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veedubfreak posted:Isn't that from that horrible Knight Rider remake? As a connoisseur of bad science fiction (Seriously I have /Volumes/Storage Spindle/Video/Television/Science Fiction/Bad/), yes. Yes, it is.
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Since when did Vitamin J start doing Hollywood car design?
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I'm trying to figure out what all those rear quarter window/quarter panel ducts are trying to cool? And those LED mirrors are just so classy
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VikingSkull posted:The gently caress they are, I work at an auto auction, I've seen cars way worse than that. My day to day job is writing condition reports, which is like being an insurance adjuster, and on Wednesdays I do the frame checks for our post sale inspection process. I look at the frames of 60-100 cars every Wednesday, plus a full on condition report for another 80 or so the rest of the week. We had one that was made up of three different cars once. Everything in front of the firewall was one car, and both C pillars and one of the B pillars off of another. Sectioning cars is a common practice here, though I probably see more of them due to my market being primarily the greater New York metro area. It's frightening to think that my truck that was rolled may have been put back together... although I'm tempted to think that all it needed was a new cab, right front wheel, and alignment...
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Octopus Magic posted:I'm trying to figure out what all those rear quarter window/quarter panel ducts are trying to cool? Differential 
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The equipment for it to transform into an F150, an E150, a Crown Vic, Ford Edge, or 69 Mach 1 or something. Basically, gently caress you shitheads who thought it up.
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Octopus Magic posted:all those rear quarter window/quarter panel ducts are trying to [be as] cool as a 67 or 68 fastback.
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Dr.Smasher posted:It's frightening to think that my truck that was rolled may have been put back together... although I'm tempted to think that all it needed was a new cab, right front wheel, and alignment... Shipping totaled vehicles over to West Africa to be put back on the road is big business.
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Can somebody explain this?
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Telven posted:Can somebody explain this? Slammed Duallys are probably the best slammed things:  
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D C posted:Slammed Duallys are probably the best slammed things: Seriously I love nothing slammed but I would drive the piss out of a slammed dually. 
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May 18, 2013 23:39
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Does this count as awful? Between the X on the headlight, "illest" sticker, and rattle-can paint job I really think it counts. But the bit that really pushed it over the edge for me was this: 
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Not nearly as bad as some of the stuff in here, but... wtf is going on with these mirrors.
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Shifty Pony posted:Does this count as awful? For whatever reason I am I've hated the diagonal scenester stickers for so long that I don't even care anymore. I might even get some myself.
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May 19, 2013 06:10
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Telven posted:Can somebody explain this? I thought Sinclair was out of business, all the Sinclairs in Texas are now BBQ restaurants or veritable ruins.
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I can't decide if I'm surprised that the majority of poo poo posted is from TX or not. I'm leaning towards not.
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blugu64 posted:I thought Sinclair was out of business, all the Sinclairs in Texas are now BBQ restaurants or veritable ruins. Idaho is full of Sinclair stations 
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Powershift posted:
Ehhh. 26" wheels are way too big for this truck and probably just about any car outside of a Peterbuilt but the tiny thin little spokes make it look a lot worse. I think 20 or even 22" wheels would look ok if they had thicker spokes or were a slotted/D window variation.
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Geirskogul posted:Idaho is full of Sinclair stations  What's left of Sinclair in Texas. Get the brisket or pulled pork. God I'm hungry now.
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some texas redneck posted:Not nearly as bad as some of the stuff in here, but... wtf is going on with these mirrors. They're actually very useful on an unwieldy vehicle - standard fitment on a lot of Japanese market 4wds
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I'd be all for that if the mirrors were bigger. But they're tiny enough to be worse than useless. In TX, a CR-V (or was this a Pilot? not even sure, I don't keep up with SUVs..) may as well be a sub-compact car 
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May 19, 2013 09:04
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They're in addition to the standard wing mirror; they're typically a fisheye to help you reverse park and/or assess the damage to your toddler when you've reversed over them. They really are fantastically useful, but they have trouble clearing pedestrian safety standards in places other than Japan.
