[s-cars] Worthy projects (was Alum..was UrS $)

[Taka Mizutani]

Heck Phil-
Isn't it your UrQ 20v that I saw at s-fest two years ago? That is a q-ship!
By today's standards, it doesn't look like
it's a monster, but underneath lurks a whole lot of speed and beautifully
executed. Or was that another Phil?

Stealthy in today's world is something like a MBZ E500 or E550, debadged.
Make mine a wagon- can't tell that it's any different from a run-of-the-mill
E350, looks like another boring luxury car. Definitely not slow, the E550
would be quite fast. Definitely a sleeper.

A CTS-V, debadged, looks like a plain old V6 CTS Sport. Not a bad sleeper,
either.

Pontiac GTO, esp. the 6L version- looks like a Grand Prix coupe- fast as
hell. Just don't get it in orange or red and it looks so bland that you'd
never know unless you already knew. Gotta get it wingless, preferably
scoopless too.

Grand Cherokee SRT-8- yes, the drainpipes coming out of the center of the
rear bumper are kind of a giveaway, but no one expects an SUV to be that
fast, it's a JNR type of car.

Audi S8- again, looks like an A8, much faster.

MBZ S600- another luxury car with JNR speed.

Plenty of other examples out there- this past weekend I was at Englishtown
looking at the VW/Audi show cars- lots of bling out there. One excpetionally
nice ALMS TT with a ton of work done to it- megabuck build- Porsche
monoblock brakes, HRE wheels, ABT bodykit, the list goes on and on. There
was a sleeper Integra sedan with a huge FMIC lurking in the front bumper,
stock alloys, stock other than the tint. Hidden tailpipe, no coffee can.
That car had potential to be one of those ridiculously fast cars that looks
like nothing more than a boring Japanese appliance car. That's cool, in a
q-ship kind of way.

Same with the wingless Evo RS- not a dead giveaway what the car is unless
you either know already or know what to look for.

My huge winged, scooped car with the cantaloupe shooter (too big to be a
grapefruit shooter and more like a Costco-sized coffee can) definitely is
not a sleeper. :-)

Taka

On 4/23/07, Phil Mische <pmische at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> Easy there, big fella.  The cars you mentioned are mainstream, known fast
> cars.  S-cars are less known and more stealthy and more Q-ship-like, in my
> eyes.  I certainly don't mean to imply you're a mainstream guy, or not
> crazy, or likely to do conventional things.  My comments are directed along
> the line of things you've stated in this thread, they extend no further than
> that.
>
> Now suck the coffee off your shirt & let's get back to work!  I've got an
> S6 with a blown POS to fix....
>
> P
>