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c355n4 posted:Drive it, fix it up a little bit. Get the smoker smell out. Resell it later for more than $500. I'm looking at CL and Civic coupes in way worse shape are demanding higher prices. Way higher.
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Rhyno posted:I'm looking at CL and Civic coupes in way worse shape are demanding higher prices. Way higher. Yeah, that's easily a $2-4k car here.
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PCOS Bill posted:Yeah, that's easily a $2-4k car here. I had no clue to be honest. We sold it to her for $800 because it was sitting on the street for 3 months after my brother went to Korea and my sister got a brand new Insight.
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Keep it and revel in the fact that your boring reliable daily driver cost you less than a set of new tires and drinks less than you do per week.
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May 17, 2014 16:21
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 I don't own a real non-lovely camera. So here have a grainy, blurry, way-too-high-res (I resized it from 2500x2000 lol) camera phone picture of this weird Korean shitbucket I'm building.
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 Parked up at the office car park, pretty much every office on the industrial estate I work has at least two of these parked on their premises.  All cleaned up for the London to Brighton Mini run tomorrow, its going to be a fun day.  Obligatory red interior shot.
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Got it cleaned, got the alignment, and installed the Nurburgrings:  The new wheels and tires feel pretty good. Much better than the stock ones.
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Rhyno posted:I'm not doing an engine swap on a $350 beater. Boring!
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So this is the first time I posted the new TDI on the site. Yeah its the same picture from when the what did you do to your car thread. It's the first time I took a picture of it since I bought it, and it's my first ever brand new car. It's awesome getting 45 mpg at 80mph. Ryno you need the beater civic. It's also disgusting owning a black car, because it looks soooo good when it is clean, but it never stays clean past like 36 seconds, even though it took like 4 hours to get it there. 
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Don't think I've ever posted my sweet mullet machine. 1980 El Camino    She scoots about alright.
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I've wanted one of those for a few years but in south florida they command stupid money. I'd expect to pay at least $3000 for one that isnt a rust bucket. ($3000 is stupid money for me, i'm impoverished  )
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Noeland posted:1980 El Camino Rad.
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Not new, but tomorrow will be it's first decent road trip, so it's all cleaned up and ready to go and gets a photo in honour of that. Also another black car that only looks clean for the first drive... 2004 MX5. I chop and change cars too often, but this one's proving to be a keeper. 
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Tommychu posted:
This is awesome and I love Sportages. What are your plans?
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Major Ryan posted:Not new, but tomorrow will be it's first decent road trip, so it's all cleaned up and ready to go and gets a photo in honour of that. Also another black car that only looks clean for the first drive... Car looks very nice. I wish black cars weren't so hard to keep clean because they're gorgeous for that first five minutes of cleanliness. Also if I were you I'd remove the fake roll bar ("style bar"). It's not going to help in a crash/roll.
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My '06 daytona blue 350Z enthusiast
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angryhampster posted:This is awesome and I love Sportages. What are your plans? I've spent the last 4 months getting this thing caught up on all the PO's deferred maintenance (including a full engine rebuild because he ignored a blown HG for a long time), doing rust repair (and teaching myself how to weld and fabricate poo poo along the way) and getting it trail-ready. It's babby's first 4x4 so I'm going to be learning the ropes of driving off-road, and doing a lot of camping and fishing in the process. I'm hoping to have it registered and driveable by the middle of next month. Long-term I want to throw this engine into a Miata and put some sort of V6 in (Mazda J-series is a direct bolt-in if I can find a somewhat rare manual Bongo bellhousing, but I might go 4.3 or something I dunno), or possibly throw a snail on it and leave it in the truck.
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So there's a 0% chance of rain all week and the long holiday weekend coming up. So basically that means it's top and doors off time! 
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Seeing a jeep like that and living in Utah almost persuades me that I need to be a jeep person.
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It's weird having two working cars with valid tags and functional air conditioning. Also, I hate my E46's wheels
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I really dig your e46. Always liked those Passats as well. Seems like almost every one I've seen has fogged up headlights though.
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travisray2004 posted:I really dig your e46. Thanks   That was after I polished them. Ewww...
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Getting ready to set off from Crystal Palace in London. Sitting pretty on the Brighton seafront several hours later .
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CountOfNowhere posted:It's weird having two working cars with valid tags and functional air conditioning. Also, I hate my E46's wheels Oregoon spotted. Is that a ZHP?
