928 Article, versus WRX,- Croatia? Gumball 3000
05-19-2006, 01:46 PM
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928 Article, versus WRX,- Croatia? Gumball 3000
Who are these guys? Apologies if its a re-post!!
WRX/928 article
Cool read, puffs of self-agrandizement (and 928 agrandizement) waft across the story, but they get style points in my book for using "chuffed"...
WRX/928 article
Cool read, puffs of self-agrandizement (and 928 agrandizement) waft across the story, but they get style points in my book for using "chuffed"...
05-19-2006, 02:49 PM
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Drifting
"Kevin knows that WRXs are fast, all-wheel-drive rally cars, but these have clearly been worked over. All four cars are soon pushing 225 km/h, then 240 km/h. One of the Subarus drops back but the other two keep coming. The Subarus try to slingshot, a racing maneuver that uses the front car's slipstream to help propel the rear car past it, but every time one of them gets next to the 928--which by this point is gunning to 280 km/h, faster than the brothers have ever pushed it before--it's like the Subarus hit a brick wall. For an exhilarating hour and a half they try, but the brand new Subarus can't overtake the 18-year-old Porsche 928.
The cars pull into a gas station, and the Subarus' drivers come over to find out how fast the brothers were going. The Subarus' speedometers had topped out at 160 mph (260 km/h).
"How do they drive?" Kevin asks.
Awful, he's told. Blocks of wood in the wind. Kevin and Dwayne are chuffed. The 928 could've been driven with one hand.
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Nice article!
The cars pull into a gas station, and the Subarus' drivers come over to find out how fast the brothers were going. The Subarus' speedometers had topped out at 160 mph (260 km/h).
"How do they drive?" Kevin asks.
Awful, he's told. Blocks of wood in the wind. Kevin and Dwayne are chuffed. The 928 could've been driven with one hand.
"
Nice article!
05-19-2006, 03:40 PM
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"An hour and a half later, the car starts backfiring. The timing light has come on. They take it easy all the way to the overnight ferry that will take them across the Adriatic Sea to Italy." 
Somehow that doesn't surprise me.
Somehow that doesn't surprise me.
05-19-2006, 04:37 PM
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LOL. after a hour and a half the car is back firing, the timing belt breaks from a seized water pump, the aluminum ball joints give out, the dash cracks severly, they have blown by 2 quarts of oil, and the maf has given out!
05-19-2006, 04:42 PM
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True, true. 
No we're swimming with the optimists, huh!
They must've allocated a good chunk of that initial $30K to sorting out that newly purchased machine!!
No we're swimming with the optimists, huh!
They must've allocated a good chunk of that initial $30K to sorting out that newly purchased machine!!
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05-19-2006, 05:20 PM
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From what I remember, they didn't really have too many problems. I do recall seeing them in the video broken down with a flat tire and no spare. They were laughing about all the planning they had done for the rally but hadn't packed a spare tire. There is a 90 min. documentary of a previous gumball that used to be on google video. Its a great video.
