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Old 10-08-2012, 10:58 PM
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A while back there was a thread on naming race cars. Crusher, Second Chance Roadster, etc.

It struck me that this a huge branding opportunity that is good for the car, good for the sponsors, good for the driver, etc. and very effective for getting high ranks on search engine results.

In that vein, meet ThorVette....


Old 10-09-2012, 12:06 AM
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I'm digging the scheme.
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Good name but what exactly makes it thor? I had an idea to make my license plate say thunder and hav an epic pic of thor with women graveling at his feet painted on the hood. That would be a thor vette... yours looks more like amerivette. Put big bird on the front on you will have th same notoriety and it would be hillarious people looking in their rear view seeing a big goofy big bird looking back at them.
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Originally Posted by rithsleeper
Good name but what exactly makes it thor? .
that is part of his name
and not many can see it in the rearview
Old 10-09-2012, 11:59 AM
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Originally Posted by rithsleeper
Good name but what exactly makes it thor?
Because most of the time it looks like someone took a hammer to it.


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Nice i get it now awesome looking car
Old 10-09-2012, 01:12 PM
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Jason, et al. I can always count on you guys for a lot of loving.
Old 10-09-2012, 01:33 PM
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Oli, they're right. You'd be faster, especially at RA, if you cleaned up all that nose damage, aligned the body panels so there aren't big *** gaps, etc.

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Sorry to the OP but that there is funny!

Originally Posted by RX7 KLR
Because most of the time it looks like someone took a hammer to it.

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Originally Posted by YYZ06
Sorry to the OP but that there is funny!

Jason always gives me crap. He is just jealous because the only way to make his car faster is to push it out of a C130. On second thought, with hi Coefficient of Drag that might not be true.

He is also jealous of my gold chains.
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Originally Posted by Olitho
Jason always gives me crap. He is just jealous because the only way to make his car faster is to push it out of a C130. On second thought, with hi Coefficient of Drag that might not be true.

He is also jealous of my gold chains.
Pretty sure both our cars come in at .29Cd. It has to be the extra 300hp, and gold chains.

But you did fair better than us at the Runoffs when it comes to damage... We took five cars with us, four of which came back needing attention. One of them was so far gone it just went to the crusher.
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Originally Posted by RX7 KLR
But you did fair better than us at the Runoffs when it comes to damage... We took five cars with us, four of which came back needing attention. One of them was so far gone it just went to the crusher.

Ouch!

I did not know that. I got lucky with the Sloe, Aquilante, ThorVette encounter at Canada Corner. I will post the in-car video soon. Sloe and Joe managed a potentially bad situation that could have put us all in the kitty litter.

Oli

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