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« Reply #1498 on: June 27, 2023, 07:57:54 AM »
Olivia Newton-John dead at 73 - Grease star passes away at her ranch after  breast cancer battle | The US Sun
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« Reply #1499 on: June 27, 2023, 12:55:59 PM »
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« Reply #1500 on: June 27, 2023, 04:32:20 PM »
Clean Gene Sadoian re-entered his '34 at the 1953 Oakland Roadster Show, where he won first place in the new sedan class. This photo shows Gene and Chuck Pollard with the car. When Gene started showing the '34, he was a criminology student at Fresno State. Back in those days, there were very few criminology students, and only one that was driving a hot rod. Hot rodders were known as villains, like what Hells Angels are considered today. Gene was trying to get into law enforcement. He was also in the college police force, and he remembers that the chairman used to call him telling him that he couldn't park his car at the administrative parking lot. "Oh, I was the bad guy. Then what happened is that California was trying to quell the hot rod riots and the movies. Hot rodders were the bad guys. All those B-class movies. They formed California Safety Patrol and the Califonia Highway Patrol. And they named two people, Ezra Earhart, and a guy by the name of Chuck Pollard. And what happened is that when I got my 1953 from the highway patrolman in his uniform, that became my saving grace, because now I was doing everything within the limits of the California Highway Patrol who were trying to legalize drag racing." Clean Gene is our man when it comes to early Fresno hot rod history, so be sure to head on over to the Clean Gene Collection on Kustomrama for more great photos, memories, and stories. Click here to check it out: https://kustomrama.com

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« Reply #1501 on: June 27, 2023, 04:53:41 PM »
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Hennessey HP1000 tunes the Cadillac CT5-V Blackwing up to 1,000 hp - Autoblog


Hope Hennessy is doing better these days.   Their early years were less than stellar with cars/warranty.  
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« Reply #1502 on: June 27, 2023, 05:10:56 PM »
you want 1000+ HP AND a warranty???

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« Reply #1503 on: June 27, 2023, 05:12:50 PM »
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you want 1000+ HP AND a warranty???

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Yes.  If I am paying $65,000 for the upgrades- I want the car to be dependable for at least a year or 12,000 miles.  
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« Reply #1504 on: June 27, 2023, 05:13:48 PM »
well, they might do 12/12
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« Reply #1505 on: June 27, 2023, 05:25:24 PM »
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well, they might do 12/12
They had a bad reputation early on for not backing up their warranties.   I don’t think it is that way any more.   
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« Reply #1506 on: June 28, 2023, 07:06:59 AM »
I'm not sure how much 1,000 hp "helps" much of anything...  beyond acceleration after 30 mph maybe.

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« Reply #1507 on: June 28, 2023, 07:16:05 AM »
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I'm not sure how much 1,000 hp "helps" much of anything...  beyond acceleration after 30 mph maybe.


Truly.   Unless you frequent the drag strip and/or road courses.  ( many people WHO attain that level of HP/TQ do).   Not much good on the street. 
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« Reply #1508 on: June 28, 2023, 08:30:31 AM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on June 28, 2023, 07:06:59 AM
I'm not sure how much 1,000 hp "helps" much of anything...  beyond acceleration after 30 mph maybe.


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Suppose your tooling along at 82mph on I-90 headed West thru South Dakota
Some punk rolls up beside you in his new Z06 Vette........ and gives you that look
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« Reply #1509 on: June 28, 2023, 08:52:39 AM »
Heh, 82 mph on that stretch will get you run over, I was doing that in a 4 cylinder minivan back when.  Any faster and I could tell the motor was not happy.
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« Reply #1510 on: June 28, 2023, 08:59:12 AM »
I'm old and tired of expensive tickets and insurance
I drive SD a lot.
Set the cruise 4 over at 84 and relax
unless I'm late for something
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« Reply #1511 on: June 28, 2023, 10:44:39 AM »


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