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kimbo305 posted:Walking around San Fran, decided to take an alleyway to get back on Market. Lo and behold: Holy poo poo. I didn't even know you could get those in the States. Awesome find!
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Boaz MacPhereson posted:Holy poo poo. I didn't even know you could get those in the States. Awesome find!
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kimbo305 posted:
 We can all quit, Mangusta owner wins the car nerd game.kimbo, were you on a motorbike tour a pedal bike tour?
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Worth mentioning the mangusta was pretty much recycled into this: A tragic case of right car, wrong company.
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Pedaled. If I were planning this trip again, I'd have a bikes in the rear of a van and roadtrip through the mundane parts, taking the bike out for the most scenic chunks (and yes, biking back to the van after every stretch). The last 100mi on 1 into San Fran are very beautiful, and people close to it should definitely drive it.
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kimbo305 posted:Pedaled. If I were planning this trip again, I'd have a bikes in the rear of a van and roadtrip through the mundane parts, taking the bike out for the most scenic chunks (and yes, biking back to the van after every stretch). The last 100mi on 1 into San Fran are very beautiful, and people close to it should definitely drive it. The whole route from Seattle to San Francisco (I'm not even from here but it's not San Fran drat it) is scenic, it's just that some parts are slightly more scenic than others  I rode SF to Portland on a motorcycle and loved every mile, even the parts where I just blasted up I-5 on the Willamette Valley.
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Pham Nuwen posted:The whole route from Seattle to San Francisco (I'm not even from here but it's not San Fran drat it) is scenic, it's just that some parts are slightly more scenic than others I plan on going from San Diego to Washington next summer by sportbike - should be fun. I'm gonna end up flying out to the Bay and buying a bike here soon too... definitely going to check out some of the local roads while I'm there. Last time was ABQ, New Mexico for a Triumph 675 on Halloween - hopefully this trip goes smoother.
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Enough about lovely janky Italian eurotrash cars and commie bicycle garbage. I found a real car. The best car.     1974 Spirit of America Edition Chevy Nova. It's for sale, but didn't say how much on the sign. If I could afford it, I would buy this car and drive it forever.
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BlackMK4 posted:I plan on going from San Diego to Washington next summer by sportbike - should be fun. I'm gonna end up flying out to the Bay and buying a bike here soon too... definitely going to check out some of the local roads while I'm there. Last time was ABQ, New Mexico for a Triumph 675 on Halloween - hopefully this trip goes smoother. Ok, atomicthumbs, that Nova is loving amazing and I want to have sex with it. BlackMK4, how is New Mexico in late October? I'm considering riding out to south Texas for my brother's graduation on Oct 25 and I'd like to know if I'll be freezing my balls off like the Portland trip (which took place early October) or if I'll be pretty ok.
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Pham Nuwen posted:Ok, atomicthumbs, that Nova is loving amazing and I want to have sex with it. I would've taken more photos, but apparently I stood next to it for too long and the alarm went off. It knows I drive a Volvo.
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atomicthumbs posted:I would've taken more photos, but apparently I stood next to it for too long and the alarm went off. It knows I drive a Volvo. WARNING! WARNING! COMMUNIST EURO-LOVING HOMOSEXUAL IN THE VICINITY!
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Mother of god that nova is spectacular. Clearly whoever had the balls to call it a hatchback was commended for his brazenness and told to come up with a colour scheme too.
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Pham Nuwen posted:Ok, atomicthumbs, that Nova is loving amazing and I want to have sex with it. Hahahaha, I made the trip home starting around 10pm... let's just say that I brought my warmest gear (helmet, gloves, glove liners, snow gloves ontop, non-perf leather jacket, kevlar pants, non-perf boots, long sleeve shirt, hoodie, etc) and it was straight dangerous. Think drafting 10ft behind a semitruck or you're stopping every 20 min since your hands and body are so cold it's literally unbearable. It was in the 30's. During the day it'd be chilly.
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BlackMK4 posted:Hahahaha, I made the trip home starting around 10pm... let's just say that I brought my warmest gear (helmet, gloves, glove liners, snow gloves ontop, non-perf leather jacket, kevlar pants, non-perf boots, long sleeve shirt, hoodie, etc) and it was straight dangerous. Think drafting 10ft behind a semitruck or you're stopping every 20 min since your hands and body are so cold it's unbearable. It was in the 30's. During the day it'd be chilly. Balls, I've got waterproof pants... and a mesh leather jacket that is really nice in California summers. I survived the trip up to Portland, but goddamn it was cold while the sun was behind the mountains, before I got up to Coos Bay the second day and got a balaclava at Walmart.
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Mesh isn't going to cut it... a used leather jacket isn't expensive off Craigslist.
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Slavvy posted:Clearly whoever had the balls to call it a hatchback Well, to be fair...
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It appears a certain forums poster (ex poster?)'s ride has become a meme due to this whole gubbmint thing you boys got going on over there.
