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If you lived in America, what would you drive?

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    #32
    ToxicPaddy
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,763 Mod ✭✭✭✭ToxicPaddy


    JAYSUS Mike..

    Thats huge!!!!


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    #33
    highdef
    Registered Users Posts: 6,240 ✭✭✭highdef


    Lincoln Towncar, Ford Crown Victoria - Any of the BIG US saloons,


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    #34
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,978 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    I saw a programme on Discovery about those wagons and I tell ya its no picnic working in/with/around one of them things! Esp as the mines in question are often in incredibly remote spots so if anything nasty happness you might well be DOA. One of the big wories is two colliding in fog and ending up with a few hundred tonnes of rock rolling all over the place! :eek:

    Mike.


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    #35
    unkel
    Registered Users Posts: 65,395 ✭✭✭✭unkel
    Chauffe, Marcel, chauffe!


    Komatsu 930E

    Maximum Gross Vehicle Weight (lb): 1,100,000
    Capacity (ton): 320

    :eek:


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    #36
    KdjaCL
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    mike65 wrote:
    I saw a programme on Discovery about those wagons and I tell ya its no picnic working in/with/around one of them things! Esp as the mines in question are often in incredibly remote spots so if anything nasty happness you might well be DOA. One of the big wories is two colliding in fog and ending up with a few hundred tonnes of rock rolling all over the place! :eek:

    Mike.

    Theres a bigger one takes a mile or half to turn round.

    kdjac


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    #37
    vector
    Registered Users Posts: 1,756 ✭✭✭vector


    I wonder how much it costs (new or secondhand)
    I can't find any indications (but then again it is such a huge item that it is proabably customised for each client)


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    #38
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,978 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    My big fear would be comming out one morning and spotting a flat! ;)

    Mike.


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    #39
    dcGT
    Registered Users Posts: 948 ✭✭✭dcGT


    The 67 Shelby Mustang GT500....

    jackymobile.jpg

    '67%20Shelby%20Mustang%20GT500%20(Gone%20In%20Sixty%20Seconds%20-%20Elanor).jpg

    I don't like any of the other American junk so alternatively I'd have to get my R34 GTR Skyline :)

    2fast.jpg

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    r34_1.GIF

    DC.


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    #40
    Blitzkrieger
    Registered Users Posts: 6,660 ✭✭✭Blitzkrieger


    I'd still drive one of these : http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/v317/Blitz205/

    If I aboslutly had to drive an American car, it'd have to be a Mustang GT.


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    #41
    dcGT
    Registered Users Posts: 948 ✭✭✭dcGT


    mike65 wrote:
    kmsutrk.jpg

    He he! :D

    Mike.

    Now that's a bug Tonka toy..I think I had one of those for Christmas years ago. Though maybe not quite as big.

    DC.


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    #42
    eljono
    Registered Users Posts: 1,767 ✭✭✭eljono


    If I had to drive an American car it would be one of these:

    3.5l 24-valve aluminum V6 - 250bhp. Definitely one of the best looking American production cars.
    Otherwise (theoretically unfortunately) I'd wait for the new Audi S8 to come out, fill it with cheap unleaded and just go nuts in it :p


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    #43
    eljono
    Registered Users Posts: 1,767 ✭✭✭eljono


    Here it is.......


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    #44
    HashSlinging
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,413 ✭✭✭HashSlinging


    A cop car, similar to the one in the blues brothers, havent a clue what it is.


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    #45
    highdef
    Registered Users Posts: 6,240 ✭✭✭highdef


    Most probably a Ford Crown Victoria. Something a bit like this maybe?
    269990_6_full.jpg
    Or maybe an older model of this. I think this is an '88 model so newer than those in the Blues Brother's


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    #46
    highdef
    Registered Users Posts: 6,240 ✭✭✭highdef


    This is the interior of my car. Does anyone like it? And more importantly, does anyone know what car it is?
    647933_4_full.jpg


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    #47
    weemcd
    Registered Users Posts: 6,421 ✭✭✭weemcd


    ford scorpio?
    http://pie.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=151448


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    #48
    highdef
    Registered Users Posts: 6,240 ✭✭✭highdef


    Well done. You were quick and I see you also found my previous post! Most people think the car is ugly from the outside but once they step inside, their attitude usually changes quickly enough. I only stuck it in coz it has an American look to it (on the outside anyway)


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    #49
    dcGT
    Registered Users Posts: 948 ✭✭✭dcGT


    HashSlinging wrote:
    A cop car, similar to the one in the blues brothers, havent a clue what it is.
    The car Jake and Elwood had in the Blues Brothers was a 1973 Dodge...

    bluesbrothers.jpg

    DC.


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    #50
    HashSlinging
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    thats the one. one wicked machine with plenty of soul.


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    #51
    dcGT
    Registered Users Posts: 948 ✭✭✭dcGT


    HashSlinging wrote:
    thats the one. one wicked machine with plenty of soul.

    Oh hell yeah. Remember when they jumped the bridge at the start..... brilliant! :D

    DC.


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    #52
    Quatre Mains
    Registered Users Posts: 622 ✭✭✭Quatre Mains


    definitely something like this....


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