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Car show yesterday
by newyork-nightmare- 2 replies
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Nice Viper for Dodge and this sick mustang
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Looking for a Harley?
by JustHatched- 1 reply
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If anyone is interested Rose is selling her 2003 Harley Davidson Anniversary Edition 1200 Sportster. It has 1,600 original miles which is extremely low considering it is 11 years old. It looks like new and has many extra add ons. I will post a pic of the bike soon. SHe is asking $8,000 for it. Yes it is pricey for a used Sporty, but you won't find one like this with mileage like this. Only reason she is parting with it is she doesn't have a desire to ride, I do not ride anymore since mine got totaled with me on it a few years ago.
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Welcome to my Moto Blog of Greatness. I hope to write at least one entry each week, hopefully more, on something motorcycle related. I've been riding almost all of my life on all types of bikes and in lots of different situations. I also plan to write about motorcycle racing, motorcycles in pop culture, new bikes, old bikes, travel, maintenance, safety gear and riding techniques. I am also reserving the right to blog about other gearhead stuff like cars, trucks, ships, tools and radio controlled things. For some reason I think my entries should serve some purpose. Maybe it's just to entertain and that's good enough but it would be cool if they also informed and enlighte…
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Demo Pics
by JustHatched- 1 follower
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Went to the demo derby yesterday at the Georgetown Fair. Georgetown is a small town (less than 4,000) but puts on one of the biggest fairs in a few hundred miles. They have motocross racing, tractor pulls, the demo, and other shit going on. I prefer truck/tractor pulls over demos but the timing didn't work out. But this was the best demo I have seen in a while Overall - 2 cars and 1 truck caught fire and burned up pretty good. One man went to the hosptal when another car went thru is door. There was a fist fight in the pits and 2 cars were thrown up and out of the arena. My few pics not the best as I was holding my youngest daughter while doing it.
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Michael Schumacher out of a coma
by DavidCore89- 1 follower
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For any interested in motorsport or those who knew of his skiing accident last year. Personally, I love this guy, he's a racing legend and a childhood hero, I remember watching him race every weekend and dominating F1 for years. Michael Schumacher, the 7 times F1 drivers champion has been moved to another hospital to be closer to his home for visits from his family and it is reported that he can communicate with his wife, he is said to have lost a quarter of his body weight and "a full recovery is unlikely". http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/motorsport/formulaone/michael-schumacher/10902535/Michael-Schumacher-out-of-coma-live.html
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I entered to win a plane..
by JustHatched- 8 replies
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_24 That is what the plane is, it was a free entry ticket thru http://eaa.org If I win I will be building a hanger and then be visiting a few of my crew mates by flying to them
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SRT 8 Hellcat? 1 2
by Dodge- 2 followers
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Holy Shit! If you are Mopar fan, check out the new monster on the block. http://www.topspeed.com/cars/dodge/2015-dodge-challenger-srt-hellcat-ar161904.html
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Isle of Man
by G37- 1 follower
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Thought this might be a little something interesting for you racers out there, perhaps especially Rev. http://www.leftlanenews.com/subaru-to-attempt-breaking-its-own-isle-of-man-record.html Subaru has announced it will return to the Isle of Man in a 2015 Subaru WRX STI in an attempt to beat the standing lap record, set three years ago in a 2011 WRX STI driven by Mark Higgins. The legendary Irish Sea site of the Tourist Trophy races is considered one of the most grueling road courses in the world, lined with narrow streets lined with stone walls that are used as public roads when motorsports activities are not being conducted. The circuit is also among the worl…
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My theory on racing.
by ssracingn2- 2 followers
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That is an embarrassing video of me on a dirt track the second night in that type of car. I am the 01 finished 6th way off the pace. You do not see a lot of my car because it is not my video. Overall that year I finished 8th in the standing out of the 17 regular cars. 1. The best advise I can give the racers looking to improve is stay out of the accidents by giving a little extra room to people and not forcing the issue. Leave yourself an "out" and wait for a good spot to pass so if trouble starts happening you can try to avoid it. 15 cars started that race and 6 finished. 2. I can tell you is this learn the tracks most often used. Try different lines around t…
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Project Raijin
by G37- 1 follower
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As you may have surmised, I'm an Infiniti kind of guy. I've sort of been following the idea of the Eau Rouge for a while now. Came across this interview that at least is a pretty interesting read, especially since there's a lot of Skyline and GT-R fans out there. http://www.motortrend.com/future/concept_vehicles/1406_project_raijin_turning_the_q50_into_a_luxury_gtr_for_real/viewall.html
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Oxidized headlights? Crest 3D white toothpaste
by shadowvan- 2 replies
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whats up guys so ... if anyone out there has spent over $100 like me on the oxidation removal crap, heres a simple tip i just learned from Jenns grandmother -- use toothpaste. haha. believe it or not, it worked. i used arm and hammer first because it is our emergency out of toothpaste stuff, and after seeing that it actually worked, i went with our fancy $4.00 toothpaste. shines better than the arm and hammer. all of the crap ive bought in the past and i could have just used something i use everyday... good tip edit: we also tried it on her chrome bumber, and it works like a champ! wonder what else it can clean
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TheLP2008
by revbouncer- 0 replies
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TheLP2008 was a website dedicated to NASCAR replays. He also covered Nationwide series, Trucks, K&N, V8 Supercars & F1. As you can see someone like me loved this site. For me it was the only way I could watch replays of NASCAR races online for free. It was shut down by NASCAR last week and I'm going insane not being able to see the replays anymore (call the waaaambulance!) Does anyone in the crew have a link for replays of NASCAR Sprint Cup for free. If so I'd be very grateful if your pasted it to this thread. Thanks, my life seems so empty now LOL!
