Old pic from MCO days

Died: August 29th, 2003.......... RIP
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Post by Da_Rev » Fri Apr 08, 2005 2:49 pm

Ah yes... I remember well, I loved 40 Ford at HH...

sniff sniff dang I miss that game...

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Post by GonePostal » Fri Apr 08, 2005 3:13 pm

Gah... now I'm all nostalgic.

I was a socializing, rares collecting, trials junkie myself, with a ton of skinning thrown in the mix. Once they started releasing rare parts into the cat I was stunned how big a difference some of them made. My times plummetted in many cases, just shy of 1:47 on WB and hit 3:40 in 2 laps in an unlimited form on HH. Depressing! :( I hated having to put money into stuff like rare parts but didn't realize it was affecting performance so drastically. Depressed me a little.

Some fun racing with stock auto sales 32's & 40's was a good time. You could almost leave the car on a straightaway and go grab a muffin and come back in time to make the turn.

Class racing was a blast but later on I got hooked on speed and unlimited class. white-knuckle driving on MCC and GP team trials... crazy shit. BAGP was probably the most relaxing track for me. Sweeping corners, no real big surprises... non-technical fun fun track. I'd never run it backwards before they put in the big payout on it. So here I go... juiced cobra... streaking down the hill... through the tunnel... "uh oh.. WHOOOOAAAA!!!" yeah GP... THAT hill... poor cobra. :(

Collecting was fun... bought my chop/decal 57 vette when it spawned for 7 mil. Was the most expensive car sold on the server and put me 4 mil in debt. Kept it right til the end. Drove it the last couple months. Scored several other cool cars plus the skin reward vert 442's and cheros. I gave my 2 cheros on uptown (vert red-hot and chop cali' dreamin) to Ripper because he seemed to have a thing for em and I knew he'd dig way more than some shmoe buyin em outta auction and drive em proud. :(

Sweet Lou's HH tourney was one of the best times I had in-game and the only tourney I ever ran in. Absolute blast.

Dev nights were insane. So many people in the rooms and the pits would fill up before you could even get in.

*sigh* dead & gone, I know... fond memories though.

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Post by aqua » Mon Apr 11, 2005 6:38 am

Da_Rev wrote:Ah yes... I remember well, I loved 40 Ford at HH...

sniff sniff dang I miss that game...
I hated that track until they made it Vintage B or D (can't remember now). And then I really REALLY started to like it.

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Post by Zardoz » Mon Apr 11, 2005 7:42 am

GDI! WTF?! I WANT MY MCO...even just one more test run! :twisted:

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Post by PigPen » Mon Apr 11, 2005 12:50 pm

i wish i still had that pic of me bats and specter3(or something like that...)taking 3 different paths around skoggit...that was an awesome shot

sadly all my good old racing shots are on my old fried computer :/

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Post by Zardoz » Mon Apr 11, 2005 1:09 pm

PigPen wrote:sadly all my good old racing shots are on my old fried computer :/
Same here :-x

Wish I'd have backed all that stuff up!

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Post by Midtown Guy » Tue Apr 12, 2005 9:31 am

send it to cid. he seems to have good luck with GetDataBack.

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Post by Satchmo » Thu Apr 14, 2005 10:55 am

I finally put a few of my old ones back up:


http://br549.thetumbleweeds.net/images/ ... ryVert.JPG


Dev night... had to "appropriate" the gf's account to run on Uptown, but got in a race against BigSlowBen
http://br549.thetumbleweeds.net/images/ ... ssicD1.JPG

I *think* this was from that same Dev night as an anonymous Dev hits his little known "Tornado of Doom" cheat button!
http://br549.thetumbleweeds.net/images/ ... AMark2.JPG



Me N' Bump Bailey at the first monthly meeting of the Import Welcoming Committee:
http://br549.thetumbleweeds.net/images/ ... yEldo5.JPG
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Post by Satchmo » Thu Apr 14, 2005 11:02 am

Proof that I DID beat TwinGirlyCam at least once!
http://br549.thetumbleweeds.net/images/mco/TwinCam.JPG


Proof of beating up on G-Man
http://br549.thetumbleweeds.net/images/ ... houg1b.JPG

Proof that Caddy Suxx0Rz!
http://br549.thetumbleweeds.net/images/ ... PG_CCA.JPG


Monday Night Starters. I think that's Slick442 (?) that I'm unsuccessfully trying to chase down. Did ANYONE ever beat him on those MNS races?
http://br549.thetumbleweeds.net/images/ ... rnado4.jpg

And one of my favorite shots:
http://br549.thetumbleweeds.net/images/mco/sunset.jpg


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Post by Guest » Tue Aug 16, 2005 9:11 pm

This was probably my favorite car to drive out of all those that I had... simple D class Mustang.

http://www.vwerks.net/images/65stang.jpg

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Post by Guest » Tue Aug 16, 2005 9:22 pm

One more... (wish I had kept more of these pics)

http://www.vwerks.net/images/truck.jpg

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Post by 67GP » Thu Aug 25, 2005 2:41 pm

WAAAA i wish my computer didnt crash :nixweiss:

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Post by 2faced » Thu Aug 25, 2005 2:56 pm

I beat Slick442 quite a few times. Monday Night Starters was a blast. I had a Blown Flathead that put out ungodly amounts of torque. And I would just pull away from him. He would always catch me on the corners tho :?

