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Hadlock posted:I think you could also register these in one of the several US states as a "low speed vehicle" which basically is a loophole designed to let boomers drive their golf cart around their master planned county club, or beach retirement community and skirts around emissions, crash safety, fuel consumption regulations. Honestly with maybe 2000 miles a year it's probably not worth regulating at this point. I think they're limited to 25mph by law but most can do more than that if only slightly Florida is one horrific crash away from needing legislation on this. The boomers puttering around their gated communities has bled out into the suburbs and I frequently see tagged-and-registered gas golf karts with big chrome wheels and colored LED lighting all over them being driven down 50mph six lane roads at 35mph with two (drunk) adults in the back, and at least three kids scattered around various places with a teenager driving. Its seen as a cool way to go to the bar and not need a legal DD.
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VW Transporter 3 hippie van with trailer. Ballsy, hauling a trailer with a shed on wheels with 75ish hp.  They were stranded there. One of the drive shafts had disappeared. I helped push them to a safer place. Don't have a better picture, took this one from a distance before realising they were stuck there and cycling over to come help.
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You basically never see Lincolns advertised in old news papers.  This dude took out an ad, not a classified, just a regular-rear end ad to sell his used car, and a year old Lincoln with 19,000 miles is still worth twice what a new Buick Le Sabre was.  That innovative car that was going to save AMC? The rotary powered Pacer that was designed to use the Chevrolet rotary engine discussed in the article.
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I know that this is a car thread, but what about a little racing liveries derail? Just asking, because I love racing liveries.
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tuo posted:I know that this is a car thread, but what about a little racing liveries derail? Just asking, because I love racing liveries. Very good! https://ateliereaurouge.com/marlboro-livery/ quote:You just woke up and start off the day with a breakfast which happens to be a lady you brought home the day before, she was cheering you up on your practice sessions. After breakfast, you open a bottle of beer and grab your Marlboros. You smoke the pack and go to work. Your office looks like the pack of Marlboros you just finished. POV you are James Hunt driving for McLaren. Your racing suit has a badge that reads Sex breakfast of champions. Its 1976. The heyday of playboy racers in which tobacco and racing go hand in hand.          Fun fact: A company I worked for had a physical copy of the official Style-Guide documentation for Marlboro livery. It included paint codes for various brands of automotive paints, CMYK and RGB values for print-press and rules of separation from other brands. Man I wish that was a book that 'followed me home' one day.
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That Countach looks loving amazing.Humphreys posted:More about it here: AFewBricksShy posted:That Countach looks loving amazing. AFewBricksShy fucked around with this message at 13:57 on Mar 14, 2022 |
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AFewBricksShy posted:That Countach looks loving amazing. More about it here: https://www.topspeed.com/cars/car-news/this-lamborghini-countach-is-marlboro-red-and-has-a-lexus-twin-turbo-v-8-ar190192.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlP6C1z5abM It's not very good. Humphreys fucked around with this message at 12:39 on Mar 14, 2022 |
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Do technicals count as awesome? https://twitter.com/DarraghMcKenna/status/1503340473091563522?t=g5khcyJPd2hgCMVEv5It4w&s=19 Also have a vehicular shitpost. https://twitter.com/Heyy_Mona/status/1503197208497295364?t=u1QZwbRRYc0PE-9X9XeuQQ&s=19 Olympic Mathlete fucked around with this message at 13:21 on Mar 14, 2022 |
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Humphreys posted:1997 Pontiac Tans Am Type K Show that hood! 
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That bangs very, very hard. Similarly rad:     
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Olympic Mathlete posted:That bangs very, very hard. I'm the carefully watermarked behind the tree yet extremely sloppy trunk piercing the roof
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Effort Less French
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Humphreys posted:Fun fact: A company I worked for had a physical copy of the official Style-Guide documentation for Marlboro livery. It included paint codes for various brands of automotive paints, CMYK and RGB values for print-press and rules of separation from other brands. Man I wish that was a book that 'followed me home' one day. Missed the Marlboro-liveried Penske Indycars, one of which was so loving fast at Indianapolis that it destroyed the series for nearly 15 years.  Edit: also the engine in this car is so loving nuts it has a whole loving book dedicated to it that is worth a read.
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Olympic Mathlete posted:That bangs very, very hard. This thing is totally a gently caress wagon.
