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Old 12-03-2008, 03:41 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Saw this on Autoblog today.

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Old 12-03-2008, 03:52 PM   #2 (permalink)
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From the eBay auction

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Kammback, by the way, is German for something that seems to mean a large, square area toward the end of a car, remember the VW Kammbacks built in the early and mid-‘70s?
It made me laugh....

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Old 12-03-2008, 09:27 PM   #3 (permalink)
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wow, that most definetly does not match the lines of the car. Not to mention, it has to be making a bigger wake than a stock car.
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Old 12-03-2008, 09:35 PM   #4 (permalink)
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I think they're kinda cool--although they cold use a little bit of tweeking aerodynamicly
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Old 12-04-2008, 01:09 PM   #6 (permalink)
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Old 12-05-2008, 01:41 PM   #7 (permalink)
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Hah yeah I thought the newer one looked a bit like a midget hurse
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Hah yeah I thought the newer one looked a bit like a midget hurse
man...at first I read it midget nurse...

And btw it hearse.
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Old 12-05-2008, 02:05 PM   #9 (permalink)
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man...at first I read it midget nurse...

And btw it hearse.
That would be some kind of porn I guess.

And I had a feeling I spelled it wrong.


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