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Uh, BEHOLD! An entire racing league for sale in one ad!!!! https://asheville.craigslist.org/cto/d/7-geo-metros/6314125725.html 
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Delivery McGee posted: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. Yeah, my aunt's beater car in the 80s was an "old" Nova SS that my dad 80's style riced out for her. She eventually stopped fixing it and sold it/traded it for something boring like a LeBaron or whatever she ended up with, it was the 80s, I can't remember everyone's cars that far back unless they were interesting or they don't stop talking about them today, like that Nova. On both counts. "Hey remember the Nova?" Yes, yes I do, you just brought it up again like two days ago.
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Sep 20, 2017 22:14
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Garage2Roadtrip posted:Uh, BEHOLD! An entire racing league for sale in one ad!!!! Lol, that's a stag weekend right there
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Sep 20, 2017 22:17
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Garage2Roadtrip posted:Uh, BEHOLD! An entire racing league for sale in one ad!!!! Yeah, a 3 cylinder racing league would be interesting.
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Sep 20, 2017 22:31
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I've oft considered putting a Triumph engine in a Metro, because the best engine swaps keep the original number of cylinders and have twice the horsepower (in the same vein, a crazy-built Cummins 5.9L in a Hudson Hornet.).
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Delivery McGee posted:I've oft considered putting a Triumph engine in a Metro, because the best engine swaps keep the original number of cylinders and have twice the horsepower (in the same vein, a crazy-built Cummins 5.9L in a Hudson Hornet.). I hope you're talking Rocket III
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Delivery McGee posted:I've oft considered putting a Triumph engine in a Metro, because the best engine swaps keep the original number of cylinders and have twice the horsepower (in the same vein, a crazy-built Cummins 5.9L in a Hudson Hornet.). Sounds like you are referring to the Urba Centurion kit car, with the infamous Kubota 3 cylinder.
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Sep 20, 2017 23:16
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Colostomy Bag posted:Sounds like you are referring to the Urba Centurion kit car, with the infamous Kubota 3 cylinder. Hell even the ecoboost 1l would be a riot in a Metro
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Sep 20, 2017 23:23
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Forgot about that one. Dang near 25 years drove a Chevy Sprint (the predecessor for the Metro). It was a torquey little bastard. Would take off in in 3rd gear.
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Sep 20, 2017 23:27
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Colostomy Bag posted:Sounds like you are referring to the Urba Centurion kit car, with the infamous Kubota 3 cylinder. 18hp, 55mph top speed, yes!
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Sep 20, 2017 23:35
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Colostomy Bag posted:Sounds like you are referring to the Urba Centurion kit car, with the infamous Kubota 3 cylinder. Holy lol, I still have a copy of Mechanix Illustrated from 1982 that featured that.
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Sep 20, 2017 23:36
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Garage2Roadtrip posted:I hope you're talking Rocket III Sure, it'd fit, but it's funnier with the 1L I3 because: Colostomy Bag posted:Sounds like you are referring to the Urba Centurion kit car, with the infamous Kubota 3 cylinder. Sure, whatever, the Speed Triple is just the engine I know of that has thrice the power as the original Metro engine with the same number of cylinders and about the same displacement..
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Sep 20, 2017 23:44
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Deteriorata posted:Holy lol, I still have a copy of Mechanix Illustrated from 1982 that featured that. My dad at the time was some crazed bastard born out of the ashes of hell-fire to get the best MPG available. He "deleted" the cat out of our Chevy Nova and had them turn a leaded to unleaded adapter for the gas tank since the nozzles were different. He ordered blueprints for the Urba-Car. Which is a far cry from the Centurion. drat thing is basically a lawn mower engine strapped into some fiberglassed gently caress machine. Ah parents, they had good ideas at the time but you look back and think...wtf?
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Sep 21, 2017 00:18
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a kid goes to his dad and asks for 3 geo metros. "Five geo metros??? whaddaya need 7 geo metros for!!??"
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Sep 21, 2017 00:56
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 Anyone have something fun sitting around they need a cheap body to throw it in? https://pittsburgh.craigslist.org/cto/d/honda-civic-2006/6314335769.html
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Growing up at the end of my street was a biker dude that lived with 3 huge ladies. He was obsessed with metros and had a bunch in rotation that the ladies would drive and he would work on them and never drive them, he always stuck to the harley. They didnt have anywhere to go i guess so each of them would get in a car with a dog and take the dogs for a drive. Like a parade of fat ladies with barking dogs in metros twice a day everyday. It was so goddamned weird. Geo metro's kinda spook me now especially a group of them lol.
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Our local eccentric millionaire drives nothing but small cars, other than the twice a year he breaks out his first gen turquoise Thunderbird. A couple of years ago he finally got rid of his black Metro 3 door and replaced it with a Smart car. He'd keep a stable of a few of them at a time. His grandson, my friend had a 5 door manual transmission Metro hand-me-down from him as his first car. I loved hooning around in that thing. I have an affinity for small cars myself in so much as my wife hoped I didn't notice a white Geo Storm convertible we saw at the side of the road for sale last weekend. I saw it and as much as I'd like to buy it, the gently caress am I going to do with a Storm convertible when I've got no place to put it? And I can't imagine those rising in price unless we've got another major spike in oil prices. I'm sure there will be some Storms and Metros kicking around for when I've got the space.
