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Valt posted:I honestly don't know what gas machine garage is.
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When I got home yesterday there was an 80s Camaro in the parking lot with temp tags. Black with louvers and a light grey interior. Everything about it was immaculate except the exhaust tips. It was gone when I woke up 
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Jul 3, 2015 19:08
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There's been this camaro around my work lately that makes me wet. It's a late 80s possibly one of the very early 90s IROC in white, with a drag strip prepared level of interior gutting, a cage out of a funny car, what appear to be mickey Thompson 10.5" street radials on the rear that stick out so far they literally cut the fender wells and bolted on sheet flat steel bent into the proper profile and they stick out a good 5 or 6 inches. No idea what's under the hood but it's way too loud and revvy to be a anything even remotely close to stock.
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Jul 3, 2015 19:32
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14 INCH SLIT posted:There's been this camaro around my work lately that makes me wet.
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Jul 3, 2015 19:44
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14 INCH SLIT posted:There's been this camaro around my work lately that makes me wet. It's a late 80s possibly one of the very early 90s IROC in white, with a drag strip prepared level of interior gutting, a cage out of a funny car, what appear to be mickey Thompson 10.5" street radials on the rear that stick out so far they literally cut the fender wells and bolted on sheet flat steel bent into the proper profile and they stick out a good 5 or 6 inches. No idea what's under the hood but it's way too loud and revvy to be a anything even remotely close to stock. I saw that car parked on Aurora today! Even my wife was impressed. I want to drive it.
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Jul 3, 2015 22:21
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VikingSkull posted:GMG falls into the same trap that makes Roadkill seem fresh. Aaron has legit good taste in what needs to be done to a hot rod and Richard is a funny dude with some cred (people forget he was co-pilot on a record breaking Cannonball attempt) but they just script so much bullshit that it kills the show. I bet if you put the two of them in the confines of a Roadkill type show it'd be hilarious, unfortunately the masses aren't gearheads and are easily amused. Its not a promotion for Dodge, a fan threw out the idea of a competition between Roadkill,MCM(no dodge sponsorship),and GMG on their facebook page.
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Jul 3, 2015 23:03
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I think the BMW i8 is pretty awesome AI car poo poo: http://arstechnica.com/cars/2015/07/sports-car-with-a-social-conscience-ars-reviews-the-bmw-i8/
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Jul 3, 2015 23:04
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Remember the Italdesign Aztec, with the two separate cockpits and the hilariously dumb spaceship greebling on the side? The spaceship greebling was functional and contained a small keypad where you could punch in a code to obtain readouts of fluid levels, a hydraulic jack, a compressor, and a fire extinguisher, among other things - depending on what side you were on. http://www.italdesign.it/en/projects/giugiaro-aztec-eng/
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Jul 3, 2015 23:57
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Phy posted:Remember the Italdesign Aztec, with the two separate cockpits and the hilariously dumb spaceship greebling on the side? I would unironically drive the poo poo out of this car.
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MustardFacial posted:I would unironically drive the poo poo out of this car. So would I, despite the fact that it looks like the special needs love child of the '66 Batmobile and a Ford Probe.
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Jul 4, 2015 00:27
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drgitlin posted:I think the BMW i8 is pretty awesome AI car poo poo: http://arstechnica.com/cars/2015/07/sports-car-with-a-social-conscience-ars-reviews-the-bmw-i8/ You did watch this video right? https://youtu.be/fxe_b2GRwok
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Jul 4, 2015 02:06
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14 INCH SLIT posted:You did watch this video right? Its a bit of almost shameless self promotion. drgitlin wrote that article on Ars.
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Jul 4, 2015 03:09
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14 INCH SLIT posted:You did watch this video right? Why the gently caress would they pressurize the fuel system? 
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MustardFacial posted:Why the gently caress would they pressurize the fuel system? ...as opposed to every other car which uses a gravity feed fuel system? E: Oh gently caress, I just hit that point in the video, I'd only seen the hood part before. Wow, that's... something, alright. You know something's insane when salespeople are going  .
