yellow F430 (maybe a 360, saw it around a corner) at North Hills with all types of stickers on it...Bullrun maybe, and sponsor stickers

7/29/2008 12:25:58 AM

Bullrun:
WHEN: 20th June - 27th June 2008
WHERE: Calgary, Canada - Phoenix, USA

^I wish

Gumball is in N. Korea last I heard.

One Lap of America ended in May.

I so want to do the Bullrun and Cannonball Run one day *le sigh*

7/29/2008 9:29:54 AM

nice rolls but check out that ass



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7/29/2008 9:59:49 AM

.... and the mod goes reddex

7/29/2008 10:07:51 AM

hmmmm....i see it.

7/30/2008 11:21:51 AM

its in your cache not ours though... i see that one
purdy!!

7/30/2008 11:26:48 AM

3 Maybach 62's (2 of those 62S's)

1 Bently Silver Spur

Ferrari F430 Spider & 599 Fiorano.

7/31/2008 11:22:39 PM

pretty sure that the pic posted above of the blue smart actually shows a previous generation model, not the new ones that mercedes ships over. There's only a few of those that were privately imported compared to the significant sales of the new car that has been officially imported, so I think this is a rare enough car to fit in the context of an exotics thread.

8/1/2008 3:16:57 AM

oh shit its dan man gt 40!

8/1/2008 3:20:20 AM

^^No, its still a smart car. For fuck's sake, nobody interested in exotics gives a shit about a 3 cylinder city car, no matter how limited the numbers are.

[Edited on August 1, 2008 at 10:58 AM. Reason : k]

8/1/2008 10:58:38 AM

Saw that 360 Stadale again, in that same parking garage. Was also a silver F430 coupe in there, as well as a new Rolls Royce. Also, drove past a Maybach 62 today.

8/3/2008 11:57:18 PM

Saw a late 80's or early 90's Rolls-Royce Silver Spirit headed down Pullen on the east edge of campus today. Couldn't get a good pic though. Between that and the Phantom recently, must be Rolls month on campus or something...

8/6/2008 3:44:10 PM

Quote :

"yellow F430 (maybe a 360, saw it around a corner) at North Hills with all types of stickers on it...Bullrun maybe, and sponsor stickers"

naw I know this dude. he works for EA -like in making games.

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8/7/2008 4:11:19 PM

White R8 and old 911 driving inner belt line this evening

8/14/2008 10:49:37 PM

you can leave 911s off the list in here, unless they're a GT3/GT2 or Turbo. Dime a dozen.

8/14/2008 11:52:39 PM

on tryon today

8/16/2008 7:38:12 PM

Okay. So on I-40 ~4:30pm between the Airport and the 440/Wade split, I saw a C6 (silver) followed by a C6 Z06 (also silver) just a couple car lengths behind it. Then about a mile behind that, was a Red Ford GT. Then about 2 miles behind that what appeared to be an original ford Gt 40 (maybe a kit car?) sorry no pics, they were all in the other lane.

8/16/2008 11:25:32 PM

I saw a black Lamborghini Murcielago headed south on US1 near 540 yesterday. I'm pretty much positive it wasn't a Gallardo, but I only got a glance of it headed the other way in heavy traffic so there is a small chance I got them mixed up.

8/17/2008 8:50:10 AM

^^I was on the interstate the same time as you. I saw that red GT but no the other one. Unless they were both red, the red one was in fact a replica GT40, not a newer GT.

Shortly after that an orange De Tamaso Pantera cruised by going the other way. And then a Cobra 427 kit car.

8/17/2008 10:42:31 PM

a week or two ago in nyc while heading to the airport




posts in this thread suck without a real picture - otherwise who really cares

8/17/2008 10:52:12 PM

^ pretty much.

8/17/2008 11:28:08 PM

Took out a Ferrari 348 Spider yesterday.

Great, no, amazing gearbox. Best feeling transmission of any car I've ever driven.

200lb clutch or so it felt. Steering was heavy as fuck. Interior was pathetically bad, nearly none of the electrics worked at all.

That said, it pulled like a beast from 60 onward, and while the steering was heavy, it absolutely glided through the twisties.

8/18/2008 4:17:44 PM

I saw a 430 getting a battery at the interstate battery store... it looked like they had to pull the dash out or something

8/18/2008 4:19:31 PM

most of these posts in this thread could be replaced with the following

Quote :

"i saw the coolest car ever - it was red - it was on a road....imagine the coolest car you've ever thought of - that was probably it - no picture"

8/18/2008 4:35:00 PM

Quote :

"Shortly after that an orange De Tamaso Pantera cruised by going the other way. And then a Cobra 427 kit car."

