Speed Racer C3?
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Drifting
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I do like customs as long as they are tastefully done and purpose built. Like this one.
As long as it has the mark 5 markings on it, I would say, yes its a cool car. Take off the mark 5 markings and it is just another ugly over the top Corvette.
As long as it has the mark 5 markings on it, I would say, yes its a cool car. Take off the mark 5 markings and it is just another ugly over the top Corvette.
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Is my vette stock?? HAHA
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If you guys are in your 50's you'd know what this is. It the Speed Racer Mach 5 not a corvette. It has pogo stick jumpiing abilities, tank tread traction that comes outof the tire to wrap around the tire andspikes that come out too. It can turn into a submarine, has fold out wings to give it a glide ratio, a drone, oil slicks and I think center tire shredders like 007's DB5. It was the coolest cartoon car of the 70's. And Speed had a chimpanzee as a pet that dressed like his younger brother.
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Hah I watched Speed Racer every day after school in the 70's.
..And just then it dawned on me why I want to mod out everything I touch...
That little bastard monkey brain washed me when I was a kid!
Someone should buy all these crazy one off project C3's and open a museum!
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..And just then it dawned on me why I want to mod out everything I touch...
That little bastard monkey brain washed me when I was a kid!
Someone should buy all these crazy one off project C3's and open a museum!
Speed Racer Wiki
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The mark 5 was nothing but a totally made up cartoon car not based on anything as far as I know. I'm sure most folks already know that. But, the body lines of a C3 do lend themselves to a sort of mark 5 look. Which is why most mark5 clones I have ever seen were built from C3s.
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The mark 5 was nothing but a totally made up cartoon car not based on anything as far as I know. I'm sure most folks already know that. But, the body lines of a C3 do lend themselves to a sort of mark 5 look. Which is why most mark5 clones I have ever seen were built from C3s.
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The mark 5 was nothing but a totally made up cartoon car not based on anything as far as I know. I'm sure most folks already know that. But, the body lines of a C3 do lend themselves to a sort of mark 5 look. Which is why most mark5 clones I have ever seen were built from C3s.
I always thought that if I bought a white C3 I would have vynil graphics cut like that... just for fun.
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Chim Chim!!!!!
Is my vette stock?? HAHA
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I think my 68 is 16 feet so guessing I would say 20 feet. If you measure your door then scale it down to the photo we could be fairly accurate.
