So, what do you have to do to bid on Veyron? Well, the you probably should know a bit about the City of Lost Angels and role playing. Pickup a CCS hud in the Lost Angel’s sim and read a bit more about it on the web site. Then when the time comes, head down to the auction block and bid to win! Half of the proceeds go to support the City operations. Then the lucky winner gets to - ahem - play with Veyron for 24 hours of role playing. And Veyron will just have to play along with the winner.
Lucky for the winner, I’m going to be confined to a hotel room ALL weekend and probably bored with nothing else to do…. Oh, and you don’t have to take your 24 hours right away, but this weekend would be an opportune time.
Play can be in the CoLA sim or the South Gate sim. Veyron and Tiessa have some land in the South Gate sim.
Okay, so it looks like I might be doing this insanity for a while, so I bit the bullet and got a domain…. VeyronSupercharge.com is now operational. The main page is lame right now - I’m working on it, but the blog is being redirected. I have the blog redirecting by Feedburner, so if you subscribed using Feedburner - which as been the default for sometime, you won’t need to change anything….
So, update your links. Maybe I’ll get ambitious and put something more on the hosting site. Vint has been trying to convince me to switch to another blogging software like Wordpress and I’ve been looking at b2evolution.
I was searching around for some additional pirate accessories for the upcoming party, I remembered this really cool pirate car from this blog entry in Motorati.
Wow! Very cool…. So, I decided to teleport over to the Pontiac sims and start searching for the car, perchance to see if it is for sale. Not much luck finding anything. Well, while I’m here, I might as well check out the bikini car wash.
Very nice build - complete with some freebies and some other interesting things. Too bad I missed the grand opening.
Then I noticed a large group of avatars, so I decided to investigate.
It turns out it was caLLie cLine giving a tour of Motorati with two of the Motorati girls. The tour was just ending, and I was about to leave when Amanda Shinji popped in to see Callie. She’s the builder of the car I was looking for! After swapping some fashion information and she told me where the car is on display - out in front of the Pontiac sim. She is quite amusing - having built several of the cars in on display.
She is also the first girl I think who knew what a Veyron is. In fact, when I asked her if she saw the video of the Veyron doing 250 mph, she said she did. Described it as “like watching a porn video.” LMAO.
Amanda has a blog but not a lot of traffic - and I’ve invited her to the party this weekend and the blogger group. Maybe if we’re lucky she’ll bring the Pirate car to at least display.
Yes, it’s true, my first name is taken from a supercar. It was sort of an amusing name I decided on when I was stuck trying to come up with a name for Second Life. The kicker was when the surname Supercharge was available when I signed up.
No, I’m not a motorhead, but it is the name of my computer workstation at work (which is another story in itself). So the name fit, so to speak. Even if you’re not into cars, it is just entertaining to watch such an incredible piece of engineering strutting its stuff.
The Veyron itself is named after Pierre Veyron, a Grand Prix winner from the 1930’s to 1950’s.
The Veyron is a car of superlatives. It pretty much exceeds all other cars in almost every category. Top speed is 250 mph (405 kph). Don’t believe me? Watch this video.
It holds the record for a production car of the 0-1oo-0 acceleration test. That is go from zero to 100 mph to zero again. It did it in 9.9 seconds. Not bad for a 4000 pound car. It beat out a Suzuki superbike. Powering this speed demon is a W16 engine with four turbo chargers developing at least 1001 horsepower. It has full time four wheel drive and more torque than most semi-tractors rigs. It has a seven speed transmission….
You get all that, air condition, a car stereo, leather seats, cell phone for an easy $1.2M US.
Here you can watch it race an airplane across Europe….
After swapping some fashion information and she told me where the car is on display - out in front of the 
