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			<title><![CDATA[My New 91' AWD]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 20:54:41 GMT</pubDate>
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Don't mind the mess inside, I was swapping the stock ecu back in since I forgot that my link cable is at a buddies house. Paid $700 for the car. I thought that the alarm system was preventing it to crank since the PO said it was going on and off by itself a few days before it stopped cranking.<br />
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Turns out it that the ground on the starter had broken off from inside the clip. Swapped over my old starter from my fwd and voila! Running driving awd with 97k miles on the clock for $700 (~$900 after gas and trailer)<br />
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The body is VERY clean, with no rust anywhere that I can see. Vacuum gauge reads -20 but the PO said that the #1 cylinder only showed 110psi on a compression test. There's also a nice tapping noise coming from that area. I seafoamed it but as I figured it didn't help any. Aside from that everything seems to be working great. I've only put about 10 miles on it so far but it's boosting fine at 14psi. The windows work great (lol), CD player and radio work great too. Overall I couldn't be happier for the price I paid.</div>

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			<title>The Indiana Bar thread.</title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 05:05:29 GMT</pubDate>
			<description>Just wanting to know what everyones favorite bar is and why. 
 
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My home base is The Bank in Pendleton. Little hole in the wall place, only holds about 20 people. Awesome food, and dollar domestics every Tuesday and Thursday. Can't beat the bartenders there either.</div>

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			<title>Post Your Latest Purchase!</title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 19:52:47 GMT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[so ive seen this on alot of other forums and figured i'd start one here...just as the title says, post up pics of parts or stuff that you got for ur...]]></description>
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			<title>Bought this car a couple weeks ago</title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 19:21:58 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>350mph of awesomeness</title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 05 Sep 2010 17:08:36 GMT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[The Spectre Speedliner turned in some huge numbers at SCTA/BNI Bonneville Speed Week 2010. Company owner and 'liner driver Amir Rosenbaum does a...]]></description>
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Pay attention the steering inputs and tight operating quarters inside the car. Driving at Bonneville is NOT about standing on the throttle and keeping the wheel straight. There is a bunch of stuff happening in the cockpit. <br />
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			<title>Why the Stig outed himself</title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 05 Sep 2010 15:12:28 GMT</pubDate>
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The Stig, as we're all now aware, is portrayed by talented wheelman Ben Collins. Stiggie, like the three Top Gear presenters, is beloved by fans around the globe. It's hard to attend a motorsports event without someone claiming to be a fat relative of the white-suited power lap maestro. What would persuade Mr. Collins to give up his clandestine position behind the visor? According to The Daily Mail, it all comes down to money.<br />
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Ben Collins' company, Collins AutoSport, has reportedly racked up over $1.5 million dollars in losses over the last five years. He has a wife, three young kids and three other business ventures to support. The other members of Top Gear command handsome sums (rightfully so) and perhaps Collins felt he deserved a larger slice of the BBC cash cake. Removing the helmet allows him to cash in on what's sure to be a substantial number of opportunities. He recently received an advance of close to $400,000 to begin work on his autobiography and there's already talk of a Ben Collins TV Show. <br />
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Is breaking the trust of his Top Gear brethren worth the potential financial windfall? In the eyes of many fans, it might not be, yet we imagine Collins' autobiography will be a page-turner. To Collins and his family, however, this bold move might be the fast lap to fiscal freedom.</div>

