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Old Mar 13, 2003 | 12:07 PM
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After 3 years and a few mistakes the car is finaly coming together.
Hope to have the body in the paint shop by end of month. :cool:
here are a few pictures.
I have also updated the web site.
One other thing I hade G-force/Long lower the shifter and rebend the linkage.







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Old Mar 13, 2003 | 02:51 PM
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Holy smokes!!!!! You got enough tubing in that frame? Looks like a metal spider web, but I guess you will need all that strength for 1010 HP.
Way cool project :cool:
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Old Mar 13, 2003 | 03:02 PM
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:party:
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Old Mar 13, 2003 | 03:27 PM
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I love the fact that you are street focused with that thing. I can just imagine a pimped out Civic pulling up next to you - I bet the driver would be scared to even look at you and their pimp ride would seem like a matchbox car.
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Old Mar 13, 2003 | 05:06 PM
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I always thought rice cars were pimpmobiles. :jester :party:
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Old Mar 13, 2003 | 06:14 PM
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More accurate to call them "pimplemobiles".
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