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Grenadiers

My new 'ride'. 1985 911. The addiction continues....

Car has anywhere from 88000 miles to 120, 000! Repaint at some time a good 10 foot looker. Some front end damage repaired early on, can't even tell. 2004 newer Kumho Supra's, high speed not! Shifts real well, 1st gear on down shift at stop for the most part. Gonna sell off some of the fleet...
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'83 944 Track car.
'88 924S Track car.
'89 944 Turbo
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2012 Jeep Wrangler
2014 Kia Soul
2001 Ford F350 powerstroke

the_mad_electrician · Joined: 16 Nov 2009 Posts: 1073 Location: Central Georgia

God I hate you people

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JayZzzz4 · Joined: 23 Sep 2008 Posts: 544 Location: Milwaukee, WI USA

Now I'm really jealous.... I always wanted a mid 80's 911 with the whale tall. Do you think you'll bring it up to Wisconsin?
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Grenadiers · Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2011 9:54 am Post subject:

Oh yeah. You can see our entire 'fleet' consists of 6 vehicles down here, plus the RV, which is in storage on the desert floor. I'll haul the 911 on the trailer behind the red truck, and Pam will haul spike back on the dolly behind the grand wagoneer. Lots of fuel!
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'83 944 Track car.
'88 924S Track car.
'89 944 Turbo
2004 Winnebago Vectra monster RV
2012 Jeep Wrangler
2014 Kia Soul
2001 Ford F350 powerstroke

the_mad_electrician · Joined: 16 Nov 2009 Posts: 1073 Location: Central Georgia

Khal · Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2011 10:50 am Post subject:

Window tint is awful. Steering wheel itself is fantastic but utterly out of place on that car. I've driven one of those things, and I recall thinking something along the lines of...

Grenadiers · Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2011 11:04 am Post subject:

Funny, I spend more time bracing myself in spike while on the track than concentrating on apexes. The steering wheel came with it. I have a stock replacement back in WI if I decide to change back. The window tint is a bit tinty, it is from Arizona!
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'83 944 Track car.
'88 924S Track car.
'89 944 Turbo
2004 Winnebago Vectra monster RV
2012 Jeep Wrangler
2014 Kia Soul
2001 Ford F350 powerstroke

emoore924 · Joined: 13 Apr 2004 Posts: 2822

Daz purdy. but yeesh that steering wheel's gotta go.

Cedric · Joined: 27 Aug 2004 Posts: 2822 Location: Sweden

Great complement to your fleet !! But that steering wheel and knob is so ugly, who got the idea to put such a FF wheel on a 911?

A momo prototipo would do great in that car:
http://thechicaneblog.com/2010/07/27/racing-icon-the-momo-prototipo/

Is the plan to take this car to the track to? Must be fun

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The "goggles" around the headligths, is that an US thing ?
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Rasta Monsta · Joined: 12 Jul 2006 Posts: 11733 Location: PacNW

Shaggy challenges that ve-hick to a duel.
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brealytrent · Joined: 28 Dec 2008 Posts: 414 Location: Goldsboro, NC

Nice find Dave!
I'll race ya when you get back! (and/or when I get a 928)
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Grenadiers · Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2011 10:57 pm Post subject:

Yeah, I'll probably get a Prototipo for it, Spike has one, and they're very nice. Trent, thought you were trading your '77 for a 928? The shift knob looks like an upside down deer hoove, in blue and chrome! The car gets track time this april, hopefully, at our club's first DE at Brainerd International Raceway in Minnesota. Then, while we cook pizza, drink beer, er, sell beer, the car gets time on our country roads. Then back in NM in October for monthly track days. Is it autumn yet?

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'83 944 Track car.
'88 924S Track car.
'89 944 Turbo
2004 Winnebago Vectra monster RV
2012 Jeep Wrangler
2014 Kia Soul
2001 Ford F350 powerstroke

Joes924Racer · Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2011 1:19 am Post subject:

Yea dude your rollin in it.

By the looks
For a 26 yr old she looks experienced.
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Grenadiers · Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2011 7:01 am Post subject:

First long-trip impressions.

Took the new one one a 165 mile trip today. Nice and sunny down here of course, windows open, as well as the teeny tiny sunroof! Surprisingly, not much noise out of that while on the road. Drove up thru the Capitan mountains north of Ruidoso, smokey the bear birthplace. East to town of Lincoln, Billy the Kid, Lincoln county wars, stuff like that. Tunstall store still there, courthouse, cool western history.

Car drove great, back country twisties, very stable, a bit oversteer, but ya get used to it. Bilsteins on all four corners help a lot on the road. Tight driving car, almost boring at times, 55 mph seems very slow, for example. Very impressed, like it a lot. Spike's turbo giddy-up is quite a bit different. The flat six likes 3500-5000 rpms for it's power band, and that takes some getting used to. I have plenty of time!
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'83 944 Track car.
'88 924S Track car.
'89 944 Turbo
2004 Winnebago Vectra monster RV
2012 Jeep Wrangler
2014 Kia Soul
2001 Ford F350 powerstroke

Khal · Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2011 7:08 am Post subject:

All good. But what about that howl?!

I still vividly remember the sound that flat-six made. Makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up...

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