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> Unless your name is Lancia and you move 100 cars from one parking spot to the other while you're treating the officials to a lunch with loooots of wine. I re
by Melting_Harps 6y ago
> Unless your name is Lancia and you move 100 cars from one parking spot to the other while you're treating the officials to a lunch with loooots of wine.
I really wish Clarkson would do more of these kind of stories, the trio would be the ideal team to make a docu-series for the Motorex and GTR fiasco!
It's such an insane story that I cannot believe they're on the 100th version of Fast and Furious but we have not seen this story be told.
Having lived through it myself, I was in the early drifting community in SoCal back in 2002 and a regular on Fresh Alloy/NICO since 2000. I even saw a few of those cars that got sold at the old meetups at Life Plaza before the canyon runs, the Bee*R rev limit kits on those R chassis [0] were so absurd back then when they first came out, they sounded like the meanest rally cars.
My memory is fuzzy after all these years, and I can't remember if it was big bird, or black bird but we saw it being tuned on the freeway in LA doing high speed wangan runs and the helicopters may or may not have showed up, good times.
I'm going to miss the ICE days because of this, but... they're dinosaurs and we can always tell the story from the glory days. I'm just glad I was born when I was, because I think that is a culture that has since peaked and is now on a very sad descent, other than Tesla and Rimac I don't see anyone even trying to make EV cars be anything more than a soulless utilitarian computer enclosure with wheels to get you to point A to B.
0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_pUReXK3zM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_pUReXK3zM