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KozmoNaut posted:But none of them are put together quite as well as the R8, and I don't think any of them nail a sporty yet relatively comfortable suspension setup quite like it does. Your dislike for VAG products is probably quite rational. Although if you can afford an R8, you can surely afford the repairs to it.
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Sep 10, 2012 20:59
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Rhyno posted:I went car shopping with a buddy today and this was on the first lot we stopped at. Where did you find this? I would love to get my hands on an early vair.
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Sep 11, 2012 15:47
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The seats look like hemoroid donuts. Is the spare tire a solid rubber tire or an uninflated donut?
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Sep 12, 2012 14:52
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My parents used to have a 66 Deluxe, and I drove it on a couple occasions, and to be honest, it was scary. When you could literally hang out the front window and knock on the rear window of other vehicles that says something about your safety(or lack thereof). That being said, that commercial illustrates why I sleep until around midnight then drive the first leg of my trips at night while I'm fresh and make sure the sun is still up when I do start to get tired.
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Sep 18, 2012 18:31
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joat mon posted:102 year old driver, 82 year old car. Is she tiny or is that car just that loving huge? And drat, that woman is in better shape than most people in their loving 50s.
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Oct 9, 2012 14:59
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Cygni posted:1993 1.6l Mondeo: 2,678lb curb weight roughly A lot of the weight comes from all the air bags and bullshit meant to keep these idiots alive when they plow into a minivan full of orphans while reading their tweets.
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Oct 9, 2012 19:45
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drgitlin posted:I spent a week with a manual Cruze 1.4 turbo recently and it was quite fun, although there seemed to be more lag than my Saaburu. Driving in town I still only averaged ~19 mpg. Remember that guy who paid something like 40k for a lovely Nissan or whatever it was. There's a guy here at work paying 8% on an 84month loan for his Cruze.
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Oct 11, 2012 14:51
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some texas redneck posted:If I flog the poo poo out of my Altima with the a/c on it'll dip to about 17 mpg. And that's winding it out to redline in every gear, WOT or foot off the gas. My 1.8t with APR tune and manual never even got that low around town. I assume he was just redlining it from light to light.
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Oct 12, 2012 15:03
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I remember this being explained a long long time ago, but remind me why the front tires have negative camber on those old rear end race cars?
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Oct 12, 2012 18:49
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It makes me sad to know that I can go and buy a turbo'd corvair for less than a turbo'd engine for my bug would cost 
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Oct 15, 2012 14:34
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Cygni posted:Who gives a poo poo? Also that guy is a piece of trash, hope this helps. My brain cant parse this image. Is that actually 4 GINORMOUS engines in a tiny car? How exactly does this work.
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Oct 31, 2012 19:16
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Fermunky posted:Not sure what show was around. This was on I-275 Northbound just before downtown Tampa. Some cool old VWs and some others It's drat near criminal that these things are going for over 100,000 dollars. Yes, that is a 1 with 5 zeroes. They're worth as much as a 356. I will never be able to own a 23 window poo poo, it's also a barndoor. 
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Nov 13, 2012 16:41
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Brings a whole new meaning to "fart can".
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Nov 28, 2012 20:44
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EightBit posted:Lol what? I drive all summer with the doors off of my TJ, and it has working A/C, in San Antonio. I would love to own an Atom, I'd be able to drive it nearly all year. Before I got the gently caress out of Texas, my first car was a 68 bug, no A/C for 2 years. I grew up in Houston. Most of the cars my parents owned were VWs with no A/C. My 2nd car was an 85 Accord that had A/C for 3 days before the compressor poo poo itself. My next car had A/C for about 4 years before the compressor on that blew up. The job I was working at I drove a lovely mid 90s Ford diesel van with no A/C and had to load 100s of old 17" crt monitors and computers in the middle of the summer. gently caress all yall talking about Texans who can't deal with the heat. There's a reason I no longer live in the hellhole. Meanwhile in Colorado, winter still hasn't bothered to come around 
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Dec 3, 2012 16:04
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It's a very tiny car. Also, the Camry is a loving boat these days.
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Dec 4, 2012 18:35
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Every time I see a car with BBS RCs on them it makes me miss my GLI. I think those are literally the perfect wheel. Also, as far as Mr Florida up there, gently caress that guy. Anyone who drives a chrome vehicle can eat a dick. This goes for all those cocksuckers who drive 18 wheelers with a giant chrome rear door. No, I didn't need to be able to see today, thanks rear end in a top hat.
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Dec 5, 2012 16:00
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drgitlin posted:I imagine the danger is being told "sorry sir, your warranty is no longer valid and we can't say your car is safe anymore because you didn't replace the wheels at 10000 miles like we told you to" if you don't do it. It seems that most of these cars get sold rather than have people worry about that. I see no issue with this as long as you get the old wheels back I bet they make great wall art.
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Dec 5, 2012 22:21
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Fo3 posted:That first (dark green) green one is a 1940 Ford Deluxe Coupe. What kind of money do you figure is involved in getting a car to this level of restoration? I'm trying to justify why I'm building a bug and not an early ford/chevy.
