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  April 23, 2011 10:34 a.m. oldsaw SuperDork

  Hillclimb footage from Scotland:

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpJ-Y-9otO8

  I'm not sure if this requires raising the pint before or after, but it deserves at least one.

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  April 23, 2011 10:43 a.m. Javelin SuperDork

  Daaaaaaaamn!

  Michael Pinto - 73 AMC Javelin 360 / GoKart / 86 944 Sport / 01 Grand Prix GT / 06 Mazda5 M5

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  April 23, 2011 10:45 a.m. barnca Reader

  holy flocknard

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  April 23, 2011 10:51 a.m. BoxheadTim SuperDork

  That's pretty much a standard issue hill climb in the UK. They're almost always that narrow as a lot of them are on private property like driveways to stately homes (it's pretty much impossible to get any road closed for motorsports in the UK, a feat that other countries in Europe manage without issue). The guard rails are a nice touch - a lot of them still use the landscape features to slow errant vehicles down.

  Sanity is vastly overrated.

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  April 23, 2011 11:00 a.m. Curmudgeon SuperDork

  Nice! That looks like fun! It also makes the ones I have run look like they were done on an Interstate.

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  April 23, 2011 11:06 a.m. oldsaw SuperDork

  BoxheadTim wrote: That's pretty much a standard issue hill climb in the UK. They're almost always that narrow as a lot of them are on private property like driveways to stately homes (it's pretty much impossible to get any road closed for motorsports in the UK, a feat that other countries in Europe manage without issue). The guard rails are a nice touch - a lot of them still use the landscape features to slow errant vehicles down.

  Shelsey-Walsh is a good example; steep hill on one side, deep ravine on the other.

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  April 23, 2011 1:29 p.m. triumph5 Dork

  That is memorizing the route with superb car control. New drivers should be made to simply drive down the road at half that speed and stay on the black top.

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  April 23, 2011 1:38 p.m. Lesley SuperDork

  That was incredible.

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  April 23, 2011 1:51 p.m. FlightService HalfDork

  Man that boy is good!

  

  forgive me if this is the booze talking, but, is that my heart?

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  April 23, 2011 8:33 p.m. cardiacdog New Reader

  Wow. That was flippin amazing.

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  April 23, 2011 8:44 p.m. Toyman01 SuperDork

  I wonder how he sits in that car with the massive steel nuts between his legs.

  The voices in my head may not be real, but they have some good ideas!

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  April 23, 2011 9:59 p.m. ronholm Reader

  Did anyone feel like they were watching a souped up version of an Atari game?

  Or was it just my computer that made it sound like that..

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  April 23, 2011 10:28 p.m. Sonic Dork

  That really looked like it was 2x speed to me. The driver's hand movements to the shifter and the tone of the engine, really sounded like it was more than single speed.

  Chris - 2007 BABE champion, 2008 2nd place. Miata, MGA, DiscoII 2010 - Trifecta of Crap in the Wartburg. $2002, $2006 $2010 challenger

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  April 23, 2011 10:36 p.m. triumph5 Dork

  I counted at least 14 different gear changes, start to finish.

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  April 24, 2011 7:17 a.m. huge-O-chavez SuperDork

  oldsaw wrote:

  BoxheadTim wrote: That's pretty much a standard issue hill climb in the UK. They're almost always that narrow as a lot of them are on private property like driveways to stately homes (it's pretty much impossible to get any road closed for motorsports in the UK, a feat that other countries in Europe manage without issue). The guard rails are a nice touch - a lot of them still use the landscape features to slow errant vehicles down.

  Shelsey-Walsh is a good example; steep hill on one side, deep ravine on the other.

  Yeah, I had been told about these hill climb circuits when I was over there. Cool vidoe.

  I get all my groceries from Sharper Image and Skymall

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  April 24, 2011 10:09 a.m. joey48442 SuperDork

  Sonic wrote: That really looked like it was 2x speed to me. The driver's hand movements to the shifter and the tone of the engine, really sounded like it was more than single speed.

  It did sound weird, but it sounded the same when people were walking in view, and they were moving normally.

  Joey

  Oh yes use the longest screwdriver in the toolbox,use my shop voice and wing the rest!

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  April 24, 2011 10:21 a.m. 93EXCivic SuperDork

  Holy E36 M3!!!!!

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  April 24, 2011 10:46 a.m. Drewsifer Dork

  That was awesome! I got a semi just watching it!

  Better to be a racer for a moment than spectator for a life time.

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  April 24, 2011 10:49 a.m. vladha New Reader

  Drewsifer wrote: That was awesome! I got a semi just watching it!

  What? A Peterbilt?

  No Daddy... it tastes like butt!

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  April 24, 2011 11:07 a.m. aussiesmg SuperDork

  nice run, awesome vid

  Cornering is like bringing a woman to climax. Jackie Stewart

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  April 24, 2011 2:24 p.m. Keith SuperDork

  I'm impressed with how he placed it at the start line, of all things. He didn't exactly creep up to it, and it appears he nailed it perfectly - the starter who tried to adjust his position ended up with the car in exactly the same place.

  Square left in 50 caution ocean!

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  April 24, 2011 2:55 p.m. DeadSkunk HalfDork

  He did that run in about 37-38 seconds in the video. The course record is just over 36 seconds, so that's not a sped up video. I'm impressed !!!!

  '99 Miata,'03 CooperS,'91 GTI 16V, '96 Astro,06 Scion Xb

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  April 24, 2011 9:29 p.m. Billy_Bottle_Caps Reader

  WOW

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  April 25, 2011 11:08 a.m. mad_machine SuperDork

  Toyman01 wrote: I wonder how he sits in that car with the massive steel nuts between his legs.

  No doubt he bolts himself into the car with it. That was awesome and made me feel like a noob driver all over again

  Mercenary Stage Hand: When the money's gone, so am I.

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  April 25, 2011 5:17 p.m. SupraWes Dork

  Sonic wrote: That really looked like it was 2x speed to me. The driver's hand movements to the shifter and the tone of the engine, really sounded like it was more than single speed.

  The video time and the finish time says its 1x.

  Because Toyota hasn't made anything interesting since 1989

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