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Old Jan 2, 2006 | 07:32 PM
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Old Jan 2, 2006 | 07:38 PM
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Looks like nice work. Too bad it was to make a bastard child.
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Old Jan 2, 2006 | 07:39 PM
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That's almost as bad as those C1/C2 conversions!
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Old Jan 2, 2006 | 07:55 PM
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Old Jan 2, 2006 | 07:57 PM
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Old Jan 2, 2006 | 07:59 PM
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Looks like nice work. Too bad it was to make a bastard child.
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Old Jan 2, 2006 | 08:08 PM
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Need to see that in person, not sure of the quality, it would get alot of stares going down the road but than so did the elephant man.
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the side view looks like a first generation rx7
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Old Jan 2, 2006 | 08:30 PM
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Ruined a good C4!
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Old Jan 2, 2006 | 08:47 PM
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Old Jan 2, 2006 | 08:56 PM
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Yikes.
My thoughts exactly.
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Old Jan 2, 2006 | 09:07 PM
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Old Jan 2, 2006 | 09:11 PM
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Genetic engineering gone real bad.
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Old Jan 2, 2006 | 09:16 PM
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`What a LOT of work for.....? Just buy a nice used C5...it would have been a lot less painful.
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Old Jan 2, 2006 | 09:34 PM
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Call the that is
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Old Jan 2, 2006 | 09:56 PM
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Looks like nice work. Too bad it was to make a bastard child.
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Old Jan 2, 2006 | 11:45 PM
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It makes no sense to take one generation of car and turn it into another. It would have been wiser to take a C4 and just drop an LS1 under the hood and have a bit more fun that way.
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