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blk posted:Oregoon spotted. Is that a ZHP? //Fake. It's an 01 330ci with replica M3 mirrors and bumper (and OEM M3 shadowline). Are you in Oregon?
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Larrymer posted:Car looks very nice. I wish black cars weren't so hard to keep clean because they're gorgeous for that first five minutes of cleanliness. Also if I were you I'd remove the fake roll bar ("style bar"). It's not going to help in a crash/roll. Gave my baby her first wax and god drat did it look good at the wash. Two days later and I have the urge to clean it again  I'll have to take some "cool" pictures later just wanted to chime in on the "black 
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PITT posted:Speaking of MPG, I would like to introduce the new aircraft carrier I just bought a month ago. That is a nice truck. My 'lotto' truck would be one with a quad cab and the long bed.
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Das Volk posted:What happened to the original wheels? I liked those They're on the shelf waiting for me to fill in curb rash and paint them / put tires on. I like them a lot as well.
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  Just finished this project. 1940 Chevy Master Deluxe with a 350 crate motor with Edelbrock heads and carb. Going to play with it a bit then sell it for a new project!
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Somewhat Heroic posted:Seeing a jeep like that and living in Utah almost persuades me that I need to be a jeep person. Living in Utah you have some awesome trails to ride, you SHOULD be a Jeep person.
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GazChap posted:Some moody ones... God drat that's awesome. Anyway here's a couple of mine.   Current power curve. 
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Redwinters posted:
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CountOfNowhere posted://Fake. Yeah, in the hippie part. Trying to get a job in Portland so I can move back.
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blk posted:Yeah, in the hippie part. Trying to get a job in Portland so I can move back. Eugene sucks. No offense.   More pics of my cars because I like being a show off
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Traded in the LGT Wagon for something a little more economical and with a warranty. I spend enough time working on the e30, I don't want to work on a daily driver as well. 2014 Focus SE Hatch, 5 speed. I went in looking at the Ecoboost Fiesta but the dealer had this in inventory and I got an absolute steal on it on top of substantial rebates.    I thought it would be strange trading in a 300 hp car for one with only 160, but nope. I love being able to wind something out without getting to 'arrest me' speeds as quickly.
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CountOfNowhere posted:Eugene sucks. No offense. Yeah I grew up here and hate it. I lived in Portland for a couple years after college and moved on to grad school in Cambridge, then the economy collapsed and my old job with it. I'm ready to move back and a company is trying to create a position for me, but my wife is a librarian and would have an impossible time finding a job up there. I might end up living in Portland weekdays and here weekends or go up for half weeks or something. I want her to do what she loves but I wish she could find something more flexible and lucrative in the private sector. Traffic and housing prices in Portland have exploded since I left in 2008. At least there's no traffic and good bike riding around here. That's about all I can say for it. Anyways, lets get a beer or something next time I'm up. There's another PDXgoon who lurks AI. Edit: Just realized that you may not live in PDX and I'm operating on assumption since everyone lives there. blk fucked around with this message at 05:28 on May 20, 2014 |
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Noise Complaint posted:Traded in the LGT Wagon for something a little more economical and with a warranty. I spend enough time working on the e30, I don't want to work on a daily driver as well. Great pickup, looks great. I went from a last-gen Focus hatch to my current car, which has a six-speed as opposed to the five. I love the way the current gen Focus looks but I have been utterly spoiled by having a sixth gear! I'm somewhat surprised Ford hasn't bumped it up to a 6-speed for the Focus, in an otherwise hotly-contested segment.
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The Midniter posted:Great pickup, looks great. I went from a last-gen Focus hatch to my current car, which has a six-speed as opposed to the five. I love the way the current gen Focus looks but I have been utterly spoiled by having a sixth gear! I'm somewhat surprised Ford hasn't bumped it up to a 6-speed for the Focus, in an otherwise hotly-contested segment. I was curious about that too, especially looking at a direct competitor like the Mazda 3 coming with a 6 speed these days. The lack of a 6th gear was the only major con I had with the car, though. In the long run, my commute is all rural side roads and I do very little highway driving so I wound up getting the car anyway. The nearly $3,000 in rebates on top of them basically throwing the car at me because they have a tough time selling manuals helped a hell of a lot too. One neat thing I found out today is that you can use a utility called FoCCCus on a Windows PC to access the BCM using a Bluetooth OBD2 reader and enable things the car didn't come with like hill start assist and opening/closing the windows using the keyfob.
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