So, what makes a badass? Someone who is unsuspecting, tough as nails, and totally batshit insane? In a word: yes.

The purpose of this thread is to share history's ultimate (and real) badasses. Nothing serves as good of a pick-me-up as hearing a badass story about a badass person doing something utterly badass.

So, look upon the pages of history, and share with us the one single person you've determined is the ultimate badass of the ages. Tell us their story, teach us the ways of their badassness, and maybe...just maybe, we'll all be contented because of it. I'm sure you'll be compelled to share with us your badass, probably because their soul is threatening you to from beyond the grave.

And then we'll inevitably devolve into the discussion of which is the most badass and who would win which fight.

My Badass:

Simo Hayha. Simo, a Finnish man of a slight 5 foot 3, was a farmer and hunter who completed his one year mandatory military service in 1925. After completing his one year ending as a corporal in a goddamn bicycle unit, he maintained his reserve soldier status until the 1939-1940 Winter War broke out between the USSR and Finland, and Simo found himself an active soldier.

When the Soviet Red Army invaded his native Finland, Simo was promptly all like "F that", so he took to the forest with his rifle and began sniping Soviet troops.

He sniped a lot of Soviet troops.

In the dead of winter, in the woods, in temptures up to -40 degrees F wearing all-white camouflage.

Simo had a confirmed 505 kills, using an unscoped Mosin Nagant M/28 rifle, which he chose after turning down the use of a scoped Mauser. He preferred to use the standard rifle sights of the M/28, allowing him to keep his head down, to ensure lens glare wouldn't reveal his position, and to avoid a scope lens from fogging up. He also froze the snow in front of his barrel to avoid dispersing the snow, which would reveal his position upon firing.

This soon garnered him the name of the "White Death". Not only that, but he had a possible 542 kills including those unconfirmed, and he had an extra confirmed 200 kills with a submachine gun. This brings the total deaths accredited to Simo to at least 705. And he did them all in under 100 days.

Finally, the Soviets got pretty upset with everyone dying and all, so they sent counter-snipers out after him. When they all turned up with a bad case of the deads, they began bombing the forests, but alas, Simo survived.

Until afterwards, when he was shot in the face by a Red Army soldier. Oh wait, he didn't die. He composed himself (again, after being shot in the face), and killed his attacker. When fellow soldiers found him, he had "half of his head missing". The bullet removed much of his left jaw and cheek, and he soon fell into a coma, waking nine days later on the same day the conflict ended (with Finland losing, probably because Simo wasn't around).

When asked decades later if he felt any remorse for the sheer number of enemy soldiers he killed, he said "I did what I was told to as well as I could". And how did he become so good? "Practice".

And then he lived until 2002.

Badass.

So, I feel obligated to do the Salem autocross since it's 10 minutes from my house. I hope to drag along a coworker or two as well.

To make it a little more fun, please come join me! I'd also like to host any MM attendees at my house afterwords for grilling/games/RB&V. I know, it's a Sunday and everyone one will want to go home. But you can at least come have a burger.

Anyone have a Google Voice (was Grandcentral) invite they can share? I'd greatly appreciate it!

peter at 85xr.com

Thanks!

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I'm building an e30 m50t this summer and I need to get this out of the driveway to afford the build. I'll go as low as 2500 for fellow MM'ers. Lmk if you guys think its reasonable. I would post pictures but my stupid ISP here in Belgium won't let me, already exceeded my upload bandwidth for the month. If anyone is interested I can e-mail a few. No rust, clean title.

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I don't know that stuff like the Taurus will ever be collectible but he's right about Ferraris...

Just off the top of mind I think some cars that we know that will be collectible are:

-Integra Type-R
-E30 M3
-4th Gen Supra
-NSX
-FD RX-7
-Lotus Exige/Elise
-Viper
-S2000

I think the first 4 are already starting to go up in value, the last ones will take awhile. Either way I don't plan on collecting cars anytime soon because it wastes too much space. I am however hoping I can get my hands on a mint RC30 one of these days...

So what is your list of collectibles?

My girlfriend's jeep is acting up on her way back to cnu. about 10 miles out, the accelerator stopped working, she heard a (fft?) sound, and the power steering went out. she told me she topped off about half a gallon after the cutoff, and that gas was actually splashing on the ground, which caused her to stop over filling it. when the noise happened, her check oil light came on and so did her check engine light. the oil level is fine and the car was idling when she was pulled over. it drove fine the ten miles back to h-burg. any thoughts???

I didnt see a thread on this, so I figured I'd start one. Who's going?

So today Ryan and I had a mandate washing our cars, and then we met with Aaron G. who picked up his new car for some pics:

We will be holding the 4th Annual WhipBash on May 30th from 10:00-2:00 at 752 South Main St. in Woodstock, Va. We will have 7 classes from classic, late model, import and truck. We will also have vendors, food, and hourly prizes! Our goal is to have 100 vehicles show...our old record is 81 so we should be able to attain our goal this year!

Any questions feel free to call 540-325-1234!

It's about time I start pursuing this car thing full-on..

For those of you who don't know, I had a bit on an encounter with Middle Mountain some time ago. A less-than-ideal starting week at JMU, all things said and done.

The shop that fixed things... didn't. Well, not completely at least, there's still a distinctive wobble. The source of this is presently unknown. It might be the tire (damaged?), the wheel (different weight?), the spindle (which is from an ABS car, which mine isn't), the strut (leaking - had to find that out from another shop though), or who knows what.

Presently, all I want to do is take the wheel off and get a look at things in person.

So, aside from the thoughts and input of those more knowledge than myself, I was hoping someone has (and would be willing to share) the gear needed to pop of a wheel or two.

Thanks.