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Zeether posted:
I don't think I've ever seen a bad looking RX-3. Also, My mind unconsciously hit report instead of quote on this because it was thinking it was unmarked NSFW. 
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VikingSkull posted:RIP James Garner It's sad my source of celebrity death news is always SA. RIP, James.  that loving Olds!
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A lad I know has recently finished this I absolutely love it
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Bape Culture posted:A lad I know has recently finished this Aside from everything else, the first thing that struck me was "that is one hell of a steering lock".
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Drift cars don't gently caress around.
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I'm surprised they don't have the seat and wheel spin round to the direction of travel, like excavation equipment.
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Cakefool posted:I'm surprised they don't have the seat and wheel spin round to the direction of travel, like excavation equipment.  On an unrelated note I didn't realize DTM cars had the driver sitting so far back until I saw the most recent Mercedes car. They sit behind the B-pillar, I imagine it takes a while to get used to. 
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Fucknag posted:Drift cars don't gently caress around. That's my mate Dan and that's a wisefab lock kit 
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Meanwhile, in Alberta: 
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Hirethor posted:Meanwhile, in Alberta: Maybe it's for A. Ryan. Nah, 
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I once had a white sharknose BMW and my mate's supremacist brother had to be talked out of getting me the plate [WYT H8] for my birthday.
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Hirethor posted:Meanwhile, in Alberta: Wrong thread?
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I loathe sexual innuendo stickers so much but that made me laugh. 
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 It's on the low side, but it's not like you're taking one of these to the track anyway, so...
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Last year, my local Corvair Buddy/Mentor, Mike Emanuele, sold his 1961 Corvair 95 Van to a buyer in the UK. He lost contact with the buyer soon after the Van was delivered. By pure chance I happened upon a photo of it taken at an All-Chevy car show in Cleveleys, England, this past June. Corvairs were never marketed in the UK by GM. This Corvair 95 Van Panel Van spent it's entire life in Northeast Ohio. It was originally purchased by AT&T's Long Lines Division as a Microwave Relay service van. https://flic.kr/p/nBJLmc Edit: AT&T Long Lines is also an awesome, albeit non AI related piece of Cold War American history. Ma Bell, starting in 1948, built a nationwide network of microwave relay stations that carried Live TV and TV network Backfeeds, Long Distance Telephone calls, Cold War Military communications, and early ARPANet traffic. The Long Lines microwave network carried the analog equivalent of about 55Mbit/SEC Full Duplex TCP/IP bandwidth, using almost completely vacuum tube technology. Long Lines Microwave relay stations were placed about 28 miles apart, all over the continental US. It finally died out in the early 1990's when fiber came of age. The Long Lines network basically carried the TV news of every major event of the second half of the 20th Century, Live, as it happened, From the Kennedy Assassination, To The Fall of Saigon, The Apollo 11 Landing, To Nixon's Resignation, The Iran Hostage Crisis, Reagan's assassination attempt, to the Fall of the Berlin Wall. Now, most of the Concrete relay towers lie abandoned. They were designed to withstand megaton atomic blasts, with a spare set of microwave horns stored inside to be quickly reinstalled after the fallout cleared. Demolishing them would cost too much. Some are being retrofitted to provide 4G LTE data service. Some are being used to build rural WiFi networks.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT%26T_Communications http://www.drgibson.com/towers/ http://long-lines.net/ MullardEL34 fucked around with this message at 08:29 on Jul 21, 2014 |
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MullardEL34 posted:Last year, my local Corvair Buddy/Mentor, Mike Emanuele, sold his 1961 Corvair 95 Van to a buyer in the UK. He lost contact with the buyer soon after the Van was delivered. By pure chance I happened upon a photo of it taken at an All-Chevy car show in Cleveleys, England, this past June. Corvairs were never marketed in the UK by GM. This Corvair 95 Van Panel Van spent it's entire life in Northeast Ohio. It was originally purchased by AT&T's Long Lines Division as a Microwave Relay service van. That is an utterly fantastic vehicle. Awesome backstory too. Those towers are cold war as gently caress and like a 20th century take on signal fires.
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Bape Culture posted:A lad I know has recently finished this Yeah I've been watching the build of this thing and it's stunning.