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			<title>Why Stealing a Racecar Is Really Stupid</title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:10:30 GMT</pubDate>
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Matt Stanford parked his Mustang drag racer behind Varsity Ford in Ann Arbor, Mich., where a thief managed to snatch it. Cops reunited it with its rightful owner a day later. Here's why you don't steal race cars.<br />
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Stealing cars is right up there with strangling puppies and drowning kittens as far as we're concerned. As property crimes go, it's perpetrated by the lowest of the low and the ultimate form of &quot;messing with someone else's car,&quot; a cardinal sin 'round these parts. That said, there are clever ways to steal a car. Stealing something generic, easy to strip and sell for parts because it's very plentiful is the smart theft. That's why Camrys and Accords are always at the top of the most stolen list. A custom-built race car meets none of these requirements. It's probably the dumbest possible car you can steal.<br />
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When Matt Stanford was on his way home from Milan Dragway, he decided to stash his cherry 1991 Mustang notchback drag racer in the locked and guarded service lot at Varsity Ford in Ann Arbor, a dealership he works at and his family owns. Nothing had ever been stolen from that lot, until Saturday.<br />
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Sometime under the cover of darkness, a 26-year-old man whose name has not been made public by authorities cut the chain, opened the gate, drove in with a pickup, hooked up the trailer and drove away. It wasn't until the morning guard did the rounds and found a missing link of chain that anyone was suspicious. Turns out the night watchman found the door open and relocked the gate; he's looking for alternate employment now.<br />
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A lot of questions haven't been answered yet, including how the thief knew it would be there. Sunday morning Matt went to pick up his 'Stang for a charity car show only to find it gone. He filed a report with the Ann Arbor police and then did what any other American might: Alert the internet.<br />
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He hopped on the <i><a href="http://motownmuscle.com/forums/showthread.php31844-Be-on-the-LookOut...............Matt-s-Car-(91TUNK)-was-stolen-Last-nite............." target="_blank">Motown Muscle</a></i> forum and laid out the details, posted his most recent picture of the car and hoped for the best. Matt's a moderator over there, so the community spread the world like wildfire.<br />
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<i>Facebook, Streetfire, Toledo Tuners, CamaroZ28, Mustang Corral, Stangnet, Mustang Forums, Yellowbullet</i> and more got blanketed with the digital APB. Pretty much anyone into cars within five hundred miles knew within hours to be on the lookout.<br />
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And this is reason number one why stealing a race car is stupid. People are passionate about cars and their friends' cars. When something like this happens, thousands of eyes will be looking for it. And when it's a totally distinctive-looking car, the odds are stacked even higher against the thief.<br />
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Reason number two: Most of the time, race cars are not street legal. They usually have straight exhausts that are too loud, slick tires, missing mirrors and lights and all kinds of track tools. The Mustang thief behind this crime decided none of that mattered and took his girlfriend out to dinner in it the very next day. He did attempt to conceal the car's true nature by swapping license plates with his Jeep.<br />
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After joyriding his newly-stolen car, the thief decided it needed a car wash. As he was polishing his ill-gotten gains, a Brighton, MIch., police officer noticed the car's slick tires and decided to run the plates. After it came back registered to a Jeep, he questioned the fellow, who offered an unconvincing excuse. The officer ran the VIN and discovered the Mustang's provenance; the suspect confessed, and is now sitting in a Livingston County jail awaiting arraignment.<br />
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At 3 A.M. Monday morning Matt got the call saying his car had been recovered, no worse for the wear and slightly cleaner. Matt tells us he's just happy to have it back in one piece.<br />
