>snip
>> Time for me to go buy GPL :-)
>Better late than not at all... ;^)
I am reading most of the posts though and that is a step in
the right direction!
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Your "Yugo" monstrosity sounds a like the US (Or Yugoslav) equivalent of the
East German "Trabant"!!
> >I think the spelling is "Ugo" and the car has a 500cc engine,
> >Randy....something like the 1960s Fiat 500.
> Not in the US. It was Yugo. They had lots of Fiat parts, and I think
> the engine was something like 1.2 liters.
> Probably the worst car ever sold in the states, spawning all kinds of
> goofy jokes...
> How do you double the value of a Yugo?
> Fill the gas tank
> How do make a Yugo go 0-60 in 5 seconds?
> Drive it off a cliff
> Why do Yugo's come with heated bumpers?
> To keep your hands warm while you're pushing it.
> My dad's car-stupid neighbor bought one. This was when they were new,
> I guess around 86. I can remember hearing him try to start it on cold
> mornings. He'd just let it crank forever.
> I don't know if it was something he was doing or what, but it would
> always take about 5 minutes of cranking to start.
> Eventually, he started to thrash the shit out of the thing since he
> hated it so much.
> One rainy morning, he was giving it the usual thrashing, and lost
> control of it on a jughandle, and went off into a drainage basin.
> He came home with the car covered with mud and weeds, and a visible
> outward dent in the roof -made by his head when he flew out of the
> seat.
> When he told me about it, he said he was in a lot of pain, but when he
> pointed to the dent we both started laughing hysterically.
> It was like something out of a cartoon.
> It sat there a few days, covered with mud and weeds until the wrecker
> that left it came back to take it to it's final resting place.
> The guy has since moved out of my dads neighborhood, but I bet he had
> a big grin on his face when the Yugo factory was bombed into a pile of
> rubble a couple months ago.
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I've gotta see this. I'm only 40 minutes from Englishtown, and have
been going to the motocross races for years.
They're usually running cars the same day, and I can walk up to the MX
fence and see the finish line of the drag strip.
One of the MX races co-incides with a VW day almost every year, so I
get to see a lot of fast punch buggies, but I've NEVER seen a racing
Yugo. That must be hilarious.
Bet every guy that gets whipped by that quits racing altogether. ;-)
>I raced against one in a Solo ll tho he was basically a one run wonder, the
>car broke on its first run and never saw it again.
Better late than not at all... ;^)
l8er
ronny
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|\ _,,,---,,_ I want to die like my Grandfather,
ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ in his sleep.
|,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Not like the people in his car,
'---''(_/--' `-'\_) screaming their heads off!
I am looking forward to experiencing GPL with FF, and I hope it wins
me over fully, but as I said, while I like the FF effects in Viper
Racing, they weren't enough to make me a full-time FF wheel user.
-- JB
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>> With all due respect John! this Force Feedback will literally blow you away,
> I've gotta see this. I'm only 40 minutes from Englishtown, and have
> been going to the motocross races for years.
> They're usually running cars the same day, and I can walk up to the MX
> fence and see the finish line of the drag strip.
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My best mate's first car was a Wartburg (East German as well)... 3 cylinder,
two-stroke 860cc (I think) estate. You could soup it up to go like stink,
but you'd only get about 3000k's out of an engine. To it's credit, I think
we helped about 10 of our fellow students move with it.... I remember a
particularly surreal one involving a piano strapped to the roof which
actually bent the door struts.... we just hammered them back untill the
doors shut properly again. Great car... indestructable, but rudimentary as
hell. In the end he gave it away to a guy he knew from being involved in
scouting. I think it's still in use today.
Jan.
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> My best mate's first car was a Wartburg (East German as well)... 3
cylinder,
> two-stroke 860cc (I think) estate. You could soup it up to go like stink,
> but you'd only get about 3000k's out of an engine. To it's credit, I think
> we helped about 10 of our fellow students move with it.... I remember a
> particularly surreal one involving a piano strapped to the roof which
> actually bent the door struts.... we just hammered them back untill the
> doors shut properly again. Great car... indestructable, but rudimentary as
> hell. In the end he gave it away to a guy he knew from being involved in
> scouting. I think it's still in use today.
> Jan.
> ------
> >HAHAHHA!!!
> >Lovely story, Tim!!
> ><snip>
Our fraternity has some interesting souvernirs from our student era... road
signs, a Traby hood, a bycicle our bus ran over (parking accident), some
cement blocks, a ski, .... <g>
Jan.
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>> Hey... cut that out... you can't dent a Trabant, it's plastic.
>><snip>
Beam this Scottie down.... to reality.
Jan.
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Mark
> > Hey... cut that out... you can't dent a Trabant, it's plastic.
> > My best mate's first car was a Wartburg (East German as well)... 3
> cylinder,
> > two-stroke 860cc (I think) estate. You could soup it up to go like
stink,
> > but you'd only get about 3000k's out of an engine. To it's credit, I
think
> > we helped about 10 of our fellow students move with it.... I remember a
> > particularly surreal one involving a piano strapped to the roof which
> > actually bent the door struts.... we just hammered them back untill the
> > doors shut properly again. Great car... indestructable, but rudimentary
as
> > hell. In the end he gave it away to a guy he knew from being involved in
> > scouting. I think it's still in use today.
> > Jan.
> > ------
> > >HAHAHHA!!!
> > >Lovely story, Tim!!
> > ><snip>
> Our fraternity has some interesting souvernirs from our student era...
road
> signs, a Traby hood, a bycicle our bus ran over (parking accident), some
> cement blocks, a ski, .... <g>
> Jan.
> --------
> >I thought the Trabant bodywork was actually a form of paper mach?
> >> Hey... cut that out... you can't dent a Trabant, it's plastic.
> >><snip>
> Mark
> > I thought the Trabant bodywork was actually a form of paper mach?
> > > Hey... cut that out... you can't dent a Trabant, it's plastic.
> > > My best mate's first car was a Wartburg (East German as well)... 3
> > cylinder,
> > > two-stroke 860cc (I think) estate. You could soup it up to go like
> stink,
> > > but you'd only get about 3000k's out of an engine. To it's credit, I
> think
> > > we helped about 10 of our fellow students move with it.... I remember
a
> > > particularly surreal one involving a piano strapped to the roof which
> > > actually bent the door struts.... we just hammered them back untill
the
> > > doors shut properly again. Great car... indestructable, but
rudimentary
> as
> > > hell. In the end he gave it away to a guy he knew from being involved
in
> > > scouting. I think it's still in use today.
> > > Jan.
> > > ------
> > > >HAHAHHA!!!
> > > >Lovely story, Tim!!
> > > ><snip>
