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Old Oct 14, 2008 | 05:48 AM
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i was in san diego last weekend and other than it was freakin beautiful and i saw quite a few hotties i didn't see many f-bodies or really any muscle cars like i do here in nor-cal. is so cal just not as popular with muscle cars like it is up here? i plan to be down in the la mesa area end of the month and now am concerned about gettin a ticket because i didn't hear 1 loud car in the 4 days i was there lol i was even surprised i didn't see more than 2 mustangs in 1 day.
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Old Oct 14, 2008 | 08:38 AM
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i was in gas lamp and saw a **** load of muscle cars, i would say so cal has nor cal beat on muscle cars, shows and the woman of course,
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Old Oct 14, 2008 | 11:00 AM
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I live in L.A. but I also was in San Diego this past weekend and thought the same ****. There wasn't a f-body around at all. not even a V6. I was wondering about that. Then I just thought that maybe S.D. wasn't as big on muscle as I heard.
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Old Oct 14, 2008 | 11:25 AM
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I live in SD and I usually see 3 or 4 F-bodies in the 10-mile trip to work. I see more mustangs than that. Must've just been a slow weekend.
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Old Oct 14, 2008 | 02:31 PM
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you see them here. Just not very often. I Know i rarely see any decent ones. Of course i take the 15South almost all the way to TJ haha. Plus im sure you wouldve seen me had my car not been up at CMS
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Old Oct 14, 2008 | 03:38 PM
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you see them here. Just not very often. I Know i rarely see any decent ones. Of course i take the 15South almost all the way to TJ haha. Plus im sure you wouldve seen me had my car not been up at CMS
You didn't happen to have that Firehawk heading South on Kearny Villa Road on September 26th did ya?
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Old Oct 14, 2008 | 05:12 PM
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Yea my parent just moved to Lodi and say they see hot rods and muscle cars all the time up there...but the laws are alot more enforced, for example I run LTs a cam and no cats and never been pulled over in the few months ive had it done. We put a magnflow exhaust on my moms SS and she got pulled over within 2 days of being up there and the cop checked under teh hood for mods.
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Yea my parent just moved to Lodi and say they see hot rods and muscle cars all the time up there...but the laws are alot more enforced, for example I run LTs a cam and no cats and never been pulled over in the few months ive had it done. We put a magnflow exhaust on my moms SS and she got pulled over within 2 days of being up there and the cop checked under teh hood for mods.
Are you serious? what a dick. My mom has driven my car past a cop. He noticed and drove behind her for a while (probly running the plates) but then just drove past her.
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You didn't happen to have that Firehawk heading South on Kearny Villa Road on September 26th did ya?
hmm i honestly cant remember haha, is was either fig or myself. if it was loud it was probably me,but if it was loud AND whistling, it was him lol.
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Old Oct 14, 2008 | 06:48 PM
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the world famous chrome dome lives down there. theres a good amount of f bods out there we have alot of guys down there most being from carlsbad area tho. jump on the socal muscle forum
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Old Oct 14, 2008 | 07:18 PM
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Are you serious? what a dick. My mom has driven my car past a cop. He noticed and drove behind her for a while (probly running the plates) but then just drove past her.
Yea dude and my mom drives like an old lady, she just wanted her car to sound more like mine
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Old Oct 14, 2008 | 08:14 PM
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well hopefully i'll run into some of you when i'm down there in acouple weekends!
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Old Oct 14, 2008 | 09:14 PM
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theres a lot around here i see fbods and vettes all day
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Old Oct 15, 2008 | 05:23 AM
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yeah i was hella suprised when i didn't see hella f-bodys, hopefully that'll change in acouple weeks
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Old Oct 22, 2008 | 04:36 PM
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i'm shootin for november 7th-10th, i'll hopefully be down there in my SS!!!! there are some nice f-bodies i've seen on here i'd love to meet up with
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Old Oct 22, 2008 | 05:42 PM
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was in gas lamp and saw a **** load of muscle cars, i would say so cal has nor cal beat on muscle cars, shows and the woman of course
I beg to differ.... unless you're talking about import car shows..... Import racing has pretty much DIED in norcal. thank god.....

as big as socal is we hardly ever get people wanting to drag their stuff out to Norcal to race....
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Old Nov 17, 2008 | 03:35 PM
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not many camaros and trans ams? I just left so cal and thats all i saw. The guys from so cal muscle are a good start to seeing some sweet *** cars
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Old Nov 17, 2008 | 09:53 PM
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I beg to differ.... unless you're talking about import car shows..... Import racing has pretty much DIED in norcal. thank god.....

as big as socal is we hardly ever get people wanting to drag their stuff out to Norcal to race....
I travel up north to race. whatch got?
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Old Nov 18, 2008 | 12:58 AM
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We have ricers around here. That why there arent too many muscle guys. That and gas is getting expensive....even tho it just went down a lot recently.
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Old Nov 18, 2008 | 01:12 AM
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haha i lived in San Diego the past 4 years and there are plenty of F-bodys. they just know all the cool places to hangout (PB, MB, Gaslamp, Carlsbad etc). there was a growing number of F-body's on Miramar when i left.

I saw topfig's car on base a few times, man i wish it was mine.
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