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Gomi Day posted:i am at war with myself, right now. "I can't afford that," I thought to myself. "Well, you could if you sold the house and just lived in that" was my followup thought.
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https://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/toyota/mr2/toyota-mr2-1989-supercharger-manual/7484665#/home Nice 'Spotted' article on it too: https://www.pistonheads.com/regulars/ph-spottedykywt/toyota-mr2-supercharged-spotted/36761 Excuse the crappy phone screenshot. Will replace later if I can. 
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Eat This Glob posted:"I can't afford that," I thought to myself. "Well, you could if you sold the house and just lived in that" was my followup thought. Yeah, but you can live in the thing you just purchased. edit: Live life a little and post about it on the road.
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Sep 18, 2017 21:10
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C-Bangin' it 
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Car for sale, 1/10th of blue book price, going to jail soon, will take drugs in trade. I wonder if it's stolen 
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Oregon plates but in Wisconsin, a front-plate state. indeed EDIT https://orlando.craigslist.org/cto/d/honda-accord-station-wagon-ex/6310657379.html  92 Honda Accord Wagon in (what looks like) excellent shape and only 147k on the clock. KakerMix fucked around with this message at 07:54 on Sep 19, 2017 |
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KakerMix posted:Oregon plates but in Wisconsin, a front-plate state. Front brake job coming up.
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Sep 19, 2017 13:22
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Look at this Bugatti! https://kokomo.craigslist.org/cto/d/bugatti-look-alike-brand-new/6303270231.html  *A lovely hack-job trying to look like a lovely Bugatti that only raced once because it was so terrible BUT BUGATTI
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Sep 19, 2017 13:27
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CornHolio posted:Look at this Bugatti! God yes More of this please I'm almost there
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Sep 19, 2017 13:43
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This is also local to me, and apparently they made these right down the road. https://fortwayne.craigslist.org/cto/d/1982-arx-sebring/6309879338.html 
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CornHolio posted:This is also local to me, and apparently they made these right down the road. "Designed with your leisure time in mind." That's awesome. It's like a spaceship. Why don't more cars come with a door arrangement such as that, where the whole top of the goddamn thing pops up? Besides the inability to exit the vehicle in a garage without a high ceiling. And the inability to exit the car if it rolls over, assuming it doesn't just collapse and crush you in its brittle, fibrous maw. And the rigidity of a roadster without the ability to remove the top. Besides that it's genius. Edit: LMAOOOOOOO  There was a mint one on Jalopnik and they're all like that:  http://jalopnik.com/for-20-000-could-this-1983-bremen-sebring-totally-rai-1795430025 i own every Bionicle fucked around with this message at 15:21 on Sep 19, 2017 |
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KakerMix posted:Oregon plates but in Wisconsin, a front-plate state. Nah it's in Oregon, the guy just misspelled the name of one of Portland's suburbs, Milwaukie.
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Sep 19, 2017 15:44
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i own every Bionicle posted:"Designed with your leisure time in mind." Can you imagine trying to actually get that gap right? Seems like it'd be a nightmare.
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Colostomy Bag posted:Yeah, but you can live in the thing you just purchased. I'm no-lie trying to get my wife to take up a travel nurse gig so we can travel and see the country while I work on a graduate degree. I don't know if the Unimog would help or hurt the proposal. I mean, I know I'D be fine calling that home for a while but she's more inclined to just pack up and move back east instead 
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CornHolio posted:Look at this Bugatti! 89 s10 .. 4 cylinder.. 4 speed Wheelie bars in rear ...why? Oh god, those are the original leaf springs, aren't they? They just used the leaf springs as control arms, threw in coils, and stuck a wheel on the protruding end, didn't they? Also, it's like a child's drawing of a race car. i own every Bionicle posted:
I really like the red one in the Jalopnik article. The Capri taillight does a world of good to the really awkward OEM rear end, and that F-body wing fits amazingly well. Also, supercharged rotary engine.
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IOwnCalculus posted:Can you imagine trying to actually get that gap right? Seems like it'd be a nightmare. For sure, a big floppy piece of fiberglass in a weird shape, the width of a car, made with early 80's molds in small volume. No thanks. I want to see a top gear challenge involving one of these, a Bricklin, and a TVR Tasmin or something
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What is the reason anyone would ever build a kit car like that, especially on a slow VW chassis? Legitimately asking because it seems like such a waste of time, money and vw parts. The kits are always cheap and ugly looking ugh.
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a dingus posted:What is the reason anyone would ever build a kit car like that, especially on a slow VW chassis? Legitimately asking because it seems like such a waste of time, money and vw parts. People used to do a lot of drugs and performance cars did zero to 60 in 7 seconds.
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a dingus posted:What is the reason anyone would ever build a kit car like that, especially on a slow VW chassis? Legitimately asking because it seems like such a waste of time, money and vw parts. You build them on a VW chassis because those were everywhere and could be had for very cheap. You build them at all so you can have something that looks cool and unique that only took some time on your end to have. In the 1970s and 1980s you did, now VW Bugs are classics unto themselves where as before they were disposable garbage cars. All these kit cars that use them as a base are now weird relics of another time. Some, like the Manx dune buggies, are becoming their own sort of classics.
