R.I.P - Talon
 

What follows is the sad story of the last 4 years via pictoral history.

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Here's the rest of that sad, sad story

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A moment of silence....

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what hapend in the last pic?

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What happened that caused all the damage picture 5?

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LOL!

They were the best of times, they were the worst of times.

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Ya what exactly happened, for the longest time you were on the track of being one of the faster DSM's around.

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I'll have to tip my 40.

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read the title of the pics dudes... 05deer hit 002.jpg . maybe that might be the cause, i donno

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no no no no, he hit a barn door with it!


but seriously, did you hit a flock of deer?

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sorry to see and sad to see it had to go to the crusher and not get fixed
might I ask why you didn't save the spoiler/ complete hatch lid or the driver side door?

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Man that is sad, there were some fun times in that car. First DSM that I ever rode in that pulled a 12 second timeslip. It wont be forgotten!

And yea he hit a deer a little while ago...

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Awww you just had it towed away like that... I forgot, I shoulda came and stole a few things like the outside window upper trim off it.. :(

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Mine wasn't that cool. I bought it for $260, drove it for 12k, it spun a bearing, I promptly crushed it, end of story.
1 dsm down, thousands to do.
Good kill CVD.

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Goodbye Talon. I remember a lot of fun times involving that car. Its been good...time to make better!

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That should be 2, CVD's got it too

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I remember when I first met CVD and saw his car at some sort of event at Elite. I never did get a ride. :(

May it rest in peace...

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Yeah, I showed the pictures to my dad, and even he was sad, and he hated the thing.
The second to last picture was an impact with a deer at unknown speed. Somewhere between 55 and 75 mph during a WOT pull.
It stayed in action even after the deer incident, but that was basically the last nail in the coffin. The shell was worthless and I was unable to find another in acceptable condition. Hence pic #6, the car after it had been stripped of everything of value. At the end the body panels were given away free, I only assumed that those who know me knew this, so I didnt make any attempt to make it public. They werent worth the time and space to pull and store in my shed until they might be sold.

The cars best ever run was a mere 12.2 and best trap at 117mph. Both runs with problems, probably just a terrible batch of gas or massive boost leak or both. Either way, a shame to crush a car that still had so much potential, but I figured it was time to move on. Parts are still available. I'll update my FS post later today and reprice some things.

Hopefully I will find some time in the next couple of weeks to go through my video collection of all the good times had with this car and post them up.

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Sorry buddy, not everyones computer does that when you scan the mouse over it. And in the properties of the pics is has nothing about a deer in the url.

Sad to see it go CVD. That was always a beautiful car!!

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That's sucks. One less fast DSM to be proud of. Are you done with DSMs? I would've never suspected that the car would run low 12's just from looking at it...thumbs up.