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xzzy
Mar 5, 2009

I love the people running away because they thought it was coming at them.

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angryrobots
Mar 31, 2005

Front right tire is blown and steering was probably ruined in the landing. Driver was along for the ride at that point. :rock:

Fifty Three
Oct 29, 2007

I'm the giant oil slick

StormDrain
May 22, 2003

Thirteen Letter

Fifty Three posted:

I'm the giant oil slick

In Butte America that's considered road maintenance.

Olympic Mathlete
Feb 25, 2011

:h:

Anyone in Texas want to snap some necks? GS400

https://twitter.com/Airdev2three/status/1287759758636843008?s=19

Imagined
Feb 2, 2007
"What color you want your car?"
"You know that stuff you drink when you have heartburn?"
"Say no more fam."

boxen
Feb 20, 2011

angryrobots posted:

Front right tire is blown and steering was probably ruined in the landing. Driver was along for the ride at that point. :rock:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ4V_-GY3PM&t=14s

Collateral Damage
Jun 13, 2009

Fifty Three posted:

I'm the giant oil slick
I'm the "safety barrier" on the near side of the street that's just a traffic cone and a net.

wesleywillis
Dec 30, 2016

SUCK A MALE CAMEL'S DICK WITH MIRACLE WHIP!!

Colostomy Bag posted:

If something went wrong this would go in the the bad thread.

https://i.imgur.com/5QyOUlP.mp4

This is sooooooo :911:

Looks like pretty decent archery range in the background though.

Collateral Damage
Jun 13, 2009

I showed it to a friend of mine who drives trucks up north:

quote:

Pass steer gone, oil pan crushed, so steer axle has gone through the bump stops, and I lay even odds on the panic stop where the drives are locked up on the driver pulling the supply valve, or knocking the air tanks loose and dumping all the pressure.
So yeah average Quebec pothole

Deeters
Aug 21, 2007


um excuse me posted:

Thought the guy was going into the building. I'm sure he "meant" to get close enough to curb it.

I like the in-cab view. Looks like he just let go of the steering wheel at that point:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h40B0LOH3hk

Colostomy Bag
Jan 11, 2016

:lesnick: C-Bangin' it :lesnick:

Oh great, now you are going to make me watch a few clips of Super Dave Osborne.

BlackMK4
Aug 23, 2006

wat.
Megamarm
Came across this

https://www.autobidmaster.com/en/carfinder-online-auto-auctions/lot/41160520/COPART_2001_HONDA_S2000_SALVAGE_CERTIFICATE_SAN_JOSE_CA/

xzzy
Mar 5, 2009

Gotta be salesman owned! Wonder how many cups of coffee have been spilled inside it.

Memento
Aug 25, 2009


Bleak Gremlin
I wonder if old mate knew how much it was going to sell for, he might have parted with it before he passed away.





Rare 1973 Ford Falcon parked in an old shed for 30 years sells for $300,909

quote:

A rare 1973 Ford Falcon that sat in a small farm shed on the highway between Toowoomba and Brisbane for more than 30 years has sold for more more than $300,000 at auction.

Gordon Stubbersfield's orange 1973 XA GT RPO 83 hardtop is a legend of the Australian motoring scene — and while it may be in need of a good wash, this "barn find" has proven there's still life in Australian muscle cars. The car was one of only 120 built after the 'supercar scare' of the early 1970s. At the time car manufacturers were building faster and faster sedans, and the government had safety concerns. "Ford had released the fastest sedan in the world in 1971, the Phase III GTHO Falcon," said Bill Freeman, head of classic cars at GraysOnline auctioneers. "The government ended up saying to Australian manufacturers, 'If you produce 160 mile-an-hour supercars, we won't give you fleet orders.' By 1973 Ford was all set to launch its Phase IV GTHO, and it had all the parts in the factory. So Ford quietly put the parts on some GTs under the option code 'RPO 83', and that's what makes this car very special."

This is what they look like when they're not covered in 30 years of dust and chicken poo poo.

MetaJew
Apr 14, 2006
Gather round, one and all, and thrill to my turgid tales of underwhelming misadventure!

Memento posted:

I wonder if old mate knew how much it was going to sell for, he might have parted with it before he passed away.





Rare 1973 Ford Falcon parked in an old shed for 30 years sells for $300,909



This is what they look like when they're not covered in 30 years of dust and chicken poo poo.



And you call this a "sedan" even though it is very clearly a coupe.

BuckyDoneGun
Nov 30, 2004
fat drunk
If you read the quoted article properly, the previous model, ‘71 GTHO Phase III that caused the government threat, was a sedan.

This one, poised to be the Phase IV, was indeed a coupe.

Memento
Aug 25, 2009


Bleak Gremlin

MetaJew posted:

And you call this a "sedan"

CAT INTERCEPTOR
Nov 9, 2004

Basically a male Margaret Thatcher

BuckyDoneGun posted:

If you read the quoted article properly, the previous model, ‘71 GTHO Phase III that caused the government threat, was a sedan.

This one, poised to be the Phase IV, was indeed a coupe.

The Phase IV was not going to be the coupe tho. There were four cars built - three were competition vehicles and never wore a GTHO compliance plate and one with an actual Phase IV compliance plate, all sedans. As the article states, some Phase IV parts were randomly put onto coupes and sedans and given the designation code chook coupe has - a special code sure, but it was never to be a Phase IV

The car that was at the heart of the bullshit supercar scare was the V8 LJ Torana - which would have been a hell of a quick car , sometimes mistakenly called the XU-2. The XU-2 was in fact always going to be the V8 LH Torana and appeared as the SLR-5000.