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Slavvy posted:That is an utterly fantastic vehicle. Awesome backstory too. Those towers are cold war as gently caress and like a 20th century take on signal fires. Long Lines was the Mid-Century equivalent of broadband. It ruled. AT&T was the best/only functional monopoly the US Congress ever allowed to exist.
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I saw this the other day, found it just sitting in a Nissan dealership parking lot just minding its own business.  
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88h88 posted:Yeah I've been watching the build of this thing and it's stunning. Do you have a link for that?
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Serperoth posted:Do you have a link for that? Sure do. I should add it's not a build diary as such but rather a selection of pictures whenever they remembered to take some. The above photo and several ones from other photographers do the car actual justice... https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10152336103337743.1073741842.184554557742&type=1 Olympic Mathlete fucked around with this message at 14:30 on Jul 21, 2014 |
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RillAkBea posted:I saw this the other day, found it just sitting in a Nissan dealership parking lot just minding its own business.  She's stock too! (from what it appears) Time to buy a few and join the "preservation class" God I LOVE R32's.
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Hope the owner doesn't leave it out like that a lot, those things are pretty high up the list on thefts per year. Unless maybe it's owned by the dealer, and he just trots it out every once in a while to show off his dealership? Which might be even worse, I hate when cars get mothballed.
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MullardEL34 posted:Last year, my local Corvair Buddy/Mentor, Mike Emanuele, sold his 1961 Corvair 95 Van to a buyer in the UK. He lost contact with the buyer soon after the Van was delivered. By pure chance I happened upon a photo of it taken at an All-Chevy car show in Cleveleys, England, this past June. Corvairs were never marketed in the UK by GM. This Corvair 95 Van Panel Van spent it's entire life in Northeast Ohio. It was originally purchased by AT&T's Long Lines Division as a Microwave Relay service van. Corvair had a hell of a relationship with AT&T, else ware they had the ramp side truck used by AT&T as the ramp was perfect for rolling up spools of phone line.  Also, funny story about Corvair trucks is they only really exist to take the place of VW trucks kicked out by the chicken tax. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_tax
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In terms of GM's production strategy? (GM stopped making the loadside (regular tailgate) in 1962 and stopped the rampside with the 1964 (fall, 1963) model year. The chicken tax began in December, 1963) or In terms of people looking for an air-cooled rear-engine pickup?
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ColHannibal posted:Corvair had a hell of a relationship with AT&T, else ware they had the ramp side truck used by AT&T as the ramp was perfect for rolling up spools of phone line. Have a long-time friend that came across an immaculately restored white-on-red Rampside at the auction he works for. Picked it up really cheap. He gave it to his son when he turned 16. The kid hated it and sold it to buy a beater 3-series as the Rampside 'wasn't fast or cool'. I will never forgive either of them for letting that happen.
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Kill-9 posted:Have a long-time friend that came across an immaculately restored white-on-red Rampside at the auction he works for. Picked it up really cheap. He gave it to his son when he turned 16. The kid hated it and sold it to buy a beater 3-series as the Rampside 'wasn't fast or cool'. My dad has one, it's an oddity for sure but the thing is apocalyptically slow. Like you will peak out at 40mph flooring it going up a hill. It's a big heavy car with 80ish HP, with a super primitive automatic transmission.
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We had a Nostalgia Funny Car vs Blown Altered match race booked this weekend at Capitol Raceway in Crofton, Maryland. Very nice track near DC. Here are a couple of pictures of some of the cars and a video our second pass. Our car:  One of best friends car, Bunny Burkett (she is behind the car in a pink shirt, she hasn't been able to drive lately)  A few of the others:     Here is a stitched together video of our second pass (1/8th mile) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1LP9kOPsOI It was quite the show with Back up Girls and everything. The craziest thing for me was getting to meet the most well known backup girl in drag racing Jungle Pam Hardy. She was awesome, now if I can track down Linda Vaughn I'll have my (wet) dreams from my drag racing childhood covered. 
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  Saw this while riding around in the work truck today, had to snap a few shots. And gently caress anyone who claims it's in the wrong thread, a Cadimino is awesome 
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Jungle Pam owns e- not her, but relevant  http://i.imgur.com/O3Cfwhi.jpg SPOILERING NWS IMAGES STILL LOADS THEM
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Well drat, I thought that was a GBS rule, my bad have more Jungle Pam as penance 
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This one could really go either way. I'm putting it here just because it's one way to get rid of all the stupid fuckin triangles, so it's technically an improvement.   
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