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Tindjin posted:Drove by this a while ago and couldn't figure out what the hell it could be used for. It's in Albuquerque, NM in the middle of s desert if location helps at all. Click for huge. Well, it's obviously someone's personal vehicle based on the tailgate painting and it looks like there's a little roof and room for someone to sit up there... maybe something for hunting (like a tree stand, but more retarded?) Are deer colourblind? That's the only thing I can think of, but it seems like hunting would involve some camouflage, and fewer super bright halogen lights. There's some hooks on the side for a canopy or something.
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It's either for hunting or for watching auto races from the infield. I've seen similar contraptions at NASCAR races. e- based on the location maybe a pit support vehicle for off road races?
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Jan 4, 2013 17:12
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VikingSkull posted:That's one of those cars that we can kill the aesthetics of all day, but at least the fit and finish is good. More money than brains club. If it's anything like most show cars of that quality, it probably has some cool go-fast stuff on it too. I used to work at a shop that specialized in custom Harley-Davidson ground-up builds and just regular custom work as well. I'll have to scrounge around for pictures but some of the stuff we got asked to do was complete  It was fun making fun of the customer while they weren't around, and even greater when they drove a car/truck (more often a truck) that matched or outdid their bike. This being said, my boss (the shop owner) had a HD edition Ford F-150, with some gaudy extras like stick on chrome HD emblems and a lift kit.  To be fair, he was just the owner and bought the shop from the head mechanic, who hated his guts but was OK taking his money and not pouring any more funds into the shop. Owner-dude just sat around chatting up customers wives/girlfriends.
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Jan 4, 2013 17:15
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It seems like there'd be more of a floor if you were meant to spend long periods of time up there in that little seat, but maybe I've underestimated rednecks (or maybe they tried putting a floor on it and promptly found out that the aerodynamics of that are a bitch at highway speeds). I wonder if it's removable or welded in there?
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Tindjin posted:Drove by this a while ago and couldn't figure out what the hell it could be used for. It's in Albuquerque, NM in the middle of s desert if location helps at all. Click for huge. storm chasing/illegal immigrant spotting?
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SierraEchoBravo posted:I used to work at a shop that specialized in custom Harley-Davidson ground-up builds and just regular custom work as well. I'll have to scrounge around for pictures but some of the stuff we got asked to do was complete I went to school with Mikey Teutel, and work a mile up the road from the OCC shop. Nub Grafix, who painted all the bikes back at the start of the show, had his first shop right at the end of the street I live on. We can all agree that OCC bikes are silly, but I'll be damned if Nub isn't one of the best custom painters going right now. I've seen all kinds of questionable poo poo roll out of there, a bunch that would belong in this thread, but the work itself was always impeccable. You can't fix stupid, and if someone wants to pay top dollar so that their abortion is the best looking abortion possible, I can't fault either the customer or the shop doing it. The Pep Boy specials are worth far more of our ire, because the taste and execution is garbage. Something like that Mustang I can't really be bothered to rag on that much. e- Here's Nub's website if anyone wants to check him out. His shop back before OCC was on TV was one of the inspirations for me to get into auto body/painting. Seizure Meat fucked around with this message at 17:32 on Jan 4, 2013 |
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They're filming the final episodes of Breaking Bad over there right now, maybe it's some kind of camera/film truck?
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Jan 4, 2013 17:41
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 Well, that's one way to do smoked headlights.
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Jan 4, 2013 19:34
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einTier posted:
Lemme guess, some cheap HID kit shorted out damaging the light casing, the bumper, and half the wiring harness?
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Brigdh posted:Lemme guess, some cheap HID kit shorted out damaging the light casing, the bumper, and half the wiring harness? It looks like someone literally spray painted the headlight to get the smoke look.
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front wing flexing posted:It looks like someone literally spray painted the headlight to get the smoke look. exactly. and they couldn't even be bothered to put up some newspaper and tape to get JUST the headlight. piss poor.
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Jan 4, 2013 19:54
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Looking through Autoblog's images of Hurricane Sandy-damaged cars when something yellow caught my eye. 
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Jan 4, 2013 20:05
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Poor Miura (I think). I really hope they scrap all those cars rather than letting someone try and get them back on the road.
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blk posted:Poor Miura.  (Pretty sure a Miura would have been long gone at the first mention of a hurricane.)
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DropShadow posted:
Ooooh 308 GTS. That's sad too, though not as sad in yellow.
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Jan 4, 2013 20:09
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PromethiumX posted:exactly. Darn. I was hoping for some lovely HID justice.
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DropShadow posted:Looking through Autoblog's images of Hurricane Sandy-damaged cars when something yellow caught my eye. Saw a few cool cars, 6-series, a new Z4, some porsches, camaros etc. Would be nice to get one just to gut it and turn it in to a track car, but realistically the electrics would be so hosed it probably wouldn't be feasible  .