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I'd say this qualifies as awesome. I went to a dealer to check out a $15k Volvo for another AI member today, and it appears the Volvo was the cheapest car in his inventory. I wish I'd taken more pictures, and I wish I had a better camera. First, it was filled with poo poo like this: Laugh at the Honda, but it's an unmolested CRX next to this:  And next to that was this:  From the back:  He told me that is a true JDM Honda NSX Type R that the owner spared no expense converting to left hand drive. 20k original miles. Carbon fiber everywhere, just gorgeous. The owner needs operating capital for his business or it wouldn't be for sale. $129k. I don't know anything about Hondas so my info could be wrong, there was a lot to take in. A couple Rolls Royce, a Lamborghini Diablo in their detail shop, a numbers matching smokey and the bandit Trans Am, and a fully restored '77 280Z that he just sold. There was an Audi coupe there that I said a couple forum members would kill for and he said he was keeping it for himself. LloydDobler fucked around with this message at 07:17 on Jul 4, 2015 |
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Jul 4, 2015 07:12
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Phy posted:Remember the Italdesign Aztec, with the two separate cockpits and the hilariously dumb spaceship greebling on the side? It's like if Sharper Image sold a car.
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Phy posted:Remember the Italdesign Aztec, with the two separate cockpits and the hilariously dumb spaceship greebling on the side? I had a concept car book as a kid which had this in it, it was awesome. Also of the 19 of these they actually made there's currently one up for auction in Japan... $750k+ expected.
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KingPave posted:Its a bit of almost shameless self promotion. drgitlin wrote that article on Ars. It is indeed, but I don't really see it as different to sharing a visit to a car show or museum. That NSX-R is unbelievable.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0Znir9pxqU haven't seen this posted yet,
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MustardFacial posted:Why the gently caress would they pressurize the fuel system? To clarify, the fuel TANK is pressurized, which isn't out of he ordinary for EVs with range extenders. Volt does the same thing, to keep the fuel from absorbing moisture from ambient air when stored for long periods.
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Jul 4, 2015 18:06
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As with the 80's, the 90's had a mostly terrible but extremely distinctive aesthetic.  
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Jul 4, 2015 22:00
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The Scighera is one of the most gorgeous cars ever designed.
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Jul 4, 2015 22:06
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Change the interior colour to something less ghastly and it'd be a lot better.
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Jul 4, 2015 22:14
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Also take out the ford transit AC vents and the world's worst center console and make the steering column vaguely resemble the rest of the car.
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Jul 4, 2015 22:16
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14 INCH SLIT posted:You did watch this video right? Every single one of these salespeople sounds like a complete buffoon. That being said, some of those "features" are pretty loving ridiculous.
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Slavvy posted:As with the 80's, the 90's had a mostly terrible but extremely distinctive aesthetic. The Scighera was my favorite car in NFS 3: Hot Pursuit, and it's still one of my favorite concept cars. The interior is perfect as is 
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I was at the Thirlestane classic car show a few weeks ago, finally got round to sorting through the photos.  An absolutely loving ridiculous Mk1 escort   First time I've seen an i8 in person. Guy was along with his wife and kids for a "quiet family day out". Thing was getting more attention than the Diablos, Astons and Vipers next to it.                  There were a couple of other, standard deloreans but they were both very much in that "project car" stage. The BTTF one was really nice, though.  And because why not, my 944. Would have taken more, but I'm not a fan of taking pics with my phone, and I don't get a DSLR until the end of this month.
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T1g4h posted:Has anyone ever managed to swap, say, a 440 or modern Hemi into a Prowler? Because that would be loving awesome and solve a lot of the problems I have with it Holy poo poo, when he said that dude crammed a Hemi in, he wasn't kidding on the "crammed" part  E:  
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Jul 4, 2015 23:04
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Jul 4, 2015 23:32
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Falken posted:
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Jul 4, 2015 23:42
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kris_b posted:What engine is that?
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That's going to be nippy.
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Comrade Flynn posted:
Why the crikey would they have four throttlebodies on those tall plenums instead of just ITB's. I realise the answer is probably because VAG but still. kris_b posted:That's going to be nippy. Steering by right foot only.
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Slavvy posted:Why the crikey would they have four throttlebodies on those tall plenums instead of just ITB's. I realise the answer is probably because VAG but still. S85 supremacy.
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BlackMK4 posted:S85 supremacy. Aw yeah. I was pleased to find that they went to the trouble of making a tunnel of no objects for each and every ITB hose clamp so a two foot screwdriver was able to undo all of them - there are little divots cut out of intruding objects just so you can do this without having to take the engine out of the car or use some sort of flexible screwdriver apparatus.
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What's with the 2-stroke expansion chamber looking design on those headers? Is that just a better way of faking exhaust length?
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Jul 5, 2015 02:21
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Those are heat casing thingies, there are conventional equal length runners inside.
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Collateral Damage posted:That scoop is awful though. Stacks or they even make electronic ITB's for gen III Hemis so yeah
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