Australian Falcon XB GT in Pursuit Special drag. Wanted it since 1982, didn't find out what it actually was until 1997. I wish I'd known just one Australian in high school, things may have turned out differently.
I never stopped watching it, but Fox does its level best to depth-charge anything in the Friday night slot through bizarre scheduling. Sports, holidays, they all kill the week-to-week mood. I'm just glad it's on again. Last week's episode was lame, for the most part, they just threw that half-assed Observer thread in there to patch something together, I'm not sure what. Tonight's was great, though.
NP. Oh, I have my reasons, and none of them are noble. First, it's inherently ugly, like all 928's, a design that set the stage for ugly throughout much of the 90's. It was ahead-of-its-time ugly; we'd have to wait for almost a decade until jellybean domination for that kind of ugly to become mainstream. I doubt we'll ever see that kind of visceral ugly in a high-end 2+2 coupe again, and living examples serve as reminders never to repeat the mistakes of the past.
Second, it's got a blower. Not a prissy little kompressor, or even a more urbane supercharger, it's got a fuckin' blower. Not only does it have a fuckin' blower, it's got one atop a Chevy small-block, which seems to be the de-facto heart transplant candidate for pretty much all failed semi-exotics. It's a good, common, reliable choice to replace the mad clockwork it came with. A 32v Northstar would be a more aligned to the spirit of the original equipment, but you'd kill it with that fuckin' blower, which I mentioned before as being important.
Third, if you set out to design a car that pisses people off, you couldn't do better than this, and that's almost guaranteed if you show up at the Beverly Hills country club, or Shutters, or a Porsche meet. Is that what they call them? I'm not a Porsche person, so I have no idea, but I imagine you'd be relegated to the kids' table with the 914's, where you'd have the only car in the section capable of sustained burnouts. When you're done with that, you can go take the piss out of the American iron purists. That's always fun, it's like riding a Buell to a Harley event. As an added bonus, it's also quite possible that it's capable of some actual performance as well, so winning a quarter mile or two would avenge all the abuse you took in high school auto shop from Buddy Repperton-type mouthbreathing retards.
Someone's going to get a night in the box.
Although the Federal AWB expired, California, whose law it was patterned on, is still in mighty force. There is an ongoing bureaucracy here whose sole purpose is to determine whether or not a new weapon is scary-looking, and then ban it, using a feature matrix like you described. They still haven't quite gotten over Stockton and the gang wars of the 90's.
Then there's the "several," from Brian Daley's works, the GammaLAW series in particular: Menage marriage, more like a pack/tribe/village. Seen again with a different name in Peter F. Hamilton's Commonwealth universe.
Crack pipe. Without the TDI, I'm out.
I can understand the love for genuine utes/El Caminos/Rancheros, but this one is a cargo-cult mockup. What possesses someone to do this on purpose?
Beat me to it. This car is one of my earliest childhood memories.
Back in 1997, I wanted a C5 so bad I was willing to spend all of my visual effects overtime money on one. I didn't have quite that much money and my credit was still shit, so I had to settle for a 96 C4 Collector's Edition coupe. The 95 ZR1 that was on the lot next to mine was going for about $40k. If this car had been on that lot at this price, I'd have taken it without a second thought. Today, with these go-fast parts and a drop-top, it's Nice Price all the way. There are few better cars for driving up the California coast than a drop-top Corvette.
I wonder if there's a copy of the VFX gag reel floating around on the internets. Good times...
That's a very KITT-like front end. Just never really noticed it before.
Change out the black for blue and the van in the pic is a dead ringer for the E150 I used in college to schlep DJ equipment around. It had a single bunk, a cargo cage, and later on got the black carpeting from my dorm room. It sucked on gas, it sucked to work on, it left me stranded with blown tires on numerous occasions (my fault, not its), and it had no heater to speak of. But I loved that $100 POS. It did its job and helped me survive some seriously thin times. RIP E-series indeed.
Yup. Every time I go nostalgia-hunting on eBay, most of the 70-72 GM coupes are donked to death.
Crack Pipe. I'm a sucker for B-bodies (had a 71 Cutlass Supreme Holiday Coupe in HS), but there is no way this thing should go for more than $10k, molested as it is.
Remember the CD Single of Information Society's "Peace and Love, Inc?" The last track was an ascii text message encoded via modem.
I know this is an old thread, but I'll pass along my esteemed colleague Ron Kuzava's explanation:
Supposition 1: If we assume the existence of Vampires with a demonic spirit as the motivating force (none of that silly hemo-virus stuff), then we must also assume the existence of a soul in a non-vampire.
Sup 2: If the existence of a soul is taken a-priori, then from the evidence given by successful operation of a teleportation device (in order for this question to even make sense), then the soul (and by extension spritiual/demonic essences) must be able to be affected by the teleportation device. The mass of spirit is beyond the scope of this analysis, suffice to say that the spirit is capable of being teleported.
Sup 3: The teleportation device takes advantage of quantum mechanical probability, in that every atom in a physical system has the quantum probability of existing at any other point in the universe (said probability being very small...but still mathematically possible).
Therefore; should an attempt be made to teleport a vampire into a 'warded' house, it would be possible since according to Quantum theory, the teleportation merely collapses the wave function with regards to the probability that the vampire is already (mathematically) in the house.
QED
Supposition 1: If we assume the existence of Vampires with a demonic spirit as the motivating force (none of that silly hemo-virus stuff), then we must also assume the existence of a soul in a non-vampire.
Sup 2: If the existence of a soul is taken a-priori, then from the evidence given by successful operation of a teleportation device (in order for this question to even make sense), then the soul (and by extension spritiual/demonic essences) must be able to be affected by the teleportation device. The mass of spirit is beyond the scope of this analysis, suffice to say that the spirit is capable of being teleported.
Sup 3: The teleportation device takes advantage of quantum mechanical probability, in that every atom in a physical system has the quantum probability of existing at any other point in the universe (said probability being very small...but still mathematically possible).
Therefore; should an attempt be made to teleport a vampire into a 'warded' house, it would be possible since according to Quantum theory, the teleportation merely collapses the wave function with regards to the probability that the vampire is already (mathematically) in the house.
QED
This was the car that provoked John De Lorean's comment, "you can't sell a million ugly cars." He was wrong, of course. Crack pipe, nonetheless.
Picking nits here, but a 60-foot object at a depth of 87 meters makes me think of exploding space probes. How about a 19-meter object or a depth of 270 or so feet?
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is actually the Nightingale 229 from Supernova. I know it by heart, I worked on this movie at Digital Domain.
is actually the Nightingale 229 from Supernova. I know it by heart, I worked on this movie at Digital Domain.
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