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La Testarossa just parked!
« on: July 07, 2011, 03:25:51 PM »
Tuesday morning I woke up and took a look outside my bedroom window.
"What is that moron doing on my parking spot?" I said out loud to my cats.
I instantly put on my Batman dressing gown and went downstairs to check this closer.

The lady (yes it IS a lady) suddenly started to undress herself when she saw me (that happens all the time).
"Hum... but we barely know each other", I mumbled.


"No, wait, in fact I know you very well!"
"You're the one who took me all that money back in the 80's!!"


She didn't answer but I noticed the nice invitation that was taped to the menu of the day.
"Oh, thank you ma'am but I'm not that kind of guy...I'll just use the dip switch and SET YOU ON FREE PLAY! :)"
Yeah baby!


Allright, enough with the ladycab metaphor otherwise this will definitely get too weird with these pictures...






The only thing I had to do in order to play was changing the plug.
Even I can do that!


Pedal to the metal, blondie! Splash Waves blasting (a good way to cover that super noisy ventilator).


On temporary location:


To do list:
I'll give it a good cleaning and lubricate some mechanical squeaky parts.
I also have to attach a spring inside the wheel because the force feedback only works in one direction atm. (Done thanks to Kroustibat!!!)
I have to find an emblem. (Done thanks to Béla!!!)
Otherwise it works fine.

I'm really thrilled to be a member of the famous Out Run Owner Club.

The game is as hard as I remembered it but I'm really enjoying it.

The best part of it is that it all happened thanks to this forum and more precisely thanks to über-wonder-SuperUlly who worked his ass off to buy and get that cab back from Germany to Belgium for me.
Many thanks to you, for your patience and dedication, man, I owe you big time.
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« Last Edit: February 12, 2012, 11:19:22 PM by chrischris »

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Re: La Testarossa just parked!
« Reply #1 on: July 07, 2011, 03:54:50 PM »
Great addition chris !

I LOVE OUTRUN !  :spaceace:

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Re: La Testarossa just parked!
« Reply #2 on: July 07, 2011, 04:01:34 PM »
Lol, nice story and beautiful cab, congrats! ;D

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Re: La Testarossa just parked!
« Reply #3 on: July 07, 2011, 04:07:05 PM »
A very good racer from Sega  :-*.

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Re: La Testarossa just parked!
« Reply #4 on: July 07, 2011, 04:16:53 PM »
Awesome! And it seems to be in very good condition..   :o

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Re: La Testarossa just parked!
« Reply #5 on: July 07, 2011, 04:56:19 PM »
Thanks DLFers :!:
Condition is quite allright for my standards but it's not awesome.
OK, for all of you that stole that Ferrari emblem in the arcades back in the days (and I know some of you did that) now is the chance to clean yourself from your sins and buy yourself an all access pass to heaven, just slip that emblem in an enveloppe and send it to THE BASE  ;)
Absolution guaranteed!

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Re: La Testarossa just parked!
« Reply #6 on: July 07, 2011, 06:38:22 PM »
glad that i could be of help, chris! nice addition to your collection indeed, out run definitely is a classic!

strange that i still don't have a driving game up in my gameroom ... 8)
all i need is ... PONG - and a select few others: TOUCH ME, DRAGON'S LAIR, JOUST, ROBOTRON, MR DO, SAN FRANCISCO RUSH THE ROCK!!!

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Re: La Testarossa just parked!
« Reply #7 on: July 07, 2011, 06:45:46 PM »
strange that i still don't have a driving game up in my gameroom ... 8)
Rather : :-\ .

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Re: La Testarossa just parked!
« Reply #8 on: July 07, 2011, 07:01:01 PM »
Great addition Chris! and welcome in the club! :spaceace:

I miss my Out-Run  :-\

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Re: La Testarossa just parked!
« Reply #9 on: July 07, 2011, 07:02:45 PM »
Rather : :-\ .

no, because i'm not such a big fan of driving games, but i know that every gameroom needs to have at least one!
all i need is ... PONG - and a select few others: TOUCH ME, DRAGON'S LAIR, JOUST, ROBOTRON, MR DO, SAN FRANCISCO RUSH THE ROCK!!!

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Re: La Testarossa just parked!
« Reply #10 on: July 07, 2011, 11:20:49 PM »
Outrun is one of my favourites racing games and for sure a must have from my point of view. Even if the cabinet should not be too rare, i had not the opportunity to put my "dirty hands" on one of those beasts since the "arcade virus" infected me  :'(  :D

great catch !
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Re: La Testarossa just parked!
« Reply #11 on: July 09, 2011, 09:54:46 AM »
Nice Cab, congratulations! :spaceace:

@Ully: was this your former cab?
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Re: La Testarossa just parked!
« Reply #12 on: July 09, 2011, 10:00:09 AM »
@Ully: was this your cab?

nope, it wasn't! mine is still parked here 8)
all i need is ... PONG - and a select few others: TOUCH ME, DRAGON'S LAIR, JOUST, ROBOTRON, MR DO, SAN FRANCISCO RUSH THE ROCK!!!

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Re: La Testarossa just parked!
« Reply #13 on: July 09, 2011, 11:14:10 AM »
you got mail! :)

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Re: La Testarossa just parked!
« Reply #14 on: July 09, 2011, 02:25:20 PM »
Thanks for your warm welcome of the famous red car!
I'm slowly getting better at this game.
I'm not a big driving games fan neither but Out Run has a special place in my heart, I can't explain but I just love it, probably because I could only play it while on holidays. Driving through the vines with blondie is so laid back and thrilling at the same time.

I just opened the front panel using torx keys and one of the steering spring is broken  :(
The only one I could find so far are from videogameparts.com but they cost 20$ a piece + shipping.

Anybody has a clue where I could find another one cheaper?
Ully do you want to remove the springs from your wheel before selling your cab to TimePilot  ;) ? just kidding, duh.
« Last Edit: July 09, 2011, 02:29:05 PM by chrischris »