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Posted by: brant Jun 27 2006, 10:45 AM

How come my jesting... threats about taking on all comers in a colorado style autox hasn't gotten a response from JP or the Westcoast/eastcoast gangs....




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Posted by: URY914 Jun 27 2006, 10:49 AM

I thought it was cute. But I could take my bodywork off and stomp them big tire hotrods.

Posted by: brant Jun 27 2006, 10:54 AM

yeah... but do you have enough ground clearance to get through the soft sand?

Posted by: URY914 Jun 27 2006, 11:17 AM

I'll just crank up my coil overs and front bars.

Posted by: Joe Ricard Jun 27 2006, 03:22 PM

Shoot them big FATTY tiars would just float over the deep stuff.
All your mountian boy hot rods would be owned by a couple Gulf Coast Teeners.

Posted by: brant Jun 27 2006, 04:32 PM

I see...

sorta like a beach cruiser bicycle does well in the sand...

but hey..
this porscheee is diesel powered, and I heard that them diesel powered race cars are the thing of the future..

I heard that them oudi race cars are diesel powered even.

Posted by: J P Stein Jun 27 2006, 04:40 PM

There's this D-8 Cat down the street where maybe I could borrow his tracks & suspenders, do a Q&D adaptation to the shit box, beef up my trailer & tow to Colorado.
Humm....this is beginning to sound more & more like a bad idear.....I gibe up, you win

Posted by: nine14cats Jun 27 2006, 04:59 PM

My father in law has a D8 on his 187 acres in Oregon. I was thinking of changing the metal compound on the tracks to get it to stick better when railing through the turn.

Anyone know how big of Webers to run on a D8 Cat?

Bill P.

Posted by: grantsfo Jun 27 2006, 05:09 PM

Speaking of tractors, these guys scare me. Sort of a Deliverance meets karting thing. ...Are you suggesting something like this?

http://www.lawnmowerplace.com/mltr/

Posted by: brant Jun 27 2006, 05:31 PM

good one...
good ones...

definitely no deliverance implications...

wonder how fast those lawn mower contraptions go though...

hey, I went to watch the paved 1/8th mile american stuff run the other day. Had fun hanging out in the pits and was lucky enough to know someone... Anyways.. they were having a great old time.
I kinda want to get one of those legend cars and take a try at it...
wonder what it cost to rent one of those.

surprised I would ever say something like that.. but there was some real skill and damn good racing going on there...

Bill.... I've got some old zeniths for a long term project that I'm not using yet. If you need to borrow them for the D8 I could "borrow them too ya"

brant

Posted by: J P Stein Jun 27 2006, 11:08 PM

I think I'm loosing it.......after watching all racing on the tube...NASCAR, F1,ALMS,GRAND AM, CART, IRL....all them effin' alphabets, I find the most exciting to be migets on asphalt...(MOA?). I really miss em' on Thursday (or friday/Saturday) Night Thunder.....not that NASCAR Channel gives a shit

Posted by: brant Jun 27 2006, 11:56 PM

JP,

you should look it up for your local area and go watch some of them.
dang.. the live american stuff is pretty awesome.
when I went they had midgets and also super modifieds..

900hp with alcohol injection and BIG wings on a paved 1/8th mile is pretty exciting.
well worth the price of entry.

heck go blow a saturday and do it.

it was amazing.
I slept in until 9am.

and was home by 4pm.

a short day but plenty exciting.

now I want to try driving against those fellas.

imagine I'll get blown away... but sliding out to the cement wall sure looks interesting and challenging.

brant

Posted by: sww914 Jul 1 2006, 12:38 PM

OK, you've talked me into it. There's a 1/3 mile banked clay oval 20 miles from my house, and in 20 years, I've never been there, so We're going tonight.

Posted by: brant Jul 1 2006, 11:25 PM

sounds fun..
definitely would like to hear feed back afterwards about your thoughts.

what kind of cars were running there?

brant