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Refreshing or Revolting?
by G37- 2 followers
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Saw this and thought of you Dodge. So, your answer to the question is? http://wot.motortrend.com/refreshing_or_revolting_2015_dodge_charger.html
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In your IRL 10 Car Garage
by Dodge- 1 follower
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If you had a 10 car garage IRL, and could put anything you wanted in it, what would those 10 vehicles be?
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225Rate the Last Film you Watched 2: Electric Boogaloo
What I Watched This Week #168 (Mar 17-23) Sisu dir. Jalmari Helander/2022/1h31m Sisu is a Finnish action film set during the latter stages of WWII in the Finnish countryside where a grizzled old gold-miner, Aatami (Jorma Tommila), has just struck the motherlode. Unfortunately he runs into a group of n*zis led by SS officer Bruno (Askel Hennie) who are retreating out of the country and they steal his stash. What they don't know is that he is a legendary badass soldier who then proceeds to go on a bloody rampage to get his gold back. There are few things more satisfying to see in a movie than n*zis getting absolutely brutalised (Hitler getting his face machine-gunned into Swiss cheese in Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds is a personal fav) and this delivers that by the blood and guts full bucket load. If you want to see a n*zi get exploded by having a landmine f*cking thrown directly at his face then this is the film for you. Tommila gives a great performance in the lead, even though his character doesn't have a single word of dialogue. This is a man who speaks with his actions. Plus he just looks like a badass, I can totally believe that he could take on an entire troop of n*zis and win. Hennie is also good, but his character is very one dimensional, but his presence is more symbolic here of how evil the n*zis were as a whole. If you want a straight forward and thrilling action film then you should check this out. 8/10 Breaking dir. Abi Damaris Corbin/2022/1h43m Based on a true story, Breaking stars John Boyega as Brian Brown-Easley, a former Marine suffering from severe PTSD who has had his VA benefits taken away, straight out of his bank account. Desperate and seeing no other option he holds up the bank with a bomb, taking two hostages. What follows is a tense standoff involving the police, the media and Brian, with Boyega's performance really carrying what is a pretty generic film. The way the public and media sympathy is on Brian's side as he's able to explain his situation put me in mind of Dog Day Afternoon - also based on a true story of another bank robbery gone wrong - but that just makes this film feel even blander. Now this isn't a bad film by any stretch of the imagination, it does its job well, but apart from Boyega's performance there isn't anything that really stands out. It did make me sympathise with the real Brian Brown-Easley as this is a tragic story from every angle, and it does a good job of showing who he was as a person with flashbacks showing him spending time with his young daughter and not just focusing on that day. 6.5/10 Furious 7 dir. James Wan/2015/2h17m Jason Statham enters the Fast and Furious series - after a post-credit teaser in the last film - as the brother of the baddie from the last film and he wants revenge (it's about family). Djimon Hounsou is also here as a totally underwritten bad guy who is totally forgettable and unnecessary and I don't know why he was there because Statham is already the bad guy. I can't even remember what relevance he had to the plot, if he had any at all. But I like Djimon Hounsou so it was nice just to see him I guess. I did have fun with this one, the less grounded the plots the more enjoyable they're becoming, especially since everyone is acting so seriously, particularly Vin Diesel. One aspect where this actually works is where they keep going on about family, their sincerity really makes me believe they care about each other, and that made the tribute to Paul Walker at the end of the film genuinely touching. 6/10 Le Corbeau dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot/1943/1h32m In this French mystery/thriller Pierre Fresnay plays Remy Germain, a doctor in a small village who is the victim of poison pen letters accusing him of having an affair with the wife of another doctor and performing illegal abortions. Soon other villagers start getting letters, all of them signed Le Corbeau - The Raven. As everyone's secrets start getting exposed, desperation to find The Raven grows. This is a very dark film made during a dark time in France's history, and the way the film shows how easily people can be turned against one another speaks to what was going on at the time. The actual mystery is well written, with the audience left guessing right up to the shocking finale, and it's all shot in a film-noir style that really sets the tone perfectly. It's a little slow at the start, but the third act really ramps up the pace as we start eliminating possible suspects, leading to what I think is a satisfying reveal. The performances are all good, especially that of the person eventually revealed as The Raven, but this is more about the atmosphere. 