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I'm writing this to give an idea of what playing GT2 is about.
The cars, the tracks, the fun, and the strange epiphanys.
*I got this idea from Parnelli Boone (or is it Bone? Sorry I can't remember.)
To get the ball rolling....
On June I don't know, three days ago maybe? I walked into my local game shop to trade some games in (Burnout, Madden, Motorstorm) for some store credit. Fat service guy says $15 bucks for them (and NFS, this guy ripped me off) and I head to the PS3 section to check it out. Walking through, something catches my eye. A GT symbol. The GT2 symbol. I look, its $5 and I buy it, guys like youre wasting money. I dont care. Its Gran Turismo, and this is another peice to the collection. I go home, pleased, kinda giddy to play a 11 year old game (Im 14 so most kids play COD or MAG. Not me.) I fire up the PS3 , clean both discs, even though I havent touched the arcade one. I shove it in and fire the thing up. It works PERFECT.
First thing I do naturally is hunt for a car. I go for the oddball, a '86 MR2 1600 SC, blue, with 138hp. I go into the licensing center, and get the b and a licenses, and head to the Sunday Cup, and win my first GT2 race at Tahiti Road. I'll continue this later, cause my 🤬 sister wants on the computer.
The cars, the tracks, the fun, and the strange epiphanys.
*I got this idea from Parnelli Boone (or is it Bone? Sorry I can't remember.)
To get the ball rolling....
On June I don't know, three days ago maybe? I walked into my local game shop to trade some games in (Burnout, Madden, Motorstorm) for some store credit. Fat service guy says $15 bucks for them (and NFS, this guy ripped me off) and I head to the PS3 section to check it out. Walking through, something catches my eye. A GT symbol. The GT2 symbol. I look, its $5 and I buy it, guys like youre wasting money. I dont care. Its Gran Turismo, and this is another peice to the collection. I go home, pleased, kinda giddy to play a 11 year old game (Im 14 so most kids play COD or MAG. Not me.) I fire up the PS3 , clean both discs, even though I havent touched the arcade one. I shove it in and fire the thing up. It works PERFECT.
First thing I do naturally is hunt for a car. I go for the oddball, a '86 MR2 1600 SC, blue, with 138hp. I go into the licensing center, and get the b and a licenses, and head to the Sunday Cup, and win my first GT2 race at Tahiti Road. I'll continue this later, cause my 🤬 sister wants on the computer.
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. I bought the Red w/ White Stripes. I felt like it was right, but it was really 15K's down the toilet. I entered into the stock Neon race and lost miserably. Don't worry, my revenge comes later. A few more races into the Clubman with the MR2, now rated at 190-odd BHP, courtesy of a uprated turbocharger 👍( does this make it a super-and-turbochrged engine? Like VW Europes TFSI?) Now for a flashback, when I entered that Dodge dealership, a Top Banana 1971 Dodge Challenger caught my eye. A 285BHP rumbling V8 in the most classic looking musclecar for 11K? Me likey. You likey. When I finally shove the Neon in the garage; and dont pull it out for 100 GT days, I pull out the MR2 again, which I still have 
, albeit in a hardcore, take-no-prisoners race-spec GT capable of crushing Vector Twin-Turbos (different day). So I get my Challenger, and enter in the historic Car Cup, and I get a new car, can't remember, cause I probably sold it for $$$. I never entered the FR Cup with it (later on). I got the last race of the Clubman Cup with the Challenger, and an epiphany happened: (there will be a few of these) while driving this muscle car, the soft, gelatinous suspension reminds me of the GT4 mission at Seattle in the Superbird, with the soft suspension. MMMM. I miss GT4.
. AFter is a 1997 Citroen Saxo F2 Kit Car, or in my words, the 1.6 Race-Spec. 264BHP.
Perhaps I should someday make a drive up to Erie!
Millenium at Rome in 1998 Toyota GT-One Race Car, finished in 2 hours 11 seconds, finished 93 of 99 laps, Atlantique 600 LM, Toyota GT-One '99, Ford GT40, Nissan R390 GT1 Race Car, Lister STorm V12 finished in that order. 3 pit stops, lots of spins in the straightaway corners.
Big headache, tired, just need to relax.
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