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It's all made of mild steel so it's all fairly flexible anyway. And you're required not to have suspension on the side wheel because that was normal before 1973.
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Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester posted:It's all made of mild steel so it's all fairly flexible anyway. The classic "that's the way we've always done it" argument.
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Chrysler set up a display out front of the student center at work. Missing? Actual Chryslers. They have a Jeep, a Fiat and an Alfa.
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Shampoo posted:Chrysler set up a display out front of the student center at work. I'm sure the students would love to look at the latest model of the Town & Country.
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MRC48B posted:I'm sure the students would love to look at the latest model of the Town & Country. They're really great road trip vehicles if you remove the middle row of seats and put in a PS2 hooked up to a 20" tv so the dudes in the back can play Madden 2003.
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The minivan is still the best way to move 6 people and luggage when some of the passengers are wearing skirts.
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Goober Peas posted:The minivan is still the best way to move 6 people and luggage when some of the passengers are wearing skirts. What do the passengers' legwear choices have to do with it?
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Cocoa Crispies posted:What do the passengers' legwear choices have to do with it? I assume getting in and out of a high SUV? I guess it's true, I never see celebrity crotch photos getting out of minivans.
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davebo posted:I assume getting in and out of a high SUV? I guess it's true, I never see celebrities getting out of minivans.
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Cocoa Crispies posted:What do the passengers' legwear choices have to do with it? Everything. (possibly NSWF) edit: crap. Looks like the video is gone. It's the Jeremy Clarkson Z1 video. I'll see if I can find it tonight when I'm on a network that doesn't block the youtube. CornHolio fucked around with this message at 20:57 on Sep 18, 2014 |
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FogHelmut posted:They're really great road trip vehicles if you remove the middle row of seats and put in a PS2 hooked up to a 20" tv so the dudes in the back can play Madden 2003. I sure as poo poo wouldn't buy one, but the couple of times I drew one from the rental loto I liked 'em. I'm tall so I guess I'm biased in favour of it, and the huge gently caress size of it wan't an issue where I was going. Content:  Ok, I get it, you sell car stuff, but did you have to try and stick every last thing on there?
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surebet posted:I sure as poo poo wouldn't buy one, but the couple of times I drew one from the rental loto I liked 'em. I'm tall so I guess I'm biased in favour of it, and the huge gently caress size of it wan't an issue where I was going. Ahhh that brings me to another pet peeve. Tow trucks! I'm not sure how it is in other countries/provinces, but here in Ontario its pretty common to see a tow truck doing 160km/h on the hard shoulder flying past traffic, with all their LED flashers going. I get it, you think you're special, while you rush somewhere hoping to make a few hundred dollars. It's annoying because they think they're above the law Dangerous because they drive like maniacs And blinding when you see this in your rear view  edit: OH GOD I finally did it, I posted in the wrong thread. But umm I guess that picture still works? Blue On Blue fucked around with this message at 00:51 on Sep 19, 2014 |
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Shampoo posted:The classic "that's the way we've always done it" argument.
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Sappo569 posted:Ahhh that brings me to another pet peeve. It could always be worse. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QC0aOZZDjq4
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iForge posted:It could always be worse. Holy poo poo. "Alright we arrived on scene, thank god" "Look Jim they have a flat tire, my god I can barely look, its so horrible" *rookie puking his guts out* Another tire saved, and only 20 lives endangered. Job well done
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All I needed to know about how tow truck drivers see themselves I learned from watching some tow truck reality show where a guy monologued about how he was serving justice by towing the guy parked in a completely empty grocery store lot after hours.
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iForge posted:It could always be worse. I do this all the time in San Andreas.  GENDERWEIRD GREEDO posted:All I needed to know about how tow truck drivers see themselves I learned from watching some tow truck reality show where a guy monologued about how he was serving justice by towing the guy parked in a completely empty grocery store lot after hours. A reality show on the History Channel, I'm sure.
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Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester posted:It's all made of mild steel so it's all fairly flexible anyway.
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It's a pilot vehicle, so it's supposed to be kind of conspicuous and obnoxious?
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Twistershift posted:It's a pilot vehicle, so it's supposed to be kind of conspicuous and obnoxious? I was going to say, if you got one of these escorting you, whatever your hauling is worth a hell of a lot more than a trailer full of Ramen noodles. "Please alert the town Im coming through" is what that driver is thinking.
