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![]() YOU MIGHT BE A RACER IF ...
You think the primary purpose of wings is to PREVENT flight. You take your helmet along when you go to buy new eyeglasses or check out cars. You are happiest when your street car's tires are worn to racing depth and the wear bars are showing. When something falls off of your car, you wonder how much weight you just saved. Your email address refers to your race car rather than to you. You've paid $4.00 a gallon for gas without complaining. You bought a race car before buying a house. You bought a race car before buying furniture for the new house. You're looking for a tow vehicle and still haven't bought furniture! The requirements you give your real estate agent are (in order of importance): 1) 8 car climate controlled garage with an attached shop. 2) Outside parking for 6 cars, a motor home, a crew cab dually, a 28' enclosed trailer and a 34' 5th wheel. 3) 3 phase 220V outlets in the garage for your welder. 4) A grease pit. 5) Deaf neighbors. 6) Some sort of house with a working toilet & shower on the property - or - hookups for the motor home. You sit in your race car in a dark garage and make car noises and shift and practice your heel and toe, while waiting for your motor to get back from the machine shop. You have enough spare parts to build another car. More than one racer supply store recognizes your voice and greets you by name when you call. You think the last line of the Star Spangled banner is: "Racers start your engines!" People know you by your class, car number, and car color. You astound the clerk at Sears by bringing in a snapped breaker bar every other week or so. Your family brings the couch into the garage to spend time with you. A neighbor asks if you have any oil, to which you query, "Synthetic or organic?" and they reply, "Vegetable or corn." You enjoy driving in the rain on the way to work. You always want to change something on your street car to make it handle better. You've tried to convince your wife you needed that flow bench to fix the air filter on her station wagon. You save broken car parts as "momentous". You've found your lawnmower runs pretty good on 108 octane gas (but doesn't particularly care for alcohol). The local police and state highway patrol have a picture of your car taped to their dashboard. Instead of pictures in your wallet, you have time slips. You quote your street tire wear life in weeks rather than miles. After you tell your wife where you'd like to go on vacation she answers: "Why...is there a race there?" You know at least three 1-800 numbers to aftermarket parts houses by heart. You are on a first-name basis with owners of every local speed shop. You want to take apart and rebuild things, even though they are not broken. You have the monetary equivalent of a lunar rocket invested in it, but your car still won't cut a good light or run the number. You own a vehicle that has at least 500 horsepower more than when it came out of Detroit. You look for hi-po cars in the movies and try to guess what engine size, tire size, and whether or not it has nitrous in it. You are the type of person who goes postal when you have to sit in a traffic jam for more than five minutes, yet you can spend five hours in the staging lanes. Every stoplight becomes a practice tree to test your ability to tree the guy in the other lane's eyes out. You wash your car like it was your firstborn child, you tend to its needs like it was your own body, you protect it like it's your family, then you drive it like you stole it. You understand racing is a way of life, not just a means of transportation.
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Join Date: May 2001
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![]() THATS ME THATS ME! Great now i can stop going to that stupid shrink. Ive spent so much time and money to figure out whats my problem. Now I can tell him its ok and im normal for a MOTORUS IMPULSIVUS.
All those things are so true. Its kinda scary. See ya at the track. ![]() |
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![]() SEE TEE SHIRT
ROADIOUS CARNIVOROUS!!!!! FLEA
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89LX 302 C4 4:10GEAR X CAM,GT40 IRON HEADS,PERFORMER RPM 650 HOLLEY NO STALL YET, GRIFFEN RADIATOR,MAC EQUAL LENGTH SHORTIES,H-PIPE,PRO DUMPS NOW IT IS A LITTLE FASTER AT 12.94@106.38 RICE HATERS CLUB MEMBER # 47 |
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68 Camaro Gene Fulton 632ci Two stages of Jug 8.41 164mph Rockingham 1-26-03 |
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![]() Hey RadicalGT havent heard much outta you in a while. Go over to Hardcore 50 its a Mustang Only Drag Only site. Its real cool. We have Beech Bend rented the 13th of april for an all day TNT for 30 bucks a car I think. Ou should come down, I wanna see that car run anyway.
Brad
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![]() Hey brad, thanks for letting me know about that!! I'll definately attend that one. If your gonna be there, I might need you to help me work on the car some. Know how to pack chutes?? lol
Eric
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68 Camaro Gene Fulton 632ci Two stages of Jug 8.41 164mph Rockingham 1-26-03 |
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Not broken anymore!
Join Date: May 2001
Location: La Porte, TEXASS :)
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R.I.P. my Kinde..Jan. 19,1992-Aug. 22, 2003. Shes Cruisin' doggie heaven in a Blown Verte or a GTO!!! ![]() 2005 ROUSH GT Verte SuperStallions of the Net Feature, May 2002 RICE HATERS CLUB MEMBER #38!! O.B.C #5..thank you!! I feel so priveledged!! BONE STOCK~ Hell, its a ROUSH! ![]() |
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It's a lot like a race car
Join Date: Aug 2000
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![]() Here's a few more
![]() You tryed to race the neighborhood kid on his bike. You use nitrous on you way to get bread and milk You traffic tickets keep the local economy going You think a 5000 dollar motor is a sound financil investment You stoped calculating gas milage and now calculate gas footage
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My poor 79 RIP
Join Date: Oct 2001
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![]() those are too good. I fit most of those.
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![]() Hey Brad I totally forgot about the Easterner's meet at Cecil Co. Hmmm, What's the payout of that race or do you know?? If it's above $1,000 forget Cecil Co. and Hello Bowling Green!!!! lol Let me know!! Also what's the rules and such??
Eric
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![]() They were pretty good, if I din't know better I'd say you were talking about crazy, and a whole bunch more here, hahahaha.....Lee
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Not broken anymore!
Join Date: May 2001
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R.I.P. my Kinde..Jan. 19,1992-Aug. 22, 2003. Shes Cruisin' doggie heaven in a Blown Verte or a GTO!!! ![]() 2005 ROUSH GT Verte SuperStallions of the Net Feature, May 2002 RICE HATERS CLUB MEMBER #38!! O.B.C #5..thank you!! I feel so priveledged!! BONE STOCK~ Hell, its a ROUSH! ![]() |
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All about the Windsor.
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![]() Those were pretty funny man......I like stuff about these things...makes me feel more....uhhh...."normal".....
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![]() hey 6t9 pony you got a good back seat out of the coupe you wrecked? my son need's a back seat pretty bad for my old 69 coupe i gave him, let me know.
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95 gt vert, lot's of stuff, it aint slow. 04 sonic blue v - six my beater 89 rs camaro iroc turbo hood, other stuff, my wifes ride 84 lx stang cammed up 289 hi po, etc 65 falcon, maybe by the year 2020. black 00gt, gone but never forgotten. R H C- member # 1 o.b.c. da prez- member # 1 if your under 40 dont ask. goodbye for now odie,r.i.p. 11-27-03 |
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![]() Hey RadicalGT, sorry man, this isnt even a payign race. Its a TNT day that we just rented the track for the whole day. Were gonna party a little to Firday and saturday night of course, but if your there for the money, go to Cecil.
Brad
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![]() so very true.
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