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Old Jul 24, 2010 | 04:31 PM
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I just saw this Firebird on youtube.... and a part of me died..



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Old Jul 24, 2010 | 06:27 PM
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!
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Old Jul 24, 2010 | 06:40 PM
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looks like s#$% ya mean
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Old Jul 24, 2010 | 06:49 PM
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HeLL yeah that's pimp ****
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Old Jul 24, 2010 | 07:27 PM
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How is this even legal? Can that thing turn or stop?
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probly not
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Old Jul 24, 2010 | 08:44 PM
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SON OF A BITCH. snoop would be proud
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Old Jul 24, 2010 | 08:49 PM
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huh? hahahhahahahahha
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Originally Posted by WS9 Formula
SON OF A BITCH. snoop would be proud
Not really, Snoop likes lowriders, you know, these things...



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Old Jul 24, 2010 | 10:03 PM
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That's a damn shame!
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Old Jul 24, 2010 | 10:08 PM
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see a few camaro's that were gehtto fyed like that almost brought a tear to my eye
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Old Jul 24, 2010 | 10:47 PM
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28s fit? ha
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Old Jul 24, 2010 | 10:54 PM
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The wheel wells look like they have been cut out bigger. There's hardly anything left of the fenders. That's a crime against nature to do to any car.
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Old Jul 25, 2010 | 01:00 AM
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I still cant believe anyone thinks that **** looks good You wanna run 20's or even 22's on cars that have big wheel wells...that's fine, but damn this **** is getting outta hand. If you have to lift a car to fit the wheels.. Rethink your decision please. Oh well all we can do is laugh
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Old Jul 25, 2010 | 01:12 AM
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I wonder what the **** is wrong inside the minds of these ********. Really.
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Old Jul 25, 2010 | 07:14 AM
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I still cant believe anyone thinks that **** looks good You wanna run 20's or even 22's on cars that have big wheel wells...that's fine, but damn this **** is getting outta hand. If you have to lift a car to fit the wheels.. Rethink your decision please. Oh well all we can do is laugh
The only problem with that, is no one ever considers that those 20s or 22s cant be stopped by their tiny stock brakes!! You want big wheels, use bigger brakes..

IIRC, a truck mag did a test on an SUV.. just by adding 22s, it added something like 50+ feet to the braking distance from 60. if your braking distance is already 180+ feet from 60, do you really want to add another 50 feet to that?

Big heavy car + big retarded wheels + stock little brakes = braking nightmare!

I dont want to be anywhere near this crap on the roads, especially if they are behind me!

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Old Jul 25, 2010 | 09:23 AM
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its only gonna get worse as these cars become available to the broke *** population thats willing to do this to a car, but the bright side is that the police must harass anybody stupid enough to do this to a car
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Old Jul 25, 2010 | 10:09 AM
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i mean does it look nice to him?!
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Old Jul 25, 2010 | 10:47 AM
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Originally Posted by NVR_SPDS
The only problem with that, is no one ever considers that those 20s or 22s cant be stopped by their tiny stock brakes!! You want big wheels, use bigger brakes..

IIRC, a truck mag did a test on an SUV.. just by adding 22s, it added something like 50+ feet to the braking distance from 60. if your braking distance is already 180+ feet from 60, do you really want to add another 50 feet to that?

Big heavy car + big retarded wheels + stock little brakes = braking nightmare!

I dont want to be anywhere near this crap on the roads, especially if they are behind me!
Understand completely...wonder how man feet you can add to that bird with 28's? Probably double the normal stopping distance..lol
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Old Jul 25, 2010 | 03:45 PM
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I can't stand that ****!! i doesn't look good or do anything positive for the car.. But, Im sure its easy to walk underneath and work on it.. haa
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