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Two things stick out about the story. We have to wonder what the thief imagined would happen to a car he stole from just 20 miles away. Would nobody notice him driving around a car built custom through and through, capable of running mid-10s in the quarter mile? Did he think such a well-built car wouldn't get noticed by people who had seen it run? Helped build it? And how do you even profit off such a car? You'd have a whole community watching out for Craigslist sales and eBay auctions of the car's parts. These are questions we can't answer, but just some of the reasons it's really dumb to steal a race car.<br />
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Given the passion the <i>Motown Muscle</i> community put into trying to find the car, we're thinking the crook here better be happy the cops found him first.</div>

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			<title>1974 Nissan S30 Fairlady Z - Domestic But Built With Import Style</title>
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From the October, 2010 issue of Import Tuner<br />
By Luke Munnell<br />
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If you're doing what we did when we first saw this car-lusting over its flared dimensions, monster wheels, big engine swap, and ridiculously clean overall finish-we're going to let you in on a stomach-churning, identity-questioning revelation: You're at least a little bit into muscle cars. Domestic muscle cars. But it's OK! This is 2010, and the automotive world has a place for enthusiasts of every orientation. Diehard import guy though you may be, there's no reason to hide the curiosity you might feel at the sight of a buff hot rod. Your mom won't be disappointed, and your dad may actually be a little proud. After all, there are worse situations to be in. You could be Japanese, living in Japan, and have to explain to your family your love of (gasp) imports!<br />
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Imagine, for a moment, that you grew up in Mei prefecture, Japan-just outside the city of Iga, better known as &quot;the sticks&quot;. Cut off from other major cities by sprawling voids of mountain terrain and countryside, miles away from Osaka's laid-back lifestyle and Tokyo's cybernized network of progressive thought. For perspective, picture our Deep South compared to L.A. or NYC. Add in that you were raised by a family of gearheads, whose affinity for classic Japanese steel runs as pure and deep as their undying national pride. The day you opened your first tuning shop undoubtedly drew great respect from your family; chalk up another mark for those who taught you to appreciate where you came from. It's probably a safe bet that your old man passed the time dreaming vicariously of all the vintage KPGC10 Skylines, RX-2s and 3s, Bluebirds, and Celicas that would bear the family name, restored to how they looked winning the Japanese Grand Prix, IMSA, Fuji 500, SCCA B Sedan Champs, and WRC, respectively. Now imagine what went through his head when you told him you wanted to build American mini-trucks, off-road rigs and pro-touring USDM hot rods, and that any &quot;domestic&quot; projects you may undertake would probably be built in that tradition. Shame, dishonor, disgust-the emotion here is roughly the same as that felt by any gearhead dad from the South, upon hearing of his son's plans to &quot;supe-up mom's Civic.&quot;<br />
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The name &quot;Common Snapper&quot; may seem strange for a Japanese tuning shop, and to tell you the truth, we have no idea what it's supposed to mean. It's the name Noriaki Miyamoto gave his shop when he opened its doors decades ago, and what we do know is that American muscle cars, hot rods, and trucks are his specialty. Search the name on Youtube, and aside from all the turtle videos with 11 views each, you'll find a rough-idling Chevy Impala or two, some Bosozoku rides sliding around what appears to be a go-kart track, and this '74 Nissan Fairlady Z. Noriaki-san had a hand in all those creations. About this particular one, he only offered, &quot;American custom, racing car style, hot rod-I wanted to mix all the essence in one car.&quot; <br />
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But that's not to say Noriaki-san strayed too far from the traditional path in modifying this Z. American pro-touring cars share a lot more with modified Japanese rides than many of us might like to admit. After all, thanks to the principle of parts interchangeability adopted from American automotive assembly lines, the first-generation S30 Fairlady hit Japanese showrooms complete with an L20-stamped, 130ps adaptation of the Datsun 510's SOHC inline-six, components of the Laurel C30's MacPherson suspension, the R180 differential of the KPGC10 Skyline, and potential for more backdoor upgrades courtesy of larger Nissan/Datsun platforms. Factory-backed U.S. drag racers were among the first to experiment with parts interchangeability