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Graystroke
01-01-2003, 10:52 AM
For those who don't know today is the start of the 25th Paris-Dakar. Tune in tommorrow to the speed channel to see the highlights at 6 pm central. These guys make Ironman Stuart look like a little girl. Especially the motorcycle riders.

Graystroke
01-02-2003, 08:08 PM
Did anybody catch the dakar rally. WOW! the greatest was an old clip from 1990 of a 10 ton DAF truck pushing something like 1000HP+ passing a peugeot rally car in the open desert doing well over 100 mph(and getting air too) . The only crappy part is the guy crashed a few kms later and killed his co-driver and dropped out of the race. I would venture and guess that the CG on those bad boys kind of sucks.

Chadnutz
01-02-2003, 08:53 PM
DAF truck?

Graystroke
01-02-2003, 10:14 PM
It's a european make. I'm sure you've heard of the Mercedes Unimog, right? Well, there are other makes of trucks that follow a similar design/ layout as the unimog. For instance: Bedford, Ginaf, Scania, Tatra, MAN, Liaz, the Russian Kamaz, the Italian Iveco, and don't forget the Japanese Hino.

robertf03
01-02-2003, 10:33 PM
pinzgauer :flipoff2:

Graystroke
01-02-2003, 10:39 PM
none of those in the current dakar...I think they lost their edge:p

Fredo
01-03-2003, 02:03 AM
Ah ****...i can't believe I'm missing that. Screw working on stuff here...I'm on my way back to the house since I don't get speed vision here. :D