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Old 06-10-10 | 01:49 PM
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Default Guy sells all his possesions and buys a lambo to drive cross country

http://jalopnik.com/5559767/i-sold-e...yline=true&s=i

What a crazy adventure
Old 06-10-10 | 01:58 PM
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Wow, very good read. Hope he got what he wanted out of the experience.
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Cool story but the amount of debt that guy has is pretty bad...
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pretty awesome story.
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Looks like a Bucket List to me . . .
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Originally Posted by Allen K
Cool story but the amount of debt that guy has is pretty bad...
Nothing a bankruptcy filing won't clean up...
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So... does this make the Lambo a good DD or reliable? All this talk about supercars not being able to be driven all the time etc. and how the LF-A is suppose to change all that a the "every day supercar", what does it mean now? Or is it an anomaly since he's the only one who has driven the car that much?

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NVM it broke down.
Old 06-10-10 | 02:59 PM
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Originally Posted by Lil4X
Looks like a Bucket List to me . . .
That is what I thought right away!!
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Yeah...total Bucket List story. Sounds like so much fun to do but at the same time, the story was depressing. Good read though!
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Cool story, and it is true, nobody has the ***** to leave behind the life that society told us to work so hard and strive for, it sounds pretty cool to go into the unknown like that.
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Originally Posted by djyoshi626
So... does this make the Lambo a good DD or reliable? All this talk about supercars not being able to be driven all the time etc. and how the LF-A is suppose to change all that a the "every day supercar", what does it mean now? Or is it an anomaly since he's the only one who has driven the car that much?

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NVM it broke down.
I wonder how much maintenance he did on it? still nice to see that it made it to almost 100K. I think if he had a Porsche it would have lasted longer, there are quite a few high mileage 911's out there.
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Originally Posted by PhilipMSPT
Nothing a bankruptcy filing won't clean up...
lol
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Quite an adventure for sure.
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shoulda bought an LFA instead, it would have lasted longer ....lol


..good story though, wish i could do this in my gs or sell everything and buy a supra..Mmmm
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Wow that is a great story. Thanks for sharing



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