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Re: Stratos
September 26, 2018 03:06PM
I love the stratos, one of my dream cars, but i didnt make it through the video.

Much preferred this one-




I enjoyed hearing his reasoning for keeping the car immaculate as a maintenance and performance point. Changed my mentality on how reliability is more attention to detail and the clean and pretty car is just a nice side effect.
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Re: Stratos
September 26, 2018 03:52PM
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I love the stratos...

Oooh, suits you sir, suits you.





Anyway, having sat in the front of a Stratos replica there's hee haw room. Feck bouncing around the woods squeezed into one them whilst banging my helmet clad napper off the rollcage.



Disappointingly not yet a Jackass



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Re: Stratos
September 26, 2018 09:39PM
I'll show you the backside of a suit....

Figured the stratos would be tiny. Never drive your heroes right?
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Re: Stratos
September 27, 2018 02:04PM
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I love the stratos, one of my dream cars,
I enjoyed hearing his reasoning for keeping the car immaculate as a maintenance and performance point. Changed my mentality on how reliability is more attention to detail and the clean and pretty car is just a nice side effect.

All I see is the dents in the right rear quarter panel.



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Re: Stratos
September 27, 2018 08:02PM
MAGA Make Anarchy Great Again!!!!



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Re: Stratos
September 27, 2018 11:48PM
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I love the stratos, one of my dream cars,
I enjoyed hearing his reasoning for keeping the car immaculate as a maintenance and performance point. Changed my mentality on how reliability is more attention to detail and the clean and pretty car is just a nice side effect.

All I see is the dents in the right rear quarter panel.

Love taps! Actually those were part of the reason I particularly enjoyed this one. It was the double checking all the fasteners and cleaning to find leaks that I appreciated. It'll get repainted eventually and the dents will disappear, but reliability through attention looks pretty good from where my halfass mentality is sitting.

edit: to be honest I'd only noticed the one big flaw, had to go back and look for more. Grant are you watching this crap on a big screen?



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Re: Stratos
September 28, 2018 09:54AM
Nah, I just noticed it slightly. I really like the car and definitely agree with his meticulous detail.



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Re: Stratos
October 09, 2018 07:58PM
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NO Chris, useless trolls, like a little clique up in Calgary who expressly--in the clear said they came to "prove" I don't know anything...
Wut?
Point to where that was said by any of us (where it wasn't clearly sarcasm)



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Re: Stratos
October 12, 2018 02:04PM
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NO Chris, useless trolls, like a little clique up in Calgary who expressly--in the clear said they came to "prove" I don't know anything...
Wut?
Point to where that was said by any of us (where it wasn't clearly sarcasm)

Yours and you little suck-buddies near total absence since I intentionally backed away from this place proves the point..

Go away..Don't you have a WRC to organize or something?
Do it.



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Re: Stratos
October 12, 2018 05:45PM
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Point to where that was said by any of us (where it wasn't clearly sarcasm)
Figured you wouldn't/couldn't

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Yours and you little suck-buddies near total absence since I intentionally backed away from this place proves the point.

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Go away..Don't you have a WRC to organize or something?
It seems you're paying attention... makes me think of a word that rhymes with 'talker.'



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Re: Stratos
October 12, 2018 07:33PM
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Re: Stratos
October 12, 2018 09:47PM




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If they do not give you work or bread, then take bread.

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Re: Stratos
October 12, 2018 09:50PM
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[...] Don't you have a WRC to organize or something?

Oh wow!
Can't wait!
Imagine all the benefits for rally in Canada!
Exposur!
Sponsors everywhere!



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Re: Stratos
October 12, 2018 10:57PM
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Re: Stratos
October 13, 2018 08:31AM
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Imagine all the benefits for rally in Canada!
Exposur!
Sponsors everywhere!

I know. Leaving the US in the dust. There's already way more sponsorship potential in Canadian rally, if they pull off a WRC event it'll be huge!
I mean right now I can say to sponsors, hey I have a bunch of friends on Instagram and Facebook that all 2000 will see this shit! Or I can say, I'm going to Canada and they broadcast on TV to millions.
The international visitors alone will swamp area hotels.



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