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Title: The real prototype
Post by: jimmy on March 05, 2008, 07:45:23 PM
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1988-Shelby-CSX-Shadow-Turbo-Grand-Prix-Mclaren-PHR_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQcategoryZ34218QQihZ024QQitemZ370028335156QQrdZ1QQsspagenameZWDVW

There you go, the Magazine with the 1988 prototype Grand Illusion (305HP TGP)

In other words first of its kind
Title: Re: The real prototype
Post by: grinders_18 on March 05, 2008, 07:48:32 PM
Godammit Jimmy, I was gonna buy that. LOL
Title: Re: The real prototype
Post by: jimmy on March 05, 2008, 08:00:17 PM
  Sorry boss, I really did not think anybody knew what this was and why it was located in the Turbo grand prix section. You know how some people are  :icon_rolleyes: Plus there were no bids on it when I first open it
Title: Re: The real prototype
Post by: TGP Nick on March 05, 2008, 08:02:05 PM
you had me all excited.. here I thought you found the actual car that was in that article :icon_eek: :laugh:
Title: Re: The real prototype
Post by: jimmy on March 05, 2008, 08:05:35 PM
   You really think I would post that if it was  :icon_lol: then you really don't know me that well :icon_twisted:
Title: Re: The real prototype
Post by: TGP Nick on March 05, 2008, 08:07:21 PM
bastard.. :laugh:
Title: Re: The real prototype
Post by: jimmy on March 05, 2008, 08:12:17 PM
            Born and raised  :icon_mrgreen: (but not proud of it ;)
Title: Re: The real prototype
Post by: grinders_18 on March 05, 2008, 08:13:39 PM
Quote from: TGP Nick on March 05, 2008, 08:07:21 PM
bastard.. :laugh:

"Could be. Don't know if my ma and pa were married....I killed my pa before I got a chance to ask."

Name the movie.
Title: Re: The real prototype
Post by: TGP Nick on March 05, 2008, 08:18:51 PM
Quote from: grinders_18 on March 05, 2008, 08:13:39 PM
Quote from: TGP Nick on March 05, 2008, 08:07:21 PM
bastard.. :laugh:

"Could be. Don't know if my ma and pa were married....I killed my pa before I got a chance to ask."

Name the movie.
Wagons East
Title: Re: The real prototype
Post by: grinders_18 on March 05, 2008, 08:19:19 PM
Fuckin Right!!!!!
Title: Re: The real prototype
Post by: TGP Nick on March 05, 2008, 08:20:04 PM
I googled it :laugh:
Title: Re: The real prototype
Post by: grinders_18 on March 05, 2008, 08:22:54 PM
You frickin cheater...now go out and watch the movie for penance.

"Square the wagons...." lol
Title: Re: The real prototype
Post by: TGP Nick on March 05, 2008, 08:24:16 PM
I'll have to watch it now whenever I see it on..
Title: Re: The real prototype
Post by: jimmy on March 05, 2008, 08:24:55 PM
  Damn Nick you have ..........To much time on your hands"   Who sings it?
Title: Re: The real prototype
Post by: TGP Nick on March 05, 2008, 08:26:38 PM
Styx?
Title: Re: The real prototype
Post by: jimmy on March 05, 2008, 08:32:58 PM
       :laugh: Only a person that does, can answer that :laugh:
Title: Re: The real prototype
Post by: grinders_18 on March 05, 2008, 08:34:27 PM
Yeah it's Styx, off of "Paradise Theater" Good album
Title: Re: The real prototype
Post by: TGPvsTIII on March 06, 2008, 07:08:13 PM
WOW that copy has an article on the 88 dodge shelby CSX turbo. I should buy it for what ever it takes to buy! I actually saw a copy of that hot rod last weekend. Now where did I see it?????????????
Tim
Title: Re: The real prototype
Post by: TGP Nick on March 06, 2008, 07:39:36 PM
Quote from: TGPvsTIII on March 06, 2008, 07:08:13 PM
WOW that copy has an article on the 88 dodge shelby CSX turbo. I should buy it for what ever it takes to buy! I actually saw a copy of that hot rod last weekend. Now where did I see it?????????????
Tim
lemme guess.. at Jimmys
Title: Re: The real prototype
Post by: jimmy on March 06, 2008, 08:43:00 PM
      Hell ,Tim said that he use to subscribe to Hot Rod magazine back then, He might just have one for ya Krenzy. :cheers:
Title: Re: The real prototype
Post by: mfewtrail on March 07, 2008, 12:38:54 AM
I bought a copy off of ebay for $4.45 shipped. The guy I purchased from had two more copies at that price, but they're gone now(RareGMFan on the boards bought one of them, someone from W-body or here probably bought the other).

