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MiddleFingerMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-11 10:20 AM
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BFD... that's not even 70 mph.
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siligut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-11 10:24 AM
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1. 70 MPH backwards????
Who does that? James Bond and cohorts maybe? Dad taught me how to drive, took me into a huge open lot when he taught me how to drive backwards, my dad was no fool.
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MiddleFingerMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-11 10:34 AM
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2. Sometimes it's just wise to get the hell out of Dodge... ... ... ... NOW!!!!
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Orsino Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-22-11 06:47 PM
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10. Or to back out of a poor decision...
...such as purchasing an overpriced hedge against the male menopause.
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hunter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-11 11:16 AM
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3. Heck of a thing for a J-turn...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J-Turn

"A J-Turn is a driving maneuver used to reverse a backwards-traveling vehicle so as to continue driving in the same direction, but with the vehicle pointed forward. The J-Turn is also called "moonshiner's turn", based on the evasive driving tactics used by bootleggers... Also known as a Rockford."
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MiddleFingerMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-11 01:02 PM
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4. I think one of the BEST examples I've seen of that was in a Bond film...
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...the car LOOKED to be doing about 40mph in reverse and the driver
executed an absolutely PERFECT J-turn -- no wobble or compensation
at all when the car rotated 180 degrees and continued forward.
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It was SO perfect, I've always wondered whether or not some wobble
ended up on the editing room floor.
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siligut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-22-11 10:26 AM
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5. Second thing I thought of
The first was actually determining which end was the back, funny enough. The car appears so stylized.
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DoBotherMe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-22-11 05:24 PM
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6. kick
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DoBotherMe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-22-11 05:24 PM
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7. delete
Edited on Fri Apr-22-11 05:25 PM by DoBotherMe
glitch
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DoBotherMe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-22-11 05:24 PM
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8. delete
Edited on Fri Apr-22-11 05:26 PM by DoBotherMe
another glitch
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jmowreader Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-22-11 05:29 PM
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9. 70mph in granny low?
How fast will this car go in first? (The answer to "how fast will it go in top gear?" is "fast enough to get your drivers license revoked until the year 3000.")
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muriel_volestrangler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-23-11 07:40 AM
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11. Maybe it's another Lamborghini with 40 reverse gears
and under £60,000, for a 7.1 litre engine: http://www.pistonheads.com/news/default.asp?storyId=15746
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