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Old Feb 15, 2011 | 01:36 AM
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My Widebody SL on Cover of Performance Auto & Sound Readers Choice Issue
Just picked up the issue at Barnes and Nobles today. They were giving them out at CES as well.






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think i saw your car or maybe a look alike at heyvon motors
either way, great looking car
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think i saw your car or maybe a look alike at heyvon motors
either way, great looking car
Yep that was my car at Hyevon.
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Can you post the charts from your dyno runs?
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Great write-up!

Body kit projects normally don't hold a lot of appeal for me but yours looks very well executed.
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Congrats! It looks fantastic as always man!
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Congrats on the feature and write up! Car is absolutely killer!
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