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**Rain Man** · 02:31 AM

New tournament time. We're going to pick the collective vehicle of our dreams.

In this thread, I'll ask people to nominate vehicles, using the following rules.

1. This vehicle will be yours at no purchase cost.
2. You will keep your current vehicles, so no need to worry about fitting a baby seat in it or being able to haul mulch.
3. You're responsible for parking it.
4. You pay for gas or electricity.
5. Insurance and maintenance is free to you.
6. The vehicle must be street-legal.
7. The vehicle must actually exist. It cannot be a cartoon or concept drawing. However, it can be a production vehicle, a concept vehicle, a custom vehicle, or anything else that is real.
8. The vehicle being nominated is the exact vehicle shown. You cannot change the color, the interior, the engine size, etc.
9. You cannot use the vehicle to make money. It's only for your personal use.
10. You cannot sell the vehicle.
11. Any type of street-legal vehicle is allowed. You can nominate a car, a truck, a minivan, an RV, a semi-truck, a motorcyle, a classic car, a school bus, whatever. As long as it meets the rules above, it's eligible.

The rules for nominating are below, and are VERY IMPORTANT:

You may nominate only one vehicle within a post. The reason is that I'm not going to keep pasting pictures and descriptions during the tournament. During the tournament I will provide a link to your post ONLY. So it's very important that only one vehicle be described in the post. If you nominate two or more vehicles in one post, your entries will be disqualified.

In your nomination post, you will begin by stating the name of the vehicle: Year, make, and model.

You may include up to five photos of the vehicle. While I would encourage having some interior and exterior shots, it's up to you to decide the best way to present your nominee. All photos MUST be of the same vehicle to avoid confusion about things like color, stereo type, and interior trim. Where possible, upload the photos as images instead of linking unless you're sure that the link will remain active throughout the tournament.

If you would like to include any specs or any argument for why your nominee is the Chiefsplanet dream car (e.g., zero to 60 time, corinthian leather seats, gas milage, bitchin' Crager S/S wheels), feel free to do so.

You are allowed to make more than one nomination. However, each nomination must be made in a single post. There will be no limit on how many vehicles you can nominate, though at some point I'll cut off entries. We'll see how many get nominated before I decide when I'll stop the nomination process.

I'm hoping we don't get 25 variations on the same vehicle, but whatever. If you want to post a 1910 Hupmobile because you think it's notably different than the 1911 Hupmobile that was already nominated, then go for it.

See Post 2 below for the format for nomination. (It may take me a minute to post it.)

ToxSocks · 01-14-2022, 01:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Pitt Gorilla

This is correct. End of thread.

Impressive that it was post #1.

Total piece of shit car. I mean, im with you, i loved that thing when i was like 10. Everydamn bookfair in school i was oogling over Countach posters....you know the one...with the fog on the ground...

A few years back a shop asked us to weld up some chassis stuff on one. No lie, we had to be sloppy on the welds so as to not make it look repaired, but original. ****ing chopper gunned fiberglass panels....yuck. I was so disappointed.

Same thing with Mike Tyson's Lambo Diablo. Fiberglass was splitting from the chassis, stress fractures everywhere...

#JustsaynotoLambo

Pitt Gorilla · 01-14-2022, 01:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Detoxing

Total piece of shit car. I mean, im with you, i loved that thing when i was like 10. Everydamn bookfair in school i was oogling over Countach posters....you know the one...with the fog on the ground...

A few years back a shop asked us to weld up some chassis stuff on one. No lie, we had to be sloppy on the welds so as to not make it look repaired, but original. ****ing chopper gunned fiberglass panels....yuck. I was so disappointed.

Same thing with Mike Tyson's Lambo Diablo. Fiberglass was splitting from the chassis, stress fractures everywhere...

#JustsaynotoLambo

I think the 89 version was better (than 84, 85), but I completely understand what you're saying.

DJ's left nut · 01-14-2022, 01:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Detoxing

Total piece of shit car. I mean, im with you, i loved that thing when i was like 10. Everydamn bookfair in school i was oogling over Countach posters....you know the one...with the fog on the ground...

A few years back a shop asked us to weld up some chassis stuff on one. No lie, we had to be sloppy on the welds so as to not make it look repaired, but original. ****ing chopper gunned fiberglass panels....yuck. I was so disappointed.

Same thing with Mike Tyson's Lambo Diablo. Fiberglass was splitting from the chassis, stress fractures everywhere...