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Dec 6, 2012 15:48
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This makes me feel better. Once everything is said and done, my 58 bug will probably have 250 hours of my time sunk in it, and I'm guessing 10-15 grand. Anyone who rebuilds a car for profit is out of their mind.
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Dec 6, 2012 22:52
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Ya, I went into it knowing I'd never recoupe my time or money. Otherwise I'd have bought someone else's money pit and let them eat the loss.
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Dec 6, 2012 23:52
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Boaz MacPhereson posted:Indicated 120 in a '72 Nova sedan with a 307. That's loving suicidal. I've done 125 in my old GLI on i-10 in the middle of the night with my brother spotting a few miles ahead of me and damned if that wasn't enough to make me think I could die at any given moment.
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Dec 10, 2012 22:55
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PhotoKirk posted:We got a friend's Monte Carlo north of 100MPH on a road that had a HUGE drop when it crossed West Little York. It was both glorious and terrifying when that car left the pavement, followed by completely terrifying when it crashed back to Earth. Bottomed out on all four corners, sparks, horrible noises. In Houston? I actually know where you are talking about. We used to jump the tracks before they put in the toll road
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Dec 11, 2012 17:11
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Nothing wrong with riding without a front plate, I've been doing it for 8 years and have yet to get pulled over for it. Is there something odd about this picture or do the blades deflect that much while in motion?
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Dec 17, 2012 16:26
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The front apron of my bug actually has tons of lead on it from when it was repaired back in the early 60s.
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Dec 18, 2012 15:48
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ExplodingSims posted:I wish I had taken a picture of this contraption this guy showed me, but a few weeks ago I went to buy this old jack from a guy who ran a shop, and after I got he asked if I wanted to see anything else he had for sale, and then lit up and said he had something I'd probably never seen before. What he had was this old-rear end lead sprayer. It kinda looked like a paint gun, with no tank and a power cord running out of it, and a feed for these lead rods on the top. I guess it would melt them down and spray lead to fix dents. I couldn't believe they actually used something like that. This really sounds like a bad idea on every possible level.
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Dec 20, 2012 15:48
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VikingSkull posted:The government has a thing for muscle cars. The even inadvertently killed the first wave of muscle cars with one! Can you please explain why a car needs to chase a jet?
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Gorilla Salad posted:So it seems some guy has decided to join two Jeeps together to make a larger one. I figured out what that Jeep reminded me of. 
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Jan 9, 2013 20:46
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kastein posted:Along the same lines, guy needed a rototiller, but didn't have one. He did have a rock crawling comp buggy and a spare set of dented up rims plus some old rototiller blades, though. So is that buggy 4wd? The 4 wheel steering sure does look convenient.
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Tusen Takk posted:My friend is a huge Audi fanatic and has one of these, if I remember right he picked it up for less than $3,000 and has put $5,000 worth of work into it. gently caress you right in the ear for posting this. I don't have room for a third car, and this thing is less than an hour from me.
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Jan 14, 2013 16:04
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Just make sure you get the ring back when she inevitably kicks your rear end out for not buying her the house she wants.
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The rear end of the new vette looks super complicated. God I miss the days where cars could be worked on by the owner.
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Preoptopus posted:want And I raise you Dax Shepards Continental. This is how it should be done.  Also It does look like something I could see someone shooting a Tommy Gun out of, sure. But, it looks broken, too. Its like someone spent $1,000 on a car, and $4,000 on the paint job. What forum do you think you're in buddy? My bug cost me 1500 dollars and it was just a rusted husk of a car. By the time I'm done it'll have over 15000 worth of time and parts in it. I don't think you "get" classic cars.
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Jan 17, 2013 15:25
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I'm considering part of that the hours spent. All in, I'll have probably around 8-9k in parts. I really should have bought someone else's project, but that point is long past.
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Jan 17, 2013 20:17
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If you haven't seen the movie, he drives the gently caress out of that car too. I have to wonder how many sets of tires he went through. From what I read, that is actually his personal car used in the movie too.
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Jan 17, 2013 22:20
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davebo posted:I don't want this to sound snarky or anything but I noticed that it's fallen back to page 3 so I thought I'd mention that we actually have a thread just for cars like some of the ones you've been posting, so you may want to consider posting some things there in the future. Holy poo poo, did you really just equate a bad rear end car on airbags to the poo poo in the hellaflush thread?
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Jan 17, 2013 23:42
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This picture is pretty awesome right here.
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Jan 23, 2013 15:47
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I live near DIA and my house was built in the past 4 years. It's a non issue. Any house that was built in the last 10 that isn't a huge pile of poo poo should be drat near sound proof to the outside world.
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Jan 24, 2013 20:36
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Where is the wheelie bar? This car would not be able to move under its own power without tipping over backwards on the first pull and sheering off the fan. Also, radials sound like rear end when they idle, is that normal?
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Throatwarbler posted:Unfortunately not an actual swap but at least we know it will fit. What? Someone is putting a Honda engine in a vette?
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