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Sep 21, 2017 03:07
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Which is more likely to happen: I sleep with Gal Gadot or this guy get $45k for his hacked up Jag.  https://austin.craigslist.org/cto/d/1978-jaguar-roadster-v12/6245650793.html
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Tai-Pan posted:Which is more likely to happen: I sleep with Gal Gadot or this guy get $45k for his hacked up Jag. Outside of everything else those wheels, why do people always pick poo poo garbage wheels, why I ask you!
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PCOS Bill posted:Yeah, my aunt's beater car in the 80s was an "old" Nova SS that my dad 80's style riced out for her. She eventually stopped fixing it and sold it/traded it for something boring like a LeBaron or whatever she ended up with, it was the 80s, I can't remember everyone's cars that far back unless they were interesting or they don't stop talking about them today, like that Nova. On both counts. "Hey remember the Nova?" Yes, yes I do, you just brought it up again like two days ago. My dad had column shift toyota or mitsubishi vans, and my uncle had kei style vans. they were terrible and I don't know why some AI goons love them now. Anyone from Australia or NZ wouldn't understand. I wish my dad would have kept his old GMH sedans and wagons though. They would be interesting to me. Also my maternal grand-dads subarus and paternal grandmothers cortina and austins TL;DR my dad sold his cool old GMH wagon for a lovely japanese vans with column shift and I don't approve E: the holden wagon also had column shift 
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Fo3 posted:My dad had column shift toyota or mitsubishi vans, and my uncle had kei style vans. they were terrible and I don't know why some AI goons love them now. Anyone from Australia or NZ wouldn't understand. Someone from NZ came into the import thread specifically to counter this argument. Vans are like super wagons and a column shift one is like an AI endgame. I would avoid it personally but I can't deny that it's super cool. Plus people like me love kei vans because we never got them. I've been dailying my Acty for a year and a half now and it still owns hard.
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DogonCrook posted:Growing up at the end of my street was a biker dude that lived with 3 huge ladies. He was obsessed with metros and had a bunch in rotation that the ladies would drive and he would work on them and never drive them, he always stuck to the harley. They didnt have anywhere to go i guess so each of them would get in a car with a dog and take the dogs for a drive. Like a parade of fat ladies with barking dogs in metros twice a day everyday. It was so goddamned weird. Geo metro's kinda spook me now especially a group of them lol. This got me good, hahaha
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PaintVagrant posted:This got me good, hahaha Idgi
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KakerMix posted:Someone from NZ came into the import thread specifically to counter this argument. Vans are like super wagons and a column shift one is like an AI endgame. I would avoid it personally but I can't deny that it's super cool. Fo3 fucked around with this message at 15:20 on Sep 21, 2017 |
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Tai-Pan posted:Which is more likely to happen: I sleep with Gal Gadot or this guy get $45k for his hacked up Jag. Minus the stickers and ugly rear end wheels, it's good for maybe 10k to the right person
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I feel like this is gonna be sold by the end of the day https://southbend.craigslist.org/cto/d/1975-international-harvester/6314477080.html
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Frohike999 posted:I feel like this is gonna be sold by the end of the day 
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It made me laugh.
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Sep 21, 2017 17:48
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Nice find. To think it was made in a factory probably 4 miles away.
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Are uh, surf boards a thing in Indiana? Growing up in Muskegon Michigan I never saw any.
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KakerMix posted:Are uh, surf boards a thing in Indiana? Growing up in Muskegon Michigan I never saw any. There are several PT/HHR/panel whatevers here in my friggin town with Surf Boards bolted to the roof rack of the vehicle.
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Sep 21, 2017 18:46
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Garage2Roadtrip posted:Uh, BEHOLD! An entire racing league for sale in one ad!!!! So what's the LeMons rule on multiple cars? Also, Could I hitch all of them together with 7 drivers and have it count as one car? Kinda like how a train with a shitton of cars is still 1 train.
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Sep 21, 2017 22:38
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:So what's the LeMons rule on multiple cars? I always thought LeMons made exceptions for odd stuff. Like the guy that strapped a radial engine in his car.
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Rhyno posted:There are several PT/HHR/panel whatevers here in my friggin town with Surf Boards bolted to the roof rack of the vehicle. *sound of my gears grinding*
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Colostomy Bag posted:I always thought LeMons made exceptions for odd stuff. Like the guy that strapped a radial engine in his car. Something something index of affluency..
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Who's looking for a rad toy hauler? https://asheville.craigslist.org/cto/d/race-car-hauler/6289641796.html 
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Garage2Roadtrip posted:Who's looking for a rad toy hauler? Trying to figure out what I'm looking at in the 2nd pic. But thanks for making me look up 2-speed rear ends.
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Colostomy Bag posted:Trying to figure out what I'm looking at in the 2nd pic. There's a window in the box part. I'm guessing that picture is of the "lounge" mentioned in the ad?
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Garage2Roadtrip posted:Uh, BEHOLD! An entire racing league for sale in one ad!!!! find an open field and demolition derby those metros. with their lack of power and mass you could probably get a few hours of bumper car entertainment before they were all dead
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Garage2Roadtrip posted:Who's looking for a rad toy hauler? Posts race car hauler with 'lounge', posts lovely picture of what might be a lounge and no pictures of the car hauler portion. I'm tempted to contact him but it just screams bad idea and that's way overkill for the hauling I need to do. edit: poo poo that might be a Lou Oleynik enclosed transport truck. The truck, year range and size are about right at quick glance. More info - https://www.bangshift.com/forum/forum/bangshift/general-discussion/11696-the-official-bs-car-hauler-thread-stories-pics-post-em-if-ya-got-em NitroSpazzz fucked around with this message at 19:25 on Sep 22, 2017 |
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