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Crazy
Location: Wherever I lay my hind quarters
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The definitive "cool" van for me is the Renault Espace F1 they did years back for the press.
It was (surprisingly) a Renault Espace with the V10 Renault Formula 1 engine stuck in the back, used to give the press some feel for the performance. Vaguely similar, what about the BMW X5 LM - with something like a 7 liter V12 engine rated at about 700 brake. Ouch. |
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#12 (permalink) |
Tone.
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That van was on a short documentary on import performance around a year or so ago. Her kid got seriously into modding his car (I wanna say it was an accord) and she got interested and asked him to help her deck out her van. Now she takes it to the drag strip. I thought it was actually kinda cool. MY mom wouldn't ever do anything like that!
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Tone.
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actually Brian Hong, who coined the phrase "riceboy" defines rice as fake go-fast parts. i.e. fartcan exhaust tips, huge, nonfunctional wings, stickers for parts you don't have, cut springs rather than lowering springs, etc. That minivan is ugly, but it doesn't have any fake go-fast parts on it, so it's not rice.
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Tone.
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I didn't say he coined the phrase "rice rocket" I said he coined the phrase "rice boy."
I did read his site. Here's what I read: "Anyway, my friends and I started making fun of them, and one day, bored in study hall, I started drawing a little comic strip, called The Adventures of Rice-Boy and His Dog Mugen. The art wasn't that good, but the message was there, and my friends thought it was funny. Soon we got sick of refering to them as "you know those guys with those lowered Civics?" and just starting calling them riceboys, after the character in my little drawings. " |
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