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"Milky" (jordanmielke) 07/30/2015 at 11:31 • Filed to: GT350R, Mustang, Ford, Model A

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The A next to an R

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Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire > Milky 07/30/2015 at 11:33

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I’ll take the A

EL_ULY > Milky 07/30/2015 at 11:34

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next, an A next to an SS

ly2v8-Brian > Milky 07/30/2015 at 11:35

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The only car that matters in this photo

SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie > Milky 07/30/2015 at 11:37

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I’ll take the A plox, thx.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Milky 07/30/2015 at 11:37

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That the mustang doesn’t have baby moons is THE OPPOSITE OF PROGRESS.

MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s > Milky 07/30/2015 at 11:37

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you sure that’s progress?

Milky > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 07/30/2015 at 11:38

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Well its the one thats not a Mustang, so obviously.

Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer > Milky 07/30/2015 at 11:39

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By that scale, this is where progress stops.

Milky > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 07/30/2015 at 11:39

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I mean ….. it does have carbon fiber wheels, so.

TractorPillow > Milky 07/30/2015 at 11:41

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A please.

Milky > MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s 07/30/2015 at 11:41

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Depends on what scale you're measuring with. On all but Badass-ery the mustang takes it.

Milky > Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer 07/30/2015 at 11:43

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I am not a Mustang fan, but didn’t the 350R just beat the Z/28’s lap time somewhere?

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Milky 07/30/2015 at 11:44

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Baby moons or GTFAC.

RallyWrench > Milky 07/30/2015 at 11:47

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The one on the right, please.

Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer > Milky 07/30/2015 at 11:56

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-5 seconds on the Nurburgring, if that’s what you’re thinking of. BUT: Apparently there it was (correct me if I’m wrong) some doubt about it, and the Z/28 was in the rain.

I haven’t heard of anything else, but then I haven’t been paying much attention.

MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s > Milky 07/30/2015 at 11:56

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seems oppo likes the old, custom, weird one...who’d a thunk it

MonkeePuzzle > Milky 07/30/2015 at 11:59

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they are really sexy next to each other, shame about the background

BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast. > Milky 07/30/2015 at 12:08

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Things sure have come a long way in ~100 years.

Wonder what the next interval would be... beginning->100 years->200 years.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > RallyWrench 07/30/2015 at 12:09

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Okay, your comment for some reason got me thinking - what if the satin black were a rental fleet color? What if these were two cars in a much larger Rental Fleet of Heaven? Head out to the lot, and pick anything in lot A that fits your standards of badassness?

MonkeePuzzle > Milky 07/30/2015 at 12:11

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much better in this fictional parking lot at the salt flats

citizennick > Milky 07/30/2015 at 12:12

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It was a second faster on some track in Michigan (name escapes me). I'm pretty sure the GM boys won't have an issue topping that. But let's hope they don't wait 4 model years before releasing the Z/28. Still no word on even a 1LE package for the new Camaro, ugh.

RallyWrench > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 07/30/2015 at 12:16

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Brb filing business plan & wooing investors...

Milky > MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s 07/30/2015 at 12:21

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I know right? Weird people around these parts.

Milky > MonkeePuzzle 07/30/2015 at 12:22

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Haha nice. But the original is from Ford development center, so its kinda cool.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > RallyWrench 07/30/2015 at 12:23

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Needs a distinctive touch, though. Pure satin black is one thing, but how about satin black with one off-center white racing stripe? Minimalist, clean, incredibly distinctive. Actually, you could even make the name something like Stripe, so you could leverage the “the look is our logo” thing. I really think we’ve got something here.

Milky > citizennick 07/30/2015 at 12:23

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They’ll get enough press just from when they go on sale … gotta wait a bit to release a hot version and spark interest again.

Milky > Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer 07/30/2015 at 12:25

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I haven’t paid much attention either, otherwise I’d know the name. But it was on some track here, lap time around 2 minutes. IIRC it was close though.

Milky > BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast. 07/30/2015 at 12:27

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It is weird looking side by side. The only thing they have in common is the layout(FR) and company they’re from.

tapzz > Milky 07/30/2015 at 12:28

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I think that’s meant to be a ‘32, or model B if you like. It’s all academic anyway, because it never left Henry’s factories in anything like that shape.

BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast. > Milky 07/30/2015 at 12:31

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In 100 more years, the layout may not even bear resemblance, and may or may not even have wheels.

RallyWrench > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 07/30/2015 at 12:31

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I thin it’d work. I’d go with a gloss black stripe, or have some white hand-painted pinstripes. Or offer a stripe to order in a basic palate of colors to personalize the rental. Easy to do with vinyl.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > RallyWrench 07/30/2015 at 12:37

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Here’s the thing, too: You can make Deuces and other 30s Fords and others with all-new parts throughout, in variations, for not any more than a budget performer like a Mustang GT and less than a budget exotic. You could absolutely realize economies of scale enough to have every rental office offer a pair of Deuces with modern brakes, a pair of something-innocuous-based lead sled kits, repro 60s Stangs, and so on and so on.

Milky > tapzz 07/30/2015 at 13:00

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Eh, the pic is stolen from the owner’s instagram, I’d trust him. Might have swapped parts for all I know though.

Milky > BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast. 07/30/2015 at 13:01

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That Lexus hoverboard tho ….

BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast. > Milky 07/30/2015 at 13:09

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Hoverboard today...

Tomorrow, where we’re going, we don’t need roads...

RallyWrench > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 07/30/2015 at 13:53

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That could justify having a hell of a shop facility. Add it to the list of madness and insane but plausible business discussion for when you, 505, and myself finally meet. You’re in the Midwest, right? 505 can head up the Eastern seaboard, you Central, and I’ll run the West.

When I visited New Zealand, I rented a kickass fiberglass Alfa Romeo 8C 2900 replica with a Nissan RB20 for a few hours in Hokitika. The guy had other reps, hot rods, cruisers, muscle cars, and a selection of European machines for pretty reasonable rates. Cool idea, for sure.

This is the Alfa rep:

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > RallyWrench 07/30/2015 at 13:58

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I’m actually in western NC. Tohru is in the upper midwest and crazy, though. Seeing that the guy in NZ has made it work only makes me more convinced this could be done on a larger scale. I mean, it’s gotta be easier than wedding antique rentals - they’re renting actual antiques that are cruisin’ for a bruisin’ in all kinds of ways, not something you can have a shop spec’ed to keep going for pretty cheap.

RallyWrench > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 07/30/2015 at 14:18

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That works. A fleet of Ford or Chevy small block powered, disc braked, off the shelf, turn key cars with a high level of parts commonality would be great.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > RallyWrench 07/30/2015 at 14:26

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Not to mention, if you have a key level of craft getting your deuces built, you can sell them for nearly what you built them for when it’s time to rotate them out. The “never buy another man’s project” rule wouldn’t apply, and there are surely people who want a competent basic deuce.

RallyWrench > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 07/30/2015 at 14:32

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That’d be a key part of the business plan. Well built fake Deuces seem to go for 20-30k (I may or may not have been looking at hot rod projects over the last couple of months...). Maybe we could get a bulk chassis deal from TCI or Art Carr, find a Ford or Chevy dealer (or Summit) to swing a deal on crate motors, and so on.