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Old 03-05-04, 04:23 AM   #1 (permalink)
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The need for speed

Someone wanted to go racing real bad. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]
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Old 03-05-04, 04:41 AM   #2 (permalink)
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Re: The need for speed

Hmmm,

Dover Downs(The Monster Mile) is only a half hour from

here..... I wonder how a GT40 would do on a one mile banked

oval? [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

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Old 03-05-04, 10:25 AM   #3 (permalink)
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Re: The need for speed

Sometimes the need for speed overcomes good sense. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] I know that I'm not the only one that this has happened to. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] Of course I use my own cars.
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Re: The need for speed

Very strange... At least he kept it on the track and not on the crowded expressway! At least he's a responsible car theif! [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]
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Re: The need for speed

If this hadn't actually happened, Carl Hiaasen would have had to make it up....this guy will be in jail for a long time, he must have wanted the track time REAL bad.
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