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Lotus Europa Forums => Off Topic Subjects => Topic started by: dakazman on Thursday,June 14, 2018, 01:45:10 PM
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A friend saw this come out. Street legal 1200 hp Mercedes slk
Dual nitrous. Sounded great.
Not mine!
Dakazman
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Looks like a monster! Can it really be street-legal with that huge obstruction in the center of the hood?
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No inspection here!
Good point about the obstruction though!
At the Daytona turkey run event they were all over the place.
Dakazman
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I couldn't see you getting very far down the street with that in the UK. We have rules that fail you for a decent sized chip in the windscreen which is in the drivers sightlines so I'd be amazed if you could get away with that small tower sticking out of the bonnet, to say nothing of the exposed moving belts. Mind you, it would probably have been perfectly ok 10 or 20 years ago before the elfs got in control ("Elfs" as in the "Health & Safety" bodies)
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It needs more gauges. :P
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It needs more gauges. :P
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and switches. Some folks only do half a job......
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I couldn't see you getting very far down the street with that in the UK. We have rules that fail you for a decent sized chip in the windscreen which is in the drivers sightlines so I'd be amazed if you could get away with that small tower sticking out of the bonnet, to say nothing of the exposed moving belts. Mind you, it would probably have been perfectly ok 10 or 20 years ago before the elfs got in control ("Elfs" as in the "Health & Safety" bodies)
But you're healthier and safer now, right Brian? ;)
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Yes, you're right, I'm old & cynical. H & S was one of those things over here that started off really well, sensible ideas from educated folks that stopped people cutting corners and putting themselves or others in danger. I even did some myself.
Then it morphed into something where any risk, no matter how slight, becomes a problem. So we end up with schools banning the kids from having slides or snowball fights during winter if they're in school uniform or playing conkers (quaint thing, probably got a wikipedia entry now) to take two famous examples.
Totally off topic now, but by coincidence I'm doing some trivia research for a Centenary in our village next month and found a delightful passage in the 1930s records where the village school suspended class "so that the boys could go outside and round up cows that had broken out of the field". Times (and headmasters) certainly change.... ;)
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I'm old and cynical, too. We're getting some of the same stuff over here, too. There is no danger or offense that is too slight for a nanny state to try to control.
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Yep I survived the gym set...
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I guess the sidepipes would keep that officer toasty too .
The wheelie bars keep the nose down for safety.
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Are those wheelie bars DOT approved?