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KakerMix posted:You build them on a VW chassis because those were everywhere and could be had for very cheap. You build them at all so you can have something that looks cool and unique that only took some time on your end to have. In the 1970s and 1980s you did, now VW Bugs are classics unto themselves where as before they were disposable garbage cars. All these kit cars that use them as a base are now weird relics of another time. Some, like the Manx dune buggies, are becoming their own sort of classics. Plus the kit was generally pretty light which gave you good power/weight and decent handling. There was also a huge market in VW performance parts so the drive train could be souped up considerably.
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a dingus posted:What is the reason anyone would ever build a kit car like that, especially on a slow VW chassis? Legitimately asking because it seems like such a waste of time, money and vw parts. Why do people still do it on Fiero chassis?
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Darchangel posted:Why do people still do it on Fiero chassis? I am guessing because the kit is designed to fit it and has been sitting in a garage for 20 years.
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a dingus posted:What is the reason anyone would ever build a kit car like that, especially on a slow VW chassis? Legitimately asking because it seems like such a waste of time, money and vw parts. Because this is what a beetle looks like once you take off all the stuff that looks like a beetle. 
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https://www.simpsondesign.net/italia-3-swb/ji4oqje1yp7g5xwk7k7mxful13jcwd Now this is a kit car.
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Elephanthead posted:https://www.simpsondesign.net/italia-3-swb/ji4oqje1yp7g5xwk7k7mxful13jcwd Someone got really hamfisted with the blur tool on those first two photos. It makes it look like the car is wavy poo poo fiberglass. And no, this is a kit car: https://www.factoryfive.com/818/ or this: https://www.factoryfive.com/gtm-supercar/ What you posted is nice, but you don't get to build it yourself.
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CornHolio posted:Look at this Bugatti! I'd be curious how it would handle 254 MPH. Looks sturdy enough.
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i own every Bionicle posted:
a dingus posted:What is the reason anyone would ever build a kit car like that, especially on a slow VW chassis? Legitimately asking because it seems like such a waste of time, money and vw parts. I saw one of these in real life once and the door gap is completely excusable. Plus no one sees it after you pull up and your car opens up like a frickin' space ship. It's a really neat looking car with nice lines and it's not automatically recognizable as a vw kit car out in the wild, especially after a bit of detailing. They're probably one of the best VW kits ever made, honestly, because it's not trying to ape someone's design poorly but it's just its own thing.
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https://grandrapids.craigslist.org/cto/d/1995-mercedes-e320-e36-amg-6/6312858800.html noble benefactor please bless me now
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Brolander posted:https://grandrapids.craigslist.org/cto/d/1995-mercedes-e320-e36-amg-6/6312858800.html This is sweet. A bit nasty for my tastes with the interior and rust but I like what he did there.
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Brolander posted:https://grandrapids.craigslist.org/cto/d/1995-mercedes-e320-e36-amg-6/6312858800.html Holy poo poo that's only a couple of hours away from me GAH I don't have the money or the space for it but goddamn how often does the perfect car pop up for sale? edit: man that interior is filthy. Did they use it to transport animals? I bet it smells wonderful.
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interesting swap but the interior is trashed, what's up with all the screw holes through the door cards and dash?
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I just threw out $3500 for that thing, if he takes for some reason, i'll invite CornHolio over and we'll go run it at the Hummer test track!
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Frohike999 posted:I just threw out $3500 for that thing, if he takes for some reason, i'll invite CornHolio over and we'll go run it at the Hummer test track! I'm so game for that. I could walk to that track from my house. Hell, maybe I can see if my contacts at Navistar, who own the old Studebaker test track, would let us take it on the high speed ring they have.
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CornHolio posted:Holy poo poo that's only a couple of hours away from me Looks more like greasy car bits. A good steam clean might clean it up. Also needs an airbag fascia to cove the giant hole where the MegaSquirt is.
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https://portland.craigslist.org/clc/rvd/d/1990-toyota-lite-ace-camp/6306407314.html
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Would. I've been reading the import thread too much.
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super nailgun posted:https://portland.craigslist.org/clc/rvd/d/1990-toyota-lite-ace-camp/6306407314.html "5 speed manual transmission on the column." Get on Japan's loving level.
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5 on the tree would be awesome
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The Nardi wheel is choice, too. 
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KakerMix posted:You build them on a VW chassis because those were everywhere and could be had for very cheap. You build them at all so you can have something that looks cool and unique that only took some time on your end to have. In the 1970s and 1980s you did, now VW Bugs are classics unto themselves where as before they were disposable garbage cars. All these kit cars that use them as a base are now weird relics of another time. Some, like the Manx dune buggies, are becoming their own sort of classics. The reason classic cars are classics is because people trashed most of them when they were just old and cheap. My father's first car was a '57 Chevy coupe, and at the time he was ashamed to be driving a ten-year-old car to high school. A few years later, he and his buddies would buy '59 Chevy pickups for $50 and run them into the ground over the weekend doing stupid poo poo. When he met my mom, she had a '73 Nova SS. While I was gestating, they sold the Nova to Mom's cousin and got a more family-friendly car (a Ford Fairmont wagon, which is also kind of a thing nowadays). Said cousin promptly wrapped the Nova around a tree.
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Bad Angus! Bad!