The
sexy rear of the Diablo!
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I arrived at work and recieved a mysterious
phone call... "Dinks, you might want to find your camera!", it was Steve.
"Why?" I asked, "Just look in the car-park!"... I started to have my suspicions,
"You haven't got it have you?" refering to the long awaited arrival of
my blagged ride in the Diablo. "Yes, what else could it be!" Steve
sarcastically replied!. So I made a trip out to get my digital camera
and a few batteries!. |
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a look at Steves throbbing beast, unfortunately his zipper was stuck ...
no not really... the car... There it was, sat in the carpark. I had
fortunately brought some kitchen towel to mop up the flow of drool that
was running down my chin. It was gorgeous.. no gorgeous doesn't fully descibe
it... but it was... sex... on wheels. Especially since it has the
removable roof panel... oh yes... |
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I could have stood there all day, just
drooling, until I had no drool left. You see it had always been a
bit of a childhood fantasy to own it predecessor, the Countach, also a
gorgeous car. To own a Diablo, must be like having the best looking
girlfriend on your arm, just about every bloke you meet, anywhere in the
world is going to envy you so bad it hurts! I just wanted to get
inside her and see what she'd do! |
| Atlast I did, Steve arrived back at his
machine, and opened the doors. These beasts have serious security..
this one is no different, what with tracking devices and top nads alarm
systems.
But the bit I was waiting for was Steve
putting that key in the ignition and firing her up! This is a sound
that is unlike anything else you'll here coming from an exhaust - well
four... The shrill whine of the starter screams out, then blam.. there
it is, in your face... twelve cylinders of pure pleasure, 492bhp at your
control... oh baby! |
2
of 4, sexy loud pipes of pleasure!
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As the car sits there and burbles meanfully
at you, the twin cooling fans cut in... is she going to take off now?...
sounds like the jet engines starting as the fans force huge quantities
of air through the two radiators. A llok under the bonnet shows that
this car was never designed to pop down to Safeways and do the weekly shop
in, oh no, this baby was built purely for adrenalin junkies, or very well
off posers.
It'll top 60 in a tad over 4 seconds, so
bikers beware! this is one four wheeled beast that could just enbarrass
you! If you top that with the four wheel drive, you know this car is going
to be exciting on the open road!. |
| After half a dozen other folks had got
lost, my evil glare must have worked!.. I was so desperate to be taken
out for the experience you see!. We set off, my heart was already
racing as we turned out of the carpark, then when we finally hit the open
road, Steve eased the throttle open, then squish went my rib cages at that
gorgeous collection of alloys and pipes forced us along the road ever faster
I started to see what owning a Diablo was all about. |
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Don't
you just love those doors?
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It stuck to the road like it was superglued
there, and as you arrived at junctions and round-a-bouts you could hear
the people in other cars being generally amazed at this sleak sexy creature
that had just pulled up next to them. But didn't they realise we
could hear their every longing words as we sat there below the level of
the smallest of cars?
This is one wierd factor, as you sit in
a Diablo, you find you look up to every other car, and not just the lorries! |
| But I could live with that!... especially
riding on those 335 tyres at the back... oh, how a chunk of rubber could
look so sexy without being clothing on a particularly curvey ladies body
I shall never know. [Mind you the ladies body, with tight rubber has still
got my vote... ] |
Rockford
Fosgate stereo negates shopping.
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The stereo is a
close second to the sexy wide rubber. To further enhance the statment
that this car is not for the ordinary motorist, there is a Rockford Fosgate
install as standard that would make some retro fits look pretty sad.
And you know you have to be rich to own one of these when you see how many
CD's it'll take!
Mind you with that
loud V12 behind your ears you need a little more stereo power than usual. |
| We eventually arrived at my place, this
was a good thing, because my face was starting to seize up with cramp caused
by too much smiling... but I couldn't help it, every squeaze of the accelerator
brought new silly smiles to my face! |
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Cheesey
grin time around!
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We had arrived to give Sj a go in the
mental go-kart that is the Diablo. She sat in the car after we'd
taken a few more pics and gained the standard Lambo Grin... quite cheesey
if you ask me!
As you can imagine she enjoyed it lots
too.
We both now want one! |
Steve's
glows pink, when its dark!
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