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kimbo305 posted:I did a bike tour from Seattle to San Fran. These are the coolest 2 cars I saw. Andrew Frankel at Autocar drove the MG version again last week (it seems there are three new ones with the left over chassis): http://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/anything-goes/mg-x-power-sv-driven
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I own one of those. What's interesting is that the dodge concept car was created as part of a program under the federal government called PNGV 'Supercar', and that ESX2 concept came out in ~98 i think, so it was actually concurrent with the development of the Insight. Difference being, when the supreme court appointed Dubya to rule the american empire, he gleefully acquiesced to industry demands to cancel the supercar program so they wouldnt have to build these 80mpg family cars. "People don't even want them," they said."They'll cost us way too much to produce, and all the money right now is in 15mpg SUVS, not efficient family cars!". And all the money was, right up until the entire American car industry went to poo poo and filed bankruptcy because their product lines couldn't accomodate the rapid shift in customer expectations to fuel-efficient vehicles in the mid-late 00s. So while we were busy saving capitalism from itself with socialist policies because W. et al bought into stereotypical industry lies about hardship and costs, the Japanese and pretty much everyone else in the whole world skipped merrily along. And I, a big Dodge lover, drive a Honda Insight as a DD. But don't worry, i still own 8-9 dodges, depending on whether you count my 1980 Plymouth Arrow Pickup which is actually japanese. 
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88h88 posted:It appears a certain forums poster (ex poster?)'s ride has become a meme due to this whole gubbmint thing you boys got going on over there. Sorry, all I see in that image is this: 
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Probably the most  mail truck ever made, built to drive through deep snow dritfs. 
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88h88 posted:It appears a certain forums poster (ex poster?)'s ride has become a meme due to this whole gubbmint thing you boys got going on over there. Customs is still up and Running.
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CHOWTIME posted:Probably the most This is the awesome-est AI stuff I've seen in many pages.
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The BK by my office got a new soda machine:  It's Italian.
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^^ Those are great! All the Taco Time's around here have them. They are the best.
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swampnutz posted:The BK by my office got a new soda machine: My local Miami Subs has one of those. Designer coke machines...whodathunkit?
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swampnutz posted:The BK by my office got a new soda machine: So that explains why I want to have sex with each one of those machines I see...
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Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester posted:When you get diet Sprite from one of those, it has soul in it. Italian car review swear jar: that'll be a pound.
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Ugh those drink fountains are terrible. Everything comes out of the same nozzle so you get taste cross-contamination and people take 5 minutes looking at all the options instead of just getting their pour on and going. I am angry about soda machines. 
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Previa_fun posted:Ugh those drink fountains are terrible. Everything comes out of the same nozzle so you get taste cross-contamination and people take 5 minutes looking at all the options instead of just getting their pour on and going. Yeah I've found the machines to be pretty underwhelming, plus the control is so janky... you press and hold the pour button, it eventually starts going, then when you release it the soda takes quite a while to stop flowing so you make a loving mess. I did enjoy reading a whiny Internet rant about how these are so terrible because the poster could TOTALLY DIE if so much as a drop of artificially-sweetened soda mixes with her soda and enters her highly allergic body. In general I view them as a solution to a problem people didn't really have--I never found myself craving Raspberry Coke Zero, and after trying it, I wasn't missing much. It's sort of like those big soda machines with the little conveyor belt that moves up right to the bottle you want. The old machines didn't really shake things up anyway, and they would drop your soda and your change immediately and simultaneously. The new machines, you pick your soda, it moves the belt up, drops the soda on the belt, moves the soda to the little dispensing area for you, and then pauses 5 seconds before finally dropping your change. 
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atomicthumbs posted:Enough about lovely janky Italian eurotrash cars and commie bicycle garbage. I found a real car. The best car. Even though until your post I never knew this edition of a Nova existed, I am absolutely positive now that this is how I imagined my 75 Nova as I drove it.
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Boba_Fettish posted:Even though until your post I never knew this edition of a Nova existed, I am absolutely positive now that this is how I imagined my 75 Nova as I drove it. My mom's '73 hatchback was red with white top, I'm disappointed she didn't hold out for that one. There was some weird poo poo tied into the Bicentennial. Mom's first father-in-law, upon the divorce, agreed that his son was a jerk and gave her a blank check to buy herself a car to make up for it. She was going to order a sedate yellow Nova, but the red SS was right there in the showroom... When she got pregnant several years later she sold it to her cousin and bought a Ford Fairmont wagon. Cousin totaled the Nova three weeks later. I, as a fetus, was indirectly responsible for the death of a Nova SS.
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SPORK08 posted:Customs is still up and Running.
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Is there a cheat menu on those that will let you dump all the syrups at once? Or at least sprite and fruit punch together?
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kmcormick9 posted:Is there a cheat menu on those that will let you dump all the syrups at once? Or at least sprite and fruit punch together? I like them because they're the only machines that have Mellow Yellow. It's my Slurm.
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