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MLR 500 - Banger Racing *Added More Video*

Post by BigD » Wed Aug 26, 2009 4:26 pm

The objective was to buy a Mitsubishi car worth no more than £500 when ready. We Bought an overpriced Galant 2.5 V6 beast. :lol:
The Admiral wrote:Well, I think we did not too bad - 4th out of a "field" of 17 entrants :twisted:

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"Rusty" the Galant finally prepared for the trip south:

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Some Custom Graphics applied on the day after Kenny unthinkingly gives me a yellow crayon :lol:

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Re: MLR 500 - Banger Racing

Post by Mike Scib » Wed Aug 26, 2009 4:36 pm

BigD wrote:The objective was to buy a Mitsubishi car worth no more than £500 when ready. We Bought an overpriced Galant 2.5 V6 beast. :lol:
The Admiral wrote:(and quickest driver): BigD
I am pretty sure the above was not in the original quote :damnfunny
alicrozier wrote:As Robin said, need to be comfortable and confident to push right up to the limit - sometimes you only find the limit by going beyond it...
(that's why I think Mike will do fine, that and his lack of imagination). :roll: :lol:

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Post by Andy G » Wed Aug 26, 2009 4:41 pm

good effort :thumbsup :cheers
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Re: MLR 500 - Banger Racing

Post by BigD » Wed Aug 26, 2009 4:50 pm

After 3 hours and 278 laps of driving taking us to a creditable 4th place :twisted:

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And a final, smokey 8500rpm send off :cry: The Marshals arrived looking a bit bemused about how a car with no driver could blow itself up :?:

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Some of the competition:

4850 Furries and STUDDED TYRES :lol:

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£750 worth of (very fast) FTO :D ;)

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Re: MLR 500 - Banger Racing

Post by BigD » Wed Aug 26, 2009 4:52 pm

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Final Results:

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Video: Right click & Save As 41MB

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Re: MLR 500 - Banger Racing

Post by BigD » Wed Aug 26, 2009 4:54 pm

Mike Scib wrote:
BigD wrote:The objective was to buy a Mitsubishi car worth no more than £500 when ready. We Bought an overpriced Galant 2.5 V6 beast. :lol:
The Admiral wrote:(and quickest driver): BigD
I am pretty sure the above was not in the original quote :damnfunny
Well spotted. :thumbsup

This was though. :wink:
The Admiral wrote: In that vid it was Kenny driving who took us from 11th to 17th within a few laps :shock: I then got us back up to 5th, followed by Don getting us to 2nd, before handing back to Kenny who dropped us down to 4th and broke the car :roll: :lol:

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Re: MLR 500 - Banger Racing

Post by Scotty C » Wed Aug 26, 2009 4:55 pm

SE needs something like this?

Anyone got a farm?

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Re: MLR 500 - Banger Racing

Post by Mike Scib » Wed Aug 26, 2009 5:03 pm

Scotty C wrote:SE needs something like this?
What "shed racing"? Andy G, DDtB and myself were doing it all off FF :damnfunny
alicrozier wrote:As Robin said, need to be comfortable and confident to push right up to the limit - sometimes you only find the limit by going beyond it...
(that's why I think Mike will do fine, that and his lack of imagination). :roll: :lol:

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Re: MLR 500 - Banger Racing

Post by VXJON » Wed Aug 26, 2009 6:13 pm

Looks cracking fun :thumbsup

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Post by Dominic » Wed Aug 26, 2009 7:02 pm

Right! It must be time for an SE Top shed challenge! :thumbsup :blackeye
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Post by BiggestNizzy » Thu Aug 27, 2009 9:12 am

Dominic wrote:Right! It must be time for an SE Top shed challenge! :thumbsup :blackeye
I am up for this :thumbsup
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Re: MLR 500 - Banger Racing

Post by Scotty C » Thu Aug 27, 2009 10:33 am

I have one of these on the back of the 2-11 :mrgreen:
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Re: MLR 500 - Banger Racing

Post by Shug » Thu Aug 27, 2009 4:23 pm

BiggestNizzy wrote:
Dominic wrote:Right! It must be time for an SE Top shed challenge! :thumbsup :blackeye
I am up for this :thumbsup
Which was what several said until time and actual money needed finding last time...
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Re: MLR 500 - Banger Racing

Post by BiggestNizzy » Thu Aug 27, 2009 4:29 pm

Shug wrote:
BiggestNizzy wrote:
Dominic wrote:Right! It must be time for an SE Top shed challenge! :thumbsup :blackeye
I am up for this :thumbsup
Which was what several said until time and actual money needed finding last time...

As always is the case last time none of the dates suited if anyone is seriously wanting to do it I am willing to talk about it.
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Re: MLR 500 - Banger Racing

Post by BigD » Sat Aug 29, 2009 3:15 pm

Another Video with Rog Driving when we were going well. 8)

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