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ROTFLMAO!! This is fun-ny! The opening theme wasn't even done when I got the sneaking suspision that this was some sort of spoof translation: "...he goes around in his fancy suit and beats up generic-looking bad guys..." "...how could Marvel agree to something like this?" Fun-ny!! I have chosen you to save the world. And don't forget... ...to clean your ears!

I'm really more impressed that some guy had the balls to put Supra tail lights on an old Cavalier. But then again, there is a TRD body kit for the Cavalier... 367190[/snapback] LOL, this guy gets a big A+ for creativity! True, it's a lame-oh Cavalier. True, it's a pretty frivolous project--but the fact that this guy made his own ground effects, and using cardboard as the base to build off of?! The end product looked pretty much as good as any aftermarket kit that you'd buy for one of those cars [that being said, take it with a grain of salt--it's a part for a Cavalier, compared to parts for a Cavalier]

True, the pacing of the first film doesn't follow a "set pattern" or story arc, but then again--life is pretty much like that, isn't it? As far as it being dull? I wouldn't say so. I disagree. I prefer it to the modern, apparently A.D.D. syndrome style of storytelling in movies, where everything's done in a "wham-bam-no-time-for-story-just-get-to-the-next-crash-explosion-gunfight!" sort of way. When you look back at it, MM1 and MM2 each tell a pretty simplistic story, but maybe that's why they worked so well? Which begs the question: if they do follow through with this Fury Road thing, just where will they try to take the story? Will they follow the K.I.S.S. principle that worked with the first ones, or try to make an epic bubble-gum-for-the-mind-Hollywood-blockbuster?

Ah yes, one of the most tragic scenes--for a car guy--in the whole series: when Max has the big crack up down into the ravine, then the fiery death of the Interceptor. Still hurts me a little just to watch that scene. But at least it was a "stunt double" that gets blown up in the film. The real car still resides in a museum in England. Don't believe the hype! There was only ONE Interceptor! There were no "17 cars" used! And NO it didn't have no fu--in blown Pontiac motor! or any of that other sh-- that people like to speculate, guess and otherwise spew out of their arses about that movie/car. And to think: before there was Eleanor, there was the Interceptor; this car has spawned an entire underground car-customizing cottage industry. And on a whole other continent. Some have posted that they'd like to see more of the "MFP era" to the story told. Well I for one sure as s--t hope they don't try to get all Bruckheimer-ized with the production and go with fake-ass Jar Jar Binks do everything with CGI [as JsARCLIGHT so succinctly put it] effects, or destroy-25-duplicate-cars-12-stage-crash-em-up-pointless-destructo stunt sequences. They did much better and told the story much more creatively with a small budget production; the original film cost only $200K to make, IIRC. That, plus those Falcons and Monaros are getting damned hard to find. Much rarer than say, a Mustang or Camaro here in the US.

Oh yeah, the way they kill Frank's wife/son is a given. There's a lot more similarities in there too. --When Frank comes home after his retirement party, notice his outfit; he's wearing a black leather jacket and a sky-blue tee--I didn't notice at first, but coincidentally the colors of the MFP uniform. --The car Frank fixes up ['69, '70 GTO?] is done up in a pretty Max-ish style, with the black paint and all. I guess it bears a resemblence? You'd be surprised how many people guess "GTO" when they see my Falcon. I guess if he'd put a supercharger on it, it would have been just too blatant. --Frank's final revenge on Howard Saint and his son is sort of an amalgam of the Johnny The Boy scene. Frank leaves Saint's son trapped and about to die; the Punisher walks away stone faced and resolute, as he begs to the effect "don't leave me like this," much like Johnny the Boy did. And how does he do Saint himself in? Ties him by the ankle to a car, and blows him up. Seem familiar? --The final shot of the film features Frank standing in the middle of the road by his car, looking pissed and surly as the camera zooms out. Definitely reminded me of the final shot in MM2/The Road Warrior. Nothing wrong with paying some props to a groundbreaking and influential film series. The director's definitely a Mad Max fan...

