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kittyman ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51468 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 ![]() ![]() |
Apart from the classic 'Bullit' footage, there is one other that grabs me by the throttle....... That would be Ronin... Not into euro stuff much myself, but this is great...........they have come a long ways from the big block things of MY youth. Gimme an eight pack and a four barrel, and I was ready to go........ Which meant.......a big v8 and the biggest four barrel card to be found........ I had several......... "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster ![]() |
Iona ![]() Send message Joined: 12 Jul 07 Posts: 790 Credit: 22,438,118 RAC: 0 ![]() |
The Ronin chase is excellent, but I prefer Bullit. Four-barrel, Mark? Holley, by chance? NACA ducts? Personally, I'd love to see a chase with a pair of Nissan Skyline GTRs (R33) in it. Don't take life too seriously, as you'll never come out of it alive! |
kittyman ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51468 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 ![]() ![]() |
The Ronin chase is excellent, but I prefer Bullit. Four-barrel, Mark? Holley, by chance? NACA ducts? Personally, I'd love to see a chase with a pair of Nissan Skyline GTRs (R33) in it. Had nothing but trouble with the Holley double pumpers I tried.... Rocked the world with the stock Q Jet with a couple of toyings......had to play with the vacuum secondarys to get them to do what I wanted, but when they opened up to gargle, they were a gas......literally. Played with the secondary metering rods a lot. Otherwise a Carter Thermoquad was not pretty, but opened up to say ahhhhhhh very nicely. "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster ![]() |
kittyman ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51468 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 ![]() ![]() |
Guess you gotta luv Dirty Mary and Crazy Larry.....they don't call them that for nothing........LOL What is it about blonds named Mary???? I have known a couple of them that damned near killed me.....but cuter than a button. "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster ![]() |
kittyman ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51468 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 ![]() ![]() |
Or maybe Bandit Run...... Meowza........ "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster ![]() |
kittyman ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51468 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 ![]() ![]() |
I'm kinda fonda Sally's too.......Could not have found a better dishwater blond to read the road maps........She looks kinda brunette in this clip though........ "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster ![]() |
kittyman ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51468 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 ![]() ![]() |
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kittyman ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51468 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 ![]() ![]() |
This one was a Mopar commercial...... Vanishing Point remake....... I watched the original about 500 times.........used to be a staple of the 'go to the dirt track and drink beer then go to the drive-in Saturday night' thingy. Back about 30 years ago and there still were drive-in's for teenys to drink beer in.......... "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster ![]() |
kittyman ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51468 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 ![]() ![]() |
THIS is the Vanishing Point of my era......... "They wanna get him and put him away.......but they'll have to catch him first......" What Dirty Harry did for Smith and Wesson, this flick did for Mopar. Unless you count them hicks in Freakin' Hazzard County..............ya know, I must have been wiped when this one came out, but it's a ol' boyz' dream movie....LOL. Gotta watch it on DVD now. I was always a Buick man.......but those dudes with Mopar madness knew horsepower....... I had a '66 something or other with a 390 or so.......was a snotty car, but I traded it for a microphone.......{Blues Brothers reference.....}. "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster ![]() |
kittyman ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51468 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 ![]() ![]() |
The Bloopers reel from Hazzards.......... Willie is just a freakin' hoot....... And what they did to them Mopar chassis was just cruel....watch some of the launches..... "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster ![]() |
kittyman ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51468 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 ![]() ![]() |
As with most recent Bond releases, the opening chase from Quantum of Solace was a stunner....... "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster ![]() |
kittyman ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51468 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 ![]() ![]() |
3 men, 254 kilos....that was the deal.... I luv his attitude. "Not without the ignition code, you won't" "Seat belts"...LOL. "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster ![]() |
kittyman ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51468 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 ![]() ![]() |
T2.....no, not the Terminator......the Transporter.... "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster ![]() |
kittyman ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51468 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 ![]() ![]() |
T3 ......my shitbox Olds could not do this on a good day. Most shot at speed.....no BS here. Although in my day I considered myself a rather dandy driver...... 145 in a 35 was not bad......but the cops got me....... Horsepower has it's problems. The say you can't outrun radio. Upon reflection, I should have had 4:25 gears instead of the 4:11's......that might have done the trick. Top would have suffered, but I had the HP and the revs. I did it once. With the GS400.......God, I luv cubic inches...... The new euros get more outta less, but it was not like that in my day. You needed displacement......and carbs.......... Put in the right metering rods and tweak the spring tension on the butterfly valves over the secondaries, and you can go fast......they used to call them 'Coke bottle' secondaries, because they were just soooooooo big.. I think somebody once did a test and the stock Q jet could handle over 700cfm when set up right........ So all those 'Holley 650 double pumpers' were just smoke in the wind....... And usually in my tailpipe. "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster ![]() |
kittyman ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51468 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 ![]() ![]() |
And I must stand down......... My 'Lark was fast, but not as fast as his....... 10 second Buick......... I might have done 10.5, but that would be on a good day. Tom had the 455 by the nuts. And dialed in everything all at once. Best one I have ever seen. Bar none. "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster ![]() |
kittyman ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51468 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 ![]() ![]() |
Yes. I agree. Meow. And some of these, I have never seen, so there's some more fodder for future kitty threads. Ow..........more threads. Meow. I always told you that T's 'Death Proff' as my fave.............here is the clip..... You simply have to be sitting in my seat.............QT rocks. "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster ![]() |
kittyman ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51468 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 ![]() ![]() |
What we are dealing with here, son. is a total disrespect for the law....... OMG...... "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster ![]() |
kittyman ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51468 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 ![]() ![]() |
Two buck to twenty, That second pass for the cameras was athttp://www.youtube.com/wat 140 mph plus......... That was not the stunt car.......... [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZZPalUHlxc]West Bound......and.......[......meowing Rumor has is that he did 165 for that scene, but they were not doing time trials. "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster ![]() |
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Two very unlikely high-speed chase vehicles Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. Albert Einstein |
kittyman ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51468 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 ![]() ![]() |
Two very unlikely high-speed chase vehicles And a little Plymouth Valient could do 125 or 140.........if need be. Beep Beep "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster ![]() |
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