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Rexxed posted:That is a great model. This is an actual little nitro engine ($800 just for the engine kit): Those are amazing. Love the little ITBs  There's also a guy who makes turbos and superchargers for them as well, it looks very fun https://youtu.be/lj381XRcfCA Although it's probably cheaper to just turbo a normal human scale car
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mobby_6kl posted:Although it's probably cheaper to just turbo a normal human scale car Similarly, Subaru Japan has recently been taking orders for commemorative statues of the EJ20. Solid metal, less than 10cm tall and they want $3000ish dollars for it. You could literally buy a working EJ20 for that much, with a car attached if you're lucky. https://www.subaruonline.jp/sti/lifestyle/STSG20100750/
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AFewBricksShy posted:That's totally a valid opinion but you also have to remember that it was a low budget non-hollywood movie, shot by a guy who wasn't really a director yet (he was a Doctor), with no real stars in the movie (at the time) in the late '70's. The "chase" in The French Connection was so disappointing, after hearing it talked up for years. He's chasing the subway. A fixed route, with known destinations. I think the two elements were that it was a race against time in the movie, and that the actual filming was stolen footage, they didn't have permits or anything. Well, maybe some loose cooperation from the police (third item or so down) https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0067116/trivia?ref_=m_tt_trv_trv But since this is the awesome AI stuff thread, here's one of the chases from 1998's Ronin, directed by John Frankenheimer, who also directed Grand Prix. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MxxH0lZSYgU
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RillAkBea posted:Similarly, Subaru Japan has recently been taking orders for commemorative statues of the EJ20. Solid metal, less than 10cm tall and they want $3000ish dollars for it. You could literally buy a working EJ20 for that much, with a car attached if you're lucky. Well, hell, for $3000 I'll find and polish up an empty block and heads and build a display mount for it.
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wankel13b posted:But since this is the awesome AI stuff thread, here's one of the chases from 1998's Ronin, directed by John Frankenheimer, who also directed Grand Prix. When people ask me what my favorite movie is, I always forget it's this movie. It's like...the 90's movie to me.
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https://www.instagram.com/tv/COOHLtcpnmR/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link More video from the street legal Scarbo SVF1. Edit: Here's another https://www.instagram.com/p/COQXDY7FFHY/?igshid=1so0c0b87gxuh McTinkerson fucked around with this message at 17:59 on Apr 29, 2021 |
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I... I want this car. Someone please buy me this car.
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wankel13b posted:But since this is the awesome AI stuff thread, here's one of the chases from 1998's Ronin, directed by John Frankenheimer, who also directed Grand Prix. This is one of my not so well known favorites https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzIju2TT95Q
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Yeah, I also really love how that car looks. Can someone smarter tell me why?Applebees Appetizer posted:This is one of my not so well known favorites These older chase scenes are horrifying to me with the brakes those cars had. I think that's probably what I like about them. It's much less absurd fast and the furious (which is also good in its way, come at me) and more "these stunt folks could die at any moment."
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Mcqueen posted:When people ask me what my favorite movie is, I always forget it's this movie. It's like...the 90's movie to me. Ronin was a good flick. Maybe some Bimmerhead can chime in cause from watching it I thought it was a 535i with M5 turbine wheels. Didn't think it was a real M5. I always enjoyed Bullitt. Some say the movie is boring but it is drat accurate with everything in it. The car chase did have some bad editing. And the fact the cars didn't have limited slip annoys me.
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Mcqueen posted:When people ask me what my favorite movie is, I always forget it's this movie. It's like...the 90's movie to me.  The only part that pisses me off is the single scene of CGI tire smoke from the diesel Mercedes. It didn’t age well, and 100% would have been better to just do without.
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Colostomy Bag posted:Ronin was a good flick. Maybe some Bimmerhead can chime in cause from watching it I thought it was a 535i with M5 turbine wheels. Didn't think it was a real M5. I would expect a real M5, especially given the director's historical choice of camera cars includes GT40s.
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Motronic posted:I love the car chase, but "some bad editing" is an understatement if you 1.) understand SF geography and 2.) look out for that same VW beetle. I think something like 11 hubcaps come off the two cars?
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boxen posted:I think something like 11 hubcaps come off the two cars? Yes, that too. Only one of which actually had hubcaps.
