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[Serenity]

Some Acronyms for Motorheads

AUDI
Accelerates Under Demonic Influence
Always Unsafe Designs Implemented

BMW
Beautiful Mechanical Wonder
Big Money Works
Bought My Wife
Brutal Money Waster

BUICK
Big Ugly Indestructible Car Killer

CHEVROLET
Can Hear Every Valve Rap On Long Extended Trips
Cheap, Hardly Efficient, Virtually Runs On Luck Every Time

DODGE
Darn Old Dirty Gas Eater
Drips Oil, Drops Grease Everywhere

FIAT
Failure in Italian Automotive Technology
Fix It All the Time
Fix It Again, Tony!

FORD
First On Recall Day
First On Rust and Deterioration
Fix Or Repair Daily
Found On Road, Dead
Fault Of Research & Development
Fast Only Rolling Downhill
Features O.J. & Ron`s DNA
backwards -> Driver Returns On Foot

GM
General Maintenance

GMC
Garage Man`s Companion
Got A Mechanic Coming?

HONDA
Had One, Never Did Again
Happy Owners Never Drive Anything else

MAZDA
Most Always Zipping Dangerously Along

OLDSMOBILE
Old Ladies Driving Slowly Make Others Behind Infuriatingly Late Everyday.
Overpriced, Leisurely Driven Sedan Made Of Buick`s Irregular Leftover Equipment

SAAB
Send Another Automobile Back
Swedish Automobiles Always Breakdown.

TOYOTA
Too Often Yankees Overprice This Auto

VOLVO
Very Odd Looking Vehicular Object

VW
Virtually Worthless

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[OperaTenor]

A couple more:

BMW:
Break My Wallet

Ford:
Ferrous Oxide Rust Display(my own invention)

For you motorcycle fans:

BMW:
Booze, Motorcycles, and Women

Harley Davidson:
Hardly Runnin' Some

[Serenity]

Exercise #1. Maybe someone can come up with a good one for Hyundai.

[OperaTenor]

One more for Harley:

Hardly Ableson

[barfle]

FIAT: Fits in a trashcan.

[BigJon]

GTO:
Get Tools Out

[ScottB]

Did anyone catch the Toyota 300 from Homstead, Florida? I cant imagine driving 210 mph 6 inches from another car truley amazing. I tried to notice but it seemed as if they didnt even have to left of the accelerator going through the corners.

I remember hearing about a track, I think its Texas Motor Speedway where the drivers start to black out due to the g's. Yesterday they were hitting 4.5 almost 5 g's.

[Trumpetmaster]

Scott,
I saw some of it while channel surfing.
Pretty amazing driving that fast and being only 6 inches apart. I guess they get used to it.
Regards,
Howard

[ScottB]

They must get used to it, but I cant imagine what it must feel like. I love all the camera angles they are using to. It is a lot different then it used to be. They try to put you in the car and in the pit crew. Much more entertaining, now if ESPN would carry some road courses as well that would be even better.

[Trumpetmaster]

My favorite is when they have the camera right in with the driver.

[barfle]

While there's nothing like driving in a race, I can say from experience that it's a lousy place to watch a race from. Face it, you're busier than the proverbial one-armed paper hanger with lice.

You have to know what the cars around you are doing, and you have to know where you are on the track, but once you've started paying attention to those, little things like your overall position in the race, lap counts, and any other battles on the track are beyond your interest.

You are also paying very close attention to what the car is doing - you're depending on all the mechanical elements to keep working properly, and if they stop, it's a real good idea to have plan B. I remember once I had a rear wheel loosen up, and believe me, that's a very disturbing feeling on a race track. Shoulda stopped one lap before I did.

And I doubt if the drivers ever "get used" to trying to beat a similar car into a turn. Your heart and a couple of other glands seem stuck in your throat the whole time. It's a kick, and when you're pushing your skills and the limits of the car, you know the defecation can hit the ventilation at any time.

[Trumpetmaster]

When I was a kid I told my dad I wanted to be a race car driver when I grew up. (loved watching the Indy 500)
His response was to become a NYC Taxi Driver.

Ughh....

[sadie]

When I was a kid I told my dad I wanted to be a race car driver when I grew up. (loved watching the Indy 500)
His response was to become a NYC Taxi Driver.
____________________________

I've had a few interesting taxi rides in NYC myself- one with A "Rasta driver" from Jamaica. He was ferociously gnawing on a piece of raw sugar cane as he gunned his cab from Brookly nnto Manhatten, careening from lane to lane, gunning for pedestrians- I was 8 months pregnant at the time, no seat belts no air bags.... I would have been safer on the Indy 500 track!

[OperaTenor]

Pah!

Real racing's done on two wheels! Cars are for sissies!

:p

Jim "RC, the FRS - NOW!" B.

[barfle]

[quote]Originally posted by OperaTenor:
Pah!

Real racing's done on [b]two wheels! Cars are for sissies!

[Trumpetmaster]

[quote]Originally posted by OperaTenor:
Pah!

Real racing's done on [b]two wheels! Cars are for sissies!

[Trumpetmaster]

Originally posted by barfle:

Originally posted by OperaTenor:
[b] Pah!

Real racing's done on [b]two wheels! Cars are for sissies!

[/b]

Barfle,
That was great.
ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!

TM

[OperaTenor]

Nice try, guys.

How many people do you know who can do this?

<img src="http://www.operatenor.100megs24.com/kneedrag.jpg" alt=" - " />

Now that's an adrenaline rush!

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[Selma in Sandy Eggo]

Originally posted by OperaTenor:
How many people do you know who can do this?

Two nephews, ex-BIL, several of my generation in our younger and stupider days, friends, unsavory associates. Geez, the list is getting entirely too long.

Originally posted by OperaTenor:
Now that's an adrenaline rush!

And, altogether too often, surgery!!

[Selma in Sandy Eggo]

BTW, who's that on the Honda?