I think the general concensus is that GM is and has been really mis-managed, hence the dire straits they're in. The whole thing with Pontiac just makes me shake my head. I just don't get it--how overwhelmingly it seems people in the media and in general, take every opportunity to bemoan and criticize cars like the GTO--but what the he-- has Pontiac done in-house that's worth talking about? True, the GTO's a polarizing design--folks either love it or hate the jelly-bean lines; but it can arguably be credited with re-envigorating the American coupe market. Here they had a mid-size RWD platform that's a good, strong performer. What else have they got? I've not liked their designs for a long while. A bunch of fugly, bad-disco-glitz-boy-racer-wanna-be-fake-performance-scoops-and-ducts.

I dunno--I think they should maybe leave this one alone. For some reason, "3" seems to be the magic number for film series about the same character/storyline; any more than that, and it just goes all to hell. Besides, I think that--as flawed as some might think it is--Beyond T'dome does give a certain degree of closure to the story of Max Rockatanski [well, at least a point where the audience can say "okay, this guy's gonna be allright from here on out"]. There's certain underlying themes to the movies, certain "critical points" in this guy's life, when you look at each of them as parts to the bigger story: Mad Max: "man becomes monster." when Max loses everything, he does that, in a sense; there's even that wonderfully symbolic scene just before he suits up and goes out after the bikers Road Warrior: "redemption/man regains his humanity." his actions were pretty much self-serving, but at least he regained his 'dignity,' as Papagallo put it. Beyond Thunderdome: "man becomes true hero." yeah, it was a bit Disney-fied; but what he did for others [the lost kids] in this part of the story was pretty selfless and noble. KingNor, I'd say you hit the nail on the head about the Punisher. I remember thinking when I saw it "this director must have really liked Mad Max/Road Warrior when he was younger." Lots of symbolism/similarities from those films in that one.

Wasn't the 928 the fastest Porsche available for a long time? IIRC, a 928 [considered ancient by today's stds] won a SWC race a couple seasons ago [was it Infineon Raceway?] I need to go check the season stats to confirm one way or the other. What was the standard powerplant in the 928, by the way?

I'm just not feelin' the new 599 for some reason. It looks like the stylist was trying to be more "edgy" [literally: so many crisp, sharp detail lines!] than evokative or emotional with the body--and we all know the great Italian cars are about passion. I'd take the 550 Maranello over that any day of the week.

allright, now they're just getting plain tacky. In another shameless attempt to boost sales by capitalizing on the prestige of past muscle machine nameplates, Dodge will now "re-incarnate" the Super Bee name, on the 2007 Charger platform. Apparently, it will be essentially the same as the 425hp SRT-8, but with more gaudy paint job and reminiscent decals [an attempt at making them more "collectible"?] They've already done an exercise in bad taste with the new "Daytonas," based on the Ram pickup no less--those come replete with bold paint hues, wide black stripes on the rear quarters and extremely out-of-place looking foot-tall rear wings. For Pete's sake! Stop dicking us around with nostalgic overpriced paint schemes and give us the Challenger, already!

You're right, you should have kept that to yourself.... TMI! TMI! I'd say you just made about 90-95% of the men who've just read that cringe and/or curl up a little right at their desks...

hmm, I hadn't considered that scenario. But that wouldn't be fair at all. It'd have to be West and Shatner vs. Walken--Christopher Walken is tha man!! That is, until Chuck Norris' foot decelerated from the speed of light just long enough to kill every one in the room. I could have fun with this all day...

LMAO!! Okay, I gotta ask: where's that link? the one to the soundbite of Kirk screaming? Speaking of cool old dudes who've reinvinted themselves and their careers and don't mind poking a little fun at themselves--here's what I wanna see... Mano-y-mano, in a no-holds-barred fight to the finish! See it only on pay-per-view: !!William Shatner vs. Adam West!! in the ultimate battle for supremacy!! Two men enter! One man leaves!

