rec.autos.simulators

Best damn game ever made, best damn sim ever made....best money I have
spent on a sim. Yea yea yea I know its been said before but it
deserves to be said again.

Now will someone hurry the hell up and release the GPL to Nascar 4
track converter so that I can drive a big ass honking Chevy around
that mountain course. To me thats the true essence of what stock car
racing should be like...emulating in a true fashion running from the
Feds in a big ass car thru tight mountain roads. Moonshine whiskey
strapped in the trunk, 700hp under the hood and a tight mountain road
ahead. Thats where the real stock car racers came from...big ass balls
of steel.

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Pierre PAPA DOC Legrand
Flanker Target
Grand Prix Legends Crash Test Dummy
Rants, Bullshit and Help Guides availible at
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Let me tell the story, I can tell it all,
about a mountain boy who ran illegal ***.
His daddy made the whiskey, his son he drove the load,
and when his engine roared they called the highway Thunder Road.

Bobby Mitchum, "pop music star", had a hit with that song.

Go figure.

KFG

.....kind of a catchy little tuna!

Tom

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Just in case it wasnt obvious

Pierre PAPA DOC Legrand
Flanker Target
Grand Prix Legends Crash Test Dummy
Rants, Bullshit and Help Guides availible at
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Arrgh! Now I can't that damn Beverly Hillbillies tune out of my head! This
is some kinda insidious virus-by-suggestion, isn't it?

Catchy tho (strums banjo)

Dav_Erb

PD, you'd enjoy traveling some of the old US and state roads in my neck of
the woods here in East Tennessee where some of the history you're talking
about was made.  Some of them are almost too damned scary to walk, much less
drive.  And I've pretty much grown up with the lore surrounding "running
likker".  Heh, they pulled a 300 gallon still down out of the woods behind
the school when I was in fourth grade and let us out early so we could go
out and look at it.  Of course, there was probably a bunch of us had already
seen it and maybe even more.

The Ring is probably the closest to some of those roads we'll see in a sim
where you can drive that Chevy, but some of those courses in Colin McRae
Rally 2, wouldn't be a bad substitute, either.

Where "angels fear to tread" doesn't even begin to describe the road where
the fellow in the song being cited in this thread "screamed by
Maynardville".  That road the way it was back then doesn't have to play
second string to another road anywhere--and sections of it aren't for the
faint of heart even today.

BTW,  I live about five minutes or so from where "they made the fatal
strike".   :-)

Jerry Morelock

As far as the roads in Tenn...I dont have to take your word for it. I
have driven a few really "interesting" roads around Gatlinburg that
were real fun.....as long as you dont fall off. My mom in law got so
scared she had to sit in the back with a blanket over her
head....hehe.

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Pierre PAPA DOC Legrand
Flanker Target
Grand Prix Legends Crash Test Dummy
Rants, Bullshit and Help Guides availible at
www.papadoc.net

Interstate '76 had some of the feeling of wide open spaces and mountain
passes. I'm sure a more realistic (physics-wise and graphics-wise) spiritual
successor could find a market . . .

Ryan

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