2008 Street Machine of the Year WINNER is...

[fesler]

BAD NEWS OOPS

[fesler]

[BRIAN]

That has got to suck big time!!!

I hate to say it as the car is incredible but there is a lot of plastic on that car. Look at how much cracked off on the corners.


Then look at the lines that tie into the exhaust tips. Amazing design work.

[4cefed]

Originally Posted by BRIAN

I hate to say it as the car is incredible but there is a lot of plastic on that car. Look at how much cracked off on the corners.

I was thinking the same thing. All that sweet metal work and still a 1/4" or so of filler? Anyone have a take on that?

[monza]

AMAZING well done

[SLO 65]

Anyone have pictures of the maroon 65 Corvette?

Nick

[TonyL]

OMG. what happened to that car? OUCH indeed. That has to be REAL embarrassing to Troy's to have all that filler out there for people to measure. eesh.

[ProdigyCustoms]

Wow! What a great show. First off Congrats to the Ring Bros. What a great couple guys and man our these guys on top of their game! And the owner drove the wheels off that thing on the autocross! I was shocked! AWESOME car and without a doubt the right car to win. Personally a little stunned they could get 2 in a row, almost no one thought they could. Hats off the the GG crew for not letting last years results affect this year.

Troy's car was fabulous and I still hope to grow up and be like him someday! I felt horrible for them having the trouble on the autocross. There was a little grumbling about them not being on the show field in the morning and doing the parade. we also had a "repair" Friday morning and was told with certainty that we had to back on the show field before 12 noon and than all SMOY contenders must parade over as a group and do the autocross to be pre qualified for SMOY. There was a lot of whisper, Wheres Troy when we all showed up at the autocross. I have to admit I was thinking, as well as a lot of others, there was a open slot at the top when he did not show up. Again, as A builder I sympathize the problems they were having and the car is killer no doubt.

I am most happy for Jeff. He not only built a nice car, but drove the wheels off it on the autocross, and is a super cool guy to boot, so way to go Jeff.

Time Machines always builds nice cars and they ran the sheot out of their car on the autocross after Mike was telling me for a few weeks they WOULD NOT be running the car hard. When they over drove it and spun it out, instead o limping off, it was john Force time to the finish line. I thought the front tires were going to come off the ground when they matted it on the back stretch!

The black 68 was a neat car. I have to think it got extra consideration for setting the fastest autocross times, and deservedly so. He ran the hell out of it, and is obviously a good driver.

For ourselves and Project Emptynest, we were just honored to be on the field next to some of those cars. We had some "unfinished" details as the motor put us SO FAR BEHIND that obviously would hurt us. We also could have used a much better driver for the autocross. Like Troy, we fired Emptynest Weds night late, drove it on the trailer, and went to the show. Friday morning I drove it 1 mile to the show field from the hotel. The autocross was miles 1 to 1.5, LOL! All and all the car did good. Needs fuel injection tuning as I believe the twin TBs are creating some interesting additional tuning. Lisa and I drove it around town last night and put 30 miles on it. Actually the car did pretty damn good for a out the door and go deal!

So my fastest time was 19.3 I think. I simply overdrove the **** out of it, caught a cone on one faster run by a tennie. So I threw the keys to Scott Pruett and he went out and busted off a low 18 having never driven the car 10 feet, LOL! The injection is having a "tip in" issue when you come on and off the gas fast that is crippling it in tight corners, almost starving it in corners. Almost as if running out of gas which causes a Oh **** moment when the thing comes back on at 4000 RPM and you are at 650LBS of torque, LOL! Had that starving issue been cured I think we could have tuned him around much faster.

I am a little surprised that scott's time did not count. The killer 18.2 (amazing BTW) time for the 62 Impala was set by celebrity driver Kyle Tucker and it counted. But I guess if you consider Kyle was the builder and drove it much like I was the builder and drove Lisa's car I guess it is the same thing. Times did not count anyway. i just wanted to be the guy that had the balls to hand a driver the keys. no one else did!

It was really, really, REALLY nice to see some of the absolute World of Wheels show cars suffer on the autocross. There were at least half a dozen cars I thought we would br pushing off the coarse as they were running so badly. Some of those guys were sweating the autocross real bad. A couple would stop after each run and check there car for sctraches, rubs, chips, after every lap!

I have to take off my hat to Godguys and Air Ride for making the autocross requirment. And as they thought, while times did not matter, it only ook a couple burnouts to let all the participants know they would need to do more then coast the coarse! I am almost certain that while they said times did not count, that had there been no autocross, a couple other indoor show cars would have displaced some of the top 5.

