For those of you who haven't seen Penny recently, Steve Rupp has just upgraded both the front and rear suspension. Vid is Mary Pozzi running it thru the cones hard.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVb5UBoKsp8







I don't know what Steve got for his win at Goodguys against other editors in March, but when you take first place the prizes seem to be a little odd nowadays.

 

Man that car is clean.

 

Those pcs look great! What a great car there!

 

Here's another one. I like the decal on the door from the Optima Ultimate Challenge which the car won right after SEMA last year.

 

i want...where to get?

 

Here is an earlier vid Steve posted of his car on a nice big auto-x course before the recent changes, but the car was still awesome in the well put together vid.
The car has less roll now. Steve said this "Even with my car lower the lower control arms are now perfectly parallel to the ground and the car feels amazing to drive. In my opinion it has the nicest most crisp and responsive steering I've ever experienced. The ride feels about the same, but I'm sure it's a touch more harsh over hard transitions. To me it's worth it for the trade off.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnaScDotkTA

 

Keep the pics comin, beautiful ride.

 

Here's the car under construction.

http://www.bestofshowcoachworks.com/...maro02_01.html

 

great color

 

Agreed, its 2002 Chrysler Prowler Orange.

 

Almost forgot the best pics of Bad Penny.

http://www.lateral-g.net/rupp/

 

 

Nice!

 

For those here that don't know those story, after the car was just finished the 1st time, a driver choosing to be distracted did this to Bad Penny in May 2007.



At least he had good insurance covering the damage his not paying attention caused.

 

Here's an underneath vid of the rear suspension using a GoPro camera while running the Costa Mesa Goodguys auto-x.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHYnT6zErsc