One in a million. A GT4 story

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first off let me give credit to VTiROj for giving me the idea to make a GT4 Story.

Chapter One:The Holden

I'd like to introduce myself as Bob. I live in Australia. i just turned 25 and I saw I car for sale in the paper. I'll go look at it. The guy must have no car knowledge at all. Didn't even say the make or model. So I go there and see a nice Holden Morano. I ran to the door and knocked. A old lady opened up the door. I said, "I saw a car in the newspaper, I'd like to take a look at it". She yelled "Mark!". I see this 40 year old guy come. Short, and real dorky, kinda overweight. "What?" he said. He sounded like Napoleon Dynamite. She said "This lovely young man would like to look at the car!" "Fine, Mom" he said, like it was wasting part of his day. He threw me the keys. he said "Take her for a spin." I looked at him funnily. he said "Don't just stand there take it for a spin!" I pointed to the Holden. He yelled "Yeah that yellow piece of crap!" His mom chimed in "now Mark do you want a timeout?" Mark rolled his eyes. I hopped in the Holden. I turned it on. I heard that V8 roar like it hasn't been on in years. i looked at the odometer. I yelled in joy. Only 5 miles on it! I hit a bargain. I took off with the tire squealing. I though about my old Corrola at home. I'd have to sell it. :indiff: I took it around and came back. I stepped out and he said "Like it?" I said "Heck yeah!" then he said "That will be 36,000$ please. My jaw dropped. I sighed as I went back to Corrola. I opened the door when I heard his Mom say. "Mark give this nice man this car for free." Mark said "Whatever." I yelled a loud "Yes!" He yelled "why are you yelling for a peice of crap no good junkyard car!?" His mom yelled "Time for bed!" He started whining. i called my bubby and told him to take the Corrola back home. I'll take the Holden.
 
first off let me give credit to VTiROj for giving me the idea to make a GT4 Story.

Oh, gosh, your making me blush! :sly: I cant take all the credit though, theres plenty of GT4 Stories with fantastic writers behind them. 👍

Does Mark exist in real life? And if so, can he sell me a free car too? :lol: I cracked up when his mum started treating him like a kid. :lol: 5 star comedy right there.

5 miles on a Holden Monaro? That things either done over a million miles or someone's been messing with the odometer. :scared:

Great first chapter though, keep the comedy up! :D:tup:
 
A old lady opened up the door. I said, "I saw a car in the newspaper, I'd like to take a look at it". She yelled "Mark!". I see this 40 year old guy come.

ROFLMAO that's funny stuff right there

not a bad story
 
Oh, gosh, your making me blush! :sly: I cant take all the credit though, theres plenty of GT4 Stories with fantastic writers behind them. 👍

Does Mark exist in real life? And if so, can he sell me a free car too? :lol: I cracked up when his mum started treating him like a kid. :lol: 5 star comedy right there.

5 miles on a Holden Monaro? That things either done over a million miles or someone's been messing with the odometer. :scared:

Great first chapter though, keep the comedy up! :D:tup:
No Mark doesn't exist :). Before I was thinking about it, but after I saw your I took a stab at this.

Thanks for the nice words guys!
 
Chapter Two: The Impounded and the next

I knew there was a local car show at the local plaza. I decided to bring the Holden. People stared at me in awe, like I was crazy to bring it. all of the sudden a guy came up to me. He said in a snarly voice "Hey buddy it's for classic cars only, not these modern hunks of cheap metal." I said, "Tell me it's a hunk of modern metal now." I spun the tires smoke flying everywhere. A kid started yelling all these swear words at me. then his dad said good job. I parked the Holden. I got out and stood face to face with a police officer. He said "Son, may i have your license and registration please?" i gave it too him. He told me to step out of the vehicle. He checked it and said "Son this car is supposed to be impounded." Then my face turning red I yelled "SAY WHAT?!" everybody gave me a funny look. The officer said "Son I need to serch this vehicle." 5 minutes later he came out with a bag. He asked me "Whats this?" i said "I have no idea." He said "It's herowin. Please enter my police car."I asked "Is that crack?" He gave me a funny look, then yelled "Get in!" then people started throw rocks at my Holden. All of the sudden Mark runs up. He yells "It's my fault!" He told a story about it. The cop arrested him. before he was stuffed in the car he said, "Bob, tell my mom that I'm in jail" I ask the officer "What about the car"? He said he will call a tow truck to take it. I was only a few hundred feet away from my house so I stopped and go my Corrola to go tell his Mom. I knocked on the door. She opened up the door. She said "Oh, how nice to see you!" I cut to the chase and said the story she said "Well I guess he wont be needing his other car! She opened up the garage. I was amazed.
 
lol.:D Cool story there guys, but arr...5 miles on a Holden Monaro?...She's deffinelty had a 'tune up' lol!:lol:
 
Hah, yeah.......right. Just accept it RJ, you'll always be left wanting.:P

Wanting what?

