Daveskater
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was the thread title meant to be read in jeremy clarksons voice? . . . . IN THE WORLD
Numberwang!
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I like you Dave, you are a man of men
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Dave's maybe capable of a drive-by cuddle
Look at my pictures
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thegsi
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Also, I'd be interested to see how he goes about running it on regular fuel. It obviously runs race fuel and is set up so precisely to do so. Wonder how much 'tweeking' it would take to comfortably run regular fuel on the road?
[Edited on 06-06-2012 by thegsi]
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Gary
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Wonder how much 'tweeking' it would take to comfortably run regular fuel on the road?
At least one million man hours of tweaking!! Now can everyone stop nit picking and just admit its an epic build! 
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richc
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Originally posted by Gary
quote:
Originally posted by thegsi
Wonder how much 'tweeking' it would take to comfortably run regular fuel on the road?
At least one million man hours of tweaking!! Now can everyone stop nit picking and just admit its an epic build!
No one is doubting it is an 'epic' build. The main point about this car (and why its making the 'headlines') is that its a road legal car has done 6.something quater mile. There are 100's are dragsters that due stupid times throughout the world but this one is made special by the fact it is 'road legal'. This implies that it can drive straight off the strip, after doing its world record time and drive home. This isnt the case due to the wheelie bar, tyres etc. Therefor it cannot drive home, unless modified again making it not road legal as suggested.
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ed
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This thread isn't nearly pedantic enough - no one's even bothered to mention that it's got as many original Vauxhall parts on it as the mug of coffee sitting next to my laptop at the moment 
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taylorboosh
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it couldnt be put on the top gear laptime board as it is,its not legal imo
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Robin
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Literally the only difference is a set of tyres an a wheelie bar, so at the absolute most, 24 bolts. That's hardly a big change.
At th end of the day, it can be driven on the road, so as fa as the record goes, it's the quickest road legal car in the world, nothing more to it!
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Nic Barnes
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Yup. Just Internet morons using up bandwidth chatting shit they don't understand robin. I agree with you. Road legal, amazing. Well done to the lot that built it. Remembering drag racing isn't anywhere near as big over here as it is America, to have the world record is damn impressive.
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big eck
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Internet morons gtf
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Steve
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24 bolts. could rock up in a puma and bolt a jet engine onto the car, beat the record, win
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Nic Barnes
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and thus proves internet morons comments. think of the bandwidth you are wasting that useful comments could have used ffs.
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Steve
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can we have a definition of where we draw the line with road legal plz
you could show up in a car that is road legal and spend 2 days altering it to the point its no longer road legal, but it still has tax and test, what then
my problem isnt the car, its the rules that allow changes that means it can still be classed as road legal, when in fact it actually isnt when it races
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Nic Barnes
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the race isn't specific to it being road legal at all. you've missed the point of that. the car itself is road legal. the race is actually irrelevant. the time is set by a car that can be driven on the roads. stop talking utter shite like normal.
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Steve
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then there shouldnt be a road legal status element if its irrelevant to the race
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Steve
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should just be compared to every other drag racer in which case it isnt fastest at anything really
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Sunz
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The car isn't road legal at the time of the race.
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Steve
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exactly so shouldnt even be a road legal category or time lead board or whatever, and if there is then it should be no changes to the road legal form
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richc
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quote:
Originally posted by Steve
then there shouldnt be a road legal status element if its irrelevant to the race
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Robin
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You lot are a bunch of boring pedantic cunts Regardless of what YOU think or say, the fact of the matter is, it has the record. Stop going on
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Corsa_Sport21
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What are the MOT laws on a car of this age?? I think that could be the deciding factor of its road legal status. It certainly wont be subjected to the same MOT inspection as more modern cars, like Ford Puma's.
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Robin
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The only thing which may differ is the emissions test
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Nic Barnes
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I've noticed steven likes to ridicule anything that isn't about him being great. i think thats all that he is doing here. just ignore him and he will go away.
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Corsa_Sport21
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Found this thread via google......
http://www.dragracing.de/showthread.php?467-8-39-165-4-mph-on-pump-fuel-and-MT-sportsman-tyres
Old thread, but the owner of the car has explained in a way about the "street legal" status.
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Nic Barnes
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Originally posted by Corsa_Sport21
Found this thread via google......
http://www.dragracing.de/showthread.php?467-8-39-165-4-mph-on-pump-fuel-and-MT-sportsman-tyres
Old thread, but the owner of the car has explained in a way about the "street legal" status.
its pretty evident that whatever the explanation is, its not going to be good enough.
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ed
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All of these cars are road legal:
But they have no roof and no boot so you couldn't put a baby in the back or go buy wine from the supermarket in them, therefore they aren't road legal. Plus they'd be too low for Top Gear to let them on the power lap thing - nail, coffin.
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