for performance, and as they did, American O.E.s began offering more aggressive optional upgrades. Beginning in 1964, Oldsmobile offered its Cutlass in a trim dubbed &quot;442&quot; for the four-barrel carbs, four-speed transmission, and dual exhaust fitted to the Rocket V-8 stuffed in its engine bay, snagged from the larger Olds 88/98. The package also included upgrades from elsewhere in the parts bin, but once legislation from parent company GM put an end to Olds' factory-backed racing support, the <a href="http://www.importtuner.com/features/impp_1010_1974_nissan_s30_fairlady_z/datsun_platform.html#" target="_blank">new car</a> was marketed to street enthusiasts. A decade later, in an effort to build support for racers of Nissan machines, dealer-direct versions of the Fairlady were produced in Japan in small batches homologated as the &quot;ZG&quot;-with an extended &quot;aero-dyna&quot; nose (commonly known as the &quot;G-nose&quot;), fender flares, acrylic headlight covers, and fender-mounted side mirrors-and later as the &quot;432&quot; and &quot;432R&quot;, for the four-valve-per-cylinder, triple-carb, DOHC S20 inline-six it borrowed from the C10 Skyline 2000 GT-R. Removed carpeting, sound-deadening and heat; a fiberglass hood, transmission tunnel and body panels; lightweight doors; Lexan side and rear windows; bucket seats; four-point racing harnesses; a duckbill spoiler; and a choice of gearing also came standard. Interestingly enough, Japanese highway police were among the first buyers of the Nissan Z432, just as U.S. highway cops bought up the first Olds 442s a decade earlier. After learning this bit of history, it seems that if any car perfectly exemplifies the breadth of each country's automotive enthusiasm, including their push into the modern day, it's Noriaki-san's Fairlady.<br />
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Let's cut the suspense-yes, that is an RB26DETT under this Z's hood, taken from an R34 GT-R, mated to an RB25DET's native five-speed transmission from a RWD R33 GT-S, and upgraded only slightly. &quot;I wanted to keep a proper engine,&quot; Noriaki-san said, regarding the choice to stay with a Nissan inline-six. &quot;But I wanted to make the car with comfort.&quot; Engine internals are stock, as are the factory twin Garrett T25s, but the harmonic instability inherent in the RB26's rotating assembly has been corrected with some Common Snapper machine work to the crankshaft, and the cylinder head was ported and polished in-house and fitted with Tomei cams and valve springs, and Naprec valves. The car's differential has been upgraded to the ubiquitous R200 unit, and surprisingly, all this drivetrain retrofitting was accomplished with the stock S30 front and rear subframes-evidence of the far-reaching history of Nissan's RB line and Fairlady/Skyline commonalities. <br />
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Like SCCA- and SCCJ-winning Nissan S30s of the late '70s, Noriaki-san's utilizes FRP ZG-style flares and a BRE front air dam, complete with provisions for brake cooling ducts. But more in tune with American pro-touring cars, it rolls on comparatively large alloys-in this case, 18x8.5 and 10.5 -17mm offset SSR MS1s-even though cambered a bit and covered by stretched Japanese rubber in the Bosozoku tradition. Noriaki-san also shaved the hood handles and locks, badges, front and rear bumper uprights, and antenna, and sprang for the USDM 240Z's mirror-less front fenders for that ultra-clean look of &quot;import&quot; mini-trucks. He also did away with the grille-who needs one when you've got a massive HKS front-mount that looks better than any faux billet piece? Inside, things are even more eclectic. An R33 GT-R dash, center console, and seats were fitted in the old-school Z, while sharing space with Simpson four-point harnesses and a Fuel Safe racing cell (an homage to U.S. Z racers like Bob Sharp, Bob Bondurant, and Peter Brock? See sidebar). Kicker audio components were throw in for, um, kicks.<br />
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Like any true performance builder, Noriaki-san relied simply on what works in keeping this creation planted: 12kg/mm springs and Bilstein dampers front and rear, Cusco front and rear strut bars, Project Mu brake pads and fluid, and for a little more parts interchangeability, Z31 front spindles, hubs, and rotors. Final power numbers weren't disclosed-an unstated Japanese custom-but with its Greddy Profec-B keeping boost at full potential and Tomei Reytec ECU controlling its full Sard fuel system, we'd estimate output at right around 400 whp and 350 lb-ft of torque. <br />
