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17-10-2007, 05:43 PM
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its not a!
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Rockingham, WA
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Bloody good read.
http://www.wired.com/cars/coolwheels...?currentPage=1 " And so the clock starts and the taillights flare, and they're off again, strapped down, fueled up, and bound on an outlaw enterprise with 2,795 miles of interstate and some 31,000 highway cops between them and the all-time speed record for crossing the American continent on four wheels. "
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17-10-2007, 06:18 PM
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Just slidin'
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Brisvegas
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What a read. Thanks for that.
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17-10-2007, 07:05 PM
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Show me your boobs!
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Inverleigh
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Bloody good read .. are you kidding ... it's fantastic
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17-10-2007, 07:12 PM
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V8 Powaah
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Sunshine Coast, QLD
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Wow what a read. He had everything but the kitchen sink in that Beemer, plus a shedload of planning.
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18-10-2007, 12:09 AM
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Like no other..........
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Over here.... Mod:FPV & XR Owners Club of Victoria
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TuMor,
That is a sensational article - It goes to show I guess - all the planning in the world does not beat pure raw speed.............
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A recent study found the average Australian walks about 900 miles a year.
Another study found Australians drink, on average, 22 gallons of alcohol a year. That means, on average, Australians get about 41 miles to the gallon. Kind of makes you proud to be an aussie. |
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18-10-2007, 12:33 AM
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XF 393 3v CHI heads
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Perth
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awesome dude, cheers
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18-10-2007, 01:46 AM
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www.FPVregistry.com
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Auckland, NZ
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I like watching alex roy on the extreme channel and gumball 3000 rallies
--Russ
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18-10-2007, 02:48 AM
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You dig, we stick!
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Bloody nutcase... gives me bad ideas.
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18-10-2007, 03:53 AM
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Back to Le Frenchy
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Back home.....
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Champion effort to pull it off and a bloody good read.
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18-10-2007, 09:15 AM
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Location: Australia
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Its unsafe etc etc but a great read, wouldnt mind seeing the doco (?) they made
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18-10-2007, 09:16 AM
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Back in a Ford
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Central Australia
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Top Read. Couldn't stop once I started!
Cheers
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18-10-2007, 09:49 AM
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Powered by Marshall
Join Date: Jan 2005
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Brillaint
Love his stuff on Cops Cars and Superstars and the Gumball. Wish I had the $ to take a crack at it myself!
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18-10-2007, 10:28 AM
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OCD keeps me busy...
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Melbourne
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Great read...
Last line sums it up: Or that this record will surely be beaten, again, sometime, by some other drivers, most probably for reasons they won't understand, either. |
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18-10-2007, 07:44 PM
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The one and only
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Carrum Downs, Victoria
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The gumball rally rocks.
Someone should do it here!! 
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18-10-2007, 09:39 PM
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brilliant, a bloody hard task to acheive
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19-10-2007, 08:48 AM
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I see you....
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Great read.....
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19-10-2007, 09:19 AM
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XY Driv3r
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Melbourne
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Awesome!!
Cheers for that... How bout a FF Gumball from Tip to Tip. Quickest time wins bragging rights!!!  :
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19-10-2007, 09:45 AM
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Like no other..........
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Over here.... Mod:FPV & XR Owners Club of Victoria
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: ..... www.thegreatamericanrun.comThese dudes started back up the cannonball run in the US in July this year. There was a run in europe and one was meant to happen in Oz but don't think anything eventuated. The winner of these then got free entry to the "final" one in the US. Winner got a Saleen and a wad-o-cash........
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A recent study found the average Australian walks about 900 miles a year.
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19-10-2007, 09:57 AM
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
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Thats great read, It took almost an hour as im ment to be working too
haha, Some people just have the need for speed!!! |
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19-10-2007, 10:28 AM
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Location: TAS
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Yeah thats pretty cool, and those M5's! Drool!
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19-10-2007, 10:34 AM
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Just. Wow.
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19-10-2007, 12:55 PM
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Secret Sleuth
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Sydney
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How totally insane is that guy (not as in speeding) but as in how obsessed he got, and the german police uniforms, handcuffs ect. lol.
I wish we could detect our police with the crazy jammers/scanners ect. he was using...alas for lasers.
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