Huckster79
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Yup, low n slow only good in an old underpower rag wing built for low n slow... so im not the only lover of thin air on here i gather
What's your dream car?
Huckster79
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Wings n engine built around a gun! Older than hell and still packs a punch
ttystikk
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Git r dun, brah!Thats a 65-67 impala in that video. I'm sitting on a original, numbers matching, 1969 SS427 Impala convertible that needs a full restoration. It's 1 of maybe 2500 SS427 made, 1 of 200 convertibles, 1 of ? that still exists. I've had it appraised at $13K in the condition its in, which was pulled from a field it sat in for 10+years with no top, junk interior, faded paint and a quarter panel that got into a fight with a dump truck. Should be a $75-80K car if I ever get it done and the car market holds up. Should look like this when it done., mines the same color scheme.
ttystikk
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I'm honestly not super thrilled with the bodywork, but the spec sheet is to die for!
ttystikk
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And of course you're right. The car business is risky, cutthroat and witheringly expensive.
He's building a good quality product. He's having a bit of trouble with delivering the product on time but that's a temporary problem.
Keep in mind that he has other complementary businesses that make the business case for Tesla Motors stronger, such as the gigafactory building the batteries the rest of the electric car (and utility) world needs.
I think his stock is overpriced. But then, I fell the same way about Apple, Alphabet (Google), Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook and many more are, too.
I'm a strong fundamentals investor, so my perspective is different than most.
Grandpapy
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That's the only SS Iv'e owned a 66, but mine wasThats a 65-67 impala in that video. I'm sitting on a original, numbers matching, 1969 SS427 Impala convertible that needs a full restoration. It's 1 of maybe 2500 SS427 made, 1 of 200 convertibles, 1 of ? that still exists. I've had it appraised at $13K in the condition its in, which was pulled from a field it sat in for 10+years with no top, junk interior, faded paint and a quarter panel that got into a fight with a dump truck. Should be a $75-80K car if I ever get it done and the car market holds up. Should look like this when it done., mines the same color scheme.
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They did have a sense of humor.
doublejj
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srh88
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The tesla looks better too in my opinion.
jonsnow399
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Meh, I'm gonna buy the semi and put a pickup bed on it or maybe a SUV body.
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It probably also doesn't soak up about $200 000 a year in maintenance. The tires are $40 000 a set and last three thousand miles. The wheels are 50 000 replacement every ten thousand. Then there is the famous $20K oil change. If you want a roadgoing SR-71, ya gotta pay for all that JP-7.
The Tesla does look good (except I do not like that "Iron Man is pissed" front end), rather like the new NS-X but without all the offensive body bling of that model. Honda's cars, once icons of classical severity, now shout "Pontiac!" I am getting old and crotchety about today's almost greenhouse-less cars.
I do wonder if that 250-mph figure is real. It takes about a thousand horsepower to sustain that speed. With a 200-kWh power pack (and unrealistically stipulating the entire charge may be used at max draw) at 800 kW, that figures to 15 minutes at speed. Drops a zero off the range figure
jonsnow399
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Doesn't matter too much, the tires will probably blow in 5 minutes at 250 mphIt probably also doesn't soak up about $200 000 a year in maintenance. The tires are $40 000 a set and last three thousand miles. The wheels are 50 000 replacement every ten thousand. Then there is the famous $20K oil change. If you want a roadgoing SR-71, ya gotta pay for all that JP-7.
The Tesla does look good (except I do not like that "Iron Man is pissed" front end), rather like the new NS-X but without all the offensive body bling of that model. Honda's cars, once icons of classical severity, now shout "Pontiac!" I am getting old and crotchety about today's almost greenhouse-less cars.
I do wonder if that 250-mph figure is real. It takes about a thousand horsepower to sustain that speed. With a 200-kWh power pack (and unrealistically stipulating the entire charge may be used at max draw) at 800 kW, that figures to 15 minutes at speed. Drops a zero off the range figure
jerryb73
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Colo MMJ
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The grey is really nice. Nice wheels and a nice back end design as well. Nice wide rear tires and flared wheel wells. This is what BMW needs to fix on the i8. The back end is weird and looks like a 911 being enveloped. The front and rear tires are way too skinny and no wheel flares.Love the steel grey roadster.....
BMW should take the i8 body and drop a twin turbo M Power V8 then big tires and flare wheel wells. Then BMW would finally have a really nice mid engine car.
Colo MMJ
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I saw a mini exercise many years ago in Germany with one of these ground hugging and coming over a hill. It is very quiet as it sneaks up on the enemy.
Colo MMJ
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Bob Lutz - Tesla is going out of business.
https://www.motorauthority.com/news/1113916_bob-lutz-tesla-is-going-out-of-business
Lutz was a top guy at BMW, Ford, GM and Chrysler. He and a group bought the bankrupt assets of Fisker and dropped V8s into Fixskers.
The Model 3 production delays are a nightmare.
Tesla is burning way too much money. They have sold more stock, issued bonds and they are running out of sources of capital. I would beat that they might get bought up or saved by Google.
Lutz is pretty much a Renaissance man. Fighter jet pilot in Korea, Swiss American, and he owns and flies a Czech L-39 Albatross fight jet trainer. He knows more about the car business than probably anyone. He would not have crashed a McLaren f1 like Elon did when he got one.
Someone at the small airport where I used to live had one of these L-39 Albatross.
The local golf course butted up right by one of the runways and I was playing by myself one day and saw it taxi-ing on the runway about 150 feet away. It is a really neat little jet.
https://www.topgear.com/car-news/usa/jet-flight-gms-ex-chief-bob-lutz
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jonsnow399
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I've had my eye on the L 39's for years, one day I'll win the lottery and one of those suckers will be mine!