For us, we had a great time cruising around in Lisa's EmptyNest and Michael's Prodigy. Michael kicked our ass a couple times last night in a couple of stop light wars. That's OK, When we get Lisa's motor tuned, I see some serious grudge racing in our future. I cannot wait. We may not have won the big trophy, but I did get to cruise the Nationals with my wife and our boy in a couple badd ass Pro Touring cars! And that my friends has much more value then a trophy!

And now we have a long ride home this evening!

[fesler]

Originally Posted by ProdigyCustoms

Wow! What a great show. First off Congrats to the Ring Bros. What a great couple guys and man our these guys on top of their game! And the owner drove the wheels off that thing on the autocross! I was shocked! AWESOME car and without a doubt the right car to win. Personally a little stunned they could get 2 in a row, almost no one thought they could. Hats off the the GG crew for not letting last years results affect this year.

Troy's car was fabulous and I still hope to grow up and be like him someday! I felt horrible for them having the trouble on the autocross. There was a little grumbling about them not being on the show field in the morning and doing the parade. we also had a "repair" Friday morning and was told with certainty that we had to back on the show field before 12 noon and than all SMOY contenders must parade over as a group and do the autocross to be pre qualified for SMOY. There was a lot of whisper, Wheres Troy when we all showed up at the autocross. I have to admit I was thinking, as well as a lot of others, there was a open slot at the top when he did not show up. Again, as A builder I sympathize the problems they were having and the car is killer no doubt.

I am most happy for Jeff. He not only built a nice car, but drove the wheels off it on the autocross, and is a super cool guy to boot, so way to go Jeff.

Time Machines always builds nice cars and they ran the sheot out of their car on the autocross after Mike was telling me for a few weeks they WOULD NOT be running the car hard. When they over drove it and spun it out, instead o limping off, it was john Force time to the finish line. I thought the front tires were going to come off the ground when they matted it on the back stretch!

The black 68 was a neat car. I have to think it got extra consideration for setting the fastest autocross times, and deservedly so. He ran the hell out of it, and is obviously a good driver.

For ourselves and Project Emptynest, we were just honored to be on the field next to some of those cars. We had some "unfinished" details as the motor put us SO FAR BEHIND that obviously would hurt us. We also could have used a much better driver for the autocross. Like Troy, we fired Emptynest Weds night late, drove it on the trailer, and went to the show. Friday morning I drove it 1 mile to the show field from the hotel. The autocross was miles 1 to 1.5, LOL! All and all the car did good. Needs fuel injection tuning as I believe the twin TBs are creating some interesting additional tuning. Lisa and I drove it around town last night and put 30 miles on it. Actually the car did pretty damn good for a out the door and go deal!

So my fastest time was 19.3 I think. I simply overdrove the **** out of it, caught a cone on one faster run by a tennie. So I threw the keys to Scott Pruett and he went out and busted off a low 18 having never driven the car 10 feet, LOL! The injection is having a "tip in" issue when you come on and off the gas fast that is crippling it in tight corners, almost starving it in corners. Almost as if running out of gas which causes a Oh **** moment when the thing comes back on at 4000 RPM and you are at 650LBS of torque, LOL! Had that starving issue been cured I think we could have tuned him around much faster.

I am a little surprised that scott's time did not count. The killer 18.2 (amazing BTW) time for the 62 Impala was set by celebrity driver Kyle Tucker and it counted. But I guess if you consider Kyle was the builder and drove it much like I was the builder and drove Lisa's car I guess it is the same thing. Times did not count anyway. i just wanted to be the guy that had the balls to hand a driver the keys. no one else did!

It was really, really, REALLY nice to see some of the absolute World of Wheels show cars suffer on the autocross. There were at least half a dozen cars I thought we would br pushing off the coarse as they were running so badly. Some of those guys were sweating the autocross real bad. A couple would stop after each run and check there car for sctraches, rubs, chips, after every lap!

I have to take off my hat to Godguys and Air Ride for making the autocross requirment. And as they thought, while times did not matter, it only ook a couple burnouts to let all the participants know they would need to do more then coast the coarse! I am almost certain that while they said times did not count, that had there been no autocross, a couple other indoor show cars would have displaced some of the top 5.

For us, we had a great time cruising around in Lisa's EmptyNest and Michael's Prodigy. Michael kicked our ass a couple times last night in a couple of stop light wars. That's OK, When we get Lisa's motor tuned, I see some serious grudge racing in our future. I cannot wait. We may not have won the big trophy, but I did get to cruise the Nationals with my wife and our boy in a couple badd ass Pro Touring cars! And that my friends has much more value then a trophy!

And now we have a long ride home this evening!

Well said Frank, it was great to meet you out at the event and just kick it. Great cars and a good time.

[XcYZ]

Congrats to the Ring Brothers! 2 years in a row. That doesn't happen by accident.

Also huge congrats to Jeff Hanson and his Dad for making the top 5 of the SMOY. That's awesome!