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Old Oct 14, 2005 | 06:45 AM
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Default Saw the Hardcore Black TA convertible last night

We have the World Street Nationals this weekend, all the baddest cars in the nation were at Race Rock (automotive sports themed restaurant) on International Drive last night.

I hear this bad azz car coming up thru the crowd, turn around and see the shiny black TA heading my way. This thing was loud. There was no mistaking this was the famous hardcore car. Looked inside and you could see the polished cooler in the passenger seat. You could hear and feel that this thing had some power, pretty cool. I guess they went back to the convertible. I was surprised how low it was. Anyway it was cool to see the car you see and hear about in person.

Looking forward to watching the fastest doorslammers go at it this weekend!

As a tradition they usually let the cars do a short burnout right on I drive but this year they outlawed it. There were cops everywhere..

So I was cruisin around and there were people everywhere, I had the windows down and the tops off and everyone was egging me on to do it, so I did. The whole crowd was cheering and not even a second later I had blue lights behind me, lol. The crowd was booing the cop, it was hilarious. Turns out it was my lucky day the cop let me go and told me to go home, so I did.
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Old Oct 14, 2005 | 06:58 AM
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Sounds like it was a fun time and a badass car. Regarding the "egging" on of the crowd, at least the cop was cool about it.

Any pics of the event?

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Old Oct 14, 2005 | 07:03 AM
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Wow sounds pretty cool. Nothing like a burnout to get the crowd going
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Old Oct 14, 2005 | 07:32 AM
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I personally don't have any pics, but cameras went off and plenty of people were video taping when I let her rip, lol.

The cop told me that he was busting every other car and said since I was the first one he would let me go.

It was funny cause he walked up to me and said ya know why I pulled ya over, and I said yea I'm an *******, he kinda smirked and then he asked me if I had any tickets within the past year and I said yea maybe one or two not sure, he asked for what I said speeding, then he burst out laughing. I guess since I was respectable and admitted wrong doing up front he was cool about it. But you could see everyone wanted to see some action, the atmosphere was electric. My car sounded really loud I was surprised. The cops must have thought I had brazz ballz, lol.
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Old Oct 14, 2005 | 08:29 AM
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the black one is the T-top one the blue is the convertable.
i have some pics of the vert from the ta nats.
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Old Oct 14, 2005 | 08:36 AM
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its bass boat blue.
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The cops really killed it this year. SOM, did you leave early because I didn't see your car?
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Old Oct 14, 2005 | 09:37 AM
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h ah aha colll at least u didnt get a ticket.....
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Originally Posted by NumberOneSled
The cops really killed it this year. SOM, did you leave early because I didn't see your car?
yes I was only there for a short while.
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Old Oct 14, 2005 | 01:12 PM
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ya gotta give the people a burn out....like this year at car craft...the little 7year old gril and 8 year old boy were too cute to refuse (in a super high voice) "spin them spin them!"
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Old Oct 14, 2005 | 01:50 PM
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congrats on no ticket, ive often found if you just admit that you an idiot they leave you alone
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Old Oct 16, 2005 | 03:57 PM
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Originally Posted by smokinHawk
the black one is the T-top one the blue is the convertable.
i have some pics of the vert from the ta nats.
Actually they had two black ta's one t-top and one convert. and the blue one is a fully molded carbon fiber body and even the convert top is carbon fiber. then they put the new body on the old black convert's chassis.
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Old Oct 16, 2005 | 05:05 PM
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hahahaha.. got to love it.
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Old Oct 16, 2005 | 05:26 PM
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Ya you definatly cant ignore a crowd that wants u to be the object of thier attention. There is a car parade that goes through a little town my parents grew up in in PA and there was the same no burnout rule. But being as it was a parade it covered a few miles of road. So there wasent always a cop around to give ya trouble. SO i get to a area adn the crowd is givin me the DO IT DO IT chant. I do it make alot of smoke and next thing i hear is bang in teh back of the car. I stop wonderint WTF it was as it wasent my car breaking. A second later I have a Cop at my side window saying im right here *******. lol it was a bicycle cop and he had ran into the back of my car. He must have been too embarrassed to stick around cause he just got on his bike adn took off lol. Was good times. GL


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