This guy has a copy here along with a March issue as well:
http://cgi.ebay.com/LOT-OF-2-1987-HOT-ROD-CAR-MAGAZINE-MARCH-NOVEMBER_W0QQitemZ110229502887QQihZ001QQcategoryZ280QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
Title: Re: The real prototype
Post by: grinders_18 on March 07, 2008, 12:52:49 AM
I bought the other lol.
Title: Re: The real prototype
Post by: mfewtrail on March 07, 2008, 01:01:02 AM
Quote from: grinders_18 on March 07, 2008, 12:52:49 AM
I bought the other lol.

I figured it had to be someone we knew. :icon_mrgreen: I need to search for other TGP ads and such. I really want to find the poster of the TTA, TGP, etc. that I posted a picture of here a few years back(I believe it was some sort of racing advertisement and not from a magazine though..)
Title: Re: The real prototype
Post by: grinders_18 on March 07, 2008, 01:04:10 AM
The Magnificent Seven

I have it lol

IIRC TGP, TTA, Fiero, TGA, LeMans coupe, Bonneville SSE, and turbo Sunbird.
Title: Re: The real prototype
Post by: mfewtrail on March 07, 2008, 01:27:23 AM
Not the magazine article. ;) I posted a picture of an actual poster in that same thread. There were actually two posters(one has writing on it, the other doesn't).

EDIT: I'll look through my backups and post a picture for reference. The site I got the picture from is no longer around and the mirrored version if it has no photos.  :icon_cry:
Title: Re: The real prototype
Post by: grinders_18 on March 07, 2008, 01:39:32 AM
If you find the link or picture, post it up!
Title: Re: The real prototype
Post by: mfewtrail on March 07, 2008, 01:34:56 PM
I found it.
(http://home.alltel.net/mfewtrail/images/tgpposter1.jpg)


new siggy sig! :icon_mrgreen:
Title: Re: The real prototype
Post by: grinders_18 on March 07, 2008, 01:39:38 PM
LOVE the sig!

Where's that picture at?? I've never seen that one! I've seen the similar sketch of the TGP Pace Car in the 1990 Pontiac brochure, at the very end it has a painting or drawn picture with a bunch of different Pontiacs in racing...and the TGP was in there.
Title: Re: The real prototype
Post by: mfewtrail on March 07, 2008, 02:59:09 PM
Sig is a screencap from Days of Thunder. I took a ton of screencaps of every part of the movie that showed the TGP(actually two of them, but they're shown together for only a brief amount of time) I might post some of them later...there's quite a bit of nice sig material among them. :icon_mrgreen:
Title: Re: The real prototype
Post by: grinders_18 on March 07, 2008, 04:06:01 PM
No the picture I was asking about is the one you posted with the TTA...is that your own personal pic or one you found on the net?

In Days of Thunder, you only see the two TGP's together for like 6 seconds, and it's immediately after the first "Gentleman, start your engines!"...I just watched it last night again.
Title: Re: The real prototype
Post by: mfewtrail on March 07, 2008, 04:54:22 PM
Ohhhhhh, I wasn't paying much attention when reading that reply. :laugh:

That picture was on a TTA website that a TTA owner started. He had a memorabilia section there and that's where I got the picture. The site is still around, but the memorabilia section no longer has anything listed. I think the guy listed the poster as being a very limited edition that Pontiac produced back then. There's another version with no writing at the bottom. I found old posts on a TTA board stating that "they pop up on ebay from time to time." That post was dated 2003 or 2004. I search for them every now and then on ebay, but haven't came across any.