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13 INCH DICK posted:BUILT NOT BOUGHT Oh my. 
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Oct 20, 2013 16:48
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This better be the new thread, 13.
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Oct 20, 2013 16:59
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Oct 20, 2013 17:04
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InitialDave posted:It's too low for my tastes, but this guy's done an imgur album of his VW rebuild: It's so adorable 
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Oct 20, 2013 18:13
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13 INCH DICK posted:BUILT NOT BOUGHT I raced against this in a chump car race a few years ago
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Oct 20, 2013 19:15
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As winter has decided it may come early this year, everyone is getting their classics out for one more ride:   Didn't take a photo, but right next to this Chrysler sedan was a PT Cruiser (that was parked at a lovely angle, too). It's like the Great Grandfather and his estranged grandson.    Plate frames state this is a 1930. If I wasn't so against trying to take photos while driving, I would've also nabbed the two Model Ts driving together on my way home.
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Oct 20, 2013 23:26
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I was at the Concours D'Elegance in Manhasset today, my pictures should be here: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10101223105882819.1073741828.1819588&type=1&l=8cf61119ee Highlights include the best in show winning Mercedes 300SL with the nicest owner, a quartet of Morgan 3-wheelers (although Alex Roy was nowhere to be found), Jim Glickenhaus' race car (which is glorious), a real live Citroen 2CV and a motherfucking Porsche 959 in person, in America. Sorry if the quality on some of them is a bit lovely, but we lost the lens cap and didn't realize how much dirt was on it until we got home and looked at the pictures.
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Oct 21, 2013 03:18
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Looks like a special 9000 - what am I looking at?
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Oct 21, 2013 03:21
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Saw this today, love it
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Oct 21, 2013 06:55
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Oct 21, 2013 13:58
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I would drive that at WOT everywhere every day. Best Fiero ever.
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Oct 21, 2013 17:09
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Looks like another decent car-build album on Imgur. B18-engined Mini, anyone? Build pictures here. Also: 
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Oct 21, 2013 17:14
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Nostrum posted:Got a canoe? Got a Miata? No problem! Thats how I carry my kayak. Didnt think id ever see some one doing the same.
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Oct 21, 2013 19:20
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The first pic looks like a photoshop, but it's real:  
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Oct 21, 2013 20:06
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rear end in a top hat Bicycle posted:The first pic looks like a photoshop, but it's real: I really hope that is built better than appearances indicate. And why does it have series front doors and (original?) defender rear doors? And mirrors and lights badly fitted in random places. If you need that much space just buy a sprinter 4x4 or transit county, because surely that thing is a dog in 90% of off-road situations, and all road ones. Although it is loving crazy, wonder what the wheelbase is?
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Oct 21, 2013 20:22
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Rhyno posted:I love this to absolute death. This car has been through a few hands the last couple years and it is pretty amazing. I know I saw it on ebay a year or so ago then it popped back up on Bringatrailer this summer for something like 20 grand. Here was a travel blog the previous owner did when he sold the car to a collector in Florida, has a few more pictures of the car & mini bike: http://www.carchaeology.com/citytrip.htm
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Oct 21, 2013 20:32
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stump posted:I really hope that is built better than appearances indicate. And why does it have series front doors and (original?) defender rear doors? And mirrors and lights badly fitted in random places. If you need that much space just buy a sprinter 4x4 or transit county, because surely that thing is a dog in 90% of off-road situations, and all road ones. I found it randomly. Here is his blog: http://hillwithfields.wordpress.com/2013/04/21/more-recognizable-now-roofrack-and-painting/
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Oct 21, 2013 20:43
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LtDansMagkLegs posted:This car has been through a few hands the last couple years and it is pretty amazing. I know I saw it on ebay a year or so ago then it popped back up on Bringatrailer this summer for something like 20 grand. Here was a travel blog the previous owner did when he sold the car to a collector in Florida, has a few more pictures of the car & mini bike: Guy is a goof ball but his Facebook is a treasure trove of :iamafag: https://www.facebook.com/Carchaeology
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Oct 21, 2013 21:12
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Pretty sure these go here. Ronal Bear wheels, converted to 3 piece.
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Oct 21, 2013 21:27
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I would eagerly await the glorious fireball-related death i'd surely suffer driving that thing. Looks like a total riot.
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Oct 21, 2013 21:37
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rear end in a top hat Bicycle posted:The first pic looks like a photoshop, but it's real: I knew a guy with a Nissan safari built this way, wish I had taken some pictures. He had a Gandalf beard and nine children.
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Oct 21, 2013 22:10
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rear end in a top hat Bicycle posted:The first pic looks like a photoshop, but it's real: It gets points for not being painted green with loving biohazard trefoils as some sort of fantasy zombie hunting vehicle. What's it actually meant for?
