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Galler posted:If you've got to drive an unregistered and uninsured shitbox with no license then it's imperative that you don't commit any other dumb traffic offenses life speeding or driving without headlights at night. Had he not done the last two and been nice to the cop he probably would have just gotten a pile of tickets and had his car towed. He's clearly an overachiever when it comes to bad decisions so this was rather expected. The HIDZZZZZ didn't work, he drove with the parking lights + fog lights to make up for it.  Kenny Rogers posted:Also, why would you not just walk away from a car that's impounded for n, where n is greater than the value of the car in impound? I think that's what he plans to do. To get a car out of impound, you have to have a license, proof of ownership, and valid insurance on the car. He doesn't have any of these (except for a signed title from the previous owner). Hell, he'd be stupid not to walk from it. No way in hell is he going to be able to get insurance in his name, especially without a license. And since the title was signed over to him, he's the only one who can register it... but you can't register it without proof of insurance. 
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Safe Auto has some cosigner thing where if you can convince a family member to double their premiums they can put high risk drivers on their plan. I know that's how my idiot friend with a clapped out Buick got his insurance.
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kastein posted:That's completely different, after googling it - that's if colors bleed funny, like blue blurring on one side of your vision and red on the other. This is different, an actual green tinted headlight on one side and purple on the other, both of the "lovely ebay HIDzzz that claim FIFTEEN THOUSAND KELVIN COLOR TEMPERATURE" variety. Most green tinted headlights are because they've got a 3000k yellow stupid HID with a failing ballast/igniter. The purple though, that's just stupid choice of color spectrum.
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kastein posted:That's completely different, after googling it - that's if colors bleed funny, like blue blurring on one side of your vision and red on the other. This is different, an actual green tinted headlight on one side and purple on the other, both of the "lovely ebay HIDzzz that claim FIFTEEN THOUSAND KELVIN COLOR TEMPERATURE" variety. That is why I would never prescribe or order polycarbonate lenses for anyone over a +/-4.00D Rx - above that you get weird chromatic abberations, and it is worse at lower Rx's with even higher index lenses, like 1.53 and 1.74. Ever notice a blue tinge on one side of something and a yellowish tinge on the opposite side of the object when the object is against a solid color background (black pen against grey desktop is perfect for this)? Chromatic abberation. This is also the reason that the edge of a projector headlight's beam pattern is yellowish even on 5000 to 5500k (white, 6000k is just about agreed upon as treading in the "blueish" territory) lamps. The only exception was for children, because little children tend to be rough on their glasses and I didn't want a CR-39 or a high-index lens shattering in the poor kid's eye. Edit for car content. This is what I saw just a few hours ago in a Goodwill parking lot:           When it left, I didn't see any brake lights of any kind, even when it stopped at the edge of the parking lot. The passenger footwell was full of microwave lean cuisine meals, opened and piled high. There was only one fork, a metal one in the cuisine in the passenger seat  Edit 2: The more I look at the pictures the more I see wrong. It's like one of those Magic Eye things where if I stare hard enough a roll of Autozone chrome trim tape appears, right? I mean, I didn't even notice the holes from the (now missing) spoiler that was on there (presumably a piece of plywood or something) the first time through. And I didn't notice that the car goes from "angry red and tribal patterns" to "JDM STYLE PANDA OVERSPRAY" halfway through, or that the front blinker is falling off, either. Queen_Combat fucked around with this message at 00:37 on Nov 28, 2013 |
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Nov 28, 2013 00:21
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He left the back of the trunk white to increase visibility. You know, to make up for the lack of tail lights.
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Nov 28, 2013 00:57
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That is pretty "ill"...
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SaNChEzZ posted:Most green tinted headlights are because they've got a 3000k yellow stupid HID with a failing ballast/igniter. The purple though, that's just stupid choice of color spectrum. The passenger side light on my Skyline/G35 went really purple for about a week before it failed completely
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On the topic of town's over-salting the roads, I drove back to Chicago today, and snapped a pic of an intersection I had stopped at. That's not snow.
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Seems insurance claims are starting to get settled on the higher end calgary flood cars, and they're coming through the salvage auctions  
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Nothing on that car will ever work right. I mean, it may work okay, but never perfectly.
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Geirskogul posted:Nothing on that car will ever work right. I mean, it may work okay, but never perfectly. It's still worth $96,000 apparently. I guess being submerged only takes about 30% off the value of a ford GT. http://www.impactauto.ca/runList?act=conditionReport&stockNumber=HVJ81&rowpos=&act=search&rowpos=0&buyNow=true&showPictures=true Shame it's been sitting for 5 months with the water in it. Hard to imagine there's anything left to work with.
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Nov 28, 2013 08:11
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Eh...those cars usually get parted out right?