Holy cow, I just saw a DVD copy of the Pendragon films ver. on the shelf at the CVS store right up the street a while back; and for only $10 to boot. I soooo wanted to pick this up. Must be the masachist [sp?] in me. Ought to make for a couple hours of truely crap-tastic b-movie-self-torture-goodness. I saw part of the other recent release of WOTW on sci-fi channel, starring C. Thomas Howell. From the 10 minutes or so that I could stand, it appears this version, while still a modern take on the story, manages to stick much closer to the Wells storyline of the "lone man's wandering journey," with original characters like the soldier, the priest, the brother, etc. The graphics were pretty awful, about on par with the average mid-tier computer game at best. The alien walkers [look like giant four legged crabs] and the aliens themselves [what I saw of them] straight up sucked hairy monkey arse; again, nothing at all like Wells' original description. The aliens use neon green laser rays [i guess to remind us just how "awesome and terrible" the Martian weapons are], and they stop using them long enough to--get this--climb down out of their walkers and spit acid on any hapless humans that cross their path. I agree with Graham, I still prefer H.G. Wells original story.

They did? Okay, I stand corrected. I kinda like that show, but I keep missing it when it comes on. Well, the insanity has begun. The Barrett-Jackson auction has begun, and is currently being aired on the SPEED channel. Let's see what stratospheric heights the speculators, neuveaux riche and twits-with-more-money-than-sense drive the market prices for collectible/classic autos to this go 'round.

you can flick cigarette's all day long into a bucket of gas and they will go out... I always hated that hollywood myth. Can do the same thing with jp-5 if your service and want to scare people . yep... can't pump your own gas even if you wanted to. I always found it funny watching people who have never pumped their own gas before try for the first time. One girl sat in her car for 15 minutes wondering where the guy who pumped her gas was . I've also seen the traditional "squint into the nozzle wondering why nothing is coming out" when the pump activates 361172[/snapback] Sure, but that's assuming you throw it in there fast enough. It's not the gasoline in the bucket itself, but the vapors you gotta worry about igniting. Same goes for the vapors that escape from the nozzle of a car as you pump the gas in, hence the warnings about smoking. What never ceases to amaze me are the asshats who insist on talking on their cellphones while pumping gas. I don't know if the warnings about "static electricity" from the phones are just urban legend or no; but even the possibility of it happening [and it sounds possible--remote as he--, but possible--when you think about it] ought to make folks use some common sense. People so careless and insistent on cackling away like that ought to be kicked square in the crack of their arse. With a hard, pointy boot. I mean really--whoever or whatever they're talking to/about is probably not at all important anyway... pfunk--sounds like a cool plan. That's similar to what I'd like to do. What will your niche be? Will you go after aging baby boomers: with disposable cash and looking to relive past glories, build up that musclecar or classic ride they dreamed of having as a teenager? Or maybe the empty nesters: they've got the kids through college, now they're looking to start spending on more of the things they want for a change? Or the up and coming generation of hot rodders: the ones who're looking to buy their first car and set it off, turn up the power and performance, make it their own? Looking to specialize? G-machines? Traditional rods? Import/tuner muscle? Hey, speaking of Foose, there's a good question for discussion: how would one describe the style of car design that is the "Foose signature"? Or can it be quantified, given the varied bodies--pun intended--of work to his name? Or maybe Troy Trepanier [not as familiar with his work, but know the name]? Can the work these guys do be summed up in a phrase?

What?! Halle Barry is black? Sorry, but that was just too good a segway to pass up on that one..

Nice auction description on that 'maro--it's very rare indeed to see a description as detailed and honest as that one. Less than 500 registered in the US? I never would have thought it was so few. But come to think of it, whenever I do see an early Camaro on the road, it's almost always a '68 or '69. Here's hoping you get a good high bid for it... High gas prices? It's definitely curbed my cruising in my "playtoy" lately. I heard once that the reason gas prices average so much higher in other countries is because of taxes tacked on by their respective gov'ts for things like road maintenance, healthcare programs, etc.; whereas here in the US it's more profit and less taxes/overhead, etc.

