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Old Nov 17, 2003 | 02:12 PM
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In the explorer (camaro front end is being painted) coming out of my 12:00 class on the way to work.

See an Impreza with the license plate "IMPREZU".

So I race. A big, fat, V8 AWD explorer vs. this riced out car.

We pull on to the highway, and I hear his engine buzzing, so I hit it, at least expecting a laugh. But at 70 mph, I'm pulling on him pretty bad. Like 2+ car lengths bad. Then the great ford designed POS goes into overdrive. At WOT. Genius. So I scramble for the O/D off button and at 110 he's so far behind I tap the brakes and laugh hysterically.

This race was horribly slow and terribly anti-climatic. It must have taken 30 seconds to get to 90 mph.

But it was good fun, and the rice got wtfpwnd pretty bad.
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Old Nov 17, 2003 | 02:18 PM
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Originally Posted by z98
This race was horribly slow and terribly anti-climatic. It must have taken 30 seconds to get to 90 mph.
ROTFLMAO WTF? You got to 110? My damn '00 Sierra would hit the gov at 95!!!
Good kill.
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Old Nov 17, 2003 | 02:18 PM
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rofl, nice kill
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Old Nov 17, 2003 | 02:50 PM
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haha, nice kill. Stupid imprezas. Wonder if the kid thought that it was the same thing as a WRX?!?!
*(it was a regular old impreza, right?)
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Old Nov 17, 2003 | 04:20 PM
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that is great, i dont even now the top speed of my bronco!!
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Old Nov 17, 2003 | 06:06 PM
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Nice kill ... I destroyed a riced eclipse in my dad's suburban a month or two ago ... it was good stuff.
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Old Nov 17, 2003 | 06:43 PM
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good times when you kill a ricer in any SUV.
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Old Nov 17, 2003 | 06:49 PM
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I used to pay attention to rice... long grain, wild, brown..

Good kill there...
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Nice title for the thread, BTW!
I like the play on words, too!
I give it two thumbs up!
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Old Nov 17, 2003 | 11:28 PM
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i must say i overlooked the quality of a pun he used. i give him the one finger salute also!! im just kidding!
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Old Nov 18, 2003 | 07:50 AM
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It was an old impreza with rice lights and window tinting and a removed front grill.

I thought maybe he had a huge intercooler under there that needed a whole lotta air or something.

A custom plate like that and typical rice mods, but it wasn't fast. Go figure.
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Old Nov 18, 2003 | 09:24 AM
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just your everday ricer, good thing you put him in his place!
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Old Nov 18, 2003 | 09:36 AM
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Damn, your explorer goes 110. Our tahoe only goes like 95.
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Old Nov 18, 2003 | 10:09 AM
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I bet it'll do the 120 the speedo reads on a downhill slope.

Plenty of people have told me fords are governed at 85.

Nope
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Old Nov 18, 2003 | 12:50 PM
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no, I think z28s are governed at 85...

nice kill, you bully.
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Old Nov 18, 2003 | 01:18 PM
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Lol awesome kill. I wish I coulda seen the look on the drivers face when they got smoked by an Exploder.
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Old Nov 18, 2003 | 01:47 PM
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Exploder power baby!

http://www.cardomain.com/id/jexplorer2001

WOOT
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Old Nov 18, 2003 | 01:48 PM
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OH hell yeah, id rather floss that v6 camaro power baby!! OH HELL YEAH!!
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Old Nov 18, 2003 | 01:53 PM
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I'm no bully! He rev'd his fart can at me!

Actually I am a bully, I have a roller cam'd 460 running 14:1 compression and race gas.

Well, no.

But it'd work great with the AWD, no?
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Old Nov 18, 2003 | 01:53 PM
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keep talkin gray, the two 6bangers sit in the driveway, but you know whats in the garage
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