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Old 08-14-2010, 04:12 PM
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Exclamation HPE in Vette Magazine




http://www.vetteweb.com/features/vem..._thompson.html

And my favorite part of the write-up..


Hickman had smashed his previous best while managing the impressive feat of getting consistently faster as the day wore on.
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That's an interesting article Austin! Everyone there had crazy power but its hard to put down on a real street car of course.
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Hey Austin you got any pics of youre current set up?
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OMG...They put that ugly mug in a magazine?!?!

Congtats lefty. How's **** treating you?
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i was gonna say "dude, why does it look like your hand met a steam roller !?!?"

but then the guy above me called you lefty.

is there a connection there !?!?
Old 08-15-2010, 12:20 PM
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Yeah I lost use of my left arm after a bad motorcycle accident three years ago. Streched the nerves going to that arm and pulled two out of my spine root and all.
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Holy ****, that's awesome but now I feel like an *******...

Apologies...
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Don't feel bad, the night I met him I noticed it hanging all limp and flat but didn't want to make a stink about it until he lifted it up with his other arm, waved it around like the Terrible Towel, and started making left handed jokes about himself.

That's when I knew he was my kind of *******.



You getting the terminator arm soon Austin?
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Originally Posted by Alex41
Don't feel bad, the night I met him I noticed it hanging all limp and flat but didn't want to make a stink about it until he lifted it up with his other arm, waved it around like the Terrible Towel, and started making left handed jokes about himself.

That's when I knew he was my kind of *******.
Don't forget the times he clubbed Wilson and Jacob in the nuts.

That thing is lethal.
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Originally Posted by Philip@HPE
Don't forget the times he clubbed Wilson and Jacob in the nuts.

That thing is lethal.
lmfao...

Congrats to the OP on a nice car and times.
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Here are a few pictures
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omfg that intake is ****.


also it'd be way cooler if "lefty" piloted that beast with a 6spd
Old 08-16-2010, 02:33 PM
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I can drive a six speed pretty good.
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well yeah i do it all the time while on my phone, but not while doing a 9 sec 1/4
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Id be willing to try. As alex and philip (with one l) already know Im pretty crazy when it comes to trying to drive anything.
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lol do it. no *****
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Congrats! Intake looks bad ***! Any reason why though it's not hardlined? Makes it so much cleaner! Esp with a work of art like that!
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Playing with stuff i had laying around. Gonna hard line both stages.
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will that fit under the stock hood.
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No it will not.



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