Oh, oh, oh, I'm making a Ludicrous Claim®! Read the first post!

[FoolKiller]

I was graduating from College. My Second Degree.

I don't dispute that you're old but I am working hard to defy the notion that my age alone makes me old (read: I refuse to accept 30 as any kind of age milestone).

 

[Dave A]

I was just finishing high school, you're all old .

 

[Beerz]

No doubt. You're even older than I am!

Dammit! Should've seen that one coming.

I was graduating from College. My Second Degree.

I don't dispute that you're old

BAHAHAHAHAAA!!!!

but I am working hard to defy the notion that my age alone makes me old (read: I refuse to accept 30 as any kind of age milestone).

Same here on that count. In fact, I have been enjoying my 30's a lot. 👍

I see people the same age as me that make themselves OLD to others, either by their attitude or just because they want to look "mature" or whatever, for job reasons mostly.
I'm mature, but at the same time I feel young, look young (even with the lack of hair), like to laugh and be in a good mood as often as possible... Mature =/= Looking like someone just went anal on you. 💡



On this particular thing, the playing GT since the age of 6, I believe us over 30 have a harder time grasping it because of the complexity.
I started playing Jumpin Jack on my Spectrum 48k when I was 5, then moving on to more complex games.

Nowadays, ALL games are a lot more complex than that. It's only normal that if someone starts playing really young, he's already better than I was back then. 👍

 

[TheCracker]

I'd finished Uni and had been working for 3 years when it came out!

Seems like only yesterday

 

[Diego440]

I was graduating from College. My Second Degree.

Ditto

 

[Famine]

I was in my final year of university for my Bachelor's degree.

I nearly failed because I discovered GT.

 

[daan]

In 1998, I'd been working for 11 years...

I was in my final year of university for my Bachelor's degree.

Are you going to have to give that up?

 

[Sureboss]

With an Under The Thumb degree?

Only joking...

*runs*

 

[daan]

And he'll get the third degree if he's home late...

 

[MCubed]

I was 4 when I started playing GT... I'm 15 now. Didn't know what the hell I was doing lmao but I still managed to beat almost everything (except I think the tuned car cup.. not sure) in maybe 2 years. Didn't get gold on all the licenses though =/ still cant >.<

 

[Turbo Lag]

I started playing when I was about 5 too.

 

[Lucas]

I am the idiot who discovered GT when GT4 was already out Looking forward to get a job and a PS3 before GT5 is released! I don't want to be left behind again. (I think I have said that already somewhere )

 

[Rykon Zero]

I was playing since I was four. I think. 1999-1995=4, so, yeah. I was five before I got a gold on License B-1, in GT2, though. It was about the same time when I decided to try and stay on the road, as well.

 

[Nicknamealguem]

I started playing at the age of 2/3 (more or less). I remember my&#8230;well they were really my brother games, but I was always playing it, Super Mario Bros. and Megamen for the NES and my cousins Sonic the Hedgehog for the Mega Drive (well I never passed through the first level anyway).

GT whoever, only stared playing it since GT4, although I had already tried GT3.

 

[Der Alta]

It appear sufficient data has proven my thoughts incorrect. Ludicrous Claim has been withdrawn.

I do have to be wrong at least once in a while

Then again, I should have known. Hugh Jeers has shown many a racer his taillights at the finish line.

 

[Digital-Nitrate]

Sadly, there are quite a few posts worthy of this topic in the infamous Building the Ultimate Supercar thread... who's author has spun an impressive web for himself.

It's bad enough that he claimed to be this great tuner and was using his M3 and a couple M3 engines as a test bed for his supercar project in which he expects will rival that of the efforts from people like Ferrucio Lamborghini, Horacio Pagani and Christian von Koenigsegg to name a few... but when he got caught in a very poorly presented lie, he just kept digging a deeper hole for himself while attacking those that doubted him.

I cringed when he posted the pic of what he claimed then was his car and it's engine basy, even though the pics were from different sites, and the engine bay was from a different car.

Then he claimed the reason the engine bay may look different is that he had to scrape off the green paint because it was chipping all over.

It only got worse from there I'm afraid.

At least one funny thing came from it...

We care... well, not too much. It is just amusing to see where this is going now.

So you sold some riced out Escort GT for 3 grand. You claim.

Your story constantly changes. M3 was test bed, and now I think you've claimed you sold it. So what are you driving now, I do wonder?

Nothing. Unless you count my mom's van on spring break...

It made me immediately think of Chris Farley's hilarious character from SNL, Matt Foley, the motivational speaker:



"La-de-frikin-da! Shut your pie-hole and listen up! If you don't stop telling lies on GTP you are going to end up living in a van down by the river!"

👍

 

[Philly]

Wow. That thread only now made it here?

 

[Beerz]

It's called lag.

 

[auggiecc87]

Well, I don't know about you guys but I personally found a '32 ford frame and transplanted a BMW N73 engine into it with an Edelbrock supercharger. With Pirelli's on 22" rims. Also, as Vin Diesel would say "I double-clutch instead of granny shift."
Couldn't find a great thread on this topic her on GTP but here is a great link http://www.automotiveforums.com/t388960.html

 

[buickgnx88]

Great thread!

 

[Beerz]

How does that relate with the present thread?


I've read a few of the posts and couldn't find anything noteworthy...

 

[auggiecc87]

If you refer to me I like to point out that many of the people who are on this forum have ran into people who honestly learn from these movies. And that is my "ludicrous claim". Anyway . . . I won't pretend to not own the F n F movies but I don't learn anything about driving/automotives from them.

 

[TB]

Couldn't find a great thread on this topic her on GTP but here is a great link http://www.automotiveforums.com/t388960.html

That's just the thing - GTP's Ludicrous Claim thread is for Ludicrous Claims on GTP, not elsewhere. They can start their own thread if so inclined.

 

[ROAD_DOGG33J]

It only got worse from there I'm afraid.

Then he issued a ludicrous "apology"

...
I am not trolling you or conning you or anything suspicious. That I will defend until I die. (maybe that was hyperbole, but you get the idea) I was just really passionate and got a bit carried away with the whole M3 fiasco. That said, I have worked with cars and I will go through with the supercar project. If you think I'm going to fail, so be it.
...

combined with a ludicrous defense

...
If someone is bashing on your dreams, what would you do? The M3 fiasco was just me overreacting to what you guys said.
...

We can actually prove this is ludicrous without him even coming into this thread, since he claimed to own the M3 before the Supercar thread was started.

*eye roll* ... no it doesnt. i bought my used m3 even though she didn't like it.

Posted at 3:14PM on March 28, over 3 hours before the Ultimate Supercar thread was started.

I rest my case.

 

[niky]

It's called lag.

And with a twin-turbocharged supercar with a non-existent V12, there's probably lots of it.

 

[Kylehnat]

The engine only adds needless weight. True supercars need to be light.

 

[Boffin]

retracted....I didn't see any photos but people are vouching for the car in question

 

[buickgnx88]

The Porsche, perhaps. He has already proven he has a Viper though.

 

[Eric.]

And with a twin-turbocharged supercar with a non-existent V12, there's probably lots of it.

Oh, but its gonna be a dual-twincharger setup, so two superchargers as well. And then the electric motors from the hybrid system will add a bunch of low end torque.

 

[Famine]

how about my Lexus is350 with 698hp on it fully modified

From hither. And Gainesville, apparently. Have at it.