#JustsaynotoLambo

Yeah I've never heard a positive word about those things. Poor handling, not even all that powerful. Mostly hand-built which means that some of the build quality is ass. Just big ol' heavy piles of nostalgia that can get waxed off the line by a top end Camry these days.

DJ's left nut · 01-14-2022, 01:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Detoxing

Oh you wanna die? Gotcha.

Oh you only say that because the only other one ever built killed its owner before plunging into the ocean.

ToxSocks · 01-14-2022, 01:45 PM

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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

Oh you only say that because the only other one ever built killed its owner before plunging into the ocean.

Lol, did it? I didn't even know that.

We've done a number of Cobra Replica cars as insurance repair jobs from guys losing control and putting them in the wall. We even developed a rear sub frame crossmember to help stabilize the rear of these cars.

As such, we're in with the local Cobra car club and i've heard enough of their stories to know these things are death traps lol.

DJ's left nut · 01-14-2022, 02:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Detoxing

Lol, did it? I didn't even know that.

We've done a number of Cobra Replica cars as insurance repair jobs from guys losing control and putting them in the wall. We even developed a rear sub frame crossmember to help stabilize the rear of these cars.

As such, we're in with the local Cobra car club and i've heard enough of their stories to know these things are death traps lol.

Yeah, the other Super Snake, the CSX 3033. Sold to Bill Cosby, it scared the hell out of him so he sold it to a collector who promptly lost control of it and drove it off a cliff into the Pacific.

But hey, it was Carol Shelby's daily driver for many years. If Shelby can drive it, so can I.

RedRaider56 · 01-14-2022, 02:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Detoxing

I have a buddy who collects GT40's/Ford GT's.

When they reintroduced the GT like a decade+ ago he drove up to Canada to buy one off a guy who bought one, owned it for two months, and then decided to sell it because it scared the shit out of him to drive it. No joke, lol.

My neighbor that had all the Boss 9 Mustangs sold most of them and bought him a GT40. His is black with silver stripes. Man it sounds good when he lights it up

Marcellus · 01-14-2022, 02:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Dartgod

We haven't even had any Mopar muscle cars nominated yet.

Yea I'm shocked this hadn't showed up yet. On eof my all time favs. And badass bone stock.

71 Hemi Cuda'.

DJ's left nut · 01-14-2022, 02:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by scho63

Someone in Scottsdale has one. They bought it to a car show a few years back. Took photos. Pretty awesome looking
It's a Ford right?

Yeah.

Henry Ford Jr. had it purpose built to win LeMans after Enzo Ferrari scuttled a deal for Ford to buy Ferrari's racing division. Ford was so pissed off that he essentially spared no expense to try to build a LeMans car in about 18 months.

After a couple of stumbles, the 2nd (maybe 3rd) iteration of it just dominated everything. Won pretty much every race they entered it in.

All because a rich guy got his feelings hurt.

Frazod · 01-14-2022, 02:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

Yeah, the other Super Snake, the CSX 3033. Sold to Bill Cosby, it scared the hell out of him so he sold it to a collector who promptly lost control of it and drove it off a cliff into the Pacific.

But hey, it was Carol Shelby's daily driver for many years. If Shelby can drive it, so can I.

Ouch. Well, at least he had a nice Thelma and Louise moment at the end.

DJ's left nut · 01-14-2022, 02:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RedRaider56

My neighbor that had all the Boss 9 Mustangs sold most of them and bought him a GT40. His is black with silver stripes. Man it sounds good when he lights it up

Is it an actual GT40 or a Ford GT?

The new version is just the Ford GT. A legit GT40 (named for its height, IIRC) is damn near a unicorn.

DJ's left nut · 01-14-2022, 02:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Frazod

Ouch. Well, at least he had a nice Thelma and Louise moment at the end.

Did Thelma and Louise shit themselves as the back end kicked out at high speeds?

Because I gotta believe this dude shit himself after the back end kicked out at high speed.

MIAdragon · 01-14-2022, 02:13 PM

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ToxSocks · 01-14-2022, 02:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

Did Thelma and Louise shit themselves as the back end kicked out at high speeds?

Because I gotta believe this dude shit himself after the back end kicked out at high speed.

That's what happened on one of these insurance jobs we did. They're notorious for it.

DJ's left nut · 01-14-2022, 02:21 PM

What could possibly the most fun vehicle in history to drive:

The 1975 Lancia Stratos:

An absolute legend of a rally car. Had that little Ferraro Dino V-6 in it that revved to the heavens and just tore the hell out of any surface you put it on.

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