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slopecombat

posted on 7/8/07 at 12:00 AM Reply With Quote
Back engine-mid weel-front driver ?


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locogeoff

posted on 7/8/07 at 12:19 AM Reply With Quote
Is that driven by a big cerise jaguar
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kb58

posted on 7/8/07 at 01:17 AM Reply With Quote
Not many people want to be their own crushable structure...





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RazMan

posted on 7/8/07 at 06:25 AM Reply With Quote
I reckon if I sat in that seat a bit too quickly the back wheels would be in the air





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ceebmoj

posted on 7/8/07 at 07:11 AM Reply With Quote
I can see the pick does any body have a link?
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donut

posted on 7/8/07 at 07:44 AM Reply With Quote
Looks like the pink panther car!





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Dick Bear

posted on 8/8/07 at 01:02 AM Reply With Quote
Certainly adds new meaning to the term "front steer"!

I like it! Reminds me a something usually seen on the deck of an aircraft carrier and would be interesting to experience the drive.

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ceebmoj

posted on 8/8/07 at 06:02 AM Reply With Quote
saw that car or anothe of the smae tipe about 11 years ago at some from of topgear event at silvestone. I was compleatly blowen away buy it in the metal as its so difrent form any thing else I had seen at the time. if I remember corectly the glasss came from eather a hawk or tornado and you could see where the explosive charge had been removed for pilot ejection
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RazMan

posted on 8/8/07 at 06:16 AM Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by ceebmoj
....you could see where the explosive charge had been removed for pilot ejection


I would have kept in - it would come in quite handy for that " OMG that wall is coming up fast!" moment





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