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Jan 4, 2013 20:33
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Electronics and any spotwelded portions of the unibody, especially ones that were already starting to rust inside the spotweld seams. Seeing as this is coastal NY CT and NJ we're talking about, that means anything that's more than 3-4 years old. Flooded cars are one thing, flooded cars that have been through a dozen foot storm surge on the oceanfront are completely another. Verizon and the other telcos are still ripping out literally hundreds of MILLIONS of dollars of underground wiring and equipment in NYC because, well, all of it turned green and crumbled the second it touched seawater while electrified. Which was "every cable below the first floor of lower Manhattan." I wouldn't touch any of those cars with a 10 foot pole, even for parts I'd be carefully inspecting everything before use.
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kastein posted:Electronics and any spotwelded portions of the unibody, especially ones that were already starting to rust inside the spotweld seams. Seeing as this is coastal NY CT and NJ we're talking about, that means anything that's more than 3-4 years old. So basically the best course of action is the worlds greatest monster truck rally?
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Jan 4, 2013 21:02
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The truck rig is for hunting wild hogs. Need need to be mobile, so you can go where the pigs are, and high up to see above the sage.
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DropShadow posted:Looking through Autoblog's images of Hurricane Sandy-damaged cars when something yellow caught my eye. We have 500+ brand new Fords at our auction waiting to be crushed, including a 2013 Boss 302, a 2013 Boss 302 Laguna Seca, a 2013 Shelby GT500 ragtop, and about a dozen Focus ST's. Also, before anyone furthers the "I'd take one to do x with", we've had about a dozen various cars spontaneously burst into flames.
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Jan 4, 2013 21:21
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I'd take one and watch it burst into flames.
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ultimateforce posted:I'd take one and watch it burst into flames. Of course you would. I'd imagine nothing would be as exciting to you as watching something rust in high speed.
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Voltage posted:So basically the best course of action is the worlds greatest monster truck rally? Close. The worlds greatest demolition derby (assuming you can get any of them to move) immediately followed by the worlds greatest monster truck rally.
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Jan 4, 2013 21:39
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I think you mean the world's greatest simultaneous monster truck rally/demolition derby
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Jan 4, 2013 21:41
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Should place them in one of those cities during a sport event for when people start rioting for winning or losing.
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Cakefool posted:I think you mean the world's greatest simultaneous, spontaneously bursting, monster truck rally/demolition derby Fixed, just to add...
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This car lives on my street. Yes, those are zip ties on the grill and rims.
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ultimateforce posted:I'd take one and watch it burst into flames. Car fires smell so loving bad. That being said, I want the engine out of the Shelby. I'd put it in my Ram and not even give a gently caress. What a sweet car the 2013's are.
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Hikaki posted:This car lives on my street. Yes, those are zip ties on the grill and rims. That car was already terrible before that guy ever got his hands on it.
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Godholio posted:That car was already terrible before that guy ever got his hands on it. Berkley, of course..
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Godholio posted:That car was already terrible before that guy ever got his hands on it. I think he improved it. The paint itself isn't that awful. Just kind of awful.
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What the gently caress is it, a Kia Sedona?
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VikingSkull posted:That's one of those cars that we can kill the aesthetics of all day, but at least the fit and finish is good. More money than brains club. If it's anything like most show cars of that quality, it probably has some cool go-fast stuff on it too. Who cares if it has 8 billion horsepower when it gets trailered everywhere and just sits there?
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Voltage posted:Saw a few cool cars, 6-series, a new Z4, some porsches, camaros etc. Would be nice to get one just to gut it and turn it in to a track car, but realistically the electrics would be so hosed it probably wouldn't be feasible  Near top right I think I see an early eighties third gen Trans Am. It looks like it has the hood with the off centre bulge.
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VikingSkull posted:That's one of those cars that we can kill the aesthetics of all day, but at least the fit and finish is good. More money than brains club. If it's anything like most show cars of that quality, it probably has some cool go-fast stuff on it too. oh yeah, tons of go-fast stuff. it's got a cold air intake, headers and exhaust, and nitrious, that's gotta be 500+ horsepower. It also has a monitor in each door and 2 in the trunk. http://alberta.kijiji.ca/c-cars-vehicles-cars-trucks-1994-Custom-Ford-Mustang-Convertible-W0QQAdIdZ443849550QQfeaturedAdZtrue
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rocket_350 posted:
And what looks to be a 2nd gen F-body of some sort (Camaro?), row 2nd from top, 5 cars from the left. Also, apparently at least one of those cars runs pretty good, if the donuts on the runway are any indication 
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Powershift posted:oh yeah, tons of go-fast stuff. it's got a cold air intake, headers and exhaust, and nitrious, that's gotta be 500+ horsepower. Well then, it's worse than I thought.
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rocket_350 posted:
Bottom of the second row I see a SMART ForTwo & Mini Cooper. Also,  says those donuts are from the convertible 5th gen SS Camaro in top-left corner of the picture. The only yellow car in the picture in case you can't find it
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Devyl posted:Bottom of the second row I see a SMART ForTwo & Mini Cooper. Also, Car Where's Waldo is the best, someone should make this an actual thing. gently caress the gangly cartoon guy in the red hat. 
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