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Old 11-19-2019, 06:28 AM
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Old 11-19-2019, 06:38 AM
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Old 11-19-2019, 09:24 AM
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Been seeing this crazy woman in an explosion of memes with Smudge the Cat.

Turns out the image is captured from a TV show (Real Housewives of Beverly Hills) with actress Taylor Armstrong. Still looks crazy to me.
Old 11-19-2019, 09:43 AM
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Been seeing this crazy woman in an explosion of memes with Smudge the Cat.

Turns out the image is captured from a TV show (Real Housewives of Beverly Hills) with actress Taylor Armstrong. Still looks crazy to me.
Actually looks crazier in the second photo.











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Old 11-19-2019, 10:02 AM
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Old 11-19-2019, 10:17 AM
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Old 11-19-2019, 10:24 AM
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^^^Anybody keeping track of how many times that photo has been posted?
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Old 11-19-2019, 10:32 AM
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Prolly too much tire and not enough power to prevent wheel-hop.
That's an awful lot of tire on that vette for stock IRS and suspension.






PS yes I know that grand am has leaf springs, but wheel-hop is wheel hop.





EDIT not sure what happened to the first vid but it's back.
I thought it was a Pontiac, but Buick sounds good.

Shedding some light on the Buick - that is a "G" body car - it utilizes a triangulated 4-link rear suspension that goes all the way back 1964 / chevelle platform. It's really very good until you plop a lot of torque. The factory boxes the lower control arms to help with this - but sometimes it's not enough.
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Old 11-19-2019, 11:00 AM
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Old 11-19-2019, 11:07 AM
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not sure who she is, maybe that one hit wonder singer?
But he looks like


Old 11-19-2019, 11:13 AM
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^^^Anybody keeping track of how many times that photo has been posted?
Looks like two today so far.

Old 11-19-2019, 11:15 AM
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She = Elvira - mistress of the dark?
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Old 11-19-2019, 11:17 AM
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Shedding some light on the Buick - that is a "G" body car - it utilizes a triangulated 4-link rear suspension that goes all the way back 1964 / chevelle platform. It's really very good until you plop a lot of torque. The factory boxes the lower control arms to help with this - but sometimes it's not enough.
LOL My bad, it looked to me like a GN that had been modified by adding a ford 9" live axle with leaf springs that are getting all wrapped up.
What's that thing flopping behind the axle that looks kinda like a leaf spring?



Old 11-19-2019, 11:28 AM
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Old 11-19-2019, 11:30 AM
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Old 11-19-2019, 11:37 AM
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The more I look at it, it doan look like a buick no more. I'm thinking that might be and olds cutlass from the early 80s.
Old 11-19-2019, 11:37 AM
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The more I look at it, it doan look like a buick no more. I'm thinking that might be and olds cutlass from the early 80s.
Reminds me of a Dodge Mirada. Maybe an Austrailian car ?? Also looks like a leaf spring car. Buick GN would be coils.

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