Hell yeah! I saw all that. I only caught a quick glimpse of the Ford and the orange Pantera, which I thought was the old Ford GT. I had some dumbass mexican trying to race me in his ghey toyota carolla It was bad enough when he passed me whistling out his window. Then he pissed me off when he was next to me in the left lane and swirved in his lane like he was going to side swipe me. If that was you TKE-Teg, I officially hate you.

That Cobra was hot. Saw several more around town around glennwood ave after I got off 40.



^, ^^^^, and ^^^^^ sorry I couldn't get a pic of cars going the other way on the hwy. Little hard to do...

Pretty cool that TKE-Teg and I saw the same shit though.


[Edited on August 18, 2008 at 5:01 PM. Reason : imo]

8/18/2008 4:57:50 PM

saw an orange lambo gallardo driving through the Sedgefield golf course through a crowd of people following jon daly at the wyndam championship this sunday

8/18/2008 7:54:08 PM

saw a black lamborghini on hillsborough outside what used to be the bbq place...license plate was "carajo" or something

i think it's been mentioned before, though

8/18/2008 7:55:08 PM

^Yup. Carlyle Poindexter's.

8/18/2008 8:57:43 PM

Quote :

"Took out a Ferrari 348 Spider yesterday. Great, no, amazing gearbox. Best feeling transmission of any car I've ever driven. 200lb clutch or so it felt. Steering was heavy as fuck. Interior was pathetically bad, nearly none of the electrics worked at all. That said, it pulled like a beast from 60 onward, and while the steering was heavy, it absolutely glided through the twisties."

ive been told if you want a ferrari, stay away from the pop up headlights

and stay away from the paddle shift ones also

unless its a track only car, you don't want to parallel park one

8/18/2008 11:35:26 PM

Quote :

"Pretty cool that TKE-Teg and I saw the same shit though."

lol, I just put two and two together. shmorri2 I just checked your photo gallery and I totally remember your car. We kept pace for a while with each other and were on I-40 in the general area of one another from just west of Greensboro all the way over to Raleigh. Does my red GS-R ring any bells to you?

8/19/2008 1:18:41 AM

i've seen two lambos recently. one gallardo and the other a gallardo spyder. attempted to catch the hardtop on capital, but i was in a parking lot and couldn't get out in time. orange spider guy looked like he was going to have a stroke in the car he was so afraid of my throttle blips beside him. he wouldn't do anything, just staring straight ahead with hands at 10 and 2 doing 5 under the speed limit.

red tt viper tonight. i moves pretty well.

8/19/2008 5:09:04 AM

^^HAHA YES! Now that I think about it. haha. Damn, I wished I knew it was you so I could be an ass and play with you a little I hope my car wasn't too loud...


But for serious, nice GS-R. It looked clean.

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8/19/2008 8:45:08 AM

What stood out to me was the perculiar vent on the front of the car, and yes your loud exhaust. It didn't stand out enough for me to think it was a V8 though (of course thats not really a natural train of a thought anyway).

Thanks for the compliments on the car! Yours looked like it was a paint job away from looking good (I feel the same way about mine as well.)

8/19/2008 12:19:51 PM

I saw a black-on-black Enzo Ferrari this past weekend. It was parked in between an F40 and an F50 (both red). Camera phone pic to come...

8/19/2008 12:22:24 PM

^lol, I love how you casually just mention the F40 and F50. IMO I'd rather see those.

8/19/2008 12:27:06 PM

Haha. Ferrari's namin system has always confused me a little. I mean, I know the numbers somehow corelate to the engine (whether its total displacement, displacement per cylinder, displacement + # valves per cylinder, displacement + # of cylinders, etc...), or the whole F series. I just don't even bother keeping up with it all anymore.

Quote :

"Yours looked like it was a paint job away from looking good "

Ha, I appreciate it. Besides the worn seats, cracked dash, worn suspension, worn steering rack, cracked front valence, dented passenger fender, and 23 year old paint, (and drivers side door hinge that's about fallen off now ), yeah, it's in decent shape...


oh yeah, cracked windshield..