I don't need "extensions". You might though, hence the Holden. Although it doesn't serve that purpose too well right now...
 
Tough luck on the Holden, but at least Mark showed up and 'fessed. Whats this "other" car? Tell us now! :P

Aw c'mon RJ, Holdens are cool. Plus we got the Monaro over here in the UK. :D
 
The Fireblade
I saw it. A nice green color. Open wheeled. Rollcage. You guessed it. A Catherham Fireblade. My jaw just dropped. I swear it hit my shoe. Then the old lady yells, "Mike"! all of the sudden this ompalommpa looking guy comes out. He also looks to be forty. "Hi, mom!" he yelled. I was rolling on the ground laughing. He yelled at me "Get yo butt up!" I got up, still trying to recover. He ran towards me and headbutted me. "Holy crap!" I screamed, gasping. Everything turned blue. When i woke up i was in the drivers seat. i turned on the car. Turned on the radio. Full volume Madonna voice came rushing out. I quickly changed the station. Lynyrd Skynyrd. Thats better. When i came back to the house they let me have it. Another freebe. i quicky rushed to the tuning garge. Got some upgrades. But on the way home i got lost. All of the sudden I saw this track. Called Trail Mountain.
 
*gags* you mean to say that Fix Or Repair Daily is better than GM? Oh well, at least Ford was smart enough to circle the problem.

all manufacturer bashing aside, I can't wait to find out what Mark's other car was!

The only Fixes and Repairs most Fords need... Is bodywork, the GM guys resort to driving nasty to try to be First On Race Day, but fail anyway.

Now then, yeah, what is this OTHER car? Show us. Now.
 
He did, look above. :P

Mike? Does this old woman spawn sons on the spot? :lol: Radio in a Caterham? Blasphemy! :lol: Great freebie though, have fun at Trial. :P

If your Caterham had a better radio it could've had Sat Nav and then you wouldn't get lost. :lol:
 
Is Race report or Haiku?
So many short sentences.
It's difficult to tell.

:P

A lady with 2 sons, 40-ish, both called Mike, both of whom are dumb enough to give away cars for free, and one of whom is willing to 'fess up to his heroin dealing to save you taking the rap on his behalf? :boggled:
It's just not in the least bit plausible, reads like a poor Japanese to English BabelFish translation, and is littered with errors.
Aside from mentioning 2 cars (I'm assuming the Morano is supposed to be a Monaro? ;)) that happen to be in GT4 (but a Caterham with a radio?!!! :rolleyes:) it's got very little to do with a GT4 race report as yet. 👎

Needs to find a racing based plot (preferably one which doesn't involve a visit to the old lady's 3rd 40 year old son called Mike :P) quickly or it's getting moved into the regular forums where it belongs.
 
He did, look above. :P

Mike? Does this old woman spawn sons on the spot? :lol: Radio in a Caterham? Blasphemy! :lol: Great freebie though, have fun at Trial. :P

If your Caterham had a better radio it could've had Sat Nav and then you wouldn't get lost. :lol:

It's called "hadn't refreshed".
 
The ace at Trail mountain

So I pulled in to the track. I asked for a single race, blah blah, and all that. A woman came up to me and said, "You will be racing a Mazda RX-7. Please proceed to your pit stall." So I went to the pit stall, and a tall man came up to me. He said in a deep voice "Hello, I am the driver of the RX-7 you will be racing. I would like to wish you good luck." We shook hands and he went back to his pit stall. I heard a loudspeaker call, "Entrants, 798 and 799 please report to the track." Since i was 799, I proceeded with the Fireblade to the track, were we immediately lined up and started our cars. I was behind the RX-7. He was faster, and i was the complete underdog. We started revving our engines. We blasted off, he skyrocketed ahead of me. I thought that if I make a mistake, I'm dead, if I don't I'm fine. I finally caught up to him on theturn after the long hill. I was about 15 feet away. i was about that far the whole race, until the final turn when I was about 5 feet of the bumper. But he ended up winning, and I felt a little sad. The Fireblades first race, and it lost. :indiff::grumpy:

I know this chapter was a little short, but it was a boring race, the whole time.
 
I proceeded with the Fireblade to the track, were we immediately lined up and started our cars.

Why would you have to start your car when you just drove it onto the track and lined up?
Did it stall?
 
Wait, so you get a car for free, despite the fact that it only has 5 miles on the odometer. The car is nearly impounded. Then you nearly get arrested for heroin. Then the guy who gave you the car for free happens to show up and takes full responsibility? :lol: Despite the horrible plot i couldn't help laughing. :crazy:
 
The only Fixes and Repairs most Fords need... Is bodywork, the GM guys resort to driving nasty to try to be First On Race Day, but fail anyway.

