You know I re-read this.... and you kinda made yourself look like a dick.
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Let me clarify- rotary. Like I told my dad countless times, if I wanted a Mustang I would've bought a Mustang.
Its still kind of hard to compare the two... Glidden has his whole life dedicated to racing, for as long as his father was a little Glidden ..Im shure Pappas could teach Glidden a few things about a construction business ....Glidden has probabally 50x the amount of passes than Spiro... Im not bashing Glidden at all, Thats where experience pays off...Kind of funny how people bash Spiro...Why ??? Shure hes aan ass but If I had that money I probabally would too..... He still has the fastest single Turbo car ...
I remember in 1994 Danny Scott won the Hot Rod fastest street car with a 7.70 wih a 648 2 Dominators and a fogger with 15x33s... Now cars with 400 inch Nitrous Motors and 300 Inch Turbo cars with 10inch tires go that fast
Very well put Jim and Chip...
With that said, sometimes people suffer from an affliction called envy. They make it seem like it's a crime to work hard, make some money and then spend it. Several of us older guys deal with this all the time. When I was younger, I'd build cars out of junkyard parts. Back in the 70's, I took a wrecked GTO I found at Calumet auto salvage and stuck the driveline into a Tempest. Showed up at Tower with it and caught a lot of people off-guard. Beat up on guys who had "rich parents" and had cars bought for them, while I washed dishes and delivered pizzas to earn my "mods money"
I've built plenty of "cheap and fast" cars all by myself. To which I say "So what?"
I've worked hard all my life and now that I'm pushing 50, I really don't care if I "bought horsepower". Fast is fast people. I've heard people take shots at others about "anybody can buy horsepower" or "He paid somebody to build that car" (as if this somehow invalidates the horsepower or the car)
I've seen people put signatures like "If you didn't build it, it's not yours" :rolleyes:
I have a fast Cobra that I've done a lot of work on by myself. I have a fast Shelby that I went out and bought. I have news for you: The facts is, I like driving the Shelby a LOT more and really makes no difference to me that I "bought the horsepower" :shades
Prosperity is not a crime folks. Envy's a rather ugly trait though...
I'm content with what I have(for now.) Nothing wrong with competition, in fact, it's the driving force in this hobby it's just most people I talk to would rather put you down for not having what they have which isn't cool. But then again that's their business and not mine. BTW sick s10 in your avatar.
Ahahahah. This thread is awesome.
Wanna know the best part about cars? You have options.
Fast Cheap Reliable. Pick two.
Yeah back in the mid 90's my 79' malibu mid 12sec was pretty damn fast...
I am so fucking sick and tired of people ripping on other people for what they do and don't have. Fuck those assholes. And you're right it's not cool at all.
90% of the people that are being assholes that way, couldn't fight their way outta wet paper bag! The next time you get some shit from someone, politely extend an invitation to the business end of your knuckles....
I will say this 99.9% of the really fast cars here are actually owned by nice guys! You might get ribbed a little but it is usually innocent in nature.
Thanks! It isn't anything special, other than the fact that it is mine, and for the most part (lol!) I enjoy it most of the time. :rolf
Nothing wrong with a little ribbin':thumbsup. There are a lot of cars i'd consider fast on this site and so far i've really enjoyed my stay here. I guess with any hobby (or really anything in life) there are people your just going to like and some your just not going to see eye to eye with and i hear ya on the s10, i feel the same way about mine.