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Old 04-01-2005, 04:02 AM
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Sorry to hear guys about your 25% tax on all new performance cars reg as from 1.4.05, it,s even reached our TV news. It must be a big shock over in USA. It'll cause major price increases in s/h market.
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huh?

i have had cnn on for the last 8 hours... (always on here at work) i have seen nothing about this....
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April Fool!
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i got
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Ha Ha Ha
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Only caught one aye,thought there would have been more.
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o man jaber you walked right into that one lol
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yea....we haven't seen alot of april fools jokes
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You want to see April Fools?
www.thirdgen.org/techbb2
Jeez they take it overboard!
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bastard!
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LMAO. Got me too until I scrolled down and saw it was a joke. Good one.
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i was just thinking to myself that the new Z06s would now be around 100k! good one.
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I put my car up for sale on our local board as a joke. I said I wanted an enviromentally friendly car.
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Originally Posted by SmokingWS6
I put my car up for sale on our local board as a joke. I said I wanted an enviromentally friendly car.
we were gonna put our buddy's 01 SOM TA for sale in the local paper for $2500 with his cell number, but my other friend dropped the ball and didnt get down there in time. we may do it anyway.
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I'd be careful with the paper, you never know what crazy people will do...
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Originally Posted by FelixIlka
I'd be careful with the paper, you never know what crazy people will do...
probably try to sue him or something
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probably
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Best April fools joke I got from a car board this year was MMC.net created a ricer board to bash domestics and sucked a crap load of domestic owners in and the **** started to hit the fan. It was a good one. check it out:
http://hondarforums.proboards34.com/index.cgi
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RedLine that thred was great. lmao!!!



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