8/10 The Electric State dir. Joe Russo, Anthony Russo/2025/2h5m The Electric State is the latest film from the Russo brothers, directors of Avengers Infinity War and Endgame, and apparently cost Netflix 320 million dollars to make. It looks alright, and by that I mean the effects look alright, the actual art and production design is bland and derivative nostalgia bait, but it doesn't look like 320 million dollars. The actual plot, adapted from a graphic novel, sees Millie Bobby Brown play an orphaned teenager living in an alternate history 90's after some war with robots or something. She has to find her brother, who she thought was dead, but has been kidnapped by an evil tech guy played by Stanley Tucci and is now in a coma with his consciousness in a robot based on an old cartoon character and is the power source for his new VR tech I think. Also Chris Pratt is there doing the same character he's been doing for the last decade. There are some things I liked about this. Stanley Tucci is always good and is almost able to give his character some depth. Brian Cox voices a baseball robot, that was fun. I'm struggling now. Millie Bobby Brown's American accent is passable. I guess it's not the worst film I've seen this year, that would be Borderlands. This is slightly less obnoxious. 3/10 Cars 2 dir. John Lasseter/2011/1h46m The first non Toy Story sequel for Pixar kicked off an era of sequels where out of their next ten films only four were original. But at least the plot here is very different from the original, which was all about slowing down and enjoying the smaller pleasures of life. Cars 2 is a spy thriller where Mater the Tow Truck (Larry the Cable Guy) is mistaken for a secret agent by superspy Finn McMissile (Michael Caine). He is caught up in a plot involving eco-friendly oil invented by billionaire Miles Axelrod (Eddie Izzard), who is also hosting a worldwide grand prix in which Lightning McQueen (Owen Wilson) is competing. There's a lot going on, but I do like how they've decided to go in such a mad direction after the relatively grounded first film. My biggest problem with this film is the same one I had with the first, and that's how much I f*cking hate Larry the Cable Guy and his stupid f*cking voice. And now he's basically the lead character, with more time given to his plot than McQueen's. 5/10 Across 110th Street dir. Barry Shear/1972/1h42m This film opens with two nobody crooks stealing a few hundred grand from a Mafia deal in Harlem, killing them and a couple of cops in the process. This threatens to incite a race riot if the two detectives assigned to the case can't find who did it. They are the gruff, no nonsense, racist Italian Captain Mattelli (Anthony Quinn), and the Black liberal Lt. Pope (Yaphet Kotto). A gritty crime film that's a perfect time capsule of the era, this is both very real feeling and stylised at the same time. There's a brilliant use of location shooting and handheld camera that give it a raw, almost documentary like feel. Quinn and Kotto are excellent as the diametrically opposed duo, butting heads while still trying to pull in the right direction. Their relationship is symbolic of the film as a whole, a powder keg just waiting to go up, and that level of tension is sustained throughout the film. The cherry on top is the brilliant soundtrack, which includes the legendary title song by Bobby Womack. 9/10 Lime's Film of the Week!- 2
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225Rate the Last Film you Watched 2: Electric Boogaloo
Alien Romulus (2024) dir Fede Alvarez Another film in the Alien franchise. More of the same reasonably high quality sci-fi horror, quite gory at times with dark, atmospheric, industrial looking sets. A cast of relatively unknown actors do a good job playing a group of young off-worlders, including an android, who see a way to escape their dreary mining colony planet by boarding an abandoned space craft to use it's resources to get their ship to another planet. But this craft is research station, with all human crew dead, because, of course, it had an alien on board. It then becomes the familiar last-woman-standing as one by one they meet the usual face-hugging / chest-bursting or other death by xenomorph. There is a lot that refers to one of more of the original films, including an appearance by an Android “played” by an AI version of Ian Holm (Ash in the Aliens). It is essentially a sequel to Alien that could be happening before, after or even about the same time as Aliens. So it fits into the original films rather than the newer ones from the 2010s. Although I like some of the references to the original films the problem with this for me is it has very little that we have not already seen in those originals. It does not bring much that is new to the franchise, unlike Prometheus and Covenant. Whilst I would have seen it as quite a good film if it was the 2nd or 3rd film in the franchise, I really don't see it adds anything more to the story. So it's fine if you just want more of the same, but for me if you are going to keep adding to a franchise the films needs to bring something original, some aspect of the overall plot not explored before, and this does not do that. I was actually getting slightly bored towards the end and would have been quite happy with it finishing maybe 20 minutes earlier. 6 / 10- 1
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Guzmans Requests
Thanks for the feedback @Skorpion Maybe put a ”storage” of both Cargobobs and Trucks in a location thats more timeconsuming to ”use”. For example at Guzmans Airfield. -
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That sounds great, but do it as a different job. I really like this job, but not sure its suited for a fun PL. Mainly because it's hard to communicate without switching to game chat so you can hear your own teammates. I get the point of the plane being used to get the chopper, to get the trailer etc. but would you be willing to put some VERY slow choppers or something on the ground near-ish the Cargobob just in case. The plane would still be the fastest way for the team to get to the next capture ready for the cargobob to catch up, and the ground choppers wouldnt really be able to do much, but they would make it possible to continue in the event that the plane has been delivered and cant be used, or something else goes wrong.
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