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Yeah I dont really like this phrase but that thing fucks
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PBCrunch posted:Would that be kind of a special case because large American iron was still good in 1972 but had turned into smogger garbage with a million vacuum hoses by 1975? Not really. It's just that that Lincoln, new, cost more than a starter house. Those same houses now 50 years older are $500,000. They actually sold more 73s than 72s. As far as i can tell, people were more or less indifferent to the smog stuff. They could see the need for it in the air, and it obviously wasn't known to be difficult to maintain until years afterwards. No different than 6.0 and 6.4 f-250s still out-numbering 5.9/6.7 cummins trucks of the same year which had fewer emissions controls. That was also 4 months before the oil crisis, after which doing that same 19,000 miles would have meant waiting in a gas line for over an hour around 80 times. Olympic Mathlete posted:That bangs very, very hard. I got deep into weird diecasts on ebay a few nights ago through a pickup lincoln Mark III  and actually found they had these things too.  The manufacturer that makes both makes all sorts of insanely rad poo poo and i would be flat broke if i gave into my urges https://www.modellautos-budig.de/ep...ange_ListPrice=    If they were 1:18 i would have already bought a ton of them. Powershift fucked around with this message at 20:54 on Mar 14, 2022 |
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^^ I sometimes go on Japanese hobby sites and am somewhat happy the shipping process is so convoluted because I would have bought so many little weird and wonderful concept cars. https://twitter.com/TakuroSpirit/status/1503406583480471554?t=kiLQj7Dy21wF214HkamEgQ&s=19
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Vette wheels look so good on everything
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Powershift posted:You basically never see Lincolns advertised in old news papers. ...and ended up using the weezer 4.2L straight 6. It would have been even more dismal with the rotary, given how fat it was. Never mind that the GM rotary car was the Vega, not going to be based in the Vega. GM had already given up on the rotary. Said GM rotary is weird, BTW. It's literally like a GM engine had sex with a Mazda rotary and that's the result. It's got familiar bits from both the Mazda rotaries, and typical '70s GM engines. It hurts my brain. Also LOL at the Mustang II being called "the industry's first subcompact sporty car." The Bandit posted:Bredvan  Preoptopus posted:Vette wheels look so good on everything Those would look better if the poke hadn't wandered into "taking the piss" territory.
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I know I'm biased because I have a 245, but I always thought the Volvo 240 series looks amazing with the salad shooters:    https://www.stancenation.com/car-features/slammed/dont-judge-a-book-by-its-cover-eemelis-2jz-swapped-volvo-244/
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Volvo 240 is a woefully underappreciated sedan. Was looking at the prices on the V8 repowered models recently, probably a really good target for an EV conversion as well
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Hadlock posted:Volvo 240 is a woefully underappreciated sedan. Was looking at the prices on the V8 repowered models recently, probably a really good target for an EV conversion as well I'm currently weighing my options between LS swap and an EV conversion for mine
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Please start a thread. Both are great options
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I'm the miscolored fender This 240 is kickass, old volvos are cool
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C4 salad shooters do look great on all sort of things, but I think they are too small for that Crown Vic. I don't think the salad shooters look good on a C4 either.
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Solar Coaster posted:I'm currently weighing my options between LS swap and an EV conversion for mine  Either is great
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That's the best Volvo ever.
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My very first car was a 2 door, manual, turbo 240 and Ill be damned if it still isnt my most favorite car Ive owned. Thing sounded sick as hell when the downpipe broke off the back of the turbo.
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A mate in the US's son I have mentioned before.... The Ovlov is coming along well
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I once found a HVAC turbine sat out in a scrapyard and sent a photo of it to a friend saying he should fit it to his 800+hp R32 but that turbo right there is about as big. What's he expecting out of that large lad?
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Preoptopus posted:Vette wheels look so good on everything Highly recommend the OEM Wheels on Other Makes and Models Facebook group if you want to see salad shooters on every car you can think of 
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This has been a pretty good and awesome AI month for me. My ladyfriend gave me this cool huge as gently caress shift knob with a dandelion in it  And I won the plate lottery. I did not custom order these. Now I need to think of a cool story about barbecue that happened to me back in 2002.  Good times were had by all.
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Beefy! I had a friend talk about how they wanted to make some DnD dice sets so was playing around with resin. I asked him if he could make gearknobs and he said he'd give it a go. Ideally I'd love a big DnD dice one but he wanted to give moulding a shot. I supplied him with fuckloads of pro grade glitter and he knocked me up a copy of one of his drift knobs. I just need to trim it to the size I want and epoxy an insert in the butt, maybe give it a polish and then a few coats of clear to keep it sweet. Anyway, custom knobs are cool and good, your ladyfriend is rad. oh and I came to post this adorably sleepy Elan https://twitter.com/MasahiroMatsu7/status/1502622858450669569?s=20&t=3KdEfrn-k6hZ-lRa-y6vFA Olympic Mathlete fucked around with this message at 19:15 on Mar 15, 2022 |
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