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Thread: The New Corvette
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07-21-2019, 02:20 PM #126
430 hp.......what kind brakes on that there car?
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07-21-2019, 02:28 PM #127riser4 - Ignore me! Please!
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07-21-2019, 02:36 PM #128
power brakes
watch out for snakes
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07-21-2019, 02:46 PM #129
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07-21-2019, 02:50 PM #130Registered User
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those were all about the straightline speed and the aerodynamics would slow the car down more than the brakes
Driving those 68's home from the bar it was discovered hitting a construction zone sign at 50mph would send it right over the top of the car without hitting anything, same with the profile of the Datsun 240Z but you had to be going fast enough
also the aluminium radiators in those vettes was at an angle which bounced the waves from radar guns up into space so the Vette had a very small radar foot printLee Lau - xxx-er is the laziest Asian canuck I know
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07-21-2019, 03:36 PM #131
In the early '70s, Corvette came in a 350 and 454. The 454 was heavy, and didn't handle that well. The 350 was lighter, handled much better, and was easily worked on. Add a Holley manifold and Hooker headers and you had a beast. To me, the 454 was the beginning of new philosophy for the corvette that morphed into those underwhelming cars of the late '70s that lasted more than a decade.
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07-21-2019, 03:49 PM #132
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Just got a ride yesterday in an old friend's 19 Z06, 650 hp. Firmly planted into the seat when accelerating and he was not going all out. Sweet lines and red/black interior are money/ Gorgeous car.
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07-21-2019, 04:23 PM #134
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07-21-2019, 04:30 PM #135
Let's not forget suddenly expensive gasoline.
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07-21-2019, 04:55 PM #136
All that, too. I also remember Sunoco 260 gasoline having 107 octane and going from $.35 to about $2/gal, having an even license plate, and only being able to get gas on Tues., Thurs. and Sat., or something like that.
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07-21-2019, 05:06 PM #137
Yeah. That happened. Right in the middle of me being cool with a little fucking ski boat that we had. We used to be able to drive that fucking 75 hp Mercury engine around all goddamn day fer like about five or six dollars which was easy enough to scrounge up between all the change in the pockets of about five or six people. The chicks were diggin its....
Then all the sudden gas went from about $.30 a gallon to about $1.15 a gallon. Fucking ruined all the good times. Seriously, The fucking gas stations couldn’t even handle it. None of the pumps were designed to sell gas for more than a dollar. So you had to fucking split things by 50%, and then pay double at the fucking cash register. What a goddamn pain in the ass.
The chicks were not impressed with our new found poverty levels.....
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07-21-2019, 05:17 PM #138
Anyone else remember that the pumps had rollers with numbers 1-9 X2 instead of digital readouts? And they were only capable of going up to 99 cents per gallon.. So, they set the price at half what it really was.. Say 55 cents for $1.10 per gallon then you paid double what the pump said..
Go that way really REALLY fast. If something gets in your way, TURN!
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07-21-2019, 05:19 PM #139
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07-21-2019, 06:29 PM #140
^ sewing circles aren't my thing Bunny.
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07-21-2019, 06:35 PM #141
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07-21-2019, 06:53 PM #142
dentists.
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07-21-2019, 07:28 PM #143Registered User
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Is it realistic that you can walk into a Chevy dealer and walk out with a mid engine, sub 3 second 0-60 car for $60k?
If that’s the case, fuck yeah - at a quick glance it looks like a Ferrari 488. This is a legit super car for the price of options on a Italian car.
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07-21-2019, 07:36 PM #144Registered User
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thats ^^ like saying spaghetti O's are pasta too
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Okay, the interior and build quality will be shit and it has the prestige of a Pontiac compared to Euro supercars but I can’t wait to see this thing on a track with the standard import super cars. And I’ll say again that it looks amazing.
And FWIW, I’m the dude who’s first lottery winning purchase will be a mid engine Ferrari.
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07-21-2019, 08:16 PM #146
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07-22-2019, 03:17 AM #148
gm REAR engine
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my Uncle had a Corvair fifty-five years ago --
my father totaled it on his way to the hospital(,) when
he came over a hill and found a tractor in the road...
( ... walked away. lived another Fifty years. . . )
Corvair
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07-22-2019, 03:36 AM #149
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07-22-2019, 05:35 AM #150AF
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Wonder what the used market for C7 is going to do? Kerbeck Chevy in Atlantic City is selling new LT-1 coupes for $44,800.
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