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<img src="http://image.importtuner.com/f/33928542+w750+st0/impp_1010_07_o+1974_nissan_fairlady_z+nismo_shift_knob.jpg" border="0" alt="" />Mixing in elements of his passion for the roots of American muscle cars, the contemporary styling and performance of mini-trucks and pro-touring machines, along with more than a bit of Japan's own automotive production/competition heritage, Noriaki-san has taken seemingly misguided ambition and succeeded in creating a functional, comfortable machine at which enthusiasts from every corner of the automotive world would be hard-pressed not to crack a smile. There's a good chance the hypothetical introduction of this story couldn't be further from Noriaki-san's true life. But in the event that we were spot on with it, we're sure even his dad would be proud of this Fairlady.<br />
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<b>Behind The Build</b><br />
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<b>Name.</b><br />
Noriaki Miyamoto <br />
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<b>Age.</b><br />
Old school<br />
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<b>Hometown.</b><br />
Iga, Mei prefecture, Japan<br />
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<b>Occupation.</b><br />
Performance tuning, fabricating, body work<br />
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<b>Build time.</b><br />
Three Years<br />
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<b>Feedback.</b><br />
<a href="http://www.commonsnapper.com" target="_blank">www.commonsnapper.com</a><br />
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<b>Hobbies.</b><br />
Import trucks, lowriders<br />
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<b>Quote.</b><br />
&quot;I like turtles.&quot;<br />
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</div><b>'74 Nissan S30 Fairlady Z</b><br />
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<b>Output:</b> 375 whp; 325 lb-ft of torque (est) <br />
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<b>Engine</b> 2.6L RB26DETT engine; Common Snapper tuning, cylinder head porting/polishing, balanced rotating assembly, radiator diffuser, polished valve cover, spark plug cover, hard lines, silicone vacuum lines, oil catch can, full stainless 90mm exhaust; Tomei cams, valve springs; Naprec valves; Sard fuel pressure regulator; Bosch fuel pump; Greddy fuel rail, oil pan, oil filler cap, boost controller, radiator, overflow reservoir, modified intercooler piping, couplers; Samco hoses, couplers; Tomei turbo manifold, Reytec ECU; NGK plugs; HKS blow-off valve, modified front-mount intercooler, modified piping<br />
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<b>Drivetrain </b>R33 RB25DET transmission; R200 3.9:1 LSD rear differential; OS Giken STR2 twin-plate clutch, flywheel<br />
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<b>Suspension</b> Bilstein dampers; 12kg/mm springs; Common Snapper rear lower control arms; Cusco front and rear strut tower bars; Z31 front spindles, hubs<br />
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<b>Wheels/tires</b> SSR MS1 wheels (18x8.5 front, 18x10.5 rear, -17mm offset); Yokohama Advan A048 tires (225/40-18 front, 255/40-18 rear)<br />
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<b>Brakes</b> R31 front and rear brake conversion; Endless brake pads; custom stainless steel braided brake lines; Motul brake fluid<br />
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<b>Exterior</b> LED taillights; USDM 240SX front fenders; custom-relocated small side markers; shaved door handles, locks, badging, antenna, bumper uprights; ZG-style FRP fender flares; vented BRE front air dam; Mystery Sportbike carbon fiber side mirrors; Common Snapper Super Pearl White paint<br />
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<b>Interior</b> R33 front seats, dashboard, center console; Simpson four-point racing harnesses; Nismo shift knob, white gauge faces; custom upholstered door panels; Fuel Safe ED115-A racing cell; custom fuel line plumbing<br />
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<b>Electronics</b> Alpine head unit; Kicker ZX650.4 amplifier, speakers<br />
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<b>The Birth of the Scene</b><br />
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<b>Love import car culture? Thank these guys.<br />
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In the worlds of autocross, club racing, and professional circuit competition, the dynamics of Japan's smaller and lighter platforms have proven tough to beat. Just ask the American SCCA racers Nissan first hooked up in the late '60s and early '70s, whose winning rides were among the first to usher in a new age of vehicle modification.<br />