So, I got to thinkin. What are some exotics we haven't posted here on the board? Koenigsegg, Nobel M12, Z10, Skyline, anything else? Those are the ones that just pop'd in my head. We need to freakin catch (vid pics) these things like pokemon guys. LETS DO IT



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8/19/2008 12:42:33 PM

Pisses me off now, I forgot to get pictures of the best part of the car (the shifter!)

And ^ you got it right, at least with this model.

348 = 3.4 Liter V8

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8/19/2008 6:16:06 PM

About 10 years ago I drove a brand new F 355 Spider (unsupervised). It was amazing. The engine note was intoxicating, the handling breathtaking, and the gearshifter great (at this point in my life I knew how to drive stick, but didn't have a car to do it with on a regular basis so just driving a manual in a Ferrari was very intimidating!)

8/19/2008 6:24:40 PM

^^there's a local guy on horspowerjunkies that has one of those, but i think it's been broken most of the time since he bought it. the same guy that had his nsx totalled on the dragon a while back if anyone remembers that getting posted here. didn't jsquared's family have a hardtop one too? or was it a 308...? the gated shifters are cool.

348 owners will tell you they're the last of the true "enthusiasts" f cars, but i think they're a poor man's ferrari also (not that there's anything wrong with that or that i could afford to own one).

[Edited on August 19, 2008 at 7:07 PM. Reason : .]

8/19/2008 7:06:14 PM

^yeah, the guy who's NSX was wrecked is Tom Covington. I bought my 944 from him He's really stoked about his 348. Very purdy car. I told him I'd like to do a quick run with him one day to see if his ol' 944 948 can keep up with his current 348 Tom's a real cool guy...

Tom hasn't had his 348 long, it's already been broken?! He got it like 3 mo. ago. silly injectors :p

http://horsepowerjunkies.com/forums/showthread.php?t=66054

NICE pics there btw...

^^^ Here's a shifter shot






[Edited on August 19, 2008 at 9:31 PM. Reason : ]

8/19/2008 9:23:43 PM

Is a Lexus IS-F considered an 'exotic?' A coworker of mine just got one.

8/20/2008 10:08:58 PM

no

8/20/2008 10:11:06 PM

H8R and I might go test drive a Ferrari 360 this saturday.


thats if he's down for it.

8/20/2008 10:28:43 PM

8/20/2008 10:47:33 PM

Quote :

"didn't jsquared's family have a hardtop one too? or was it a 308...? "

I'm pretty sure that was a Mondial. Still a Ferrari, but one of the more plebeian models.

Audi R8 I saw last Monday in Cameron Village, first one I've seen in person: (sorry for the shitty picture, got it as it was driving away


That same day, I spotted this gem sitting in that little parking lot between Jimmy John's and Sylvia's Pizza, Aston-Martin V8 Vantage:



While it's not really an exotic anymore, this one I saw parked on campus in the Reynolds lot last Tuesday certainly was in its day and has always been one of my favorite cars. Porsche 928 S4.


I saw that old Rolls again today, but again failed to get a picture. At this point I think it's a Silver Spur rather than a Silver Spirit (the Spur is the LWB model). I'm going to call it early 90's. And I see Carlyle's black Gallardo so often I've become almost desensitized to it...but still a damn sexy car.

Good couple of weeks for exotics on/around campus.

[Edited on August 22, 2008 at 12:47 AM. Reason : not white]

8/22/2008 12:43:28 AM

Yeah I saw that R8 in Cameron Village the other day.

8/22/2008 1:05:27 AM

Quote :

"While it's not really an exotic anymore, this one I saw parked on campus in the Reynolds lot last Tuesday certainly was in its day and has always been one of my favorite cars. Porsche 928 S4."

Props for a very nice pic of a very nice car. But serious man, The 928 was NEVER an exotic car. Come on!

[Edited on August 22, 2008 at 3:08 AM. Reason : 2]

8/22/2008 3:05:58 AM

white r8 with 30 day tags.


the guys son had a shit eating grin on his face when they drove by, lol.


50mpg bitchs!

8/22/2008 7:42:17 AM

My fiance's sister got married last weekend, so on the day of when the women were getting ready, her dad and uncles and I went to hang out at the Ferrari dealership (Foreign Cars Italia in Greensboro).


The Enzo Ferrari...note that the little sign the dealership put in front is incorrect.

8/22/2008 9:22:50 AM

^Cool I'll be sure to stop by. I'm heading back over there anyways tomorrow... so yeah...

8/22/2008 9:51:54 AM