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100 posts in less than 24 hours! Very impressive, folks.

Post whore of babylon!

My first Challenger was a Subaru SVX. After lightening it 1000 lbs, stiffening the suspension, and adding a bottle of laughing gas it ran 12'sand placed 13th.

We called it The SVreX, in a tip of the hat to the T-Rex, as well as a nod to the fact that we had "re"-built it after pulling it out of a junkyard and saving it from a crusher.

since then, each consecutive year I do worse, and enjoy myself more!

I have a Jeep and my name is Matt

That one really came out of nowhere, didn't it?

Oh, I missed the number...

I run #53. I race a Yugo, among other quirky misfit cars. 53 was the number of Herbie the Love Bug, the original misfit!

Because it is the engine powering the bane of my existence.

hotrodlarry wrote: uh, my name is Larry and I like hot rods. thank you *sits back down*

AHA! I knew I recognized that great avatar from somewhere..

"One Cab's Family", Tex Avery, MGM 1952

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rnjXdj9-LI

Well, my dad wanted to call me "Penelope"... fortunately my mother objected and he went with his second choice.

spin_out wrote: There's a good question, how did you pick your number?

I had a "sports dad" that thought his offspring would be a Heisman Trophy winner one day. I started in the beginning as an offensive lineman (and I really wasn't all that big!), and #71 was the last shirt they had left. I eventually turned into a half-decent linebacker, but we wore the same shirts on offense & defense. We had a really big falling out when I decided to do something else besides play football (to this day, I don't even watch it on TV). He actually discouraged my interests in motorsports (I learned from my mom years later that he was worried I'd go nuts when I became a teen driver), so when they asked me what number I'd like at my first club racing school, I just entered 71 with a "take that, you SOB" attitude.

The older I get, the less bitter I am...but now it's "my number" & I'm a lil' attached to it.

Since I don't own a mainstream "fun car", I thought it was appropriate. I own a Fiero (contrary to the folks that make sparks when their knuckles contact the ground whilst walking, they don't catch fire at every opportunity), a TVR ("uhm a whut? A TR6???"), and a Puma (Brazilian sports car, not a kit car) -- I thought something that called out the discarded and unusual was required.

Now don't get the torches out -- I like Miatas, P71's, Bavarian cars, P-cars. MR2's, RX-7's, etc...... I've been a car junkie for as long as I can remember. It isn't an addiction so much as it is a natural way of life, much like breathing, peeing standing up, or loving a good steak for dinner. But you see, after being like this for all of my life, the cars that everybody likes ('32 Ford, CamaroBird, 57 Chevy, Mustang, you get the idea) are just lost on me. I can be at a car show, an autox, and I just don't see the "normal" cars -- they just seem to disappear.

I like the unusual, the forgotten, the cars orphaned by time. The orphancars!

Seriously? I've been wearin' these since 2nd grade

As for my number, it was a purely practical choice. The first set of magnetics I made myself consisted of a 1, a 6, and an 8 with a removable cutout that could turn it into a 3. That way, if necessary I could run numerous variations of 1, 3, 6, 8, 9, etc... 36 just happened to be free in my local club.

A userid I can use anywhere (not get confused ). My initials and my zipcode.

I usually use 7...It was lucky enough for Sir Stirling Moss, it is lucky enough for me.

Gearhead = I like cars. Otaku = I like Anime

So I'm an odd type of Otaku, or just car obbsessed....

Mine is the name of a new business I started making center caps for Torque Thrust wheels so everyones TT IIs don't have to look the same www.radcapz.com I'm NOT A TA on several other forums because my car looks like a TA but it started as an Esprit. This way purists don't flame me for modifying a 70 Trans Am. I figured there aren't many purists here! LOL

I live on the east cost and I got my mojo workin'.

Umm...middle child, last name Knight, favorite time of day. Came up with it for pirate radio and it stuck. Though many just call me Mid.

Bumboclot wrote: Mi like to pretend mi be Jamaican! RAAASSS!

Actually if you were it would be spelled a little differently.

Er....well.... hm. I live in MN. I accidentally bought a DSM once instead of a good car. The rest is history. Any other mndsm anywhere is me as well, to this day.

When I signed up here from the old board, someone took my original vwbud... vw being the vehicle, bud was short for my nickname buddy. so I sold off all my cars, and when I signed up on the new board, I had no car, hence nocarbud.

Lesley wrote: Well, my dad wanted to call me "Penelope"... fortunately my mother objected and he went with his second choice.

Could be worse. Had I been a girl, my dad wanted to name me Persephone (goddess of the underworld and consort of Hades in Greek mythology).

Fortunately, I was a boy so my mom didn't have to talk him out of it.

Besides, Penelope isn't so bad. I went to law school with a Penelope, but everyone called her Penny.

I was going to be Irving VanArsdale Fenner Junior.

Thankfully, a friend of my Dad's named Paul died a week before I was born.

I love that guy.

It's my name. I use it on just about every forum I'm on; comes in handy when I haven't logged into one for over a year but need to do a search.

My number is usually 77. The reason, before I got magnetic numbers, it was the second easiest number to make with painters tape. The easiest (11) already being taken.