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By the time Peter Brock founded Brock Racing Enterprises (BRE) in 1966, he had already put in work as a General Motors designer (the Cobra Daytona Coupe was his) and chief driving instructor at famed Ford tuner Carroll Shelby's self-titled school in Riverside, CA. Despite heavy domestic ties, Brock earned BRE its first big win later that year with two Japanese Hino Coupes he and a teammate drove to First- and Second-place finishes in a Times-Mirror event at Riverside Raceway, in front of a six-figure crowd. His performance caught the eye of Nissan North America president Yutaka &quot;Mr. K&quot; Katayama, who partnered Datsun with BRE so Brock could take out Toyota's 2000GT with a pair of modified Nissan 2000 roadsters in their first race. With the help of ace driver John Morton, tuned BRE Datsun Zs and 510s would go on to oust other Toyotas, Porsches, BMWs, and literally every other SCCA class competitor by the late '70s, at which point no one would race against them.<br />
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On the East Coast, it was Bob Sharp who no one could topple. After some successful years racing Bugeye Sprites and Lotus kit cars in the SCCA, Sharp picked up a Datsun sponsorship courtesy of East Coast Nissan frontman Mr. Kawasoe, and would continue winning in modified Datsun 1600s and 2000s. Bob Sharp Racing (BSR) became the first team to compete a 240Z in early 1970, when Mr. Kawasoe contributed a damaged New York Auto Show model to the team off the books. It was a risky move, but one that paid off-Sharp himself would go on to win division titles in 1970 and '71, and production champs in '72, '73, and '75 in the 240Z, alongside his and other BSR racers' wins in Datsun 510s. Actor Paul Newman even joined BSR ranks in 1977 and won six of eight races entered in 1979 from behind the wheel of a tuned 280ZX. Newman would become the Northeast champion that year and go on to take the C Production national title.<br />
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SoCal ex-Formula 1/Le Mans/NASCAR racer Bob Bondurant gets the nod for having taught Newman, at his world-renowned School of High Performance Driving then in Ontario, CA (now in Phoenix, AZ), beginning in 1972 as Newman researched his role for Winning. Another Carroll Shelby alum, Bondurant opened his school in 1968 in Irvine, CA, with two Datsun 240Zs and a 510 contributed by Mr. K himself (the Z pictured here was modified by BRE). Ford and General Motors have subsequently supported Bondurant's school into the modern day, but at a meeting with Mr. K. in 1995, the racing legend is quoted as saying, 'What I am today, I owe entirely to Mr. K.'</div>

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			<description>saw this on another forum, get it done mike :) 
  
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			<description>The security guard who rose to Internet fame for hooning a Corvette ZR1 on camera...</description>
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As you can see in the video above, a security guard at the Dallas Auto Auction in Dallas, Texas rips on a $110,000 <font color="#303030">Corvette ZR1</font> in his care, including a few gravely slides. The video of him having too much fun with the car was uploaded to YouTube and shared widely around the 'Vette community before we posted it.<br />
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As we reported, the car belongs to the Woodhouse Jeep, Chrysler, Dodge auto dealership outside Omaha, Nebraska. Steve Karaus, an employee of the dealership, was not pleased when he saw the video on <i>Jalopnik</i> and was quick to charge into and deal with the situation.<br />
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&quot;This is NOT in ANY way how cars are treated by Woodhouse employees,&quot; Karaus told us via email. &quot;I will be personally handling this matter with the auction house in the morning.&quot;<br />
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Karaus claims the car's already been sold and shipped out of the U.S., but he went on to further describe what's about to happen to the as-of-yet unnamed security guard.<blockquote>That car was inside at that auction and that is a security guard that abused his former job by getting it out and doing that to a car that he does NOT own in anyway. Also we WILL be pressing charges with the Dallas police in the morning for taking the car WITHOUT ANY permission from us in anyway and also for the way it was treated.<br />
</blockquote>Although we're constantly trying to come up with a way to <font color="#756357">drive a ZR1 again</font>, we're starting to believe this way isn't worth it.<br />
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&quot;It wasn't a great way to find out but I'm glad we did. My owners have a zero tolerance policy about treating our cars that way. We are the <font color="#756357">#1</font> Viper dealer in the country and that is where that car came from,&quot; said Karaus. &quot;I guess luckily for us that kid is NOT very smart.&quot;<br />
