A large portion of my life is now complete....
Ridenour
08-12-2005, 06:37 PM
I just truly experienced an orgasmic-nirvana-like driving experience. I just have to share it.
Here at Kettering University (use to be GMI) I'm in the Firebirds car club. Every year, we have our annual car show, in which we get dealers from around the area to let us display their new products. We pick up all the products tonight, display them tommorow, and take them back saturday night. I coordinated with a local Ford dealer to secure some products, and drove back a turbo-diesel F250 to the storage lot (prior to being stored in the garage for overnight). Upon my return, I swapped with a fellow member for his brand new, 5.7 L Charger R/T - which I proceeded to take for an incredible 15 minute ride :). That was amazing. 340 hp of sheer badassedness, and the handling of a go-kart. :). That alone was awesome. However, after that, I was also able to drive a new SLK 350, and a new CLS 500, for about 5 minutes each. I have never driven anything like those 3 vehicles in my life. It was simply driving paradise. It was incredibly badass. I just had to share it with you all. Thank you.
BTW, if I can get borrow a digi-cam, I'll take some pics tommorow at our show and post up, so that way noone will tell me:
" :useless: "
LoL. I'll try to have some pics ASAP.
By the way, if any of you Michigander AF-ers want to attend our car show, it's tommorow at
Kettering University
1700 W Third Ave
Flint, MI
48504
10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Here at Kettering University (use to be GMI) I'm in the Firebirds car club. Every year, we have our annual car show, in which we get dealers from around the area to let us display their new products. We pick up all the products tonight, display them tommorow, and take them back saturday night. I coordinated with a local Ford dealer to secure some products, and drove back a turbo-diesel F250 to the storage lot (prior to being stored in the garage for overnight). Upon my return, I swapped with a fellow member for his brand new, 5.7 L Charger R/T - which I proceeded to take for an incredible 15 minute ride :). That was amazing. 340 hp of sheer badassedness, and the handling of a go-kart. :). That alone was awesome. However, after that, I was also able to drive a new SLK 350, and a new CLS 500, for about 5 minutes each. I have never driven anything like those 3 vehicles in my life. It was simply driving paradise. It was incredibly badass. I just had to share it with you all. Thank you.
BTW, if I can get borrow a digi-cam, I'll take some pics tommorow at our show and post up, so that way noone will tell me:
" :useless: "
LoL. I'll try to have some pics ASAP.
By the way, if any of you Michigander AF-ers want to attend our car show, it's tommorow at
Kettering University
1700 W Third Ave
Flint, MI
48504
10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
MBTN
08-12-2005, 06:41 PM
That GTO in you sig: I drove it. :)
Ridenour
08-12-2005, 07:04 PM
That GTO in you sig: I drove it. :)
Bastard.
:evillol: LoL it's ok... I'll have one in about 4 long, longggg years...
how'd u like it?
Bastard.
:evillol: LoL it's ok... I'll have one in about 4 long, longggg years...
how'd u like it?
blindside.AMG
08-12-2005, 07:47 PM
Hey bro, if you're ever in the LA area hit me up and I'll see if I can let you drive a couple AMG Mercs. They're a totally different beast compared to the standard models. It sucks though, after you drive an SL65 everything else feels so goddamn slow. :(
Ridenour
08-12-2005, 07:59 PM
Hey bro, if you're ever in the LA area hit me up and I'll see if I can let you drive a couple AMG Mercs. They're a totally different beast compared to the standard models. It sucks though, after you drive an SL65 everything else feels so goddamn slow. :(
Are we talking 355 hp AMG's? :) - if that happened John, you would become my idol. LoL - i'll have to remember that; I might get down there next summer to visit my friend. Just don't lose your job until then, at least :smokin:
Are we talking 355 hp AMG's? :) - if that happened John, you would become my idol. LoL - i'll have to remember that; I might get down there next summer to visit my friend. Just don't lose your job until then, at least :smokin:
blindside.AMG
08-12-2005, 08:04 PM
Are we talking 355 hp AMG's? :) - if that happened John, you would become my idol. LoL - i'll have to remember that; I might get down there next summer to visit my friend. Just don't lose your job until then, at least :smokin:
No, we're talking about 500-650 hp AMG's. :biggrin:
Oh, and no promises on the "keeping the job" thing. :uhoh:
No, we're talking about 500-650 hp AMG's. :biggrin:
Oh, and no promises on the "keeping the job" thing. :uhoh:
pickle
08-12-2005, 08:28 PM
No, we're talking about 500-650 hp AMG's. :biggrin:
Oh, and no promises on the "keeping the job" thing. :uhoh:
Just don't crash anymore cars or do a Drew... that's my new sentence "do a Drew"
Oh, and no promises on the "keeping the job" thing. :uhoh:
Just don't crash anymore cars or do a Drew... that's my new sentence "do a Drew"
blindside.AMG
08-12-2005, 08:44 PM
Just don't crash anymore cars or do a Drew... that's my new sentence "do a Drew"
Lol, Do a Drew. Don't worry, I don't plan on having any wheels fall off after I work on a vehicle. I take more pride in my work to let that happen. But today Mr. Hilton came back after I worked on his car. I pulled off the door panel to replace a light a couple days ago and the release cable for the door handle came off today. :banghead:
Lol, Do a Drew. Don't worry, I don't plan on having any wheels fall off after I work on a vehicle. I take more pride in my work to let that happen. But today Mr. Hilton came back after I worked on his car. I pulled off the door panel to replace a light a couple days ago and the release cable for the door handle came off today. :banghead:
Ridenour
08-12-2005, 10:34 PM
That would be extremely badass. That sucks about the door cable. LoL
BTW, what'd drew do?
