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17-01-10, 12:14 PM | #21 |
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Re: American V8's
hehe I remember the sound of the V8 corvettes at the le mans 24hr. You didn't so much hear them as feel your guts get rattled about by the noise. Same at donnington 6hr where you can stand by foggys right near the track and hear them boot it down there. Hehehe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lQxp...eature=related hubba hubba but by far the best looking cars there were the team modena aston db9r's
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17-01-10, 03:44 PM | #23 |
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18-01-10, 12:12 PM | #24 |
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Re: American V8's
Spent the weekend Land Rovering, helping set up the courses for trials on Saturday and Marshalling on Sunday.
Lot's of 4-4.5litre V8's being used at full chat trying to climb hills. Fantastic sound Here's a very short clip of GG's brothin in law NEARLY climbing a hill in his. Sounds AWESOME in the flesh, let me have a go yesterday too... I WANT ONE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nQabAtzFgY
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18-01-10, 03:04 PM | #25 |
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Growing up my Dad's neighbour restored classics as a hobby/retirement-fund and had a rather large collection. One of the cars was a mint Shelby GT500 convertible (can't imagine what it's worth these days). I'm pretty sure it's idle rpm was 2. It shook the windows in the house.
He also had several classic vettes, caddys etc - about 25 cars in total last time I asked, and stores them in a barn.
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18-01-10, 08:20 PM | #26 |
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Stretchie - that one sounds like mine, bit it's in a '68 swb 2a so I get a lot of odd looks when I start it up and roar off. It's even better in an underground carpark! Well worth the petrol money
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