Now then, yeah, what is this OTHER car? Show us. Now.

Hah, I work at a Ford dealer, and most of them are in every week.:P
Last I checked, in America no one can even challenge the Corvette in ALMS, why would they need to race dirty?
 
Hah, I work at a Ford dealer, and most of them are in every week.:P
Last I checked, in America no one can even challenge the Corvette in ALMS, why would they need to race dirty?

because the Corvette Team has only 1 other competitor in the GT1 class, so the chances of winning are pretty close to 50/50.
 
The ace at Trail mountain

So I pulled in to the track. I asked for a single race, blah blah, and all that. A woman came up to me and said, "You will be racing a Mazda RX-7. Please proceed to your pit stall." So I went to the pit stall, and a tall man came up to me. He said in a deep voice "Hello, I am the driver of the RX-7 you will be racing. I would like to wish you good luck." We shook hands and he went back to his pit stall. I heard a loudspeaker call, "Entrants, 798 and 799 please report to the track." Since i was 799, I proceeded with the Fireblade to the track, were we immediately lined up and started our cars. I was behind the RX-7. He was faster, and i was the complete underdog. We started revving our engines. We blasted off, he skyrocketed ahead of me. I thought that if I make a mistake, I'm dead, if I don't I'm fine. I finally caught up to him on theturn after the long hill. I was about 15 feet away. i was about that far the whole race, until the final turn when I was about 5 feet of the bumper. But he ended up winning, and I felt a little sad. The Fireblades first race, and it lost. :indiff::grumpy:

I know this chapter was a little short, but it was a boring race, the whole time.

You can't race the Caterham Firebalde in GT4, so I seriously doubt that this is an actual Race Report, and even if it was losing to an RX-7 in the Fireblade!!!!!!! Oh dear.

My I provide some constructive feedback?

You need to actually think about stucture when you write, you know like a clearly defined start, middle and end. At present all of these read like you have taken sentances that 'sort-of' belong together and thrown them at the page.

As a result they arn't easy to read and do little to hold the interest of the reader. Try and actually plan your next oen out a little more and you may find it gets a better reception.


Regards

Scaff
 
because the Corvette Team has only 1 other competitor in the GT1 class, so the chances of winning are pretty close to 50/50.

Didn't the others like Porsches for example leave because they couldn't beat the Corvettes?
Who cares anyway, racing is an entirely different ball game. I'm all for saying that both GM and Ford are both good brands, and even some of Chrysler/Dodge's products. Let's end this off topic-ness right now.
 
This story seriously needs to be looked at. Coming from somebody who has written a car story on this very forum, i have to admit this seems to be falling into place rather easily, Mark confessing he was carrying Heroin to the police, getting two very quick cars for free, and the general feel of the story seems to be written in a way that implies you havent tried as much as you could, theres alot of potential here, and saying 'blah blah' at any point in a story no matter what context its put in isnt a great idea. Go ahead and read 'sideways' its my story, then you'll see what i mean.

This could shape up to be very good, just spend a little more time writing it, a bit more detail, and a bit longer.

Good luck.

As for the rest of you, you just dont like the fact that all the best fords are made by our British division. The original GT, the rally cars, the escort cosworth...etc etc etc...
 
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Let's end this off topic-ness right now.

Seriously smart move! 👍
It's not good to see another "race report" taken over by pointless bickering about Ford/GM or Ford/Holden. That topic has been flogged to death elsewhere on these forums more times than the proverbial dead horse. ;)
 
Is Race report or Haiku?
So many short sentences.
It's difficult to tell.

:P

A lady with 2 sons, 40-ish, both called Mike, both of whom are dumb enough to give away cars for free, and one of whom is willing to 'fess up to his heroin dealing to save you taking the rap on his behalf? :boggled:
It's just not in the least bit plausible, reads like a poor Japanese to English BabelFish translation, and is littered with errors.
Aside from mentioning 2 cars (I'm assuming the Morano is supposed to be a Monaro? ;)) that happen to be in GT4 (but a Caterham with a radio?!!! :rolleyes:) it's got very little to do with a GT4 race report as yet. 👎

Needs to find a racing based plot (preferably one which doesn't involve a visit to the old lady's 3rd 40 year old son called Mike :P) quickly or it's getting moved into the regular forums where it belongs.

the first son is "mark" the second is "mike"
 
Why would you have to start your car when you just drove it onto the track and lined up?
Did it stall?

I only said that because it seems like that happens in the game at trail mountain.

Edit: My GT4 will not complete races, do don't expect and more chapters. Mods can lock.
 
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