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Powershift posted:It's still worth $96,000 apparently. I guess being submerged only takes about 30% off the value of a ford GT. We went through this from 1978 on with Johnstown Flood cars. Always easy to spot by 1982, they were the ones turning to dust from mid-door down. The prescription for bringing back the motor on a flood car: -- drain out the oil/water -- fill it with kerosene, run it 5-minutes -- drain it out, fill it with Wolf's Head 30-weight -- run it 15-minutes -- change the oil & filter, & you're good to go! What could possibly go wrong?
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Uthor posted:There's no snow in the forecast. If its anything like around me, they got a small sprinkling that would have gone away in a day, but panicked and dumped a ton of salt on it as if they expected a blizzard. There are a couple intersections around me that look like that, only its brown because they usually prefer sand over salt.
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Nov 28, 2013 09:00
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R U MAD Just because you can put graphics on a wrap doesn't mean you should. 
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meatpimp posted:Just because you can put graphics on a wrap doesn't mean you should. Looks like a cover to a highschool math book
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meatpimp posted:Just because you can put graphics on a wrap doesn't mean you should. Yeah, I dunno... this is pretty baller. If it had some lovely 3d rendered cones and spheres, and maybe a cylinder it'd complete the High School Mathbook transformation. Things I will never understand: 
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Bring Back Noid posted:Yeah, I dunno... this is pretty baller. If it had some lovely 3d rendered cones and spheres, and maybe a cylinder it'd complete the High School Mathbook transformation. I hate my suspension and wish to destroy it as expensively as possible?
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Nov 28, 2013 15:28
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Looks like it is transforming into a hovercraft.
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Nov 28, 2013 16:00
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Where we're going we won't need roads!
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Powershift posted:Seems insurance claims are starting to get settled on the higher end calgary flood cars, and they're coming through the salvage auctions There was a flood 1M a few months ago, and a handful of Evos and 911s have been through as well.  At my coworker's condo downtown some guy left a 911 turbo to drown in the underground parkade. It started out on the fourth underground level and ended up on the second one bouncing against the concrete ceiling. Seat Safety Switch fucked around with this message at 16:22 on Nov 28, 2013 |
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Bovril Delight posted:Looks like it is transforming into a hovercraft. This one almost looks like it's squatting to pee:
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Root Bear posted:This one almost looks like it's squatting to pee: They got so close and then just poo poo the bed.
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Root Bear posted:This one almost looks like it's squatting to pee: The JDM badge just seals it.
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That's a photoshop.
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Root Bear posted:This one almost looks like it's squatting to pee: It's also clearly photoshopped. I can't wait for this stupid fad to die down. Although, who knows what lunacy it will be replaced with.
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Zlatan Imhobitch posted:That's a photoshop. It has to be a photoshop. I mean, with that stance there's no way he'd be able to turn his front wheels.
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Zlatan Imhobitch posted:That's a photoshop. It's still terrible isn't it?  Here's something that isn't a photoshop. I'm not sure what it was, but I do know what it isn't:
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Ulfhednar posted:On the topic of town's over-salting the roads, I drove back to Chicago today, and snapped a pic of an intersection I had stopped at. They don't really do this intentionally - the flow rate out of the dump box to the spreader was set for whatever speed the truck was traveling, which is going to be very excessive for an intersection. For a momentary stop like a stop sign it's probably not worth loving with the controls to change the flow rate for one second. Salt is cheap so it's also probably not cost effective to have better controls for the system either.
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Powershift posted:Hey, road salt crew.
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Root Bear posted:It's still terrible isn't it? The wheels remind me of the stock FRS ones.....
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Root Bear posted:It's still terrible isn't it? Audi TT or somesuch?
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Bring Back Noid posted:Yeah, I dunno... this is pretty baller. If it had some lovely 3d rendered cones and spheres, and maybe a cylinder it'd complete the High School Mathbook transformation. "I know better how to design suspension than a proffessional engineer. I also secretly hate my car and want it to die a slow agonizing death."
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I want to know what that feels like to drive.
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Preoptopus posted:I want to know what that feels like to drive. Constant fear that you won't see a dip/pothole/speedbump.
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2nd gen Eclipse? Edit: Nope, A-pillar and door handle are different. It's gotta be a Mercury Cougar. You can just barely see the Cougar's bodyline in the lower part of the door. Edit2: Or not. I'm stumped. DropShadow fucked around with this message at 00:04 on Nov 29, 2013 |
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e: ^^ Goddammit! Edited while I was posting! ^^  It's a Ford Cougar (Mercury Cougar for you Americans). I've seen several terrible kits based on them. I'm starting to wonder whether they're turning into the new Fiero.
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Ghost Farts posted:e: ^^ Goddammit! Edited while I was posting! ^^ I second guessed myself because the window line is straighter than the stock Cougar. Found this one while looking for clues. 
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Bring Back Noid posted:Things I will never understand: It's Japan. It's intentionally ridiculous; it's a form of self-expression. I doubt it gets driven much except to show off.
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