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He should have had a designer take his sketches and turn it into something that looks good and captures his ideas instead of turning up at WCC with some lovely drawings and saying "hey make this."
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It is a real-world version of homer simpson designing a car then having the engineers interpret it verbatim.
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jamal posted:He should have had a designer take his sketches and turn it into something that looks good and captures his ideas instead of turning up at WCC with some lovely drawings and saying "hey make this."
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Kenny Rogers posted:Sorry, this is awesome. It looks like a really, really lovely Aero 8. 
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quote:"Will originally wanted a twin turbo Porsche flat six in the back," Austin told us. But then Will called Austin six weeks into the build. "He wanted something crazy futuristic with stretched doors and a front engine. I told him it'd be easier to make a whole new chassis, but he said to 'do it to the bug.'" Sounds like he paid a lot of idiot tax for the annoyance he caused.
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Edmund Honda posted:Sounds like he paid a lot of idiot tax for the annoyance he caused. He's single handily floating West Coast Customs.
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Michael Scott posted:I am comfortable talking about money, I just know that I am bad with negotiations.. The way my wheeling and dealing uncle explained it to me made sense. He said that you've got to disconnect the price from the person, because that's what you're negotiating. Two experienced negotiators can go back and forth in what seems like an argument to most folks, but they're just trying to come to an agreement about the value of the item. I've given up on selling stuff on CL because too many people know that if they waste enough of your time, you feel like you might as well just take the deal. I had a guy drive 3 hours to buy a guitar off of me, only to show up with $100 less than we agreed on. Guy threw a fit that I wouldn't accept his generous offer and proceeded to send me harassing emails for weeks afterwards.
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I wholeheartedly approve anyone bilking as much money out of will.i.am as possible. Good job, WCC. I picture them laughing the entire time.
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Related, but I was trying to sell some chairs on craigslist and I had a 3-4 email exchange with a guy who was more into asking about the couch in the background or anything else I had for sale (when I clearly labeled the posting for the chairs). People are retarded. I usually have good luck with selling car stuff because I'm 1) willing to sit on it, and 2) Price things firmly but reasonable for what they are.
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  http://www.autoblog.com/2013/11/05/ford-f-100-snakebit-gene-simmons-shannon-tweed-sema-2013/
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DropShadow posted:
Probably the best thing ever coming from the mind of Gene Simmons and it's still dreadful.
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DropShadow posted:
All I can see is bucktooth ET.
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angryhampster posted:It looks like a really, really lovely Aero 8. Exactly what I thought.
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Wasabi the J posted:What exactly do these words mean? Seems like you're completely uninterested in bargaining; do you state that you're not bargaining when you're selling? Honest question. When you have a car listed at 17k, 2k under bluebook, and some moron offers you 8k or a swap for his 94 Civic, this is the kind of person he's talking about. Not someone who's negotiating in good faith.
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angryhampster posted:It looks like a really, really lovely Aero 8. oh god that Aero 8 
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DropShadow posted:
If they would have kept the grill, it would be ok. The bumper and roll-pan can stay, but the grill and headlight are just dumb as gently caress.
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Godholio posted:When you have a car listed at 17k, 2k under bluebook, and some moron offers you 8k or a swap for his 94 Civic, this is the kind of person he's talking about. Not someone who's negotiating in good faith. Took the words out of my mouth. In this case it was a fairly sought after axle assembly, with all the factory parts to swap it into a truck everyone swaps them into, and I was asking $700. Obnoxious retards were offering me $150, posting "pm me" in the thread, pming me "call me", and pming me "wats ur bottom dollar" and suchlike stupidity. No, douchebag. YOU pm ME, YOU call ME, and you loving make ME an offer. I'm not your servant and I'm not taking scrap price for a difficult to find part, nor am I negotiating my price down for you. Get hosed in whichever way pleases you the least. I ended up selling it for $200 to a friend just because I was tired of sitting on it, still made my money back, just didn't make any money off the fact that I spent 3 hours lying in broken glass and mud under a junkyard carcass eating rust chunks and hot metal shavings while I cut the drat thing loose. Oh well. Would have taken $400 in a heartbeat, it isn't that I wasn't willing to negotiate. And if I'd listed it for $400, I would have gotten offers of $75... kastein fucked around with this message at 03:07 on Nov 7, 2013 |
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Will.i.am did that same thing to an already fully restored 1958 Corvette. Truly a piece of poo poo. He turned a piece of art into a go cart.
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That poor truck 
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A terrible thing just got worse.
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Tekne posted:A terrible thing just got worse. Ahaha oh my god, is that real, is that really real I have no coherant words. Someone... did that, didn't they.
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You know, I think that's actually a big improvement over stock. Though that's not saying much.
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What car is that? (I'm aussie)
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Nierbo posted:What car is that? (I'm aussie) nissan murano crosscabriolet. Pretty much the most awesome vehicle since the AMC eagle, too many people here just haven't realized it yet.
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Poweshift, current title holder of "AI's best troll"
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I would like to see that being driven hard on a race circuit with elevation changes and high speed corners. Or just corners in general.
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Tekne posted:A terrible thing just got worse. It looks like if you turn the wheels 10 degrees you'll be rubbing the fenders.
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Powershift posted:nissan murano crosscabriolet. Pretty much the most awesome vehicle since the AMC eagle, too many people here just haven't realized it yet. Yup. Also those wheels fit that car quite well.
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The color coordination of eye-pleasing teal between sheetmetal, fabric top and wheels is certainly tasteful and restrained.
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wayfinder posted:oh god that Aero 8 I've always hated them for this one little niggly aesthetic. How did that design ever get off the loving drawing board?
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Snowdens Secret posted:The color coordination of eye-pleasing teal between sheetmetal, fabric top and wheels is certainly tasteful and restrained. Donks in general are stupid and garish and useless etc. etc. but I kinda like this one
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88h88 posted:I've always hated them for this one little niggly aesthetic. How did that design ever get off the loving drawing board? Concessions to aero basically.
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Tekne posted:A terrible thing just got worse. Honestly that loops back to awesome, it's the best donk. But seriously gently caress you Nissan for making this car and not a new Silvia/240SX/smallrwdcar
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Cakefool posted:Concessions to aero basically. It's a glass cover though, why couldn't they move the lenses to the front of the fenders and have them pointing straight?
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rscott posted:It's a glass cover though, why couldn't they move the lenses to the front of the fenders and have them pointing straight? ...because
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rscott posted:It's a glass cover though, why couldn't they move the lenses to the front of the fenders and have them pointing straight? Concessions to Morgan fans, essentially.
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Geirskogul posted:Concessions to Morgan fans, essentially. Whats that saying? Something along the lines of people kinda look like the cars they drive. This is sort of what I mean. Does Jalopnik count as terrible car poo poo? Cause that article is really sloppy. SierraEchoBravo fucked around with this message at 17:01 on Nov 7, 2013 |
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SierraEchoBravo posted:Whats that saying? Something along the lines of people kinda look like the cars they drive. Wow it really is, what a poorly written piece of garbage
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