WAAAIIITTT a minute... wanking off is vapid?! 360672[/snapback] Well, even if it is vapid, it certainly shouldn't be shared with anyone else!

Not ones to miss out on this whole "heritage" kick that the auto industry is in, Lola is now going to capitalize on it by going really-retro. Much like Ford with their GT, and Shelby with his Cobras, they've announced the intro of the "continuation" series of the T-70 IIIB. Apparently these will be brand-spanking-new cars, built as per the originals and eligible for historic racing. I just wonder if someone across the pond will get the bright idea to try to add some aero/downforce appendages, and get the model homologated for FIA GT-2 or GT-3? Hate to hear you have to sell your Camaro kanata67; I've always had a soft spot for first-gen Camaros myself. I test drove a Mazda 6 a while back when I was looking at buying a family car. It was a 4 cyl, but I thought it felt kinda "anaemic." What's the bad news with the V6's? I noticed then that it only seemed to be the 4 cyl cars that were finding their way onto the used car lots.

Oh dear Lord, I should have seen this coming--actual discussion of the sexual anatomy [or lack thereof] of hairy blue freaks that may [or may not] streak moviegoers in theaters everywhere pretty soon. I am certainly NOT interested in what's under that furry cod-piece that Beast has got going there, that's fer sure. OMG, LMAO I totally forgot about Ram-Man. It does look just like 'im too! Flashlight tricks?! Oh, that's just wrong, man!

Found some pics of these upcoming "macquettes"? for Beast and Juggernaut; I presume these are very close to how they'll appear in the upcoming movie? Juggernaut looks pretty cheesy--in fact, he looks more like Master-Blaster [minus Master] from Mad Max: Thunderdome. And Beast? WTF?! Will somebody please put some fuggin clothes on these people? It didn't take long for the novelty of having Mystique running around in the buff to wear thin [it served prurient interests only, and was inappropriate given the largely adolescent audience these films would obviously draw], now we gotta see Frasier's hairy blue arse too?

for some reason, the link won't work for me. I'm guessing it's to their Type 65 Coupe? I suppose for those interested in "accuracy," the ultimate Coupe replica would have to be those by Upstate Replicars: http://www.daytona-coupe.com/ As I understand it, they somehow got their hands on an original Daytona coupe and used it as the "buck" for their molds, making for what's arguably closer to the originals than anything. IIRC, there was even a legal bru-ha-ha over it.

okay, so I guess that's actually the "official" Camaro--this one's the ver. that was unveiled by GM execs. Some of the various artist renderings and concepts are found in previous pages of this thread, IIRC. Well, if GM stays true to form, it'll be toe-to-toe with the 'Stang, maybe even marginally better as far as performance. But if it's introduced in say, '08 for example--I wouldn't touch one with a 10' pole AT LEAST until the '09 model debuted. Expect at least one major recall w/in the first 9 mo. of the model's life. The Infiniti concept's sweet. The Mazda does look a little "late 1940's" with the fender bulges.

Now I know what it is about the new Miura. I couldn't put my finger on it at first, but it's I see what's different--not neccessarily "wrong" but different--the greenhouse sits much farther forward on this new iteration of the design, hence the seemingly "snub-nose" look to it. Maybe it's to help with f/r weight dist? With a little more time for contemplation, my response to the Camaro concept could be better summed "meh. I'll believe it when I see it in the showrooms." This is only the third or fourth concept we've seen so far isn't it? They can't seem to get their ship in order at GM. First it's "we're cancelling the Zeta platform in the US"; then it's "no, we're gonna do it after all." Make up your minds, guys. "We'll just keep building SUV's and pickups and selling at high markups; oh, and just keep churning out FWD variations of the same platform. Corvette's doing just fine as our RWD flagship. That 'Mustang' phenomenon is just a fad..." I just don't see how they could possibly be inspiring any kind of shareholder confidence--it's like one half of the board room table is occupied by crack-smoking monkeys, and the other half? Well, you can't see who's at their seats--they seem to have their heads up their arses.