I was driving muscle cars with standards before you were born, .
Now go jack off in your baseline KIA. Grip it real tight and run through the gears.
A six-speed econobox blows the doors off of a POS automatic muscle car or a car with ty flappy paddles, per par, as far as fun value. The truth hurts.
It's amazing how many gringos can't drive stick. It's a perfect metaphor showcasing the uselessness of American society in these times.
Nice ride. 351?
Built up a street sleeper 68 GTO with a friend. Redid the drive train front to back. dropped a Baldwin Motion 454 and a rock crusher into it. Killed em at Little Green Valley match racing until the word got out. Paid for it in 6 months on bets and then sold it to a punk in Alamo Heights for what was put into it to start.
LMAO at this and his standard rice burner.
Yup...351 Cleveland. 4-Speed with a clutch like a Nautilus leg press.
Bought the car when I was 14 for $250 from a radio station in Lubbock. Did a complete restoration with my Dad...took us 2 years and, at the time, the ungodly sum of $1500. I remember paying $200 for that paint job and almost screaming cause it was so ing expensive.![]()
It's actually amazing any of us survived the muscle car era because the suspensions sucked so bad. On that GTO I was power shifting 2nd and third and the front end didn't even touch the ground until 3rd gear and it had half the horsepower of that GTR. That just squatted and scooted.
Sweet. Bet you wish you still had it.
The Alpha Omega GT-R is A modified version of a Nissan Skyline GT-R from Japan.
The Skyline is a super car in Japan and is sold at the Nissan dealers in the USA.
Tim is reported to have one................
btw what a horrible name for a car
It's a sad story. I'll tell ya bout it at the GTG.![]()
Actually...most of the muscle cars in America come with a stick. Furthermore, the fastest production car in the world...the American Venom GT...is a stick. Most Euro supercars come with paddles. Bugatti's and Ferrari 458's are dual clutch too. You have no idea who you are making fun or or what the you are talking about.
I know, it is a tragedy that rich, greedy Europeans seem to prefer flicking flappy paddles instead of working a real gearbox.
Fortunately, the VAST MAJORITY of Europeans work their own gears on a regular basis. 80-90% of European cars are manuals, after all.
The difference between flappy paddles and stick for sports cars ultimately kind of comes down to the motorsport of choice, though. In the USA, the most popular motorsport is NASCAR (4-speed manual) while in Europe it is Formula 1 (7-speed seamless shift semi-automatic). Most European touring series use some form of an automated gearbox, as well (though some still require blipping on downshifts).
Honestly...if I get a car for weekend fun duty it's going to be a stick. Driving a stick on the daily in a car you can't blow the rubber off the tires going into third sucks. I'll keep my automatic for daily commuting. I just made the thread mostly because running 7's in a street car is pretty insane, even if it is basically an automatic.
you'd have to have a seriously small weiner to have any interest in this at all.top gear
Poor kid. It's cool to put down things you can't afford.
Zero. I've had a load of fast cars tho.
I don't see the religious connection.
dat little weiner ain't so hard to compensate for, huh?
Doesn't seem your theory applies to everyone.
What about the rest of those pro ball players that have fast cars. Do they fit your theory too?
At the 2:30 mark even Samuel l Jackson got into it. 185!
what do you think of ur current vehicle latest model? lol GM pulling all manufacture and design jobs back to american and gives the australian market its ugly design 2013 model that doesnt look mean enough
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