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Oct 21, 2013 22:15
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There's a fairly rich bloke who lives near my house who occasionally has open days for his gardens and car collection. I had not been there before, until last weekend, and I knew he had some cars, but not the the extent he has here. The first few cars I think were other people's cars, but the ones in the garage are his: Armstrong Siddeley Sapphire 346  Jaaaaaag  57 Chevy  3.8 Jaaaaaaag  Peugeot 403  Reliant Rialto. It looked familiar, and now I remember where I saw it before, outside a car museum in July  Rover 75  MGA with a MGB GT next to it  Ferrari 328  Motor of said Ferrari  1896 Benz. It is an original, the owner never buys replicas  1903 Oldsmobile Curved Dash  1903 Peugeot  1914 Fiat  1907 Renault  1922 Unic Taxi (French)  1924 Vauxhall 30/98  MG TD which has been modified into a racer. It has a cute supercharger on the front  1927 Bentley 4lt Sports Saloon  The prized car of the bunch - 1936 Mercedes Benz 540K. Originally owned by Dr. Ernst Heinkel, the head of Heinkel Aircraft. The car was brought into Australia in the late 80s, however the person who imported it lied on the import paperwork about its value, so Australian Customs took it off his hands. The current owner spent over $1million getting the car back to its original condition. These days he drives it in ANZAC parades with WW2 diggers in the back of it.  1936 Riley Kestral. Well known for having the one brake cable which ran around the parameter of the car for all the brakes. Of course when the brake cable snapped...  1927 Bugatti Type 35c. The owner (who is 82 years old) still races this car! All original, and sounds amazing when fired up.  The owner is the bloke on the left hand side in the white polo top  Another photo of the massive Mercedes Album: http://imgur.com/a/gQ0Mr You Am I fucked around with this message at 00:37 on Oct 22, 2013 |
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Oct 22, 2013 00:27
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My mother texted me some photos of a "cool car" she saw this weekend. Turns out to be an extremely rare (around 300 made) 1941 Hupmobile Skylark. The owner was in his late 70's and just had the interior and exterior redone. The paint is from an early 2000's Lexus and the interior seems to have some resto-mod stuff done. He had no idea how rare the car was until I told my mother, who then relayed it to him. He immediately got sad for repainting it since it probably took some of the value off the car. If it was original paint, he probably took a lot of the value off, but with around 300 cars made ever, I think it'll take a lot to really hurt the value that much. Please excuse the quality of photos. They came from my mom's iphone and she probably didn't know I'd be posting them to the internet.    
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Oct 22, 2013 00:31
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Custom Internationals still in use for a safari company in Africa.   
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Oct 22, 2013 01:15
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Looking at those old cars from the turn of the century makes me think of how much fun it would be to take Karl Benz and his contemporaries for a spin in a modern supercar.*  *Or hell, even in a CVT Versa for that matter. 
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Oct 22, 2013 02:58
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Sudo Echo posted:Saw this today, love it I own a 93 S4 myself, and I absolutely love seeing these cars being taken care of. I'm thinking that car has the fancy Stromung exhaust too.
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Oct 22, 2013 04:31
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7d0Lm_31BE That steering wheel is completely amazing. KozmoNaut fucked around with this message at 09:40 on Oct 22, 2013 |
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Oct 22, 2013 09:37
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KozmoNaut posted:
It's certainly...something.
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Oct 22, 2013 09:45
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You Am I posted:
Huh, my neighbor has one that looks almost like this (except green and in not-excellent condition). It's broken 
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Oct 22, 2013 09:45
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You Am I posted:Cool poo poo That's an amazing collection, I'm guessing its in Victoria from the plates? Pity it's a bit far from us, having to take an enforced road trip away from the Blue Mountains tomorrow and it would have been neat to have something like that within a day's travel!
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Oct 22, 2013 13:07
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Oct 22, 2013 14:16
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You Am I posted:
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Oct 22, 2013 15:27
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Previa_fun posted:Looking at those old cars from the turn of the century makes me think of how much fun it would be to take Karl Benz and his contemporaries for a spin in a modern supercar.* I think if you even showed them something like an SLS AMG Black they'd fall comatose on the spot.
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Oct 22, 2013 15:32
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Reminds me of Be Kind Rewind  
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Oct 22, 2013 16:56
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 So the P1 is faster than a Veyron in the 1/4 mile, which is to say nothing about their relative performance on a road course! http://wot.motortrend.com/first-mclaren-p1-delivered-to-customer-0-62-mph-in-2-8-seconds-418305.html#photos BoostCreep posted:My mother texted me some photos of a "cool car" she saw this weekend. I'm so glad that the billet fad that spawned that wheel is mostly over. Yegch. Previa_fun posted:Looking at those old cars from the turn of the century makes me think of how much fun it would be to take Karl Benz and his contemporaries for a spin in a modern supercar.* Or hell, even in a Honda Insight. 
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Oct 22, 2013 18:21
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Vigo327 posted:
Apparently it just did the ring in 6.47 which if verified, is stupid! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2CHtZZFTDY http://www.worldcarfans.com/113102264797/mclaren-p1-laps-nurburgring-in-647---report-video Preoptopus fucked around with this message at 18:40 on Oct 22, 2013 |
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Oct 22, 2013 18:37
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Grumpy owns
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Oct 22, 2013 18:39
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Preoptopus posted:Apparently it just did the ring in 6.47 which if verified, is stupid! So, right around the 27 second mark where he puts a back wheel on a dusty curb and the engine rpm flares, my default interpretation was "low traction, tirespin, rpm goes up, sure". But after a second i thought wait a minute, no way this kind of machine would allow that. It almost certainly was the stability control system asking for more power to put through the other wheels in such a way to keep the thing going where it was pointed. That kicked it up to "drat, that's awesome" in my head. What do you think, am i right or wrong?
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Vigo327 posted:So, right around the 27 second mark where he puts a back wheel on a dusty curb and the engine rpm flares, my default interpretation was "low traction, tirespin, rpm goes up, sure". But after a second i thought wait a minute, no way this kind of machine would allow that. It almost certainly was the stability control system asking for more power to put through the other wheels in such a way to keep the thing going where it was pointed. That kicked it up to "drat, that's awesome" in my head. What do you think, am i right or wrong? I think what your seeing there is the active torque vectoring rear diff doing its job when hitting a wet patch. McLaren calls this "Brake Steer" So yes your right. Although it seems like it would take some balls to trust it and not over counter. Preoptopus fucked around with this message at 19:56 on Oct 22, 2013 |
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