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Ben Crowe
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1/8 Buggies are good for smoke. Had my Losi 8ight doing nice smokey helis one night with an old set of tires.

Honda NSX Type R. I am a sucker for anything that's fast and white though

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I've mentioned it a few times already tonight, but we have it in New Zealand, known simply as Stock car teams racing. It is nothing but Automotive warfare...

The next step for the kiwi guys once they have saved/stolen/hustled enough money is this; New Zealand style Stock car racing. Biggest form of Dirt track Racing in the country, and exactly what these kids aspire to be racing one day....

OOOOHHHH throwback Superlites!!!!!!
Nostalgic Car Porn.

Crazy men have been experimenting with Outboard motors in Race cars since their inception.
Frank Marsh from the UK ran an Elto outboard powered Midget car in the 1930's

Dude, you were reading my mind... I was dreaming this stuff up for my XV10 Daily Driver a couple of days ago...

Umm it's an Indy Car, and you can watch them on TV - this is what they look like now

nor would you want to own one - My one blew it's manual box to bits...

The Sultan of Brunei has one this color apparently...

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The child in me finds this hilarious. The adult in me is thankful that no one was seriously injured...

Ineptitude on all parts. NZ motorsport at it's finest....

I pretty much grew up in my dad's paint and panel shop, so it was guaranteed that I'd be a gear head. But one of my favorite things I had as a youngster was a Mark II Ford Zephyr pedal car, not too dissimilar to these.

I had one of these!!! I ruined it by putting a spoon in it....
I was a pretty dumb kid

Let's just say on the West Coast of NZ's South Island, they smoke a lot of "green"...
That's my only explanation...

that whole car is a bloody great turn off...
The ratty look doesn't work with VL Commodores, why the hell would it work on anything later?

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My all time favourite; Danny Sullivan's Spin to Win, Indy 1985

did someone say "torque"?

Whatever the heck this thing is....

My parents had a SWB FJ40 of these when I was a child. Bulletproof, "Go-Almost-Anywhere" brute of a Machine...