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IPCRESS posted:They're in addition to the standard wing mirror; they're typically a fisheye to help you reverse park and/or assess the damage to your toddler when you've reversed over them. I found them really useful for driving on roads carved into the sides of mountains without guardrails.
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IPCRESS posted:They're in addition to the standard wing mirror; they're typically a fisheye to help you reverse park and/or assess the damage to your toddler when you've reversed over them. How are those any different than those little glue on blind spot mirrors? Aside from being uglier and more likely to impale a pedestrian on impact I mean.
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blugu64 posted:
Yeah they're still around further west.
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Tribal / Two Tone paint job with rims! Bitch'n  VV "Jailbait's Towing" VV Aurune fucked around with this message at 01:17 on May 20, 2013 |
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Obscuring the brake light doesn't seem like a good idea, but they've got a theme going and want to follow it through
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veedubfreak posted:I thought long and hard about dropping my bumper off at the bodyshop that fixed my GLI after the wreck to have the stupid holes fixed in the bumper. gently caress front plates. I ended up just getting a 3m clear bra and you can't really see the holes unless you're right up on the car. Apparently someone refused to take delivery of an M5 at the local dealership until they filled the front plate holes and repainted the bumper cover. They now have a policy of making the customer aware of the legality, giving them the option to have the plate frame installed on delivery, but the default is not to on any M car. Personally I would want it to extend to all cars, but I'm glad that they do it. I had my bumper cover redone for the same reasons on my white car.
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Das Volk posted:Apparently someone refused to take delivery of an M5 at the local dealership until they filled the front plate holes and repainted the bumper cover. They now have a policy of making the customer aware of the legality, giving them the option to have the plate frame installed on delivery, but the default is not to on any M car. Personally I would want it to extend to all cars, but I'm glad that they do it. I had my bumper cover redone for the same reasons on my white car. If I was paying 90 grand for a car and they did that I'd bitch, too. Almost as bad as all the dealer badges they stick on the back of cars (my MSP still has the dealer decal on it, hairdryer method didn't work after 8 years in the Florida sun ).
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Bug and Tar remover, or even seafoam, will take care of those badges for you.
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Powershift posted:
Alright then, I'll say it. Swap out the rims, keep the crazy yellow, and I'll drive the truck until there's nothing left to drive it on.
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Horse Divorce posted:Alright then, I'll say it. Swap out the rims, keep the crazy yellow, and I'll drive the truck until there's nothing left to drive it on. I used to have an F-250 from that general time period. The gas gauge didn't work but it didn't matter: the tank is behind the seat in the cab with you so you can tell when you're geting low by the way the fuel sloshes around when you turn. What a great engineering decision.
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Telven posted:Can somebody explain this? I think what people are missing here is that this is not a dually. It's a standard bed truck with dual rear wheels that stick out past the arch and are useful for nothing other than throwing poo poo tons of rocks at the vehicles behind it. If I saw this on the road, I'd be likely to start tossing pennies out the sunroof.
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G-Mach posted:I want more 60/70s MOPAR car colors on current cars. I totally agree! I can't stand all the greyed out colors that are so popular these days, or the colors that only come alive in certain light. To contribute, I found this on my phone. I saw this in a gas station in Eagan, MN a year and a half ago and forgot I had a photo of it. I think it was a Fiero, re-skinned in tool box panels. I didn't get a pic of the front, but it had Integra headlights sandwiched in between panels just like the tail lights. It was certainly an attention grabbing conversation piece, but not in a good way. 
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Well, that's... something. That's something that someone put some amount of effort into making. I guess that can be said about it.
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You can sorta see in the photo that the interior was carefully painted to match the exterior. It's a lot of work for something so bad.
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Saw this on the way out of the padres game in san diego Saturday. STi amber lamp 
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