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70’s flashback, Cheryl Tiegs and Farrah Fawcett posters and the Pontiac Trans Am.
These guys did an over the top version of this. How could you not order the optional “T” roof? |
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I still remember when terry Brinkley, the most quiet guy in our high school, drove up in one of these at the height of the craze. Blew us all away. Suddenly, he wasn’t so quiet anymore.
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Nice looking car. I'd be a bit nervous trying to control that much power without all wheel drive AND traction control.
Unless I lived in Montana or Utah near the Bonneville Salt Flats, I'd be frustrated driving a car that powerful. I have a hard enough time being disciplined on my motorcycle and even then I run up over 100 mph anytime I ride more than 50 miles in a day. I think the car would get impounded if I ever bought something like that.
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It is not like the old days (the 90's) where you have a cable attached to the throttle body, and the further you put your foot down, the more it opens. These cars, and many like them from all the OEM's now, have calibrated throttles - they look at how much you press it, and then give you as much power as it thinks you want. They are calibrated by professional drivers and the car has settings that make it respond more or less aggressively (like track or touring mode). The tech is actually pretty amazing, and make the cars SUPER easy to drive. -Geoff |
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I heard this baby gets three miles per gallon! Not that it matters if you want 1000HP.
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Primary System (Always in flux): Analog Source: Rega RP10 Phono Preamp: Bryston BP2/PS3 Digital Software: Roon, Tidal Streaming Digital Music Server: Melco N1A/2 Digital Sources: Totaldac d1-twelve SE MkII (factory upgraded from MKI) with "live power" 4 output power supply, Oppo UDP-205 Preamplifier: Rogue Audio RP-9 (factory upgraded from RP-7) Amplifier: Vandersteen M5-HPA Speakers: Vandersteen Quatro Wood CT w/IsoAcoustics Gaia 1 feet Cabling: WW Platinum Starlight 7 digital wires, Totaldac Gigafilter USB filter, AQ Sky XLR, AQ Fire RCA Speaker Cables: AudioQuest Oak spades ---> bi-wire spades Power Cables: Esprit PC (for DAC), 2 WW Platinum Electra PC (Preamp/Phono Preamp), AQ NRG10 (Melco N1A/2), AQ Blizzard (Quatro Wood CT built-in subs) Power Conditioning: 2 AQ Niagara 1000, 3 Oyaide R1 outlets Sound Treatments: 23 ASC Tube Traps and 10 Panels |
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