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Post by Satchmo » Thu Aug 25, 2005 3:53 pm

Gigman wrote:I beat Slick442 quite a few times.
I dont believe you!

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Post by 2faced » Thu Aug 25, 2005 3:57 pm

MiniPackage wrote:
Gigman wrote:I beat Slick442 quite a few times.
I dont believe you!
I sucked at most classes except E

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Post by BigBen » Sun Aug 28, 2005 2:56 pm

Slick442 was the first person I met in MCO. We ran together in Beta, running starter Bels on the Tri-O (or as it was known after powergamers ran it 24/7, the Why-O?). I remember saving up for the Nova (the uber0car in beta, since they made it weight like 2,400lbs or something) and getting it in the morning before going to work. It was all I could do to not call in sick so I could have a chance to drive it....

Has there ever been a game where getting a new car meant so much to you?

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Post by Blaise » Mon Aug 29, 2005 12:41 am

BigBen wrote:Has there ever been a game where getting a new car meant so much to you?

~Ben
No. No there hasn't. Oh, well, 'cept for that one..

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Post by Giddy » Mon Aug 29, 2005 5:16 am

Blaise wrote:
BigBen wrote:Has there ever been a game where getting a new car meant so much to you?

~Ben
No. No there hasn't. Oh, well, 'cept for that one..
The first car I bid on was a 64 impala. I came home from work at lunch to find out if I'd won it. What a thrill it was to see it in my garage. Then I couldn't wait to get home to drive it. 8-)

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Post by Satchmo » Mon Aug 29, 2005 6:42 am

BigBen wrote:Slick442 was the first person I met in MCO. We ran together in Beta, running starter Bels on the Tri-O (or as it was known after powergamers ran it 24/7, the Why-O?). I remember saving up for the Nova (the uber0car in beta, since they made it weight like 2,400lbs or something) and getting it in the morning before going to work. It was all I could do to not call in sick so I could have a chance to drive it....

Has there ever been a game where getting a new car meant so much to you?

~Ben

What I want to know is if you two started off at the same time... what went so horribly wrong with your driving career? :twisted: It's like Ying and Yang....Twin Cam and Caddy.... Salvage and Trouble... muahahaha :twisted:

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Post by BigBen » Mon Aug 29, 2005 8:11 am

MiniPackage wrote: What I want to know is if you two started off at the same time... what went so horribly wrong with your driving career? :twisted: It's like Ying and Yang....Twin Cam and Caddy.... Salvage and Trouble... muahahaha :twisted:
Weeell, obviously I spent so much time coaching Slick, and passing on my mad driving skills that I didn't have any time left to practice myself...

Either that or I just suck.

~Ben

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Post by Guest » Mon Aug 29, 2005 8:23 am

I suppose I should add a few of my shots - just for fun :)

http://error691.com/pics/mco/49merc.jpg
My 49 chopped sled :)

http://error691.com/pics/mco/cartelrr1.jpg
http://error691.com/pics/mco/cartelrr2.jpg
My Road Runner - good for the Spillway and Hazard

http://error691.com/pics/mco/mcity17.gif
My purple Duster - got a couple of records in that :)

http://error691.com/pics/mco/MCity24.gif
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Post by Sonjeir » Mon Aug 29, 2005 3:17 pm

Hmm I seem to be missing a few shots myself. Need to dig some at home I had a cd completely filled with screen shots at one time.


From what I have on RNO though, this is my favorite and one of my all time favorites as well.
http://www.racingnationonline.com/geeka ... bimage.jpg

A scornfull scowl from Carter as he gets passed.

this looks like it's going to be painful.

http://www.racingnationonline.com/geeka ... eadon1.jpg

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Post by SkarTisu » Mon Aug 29, 2005 3:40 pm

RE_Lee wrote:I posted on the forums asking Skartisu and Kevin to run my GTO setup at GP and give me their opinions. I knew the car was capable of more than I could get out of it, I never was good at GP.

Both of them used it, both of them made slight variations to fit their handling styles and engine preferences, but both were able to produce times that were surprisingly good. I remember Skar mentioning that he didn't expect the car to go as fast as it did. :mrgreen:
Yup! I remember that! I was very surprised how well the car handled once you'd put wrenches to it. I was used to more steering at the time, and I think we got that for the most part. I had a hard time getting the car through the switchbacks as quickly because the center of gravity was higher. But, the car was pretty quick for being a brick! :D

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