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dissss posted:90s red paint was never a good idea It was a good idea at the time! But yeah, 20 years of sun and rain and winter does a number on it.  SD 166 93 by Martin Brummell, on FlickrEDIT: I found a more recent picture with a more reliable white-balance  SD 185 Snowtracks 02 by Martin Brummell, on FlickrStill better than grey or silver. ExecuDork fucked around with this message at 02:08 on Sep 6, 2018 |
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From Australian UV-faded Toyota Super Red to  white Pearl white at least! I sometimes feel a tinge of regret at not going for a dark green or metallic blue or candy red but I like how it looks in white. 
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Dude Sweet posted:From Australian UV-faded Toyota Super Red to Hey ST185 friend! Beautiful car! White looks great on these cars. What year is yours? Here's a poor quality picture of mine:  I had it for a few drives this summer but now it's in the garage because I made it piss oil again (surprise surprise!). As much as I bitch about leaky Toyotas I love it.
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ExecuDork posted:EDIT: I found a more recent picture with a more reliable white-balance Lol
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I really wanted B5 Blue but I wasn't going to be too picky with color, just not black. Plus white is a good Challenger color I just wish NH allowed OA-5599 as a vanity plate. Current car colors  
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SFH1989 posted:I really wanted B5 Blue but I wasn't going to be too picky with color, just not black. Plus white is a good Challenger color I just wish NH allowed OA-5599 as a vanity plate.  Illinois doesn't either. Lame.
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SFH1989 posted:I really wanted B5 Blue but I wasn't going to be too picky with color, just not black. Plus white is a good Challenger color I just wish NH allowed OA-5599 as a vanity plate.  
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SlimManFat posted:Hey ST185 friend! Beautiful car! White looks great on these cars. What year is yours? Hey thanks! Going by the VIN plate this was one of the first 1000, produced in ~November 1989. I just got the car back last night, from having preventative maintenance done on the timing belt, water pump, cam/other seals, and coolant. It had a very slow oil leak from somewhere which is finally fixed. The seals apparently disintegrated and split as soon as the mechanic took it apart, I guess they were almost 30 year old at this point. Next up is getting the gearbox synchros replaced! Still drives nicely but i've gotta baby it into second gear. What's yours? I like the black but couldn't stop thinking of all the duuuuuuust Dude Sweet fucked around with this message at 11:52 on Sep 6, 2018 |
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Sep 6, 2018 06:26
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Go home Ranger, you're drunk.
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Dang, dude. That AZ is so drat sharp it's starting to piss me off.
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Dude Sweet posted:Hey thanks! Going by the VIN plate this was one of the first 1000, produced in ~November 1989. Mines a 1991 "Turbo 4WD" Canadian car. I still call it an All-Trac but all the badging and the steering wheel say "Turbo 4WD". The black paint actually cleans up pretty nice but maintaining it is another story.
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Yellow car crew checking in. I love how Tangerine Scream is a completely different colour based on lightning and camera. Second is cell phone. 
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I off and on deeply regret not getting my Mustang in orange
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Yellow car owner checking in.  And a boring black car.  Isn’t grey the most boring color? 
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I specifically omitted white, black, and grey in my search for my car. Can you believe only about 350 people found it sensible to buy a four door M3 over the four year run in North America? In the evening it’s almost a purple blue 
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Somewhat Heroic posted:I specifically omitted white, black, and grey in my search for my car. Can you believe only about 350 people found it sensible to buy a four door M3 over the four year run in North America? This blue is awesome. I may consider stealing it.
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AI is easily the coolest car forum on the internet, check out all of our impeccable tastes on this page alone  Also: BLUE 
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Iconic Racism posted:Yellow car crew posting Bad rear end
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Nice having a bright car! Almost got this thing 100%, just threw in a full exhaust, just need to install my new suspension bushings/shocks and engine mounts.
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KakerMix posted:AI is easily the coolest car forum on the internet, check out all of our impeccable tastes on this page alone Here lemme ruin it for you, it's silver and two tone at the same time   I still have to drill the hood latches and get the whole thing wrapped a different color as I'm kinda sick of the silver as well. Unironically thinking some sort of obnoxious yellow. Maybe CF wrap the spoiler because it looks insane already, so why not go whole hog.
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Night Danger Moose posted:Yellow car crew checking in. I love how Tangerine Scream is a completely different colour based on lightning and camera. Second is cell phone. I saw a yellow/orange renault in the car park today, the look nice IRL
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(we never get two Abarths on the same page. Yay.) 
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What kind of real world mpg do you get out of it? My wife is leaning towards a 500 and if I can help it we'll get an Abarth.
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Rhyno posted:What kind of real world mpg do you get out of it? My wife is leaning towards a 500 and if I can help it we'll get an Abarth. I drive it like once per week if that... so I drive the poo poo out of it. If you drive it like a sane person, 32mpg on the highway? We have a normal 500 as well that uh... we have driven about 20 miles in the last two years. That one can do 40+ highway. Assuming it still runs. 
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There's a lot of them for sale locally and holy poo poo are they cheap.
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I had a great time in the Abarth convertible they let me test drive when I bought the Miata. The downside was you can’t see poo poo with the top down.
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Hello colored car friends. The Civic is not actually mine and I'm maintaining for our friends overseas.
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big crush on Chad OMG posted:I had a great time in the Abarth convertible they let me test drive when I bought the Miata. The downside was you can’t see poo poo with the top down. Yep. I can sometimes see the top of a pickup cab behind me if they are tailgating.
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Rhyno posted:There's a lot of them for sale locally and holy poo poo are they cheap. There's a reason for it. 
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My Abarth is sort of for sale. I never drive it and I don't need it, so I'd sell it, I guess. If I ever responded to anyone that emails/calls about it.
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Rhyno posted:There's a lot of them for sale locally and holy poo poo are they cheap. They’re a blast to drive, shame everything else about the car sucks.
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My only Abarth experience is when we were car shopping for my wife and went to test drive an Abarth 500 in 2013. The salesman treated us like we were kids out to joyride the car, even though we drove there in my brand new Golf R. Buddy if I wanted to hot rod a car I'll use the one I already have.
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I love my Abarth. It's the 16th car I've personally owned and driven regularly. It's loud, bouncy, stupid, obnoxious, and does everything I need it to. Yes, it's a FIAT. Yes some stuff is cheap. The Beats audio package is pretty good though and nothing makes me smile more than absolutely annihilating expensive cars through the turns. Flat out, less but it's still a blast. I average 22mpg with heavy city driving mostly. Also, I drive the poo poo out of this thing. It even does well pulling my race bike with tools and gear to the track. 
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The styling is pretty divisive but I dig it. And the wife loves it so there's that.
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Speaking of dumb car colors, I strongly feel that cars should be dumb colors because they are dumb and shouldnt be taken seriously.     Bought the car with a beautiful respray on it. Flat as glass and well done. On rock chip on the whole car when I got it. I love the orange with black roof, its supper gold metallic under the orange so it looks creamy in the sun but simply orange in the dark. Huge fan of the cinnamon interior as well, black leather is lame. Also manual, manual seats, no sun roof. Was pretty full of stoke when I found it. Ill be almost as stoked when I sell it.
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^^^ I love that orange, beautiful here's my Stinger GT2 during last week's lovely roadtrip up the east coast of Vancouver Island  
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