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Not very smart, indeed, as the security guard in question, who goes by the YouTube username <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/jin69ohyeah" target="_blank"><font color="#756357">jin69ohyeah</font></a>, removed his copy of the video, but then posted a comment on a repost of <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYlWWazbsDk" target="_blank"><font color="#756357">the same video</font></a> admitting he did it.<br />
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			<description><![CDATA[Some say he's Ben sacked! BBC reportedly fires The Stig (http://www.autoblog.com/2010/08/29/some-say-hes-ben-sacked-bbc-reportedly-fires-the-stig/) 
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<font color="black">We saw this one coming; the BBC has apparently sacked The Stig. Britain's <i>Daily Mirror</i> tabloid reports that the Stig, a.k.a. Ben Collins, has been let go and that a new Stig has already replaced him on <i>Top Gear</i>. In fact, the <i>Mirror</i> says it already have pics of the new Stig at a Nürburgring track event, wearing the signature white coveralls and smoked visor helmet. How does the paper know it's not Collins in the photos? Simple: it had another photographer at Ben's house – 1,100 miles away – watching Collins play with his children at the same time.<br />
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The firing of the Stig comes a week after a battle erupted over Collins' autobiography, slated for release in September. Details about the Stig's true identity have been trickling out for some time, including the recent discovery that Collins Auto-Sport, a company owned and operated by Ben Collins, claimed income from &quot;driving services for the BBC, mainly in the Top Gear programme.&quot; <br />
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Of course, this could still just be speculation, and TG may have hired another driver just for that one track event. If Collins has indeed been canned and the show follows form, a segment will be filmed showing the demise of the white Stig and the appearance of his replacement. At least that's what they did when the original black-clad Stig, Perry McCarthy, left the show. Wonder what colors the new Stig will fly...</font></div>

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			<description>Anyone know where I can get these products local? Any reviews on them also? Thx</description>
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An attendee at this year's QuakeCon gaming festival in Dallas sold one of the 100 raffle tickets for a $48,645 Shelby GT500 for just $200. Moments later they drew it as the winning ticket. Video with predictably NSFW language<br />
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While the guy who sold this ticket is clearly not a great mathmatician, it's hard not to give him a tiny bit of respect for being extremely honest about the entire venture. More respect goes to the guy who succesfully purchased said ticket for $200 and thus gotta new Shelby for roughly the cost of a rusty GLHI with no motor or wheels.</div>

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Ford Racing's announced a 2.3-liter supercharger kit for the 2011 Mustang 5.0-liter V8, which makes a staggering 624-hp and 536 lb-ft of torque. Cost? $7,499. Sorta makes the $18,000 supercharged 550-hp Shelby GT500 option seem overpriced.</div>

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			<description>Looking to bring the 240 home. 
  
With it being in Muncie, the little things that have been left have taken weeks since I usually dont have many...</description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>Looking to bring the 240 home.<br />
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With it being in Muncie, the little things that have been left have taken weeks since I usually dont have many days off.<br />
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I have a truck to tow with ('11 Dodge Ram), but dont have a trailer and would RATHER lol, not go pay the like 75-80 to use one at UHaul. <br />
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Id be looking for the next few days Monday at the latest. After that Ill just man up and pay the money and take the trip to UHaul.<br />
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Thanks, <br />
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If you do have one I could borrow, give me a call/text @ 317 224 3695. Or PM me... If dont answer please leave a vmail since Im probably at work haha. <br />
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