BTW, what'd drew do?
blindside.AMG
08-12-2005, 10:44 PM
That would be extremely badass. That sucks about the door cable. LoL
BTW, what'd drew do?
Drew is my ex-roommate, we work at the same shop. A couple months ago, somehow, he left a customers wheel loose on their S500. It fell off when she was driving like 2 days later. She's ok and not much happened to the car but he got suspended for 3 days.
I still don't know how you leave a wheel loose. I mean, it's either on the car and tightened, or completely off. I've never halfway put a wheel on....but I guess that's just me. :dunno:
BTW, what'd drew do?
Drew is my ex-roommate, we work at the same shop. A couple months ago, somehow, he left a customers wheel loose on their S500. It fell off when she was driving like 2 days later. She's ok and not much happened to the car but he got suspended for 3 days.
I still don't know how you leave a wheel loose. I mean, it's either on the car and tightened, or completely off. I've never halfway put a wheel on....but I guess that's just me. :dunno:
ec437
08-13-2005, 02:30 AM
:useless:
ThatRoundHeadedKid
08-13-2005, 02:36 AM
Ec you dick lol
MBTN
08-13-2005, 08:51 AM
Bastard.
:evillol: LoL it's ok... I'll have one in about 4 long, longggg years...
how'd u like it?
It's my friends. The interior is nice, it's good pretty good brakes and it's mighty fast! It's not ugly by any means, but it's very bland to me. Also the throw on the shifter is a mile long. Uber power though :iceslolan
:evillol: LoL it's ok... I'll have one in about 4 long, longggg years...
how'd u like it?
It's my friends. The interior is nice, it's good pretty good brakes and it's mighty fast! It's not ugly by any means, but it's very bland to me. Also the throw on the shifter is a mile long. Uber power though :iceslolan
G-man422
08-13-2005, 09:21 AM
Pics!
Ridenour
08-13-2005, 09:33 AM
Digital camera is en route. Should have some pics posted by 5-o'clock-ish.
Yeh you're right about that long throw. I sat in one and dry-shifted it and it felt long as hell.
We had a bit of a scare this morning. It fucking sucked. I was in charge of arranging / bringing 4 Ford vehicles here from a local dealer, and 2 of my drivers lost the keys to a new Explorer and new Freestar somehow in the process of bringing the vehicles to the garage. The keys were in neither. After tons of searching, calling, talking, and even telling the Ford dealer that we lost them, we found them in the side door pocket of a new Dodge PowerWagon. We don't even want to know how the hell they got there, but everything's good-to-go now. I was really sweating it there for a while... :) *phew*!
Yeh you're right about that long throw. I sat in one and dry-shifted it and it felt long as hell.
We had a bit of a scare this morning. It fucking sucked. I was in charge of arranging / bringing 4 Ford vehicles here from a local dealer, and 2 of my drivers lost the keys to a new Explorer and new Freestar somehow in the process of bringing the vehicles to the garage. The keys were in neither. After tons of searching, calling, talking, and even telling the Ford dealer that we lost them, we found them in the side door pocket of a new Dodge PowerWagon. We don't even want to know how the hell they got there, but everything's good-to-go now. I was really sweating it there for a while... :) *phew*!
Ridenour
08-14-2005, 02:56 PM
Ok, here's the good pics. I had to scale them down drastically (thus the differing sizes/distortion) and my sis's camera took a shit on us half-way through, so none of the charger, magnum, 300c, or alot of other badass pics came onto the computer. But here's the others that did save:
The Mercs I drove (SLK 350 on left, CLS500 on right)
http://img77.imageshack.us/img77/5968/a4bo.jpg
My sis sitting in the SLK 350. When I drove it the top was up
http://img64.imageshack.us/img64/2817/c7gi.jpg
Some of the beemers we had
http://img305.imageshack.us/img305/4034/d1ef.jpg
Our STI (fastest car there). I only was able to ride in it - fast as fuck
http://img119.imageshack.us/img119/1659/e2gv.jpg
The RX-8
http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/2173/f2iv.jpg
The Saturn Ion Redline
http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/9273/g4tu.jpg
Our THREE Lotus Elise's. The closest lime green one was the actual test-driving car that customers are allowed to drive. The tires were literally worn down to slicks (front and back).http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/3462/h8po.jpg
So overall it was a cool show. I had some other decent pics, but they weren't the time to resize / upload. And it sucked some of my good ones didn't turn out, but o well.
The Mercs I drove (SLK 350 on left, CLS500 on right)
http://img77.imageshack.us/img77/5968/a4bo.jpg
My sis sitting in the SLK 350. When I drove it the top was up
http://img64.imageshack.us/img64/2817/c7gi.jpg
Some of the beemers we had
http://img305.imageshack.us/img305/4034/d1ef.jpg
Our STI (fastest car there). I only was able to ride in it - fast as fuck
http://img119.imageshack.us/img119/1659/e2gv.jpg
The RX-8
http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/2173/f2iv.jpg
The Saturn Ion Redline
http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/9273/g4tu.jpg
Our THREE Lotus Elise's. The closest lime green one was the actual test-driving car that customers are allowed to drive. The tires were literally worn down to slicks (front and back).http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/3462/h8po.jpg
So overall it was a cool show. I had some other decent pics, but they weren't the time to resize / upload. And it sucked some of my good ones didn't turn out, but o well.
jcsaleen
08-14-2005, 07:02 PM
Cute cars....
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