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Yeah, the Beetle. Somehow the little guy gets passed five times. Didn't realize Bill Hickman who plays the bad/guy driver in Bullitt also drove the stunt car in French Connection.
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I thought I had heard that the chase scene in Bullitt wasn't exactly authorized or permitted by the city but they just went ahead and did it anyways. Or maybe it was a different movie? I do remember hearing the Blues Brothers really pissed off the city of Chicago though.
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Joe Mama posted:I thought I had heard that the chase scene in Bullitt wasn't exactly authorized or permitted by the city but they just went ahead and did it anyways. Or maybe it was a different movie? I do remember hearing the Blues Brothers really pissed off the city of Chicago though. That was The French Connection, and the crash with the white car was an innocent bystander. https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/entertainment/videos/a24683/the-french-connection-chase-was-shot-on-uncleared-public-streets/
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Joe Mama posted:I thought I had heard that the chase scene in Bullitt wasn't exactly authorized or permitted by the city but they just went ahead and did it anyways. Or maybe it was a different movie? I do remember hearing the Blues Brothers really pissed off the city of Chicago though. That was The French Connection Edit: gently caress, too slow And I was even gonna ask if the crashes were staged or not, hahaha Fayez Butts fucked around with this message at 05:15 on Apr 30, 2021 |
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What a handsome car, why did they nix it?! https://twitter.com/dennieredwards/status/1387935508983164930?s=19
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Olympic Mathlete posted:What a handsome car, why did they nix it?! Two letters: G M
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https://twitter.com/garygastelu/status/1388070729867046912 Asking the important questions
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Olympic Mathlete posted:What a handsome car, why did they nix it?! There's a lot of Vauxhall Insignia in that. Except 500% less dull.
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Colostomy Bag posted:Yeah, the Beetle. Somehow the little guy gets passed five times. Also was in/worked on the movie "The Seven Ups" from '73 with a great car chase in it too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vACWV5sRcY Too bad they never did a doc on the guy when he was still alive. Amazing stories....
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Ya'll will appreciate this: https://ciechanow.ski/internal-combustion-engine/ This guy Bartosz Ciechanowski posts incredible in-depth interactive visual explainers of physics/engineering stuff, and the latest one is about the internal combustion engine. If you walk through this all you will end up with an intuitive understanding of how a mostly-modern ICE works on a fundamental level. And also an appreciation for how incredible it is they don't gently caress up more often given how complex they are. Also check out the archive for other insanely high quality topics. Guinness fucked around with this message at 00:51 on May 1, 2021 |
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ARTPUP posted:Also was in/worked on the movie "The Seven Ups" from '73 with a great car chase in it too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vACWV5sRcY Yeah, and toss Carey Loftin into the mix.
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Jack McClure is posting in my facebook group and I'm a little star struck. I had to tell someone and randoms on the internet is good enough. For those of you who don't know, he was the guy who mounted a turbonique rocket to a go kart and went racing. He did 7 second quarter miles. He is currently over 80 years old and still races a rocket powered kart, albeit high test hydrogen peroxide this time around.     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZNc8ZOIkbQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgrVJOMWAx8  Absolute legend. um excuse me fucked around with this message at 03:25 on May 1, 2021 |
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um excuse me posted:Jack McClure is posting in my facebook group and I'm a little star struck. I had to tell someone and randoms on the internet is good enough. I can feel the death wobbles from here!
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um excuse me posted:Jack McClure is posting in my facebook group and I'm a little star struck. To be fair, it's a loving awesome FB group.
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AirRaid posted:There's a lot of Vauxhall Insignia in that. Except 500% less dull. Vauxhall's designs have been pretty great for a good few years now, must be the same designer responsible.
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um excuse me posted:
I saw his post too, and i had questions that were unanswered. He, or someone, said that that thing on his jacket was a "parachute jacket" that drag boat racers wear, I think. Something about stabilizing the driver if they get thrown from the boat. However, I couldn't find photos of what it would look like deployed or what it does, exactly.
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MetaJew posted:I saw his post too, and i had questions that were unanswered. He, or someone, said that that thing on his jacket was a "parachute jacket" that drag boat racers wear, I think. Something about stabilizing the driver if they get thrown from the boat. Here's one opening prematurely... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKYthEbjc8s
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