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I have seen a couple different color lights on top of escort vehicles. Maybe there are different colors for different types of loads? Maybe one of our resident truckers can fill us in? Edit: looks like its from Canadia so they might have special regulations up there iForge fucked around with this message at 07:15 on Sep 19, 2014 |
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GENDERWEIRD GREEDO posted:All I needed to know about how tow truck drivers see themselves I learned from watching some tow truck reality show where a guy monologued about how he was serving justice by towing the guy parked in a completely empty grocery store lot after hours. When I was in elementary school I recall my mom getting a flat in a not-very-nice part of town. It was after midnight and they estimated it would be 1-2 hours for a tow truck to arrive. It turned out a relative was able to drive out to us and help out much faster than that tow truck. However, if there's a fender bender on the freeway, god help you if you're in the path of one of the 14 deregulated tow trucks trying to get there first. gently caress those guys.
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In Philly, the tow truck drivers often employ blocker cars to get in the way of other trucks. Other times they just shoot at each other.
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iForge posted:I have seen a couple different color lights on top of escort vehicles. Maybe there are different colors for different types of loads? Maybe one of our resident truckers can fill us in? Pretty sure you can only throw up yellows here if you're not an emergency vehicule, and I think these are all yellows. Also re: pilot vehicle, I'm not sure it's not just another random sticker. For the non French readers, this Caravan appears to try to convey that: - It offers pilot car services, whatever that means - That it has infra-red surveillance equipment on-board, and does in fact appear to have a camera on the roof - That it's a first responder vehicle - Something about being an inspector of work sites I walk past it once in a while, I'll snap a couple more pictures to get a clearer view, but from the back I thought it was advertising some kind of car upgrade shop aimed at these kinds of mods, but it might just be his ~sponsor~.
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surebet posted:Pretty sure you can only throw up yellows here if you're not an emergency vehicule, and I think these are all yellows. Also re: pilot vehicle, I'm not sure it's not just another random sticker. For the non French readers, this Caravan appears to try to convey that: That makes the most sense, it looks like he has a business that sells all that stuff, and uses the car to advertise the fact.
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Looks like the ground *may* have gotten a little soupy at one time. I've had cars sink in a little over years of storage, but geeze!
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This loving poo poo right here. My party has rented one of these for our trip in the States, and while it performs it's function of ferrying people around adequately, the designers have seen fit to reinvent the wheel and change a bunch of controls you typically expect for no reason. For example, there is only one ancillary stick. It took us ages to find the wiper controls and light controls. Headlights are controlled from a carefully hidden dial at the bow left of the steering wheel, and there appears to be no handbrake. Just why  On the other hand our other rental car, a jeep is rather nice. Pity it's an automatic and not a manual, but it's sensibly laid out and easy to operate, and all the controls are where you expect them to be.
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Ludicro posted:This loving poo poo right here. Have you never seen the parking brake down below the hood-release? I can even read it from the picture Although I must say that arm-rest console is massive, looks like you could fit 24 beer and a small child inside it
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You've obviously only driven one kind of car before. edit: It has a BluRay player?? oh I see back seat entertainment.
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Ludicro posted:This loving poo poo right here. Welcome to American cars. That's a Caravan, right? The headlight knob thing has been that way for ages, it's hardly new. You're right that it has no handbrake, that's also a thing on American cars, especially non-sporty ones; that pedal in the photo that says "Push to release" is the parking brake. Having 1 auxiliary stalk is a holdover from the days of column shifters (which a lot of trucks still have, and the Caravan had until a couple years ago), you'd typically have gearshift on the right and indicators/wipers/high beams on the left. Column shift in turn is a holdover from the days of ubiquitous front bench seats, when you couldn't have a floor or console shifter because you needed that legroom. My old Taurus had 2 stalks plus column shifter, and in low gear position the shift lever would interfere with the wiper stalk on the same side (well, not quite interfere, but my big fat hands would knock one or the other out of place if they were close together). Every car is unique in its control layout, and once you've had it for a couple days you get used to it and never really think about it again.
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Ah, now it makes sense, I just read the part about the trip to the states. There must be some European cars that use the foot pedal for a hand brake? Assuming Europe of course as his origin
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Sappo569 posted:Ah, now it makes sense, I just read the part about the trip to the states. Not that I can think of, but there must be some (maybe work vans or other vehicles with a column shift). If I had to guess, the foot parking brake is a holdover from when American cars used a button on the floor for high-beams. Column shifts and bench seats were also really popular in the US up until a certain era/economic growth level, at which point the more daring "European" style of floor shifting and buckets was adopted as those cars became aspirational targets of the middle class. Some Americanized Japanese cars (Lexuses) have foot parking brakes that I've driven, though.
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Yes my Mercedes has a similar layout with the turn signal & wiper blade on one stalk, foot parking brake (although released by a separate lever), and headlight switch just the same. VW & Volvo also have the lights controlled by a dial in the same location.
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Sappo569 posted:Ah, now it makes sense, I just read the part about the trip to the states. America isn't the only place using footpedals for the parking brake - while not European, my 1996 JDM Toyota Avalon has a foot pedal for the parking brake.
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