[Silly Little Cars] My new Interceptor...

[Alec Bennett]

Yeah its pretty sweet. Name so far: R2D2.




On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 10:20 AM, Mike Aisenfeld <maisenfeld at yahoo.com>wrote:

> That's great Wry!  I can't wait to see it.
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> *From:* Alec Bennett <wrybread at gmail.com>
> *To:* sillylittlecars at sillylittlecars.com
> *Sent:* Thu, April 8, 2010 12:42:13 AM
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> *Subject:* [Silly Little Cars] My new Interceptor...
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> So I bought that diamond plated Interceptor that I posted about awhile ago,
> picture attached.
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> Its a total overbuilt and over modified beast, with diamond plating and
> rhino coating (what they put on pickup truck beds, looks like powder
> coating) for no other reason than, as it was explained to me, so if someone
> slams their door into it, their door will dent and the Interceptor will be
> fine. It looks pretty cool but isn't quite my style. Those big chrome mag
> wheels on the other hand...
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> Its a '99, was previously harassing parkers in San Francisco, and has only
> 17,000 miles on the odometer. Its pretty insane how much the previous owner
> restored everything, the engine looks brand new, has all new hoses and
> wires, and you could literally eat off the valve cover. There's all sorts of
> modifications to the brackets in the engine, new aluminum struts everywhere,
> I'll try to post some pictures if anyone's interested.
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> One thing he did that I love is beefed up the front forks and put wipers on
> them, which are new to me but apparently standard on motorcycles, they keep
> dust from going down the fork. And he added aux fans to cool the buried and
> suffocating engine.
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> As I type I'm in a hotel in Redding, CA, where Maxime and I just bought it.
> We took an Amtrak up here and will be driving it slowly back to San
> Francisco (about 250 miles) over the next few days, vehicle and police
> willing.
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