I'd say Evan Green can go gently caress himself for being a piece of poo poo scare mongering "journalist" but he is long dead.

Memento
Aug 25, 2009


Bleak Gremlin

CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:

I'd say Evan Green can go gently caress himself for being a piece of poo poo scare mongering "journalist" but he is long dead.

A friend of mine's father has a story about pissing on Evan Green's shoes in a bathroom at Phillip Island that I've heard a couple of times. I mean, that's basically it, "I realised I was next to Evan Green at the urinals so I pissed on his shoes".

It's still a good story.

As Nero Danced
Sep 3, 2009

Alright, let's do this

Colostomy Bag posted:

If something went wrong this would go in the the bad thread.

https://i.imgur.com/5QyOUlP.mp4

This is the kind of thing I would love to see in person, but at the same time I don't want to be anywhere near it.

mobby_6kl
Aug 9, 2009

by Fluffdaddy

As Nero Danced posted:

This is the kind of thing I would love to see in person, but at the same time I don't want to be anywhere near it.

You either get to see a rad jump from up close or get creamed instantly by a giant truck, I don't see a possible downside.

xzzy
Mar 5, 2009

I don't see how it could be a rad jump if the vehicle is undrivable after the fact. That's just a crash, isn't it?

BigPaddy
Jun 30, 2008

That night we performed the rite and opened the gate.
Halfway through, I went to fix us both a coke float.
By the time I got back, he'd gone insane.
Plus, he'd left the gate open and there was evil everywhere.


xzzy posted:

I don't see how it could be a rad jump if the vehicle is undrivable after the fact. That's just a crash, isn't it?

It's just falling with style.

Preoptopus
Aug 25, 2008

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Deeters posted:

I like the in-cab view. Looks like he just let go of the steering wheel at that point:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h40B0LOH3hk

Water fall of oil at the end there hahaha

mobby_6kl
Aug 9, 2009

by Fluffdaddy
Also lol at the guy before that in the buggy thing doing a record jump attempt in his boxers.

Olympic Mathlete
Feb 25, 2011

:h:

Sharkbussssssss

https://twitter.com/000_three/status/1288725231977160704?s=19

Darchangel
Feb 12, 2009

Tell him about the blower!


CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:

The Phase IV was not going to be the coupe tho. There were four cars built - three were competition vehicles and never wore a GTHO compliance plate and one with an actual Phase IV compliance plate, all sedans. As the article states, some Phase IV parts were randomly put onto coupes and sedans and given the designation code chook coupe has - a special code sure, but it was never to be a Phase IV

The car that was at the heart of the bullshit supercar scare was the V8 LJ Torana - which would have been a hell of a quick car , sometimes mistakenly called the XU-2. The XU-2 was in fact always going to be the V8 LH Torana and appeared as the SLR-5000.

I'd say Evan Green can go gently caress himself for being a piece of poo poo scare mongering "journalist" but he is long dead.

..and now I know what the gently caress the "Phase IV heads" mentioned in Mad Max were about, insofar that they were a real/legendary thing, and not just a made up high-performance part.

StormDrain
May 22, 2003

Thirteen Letter

BROHEMIAN

McTinkerson
Jul 5, 2007

Dreaming of Shock Diamonds


Tractor pulls are awesome. Twin engine tractors are awesome. Rotary's are awesome.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wmctz-VNHBw

Darchangel
Feb 12, 2009

Tell him about the blower!


McTinkerson posted:

Tractor pulls are awesome. Twin engine tractors are awesome. Rotary's are awesome.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wmctz-VNHBw

Hey, something I’ve never seen before!
Thanks! I love it.

ili
Jul 26, 2003

McTinkerson posted:

Tractor pulls are awesome. Twin engine tractors are awesome. Rotary's are awesome.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wmctz-VNHBw

That was fucken sick, thanks mate.

meltie
Nov 9, 2003

Not a sodding fridge.

Sweet brown pinstripe!

BOOTY-ADE
Aug 30, 2006

BIG KOOL TELLIN' Y'ALL TO KEEP IT TIGHT

McTinkerson posted:

Tractor pulls are awesome. Twin engine tractors are awesome. Rotary's are awesome.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wmctz-VNHBw

:hfive: drat right! It's one of the things I miss about childhood, I used to go with my family to local fairs/carnivals & there was always a tractor pull event. One of our neighbors who lived a block away had a pretty badass rig set up that he brought one year, it was rad as hell..we had no idea he even did tractor pulls because he had the thing stashed in a barn lol

McTinkerson
Jul 5, 2007

Dreaming of Shock Diamonds


As was pointed out on Slack, Five seasons without a rebuild. Which is a whole other level of awesome.

AFewBricksShy
Jun 19, 2003

of a full load.



Chris Knight
Jun 5, 2002

me @ ur posts


Fun Shoe

Darchangel posted:

..and now I know what the gently caress the "Phase IV heads" mentioned in Mad Max were about, insofar that they were a real/legendary thing, and not just a made up high-performance part.
Max was talking ants.

Olympic Mathlete
Feb 25, 2011

:h:

If only for the noises tbh but the sheer wtf makes it a good one too.

https://twitter.com/FAFBulldog/status/1289426315100086273?s=19

wesleywillis
Dec 30, 2016

SUCK A MALE CAMEL'S DICK WITH MIRACLE WHIP!!

Reminds me of this:

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snugglz
Nov 12, 2004
moist sod for your hogan

wesleywillis posted:

Reminds me of this:



:vince:

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