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Cars that make your jaw drop.

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Formosa Hot Rod Reunion Roll Call & Jaw-Dropping Rides
I'll be camping at Formosa Dragway all weekend for the Hot Rod Reunion, Friday through Sunday.
What cars are you looking forward to seeing that still make your jaw drop? We know the nitro cars are a given. 😎
If you're going to be there, hit me up. Always cool to meet fellow forum members at the track. 🏁🔥🚗💨
PaulR
 
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“the first Miata to race in Baja, earning an official first place finish in the 2026 NORRA Vintage Stock Sedan class with an average speed of 23.55 miles per hour total on the dirt, with a best-stage average of nearly 33 miles per hour.”

Read More: https://www.jalopnik.com/2293093/buddy-off-road-miata-baja-race-winner/

tl/dr: think it’s just a stock drive train with 3” lift, aftermarket shocks and a turbo …
 
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“the first Miata to race in Baja, earning an official first place finish in the 2026 NORRA Vintage Stock Sedan class with an average speed of 23.55 miles per hour total on the dirt, with a best-stage average of nearly 33 miles per hour.”

Read More: https://www.jalopnik.com/2293093/buddy-off-road-miata-baja-race-winner/

tl/dr: think it’s just a stock drive train with 3” lift and a turbo …
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Check out the Gambler 500 Miata in this photo at the Wild 50 Acres Campground (Sears Point)
The Toyota MR 2 is also a Gambler 500 cars….

Check out a Gambler event at some point if your into Hooptie cars…..

PaulR 🤪
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budman said:
Have fun Paul. :Port
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I will be posting reels from the event on instagram as polliwog96 check it out.
Just learning how to share my videos.
We have friends competing in Nitro Funny Car the name of the car is “Capital Punishment”
I posted a few videos from the last time I was there already
Just learning how to add groups with # tags…

I be posting each day to get a great memory and have fun sharing the event from my perspective
Kind of like wish you could see this theme…

Probably lots of motorheads from back in the day may enjoy this format…
Camping at the track lots of great SoCal cars that I don’t see and cars from all across the country.

PaulR🤪
 
Wowsa, Iron Resurrection custom built one of those, stretched the cab a bit for legroom, elongated the fenders a bit too.
This, with an 8' bed, soo much chrome trim, I could spend some time behind this wheel, & view out over the hood.
 
Every generation has its dream car. For some of us, it wasn't an import or a modern supercar. It was a Challenger R/T with a 383.
This one is still making jaws drop all these years later.
Who had one, wanted one, or regrets selling one?
PaulR
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PaulR said:
Every generation has its dream car. For some of us, it wasn't an import or a modern supercar. It was a Challenger R/T with a 383.
This one is still making jaws drop all these years later.
Who had one, wanted one, or regrets selling one?
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Unfortunately I have stated my hert ache at selling my old Challenger. It wasn't an R/T 383 but it was loved and raced a bit. So much of my formative years were shaped by that car and my sketchy shady tree mechanic skills were greatly enhanced.
 
PaulR said:
Every generation has its dream car. For some of us, it wasn't an import or a modern supercar. It was a Challenger R/T with a 383.
This one is still making jaws drop all these years later.
Who had one, wanted one, or regrets selling one?
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I had a 68 Charger in the late 90s/early 2000s. Thing was an absolute basket case and I was a broke-ass kid, but it ran and drove despite the holes in the body, floor, and trunk. Originally a 225 equipped car, someone at some point in is life swapped in a 360 from a mid 70s pickup. It had a cam and once I shitcanned the QuadraJunk and replaced it with an Edelbrock, it got down! The 4-wheel manual drum brakes left something to be desired though :laughing

Sold it in 2005 for way too little and I've been beating myself up for it ever since.
 
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I like those Porsche station wagons.
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Me too....It went for $54.5K. I bailed out a little before that...wholesale is around $50K, but a color like that won't come around often and Porsche doesn't make the sport nor 4 cross Turismo anymore.
 
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Me too....It went for $54.5K. I bailed out a little before that...wholesale is around $50K, but a color like that won't come around often and Porsche doesn't make the sport nor 4 cross Turismo anymore.
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While overseas a few times this last month I noticed there are a lot of car brands with wagon offerings that we don't see here. Almost all the major ones have a wagon over there.
 
Yeah, the US kinda sucks for wagons. We get some cool ones, no one buys them and they disappear. The Regal Tour-X was quote good and yet, no one bought them. They bought Tahoe's and Yukons...where the engines blew up.
 
Totally....although testing drivers complain about two things: artificial feel of brakes and artificial, inconsistent feeling of the steering. So many cars are like this now days...even many performance cars. I have no idea what GM did to get the Corvette C8 to feel hydraulic, but the brakes and steering are money on that car.
 
Abacinator said:
..once I shitcanned the QuadraJunk and replaced it with an Edelbrock, it got down!
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A dialed-in Q-jet is second to none... way better than that ancient Edelbrock / Carter AFB. The key is knowing how to set it up, or know someone who does. I've run 'em on a bunch of different engines, the most unique application being a Ford 300 (6-cylinder) that I had Sean Murphy Induction put together for me. If I can't run FI, it's my go-to carb.
 
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A dialed-in Q-jet is second to none... way better than that ancient Edelbrock / Carter AFB. The key is knowing how to set it up, or know someone who does. I've run 'em on a bunch of different engines, the most unique application being a Ford 300 (6-cylinder) that I had Sean Murphy Induction put together for me. If I can't run FI, it's my go-to carb.
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Not enough CFMs! :laughing
 
Abacinator said:
The RS6 avant is pretty boner-inducing
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Isn't that the one that Tom drives in Mobland? I love that car.
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Not enough CFMs! :laughing
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I got a Holly 650 4 barrel for free cause dude and his mechanic couldn't set the air/fuel mixture right. He bought it new put it on, couldn't get it right, took it off, and gave it to me. I was like hell yeah I grew up doing Holley carbs.
 
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