# How do you measure car-lengths?

**URL:** <https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-do-you-measure-car-lengths/2111>\
**Category:** NYSpeed Automotive\
**Created:** [September 6, 2005, 10:20pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-do-you-measure-car-lengths/2111 "2005-09-06T22:20:05Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Twizted](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/twizted/32/7206_2.png) [@Twizted](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Twizted)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2005, 1:32pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-do-you-measure-car-lengths/2111/21 "2005-09-07T13:32:28Z")

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bumper to bumper

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**Author:** ![JDMR2](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jdmr2/32/7587_2.png) [@JDMR2](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JDMR2)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2005, 3:35pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-do-you-measure-car-lengths/2111/22 "2005-09-07T15:35:42Z")

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> [@Jskrapper](#):
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> Either way as long as I am ahead in the end. :tup:

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**Author:** ![STEALTTH](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/stealtth/32/7582_2.png) [@STEALTTH](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/STEALTTH)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2005, 3:51pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-do-you-measure-car-lengths/2111/23 "2005-09-07T15:51:48Z")

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> [@neurokinetik](#):
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> I don’t use those subjective units of measure… I only use tenths, hundredths, and thousandths of seconds…

Those are the best units of measurement for legal racing 🙂

But if you run somone on the highway, a car is a car where as .1 of a second is more open to interpretation.

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**Author:** ![psychopjv](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/psychopjv/32/7251_2.png) [@psychopjv](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/psychopjv)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2005, 4:49pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-do-you-measure-car-lengths/2111/24 "2005-09-07T16:49:14Z")

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> [@kingsario](#):
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> It depends on who you are racing, I have noticed people stating a car length when it was really 1/2 a car. :gotme: or 1/2 a car when it was a fender.

hehe a fender on the firebird is half a car…

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**Author:** ![vq30de](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/9dc877/32.png) [@vq30de](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/vq30de)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2005, 4:51pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-do-you-measure-car-lengths/2111/25 "2005-09-07T16:51:06Z")

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#1 fo sho

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