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Old Apr 26, 2008 | 03:36 PM
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Wow that was the first open house I went to. Speed REALLY knows how to put on a open house!!! Thanks!!! Alot of great cars and a TON of people. I didn't know GM produced that many fbodys. lol . The cars in the shop were very cool.

It had to cost a ton of $$$$$$$$$$$ for all the food and drinks.

It was a great time. Who else had a good time??????
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Old Apr 26, 2008 | 03:38 PM
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i had a great time, cops ruined the fun though!
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Old Apr 26, 2008 | 03:40 PM
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Yeah I saw your car pull in right at the end Tony, that thing looks and sounds very badass, too bad you missed the actual fun though. Oh well, always next year...
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Old Apr 26, 2008 | 03:43 PM
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Great time today. Definitely fun while it lasted. Thanks to everyone at Speed for putting on a great open house every year!
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Old Apr 26, 2008 | 03:45 PM
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That was a good time, I saw a ton of folks I have not seen in 4-5 even 6 years. How many pizzas you guys go through?

There was some older guy in some ghey white Camaro with stickers that kept coming around and launching off the transbrake.
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Old Apr 26, 2008 | 03:46 PM
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Originally Posted by Pro Stock John
That was a good time, I saw a ton of folks I have not seen in 4-5 even 6 years. How many pizzas you guys go through?

There was some older guy in some ghey white Camaro with stickers that kept coming around and launching off the transbrake.
lol ya tht guy was gay as hell!! ahah jk, ur car was badass, sounded mean as hell!
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Old Apr 26, 2008 | 03:48 PM
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any of u guys c tht guy do a burn out in his sedan? ahah tht was hilarious
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Old Apr 26, 2008 | 03:50 PM
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It was a good time. Thank you Speed INC.

I will post my pics later.
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It was weird, there were more C6Z's then there were C5's, you don't see that too often.
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Old Apr 26, 2008 | 03:53 PM
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Originally Posted by Pro Stock John
How many pizzas you guys go through?
100+....
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Old Apr 26, 2008 | 04:15 PM
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I missed it . I knew I shouldn't have drank last night!
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Old Apr 26, 2008 | 04:16 PM
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I saw allot of Z06's Those are rare
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Old Apr 26, 2008 | 04:21 PM
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Yea that was bad ***! My first one too and I'm going every year now. So many nice cars they put mine to shame haha. Good job on the launches John I got a few videos
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Old Apr 26, 2008 | 04:23 PM
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first one i've ever missed but i always go out of town the last weekend of april every year for relays weekend out here at my school. i'm in iowa now..sorry i didn't see ya guys.
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Old Apr 26, 2008 | 06:13 PM
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Originally Posted by SilverGhost
i'm in iowa now..sorry i didn't see ya guys.
Believe me, we're not.

John, yep the transbrake launches were pretty geigh. Car sounded healthy!
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Old Apr 26, 2008 | 06:39 PM
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yeah it was the first one for me too and i had a great time! Plan on making this an event i go to every year!
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Has anybody ever seen so many turbo cars together??????
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Old Apr 26, 2008 | 06:54 PM
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Good time Nice meeting some of you guys



I got a nice parking spot all the action
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Old Apr 26, 2008 | 07:05 PM
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This was my first Speed open house, I had a good time. Even though the cops busted it up a little it was still a good day. The 40+ car caravan we had was cool. One line of good ol American Muscle riding together. I tried to fit one of those Twin turboed cars in my pocket but, no luck. Now that was one bad *** garage. How about the SUPER clean Sunset orange camaro? one CLEAN ****. Who almost kissed my hanging ***** coming down that off ramp? I saw it coming for some reason and pulled to the side of Heymoej. Glad I did cuz it was close. Anyways, thanks for the invite, thanks for the food/drinks and a great day hangin with fellow gear heads. 2 Thumbs up for the crew at Speed.
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Old Apr 26, 2008 | 07:07 PM
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a lot of nice cars there, and seen a lot of faces i havent seen since last summer. good time, thanks speed!
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