and put a train-set man's head on top of a piece of cardboard so it has a "driver".

• Ford Bronco rally truck (Aurora, not AFX...that's gotta be worth $$

• An Aurora "Dodge Fever" drag car. So 70's

• A Vega funny car (Aurora)

• NASCAR Dodge Daytona

• Alain Prost's Renault F1 (red G-plus armature)

• BMW M1

The list goes on...if i had a permanent place to live and more money, maybe i'd buy a track, but it's better that i sell them someday to a collector. :)
 
Among other things, I had a Tyco Richard Petty Plymouth.

It looked good fitted with oversized silicone slicks.

I had a nice Tyco Can-Am McLaren. It was originally black, I think, but I painted it orange! (Bye! Bye! collector value).

Actually, I think I still have most of them.
 
My brother actually had about 40 cars, too, but all his got stolen (get this) when we were at a band practice at some guy's house. This wasn't when we were kids, it was when we were 22! I remember he had the Aurora Good Humor truck and some other gems.
 
Terrible, Sorry to hear that, Anyone here ever had the Terrel 6 wheeler in a slot car? I just love the attempt of building that car and would love to Hybrid it in a GT game! ;-)
 

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Terrible, Sorry to hear that, Anyone here ever had the Terrel 6 wheeler in a slot car? I just love the attempt of building that car and would love to Hybrid it in a GT game! ;-)
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Pretty sure my brother had the Terrell. He also had the John Player Special lotus F1 in black & gold. And yeah, that Terrel is a heavy peice of F1 history, even if it wasn't very successful. GT oughta include it at some point.
 
That's Tyrrell. The model is P34. (To help with web searches; I haven't found a good linkable picture of the HO car yet, although I've found references to it).
 
Your right, Two rr's! I do have a vintage Radio constol and 1:24 Scale model of the P34, But no HO Scale, That would complete my P34 needs!
 
i was one when the play station came out in Australia and that stuff comes out a lot longer in other parts of the world than Australia

GT didn't come out in Australia til mid 1998 in Australia and...

gotta go i'll finish this post later

edit: ok i was 2 or 3 when i first got a play station and now i'm 12 so about 10 years
 
i did the same exact thing. but i bought the other viper and got it race modified. tons of hours just doing one race. i dont know when it came out but if it came out in 98 then i would have been either 6 or 7
 
I do remember that when I first got the Viper GTS, I did a free run/time trial on Autumn Ring Mini.

Due to the fact I was eight years old when I got the game, I certainly couldn't control it, I spun round and round on every single corner. But boy was it fun.

I love Gran Turismo, I still remember the advert on TV as well. I don't think the subsequent games have the same spirit as the original.

and if only I could find my ****ing Playstation memory card, then I'd play on it more often. Damn!
 
matherto
Due to the fact I was eight years old when I got the game, I certainly couldn't control it, I spun round and round on every single corner. But boy was it fun.

i remember a couple of years ago when i was probably 8, 9, or 10 maybe, I was trying to drive a viper race car around that ****ing corner after the tunnel in grand valley reverse

matherto
I don't think the subsequent games have the same spirit as the original.
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I have been thinking that ever since i got my second GT game early 2005 (GT3)

matherto
and if only I could find my ****ing Playstation memory card, then I'd play on it more often. Damn!
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You're lucky at least you've still got the game unlike me stupid ps2;)
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