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Powershift posted:http://autobotanik.livejournal.com/ I guess with their Carmageddon lifestyle Russia would run out of cars pretty quickly without shops like that.
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fingerling posted:It isn't that MG that Top Gear was going on about a few years ago? Didn't that come with some V8 or something? Hilariously bad build quality ( The MG that was originally a De Tomaso and then a Qvale? No, it's not one of those. Andrew Frankel at Autocar drove one of the last remaining ones late last year: http://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/anything-goes/mg-x-power-sv-driven
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CommieGIR posted:Am I the only one tempted to cut their timing belt for exposing it like that? Why bother? Something else will cut it soon enough.
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I saw this beauty in Canton, MI a few weeks ago. The paint is a little blown out in the picture but it looked a lot like the glow in the dark colored stuff.
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bung posted:I saw this beauty in Canton, MI a few weeks ago. The paint is a little blown out in the picture but it looked a lot like the glow in the dark colored stuff. I vote wrong thread. Rims especially.
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bung posted:I saw this beauty in Canton, MI a few weeks ago. The paint is a little blown out in the picture but it looked a lot like the glow in the dark colored stuff. 
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Powershift posted:http://autobotanik.livejournal.com/ http://autobotanik.livejournal.com/31952.html Holy poo poo, I would not want to be in that car at all. I imagine it wobbles like jelly when it moves in any direction.
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88h88 posted:I vote wrong thread. Rims especially.
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I opened up my copy of Merriam-Websters and turned it to the entry for 'radical' and this thing came flying out of the pages, wheelied across my living room floor, smashed through the bay window and is now doing donuts on my lawn E: just transformed into a robot that is also some kind of boombox
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Puddin posted:http://autobotanik.livejournal.com/31952.html
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Old soviet joke told to me by my mother: As a show of international friendly competition, GM and Lada decided to do a long-term test-car swap to see how their vehicles would cope with conditions across the iron curtain. After one year of strenuous road driving, they met again to exchange notes. The Russians: "What a godawful vehicle. Just a year on our roads, and the car is completely destroyed!" The Americans: "What a godawful vehicle. Just a year on our roads, and the roads are completely destroyed!"
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Polymerized Cum posted:Will someone please post that awesome russian website where they hack together cars out of pieces and parts? I've dragged a completely destroyed E39 with torn off right front suspension and crumpled passenger side front quarter to this guys. Just yesterday moved the car to other shop for brake and electric work, will report when it's done.
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Just a taxi I saw in the mall parking garage here on Guam. Edit: made picture smaller since I can't tell how big it is on my phone
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88h88 posted:I vote wrong thread. Rims especially. Those are $5 beauty hubcaps But I'd be lying if I said I wouldn't drive it.
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bung posted:I saw this beauty in Canton, MI a few weeks ago. The paint is a little blown out in the picture but it looked a lot like the glow in the dark colored stuff. Wanna drive that car.
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slidebite posted:Those are $5 beauty hubcaps No they're not. Those spun aluminum discs cost about $100/ set.
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Snowdens Secret posted:I opened up my copy of Merriam-Websters and turned it to the entry for 'radical' and this thing came flying out of the pages, wheelied across my living room floor, smashed through the bay window and is now doing donuts on my lawn Bravo! That made me honestly laugh put loud. Also, a Fiero that is actually still a Fiero deserves recognition. A buddy of mine has a bunch of these (he had a Fiero specialty business for a whole) and the story behind the car is actually pretty fascinating. There are quite a few design and manufacturing innovations in it. It suffered for trying to go around GMs hidebound traditions. That is to say, GM killed it because it pissed off the other divisions, among other things. The fires didn't help, either.
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iwentdoodie posted:Just a taxi I saw in the mall parking garage here on Guam. just put the full image in thumbnail tags cause you can't see poo poo on a 200x300 image and it'll size it down automatically. Also is that a tribal vinyl on the side?
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Somehow it got timg'd in your quote, now I can blow up the pic and wooooooah that thing's got layers, man. - i <3 japan - yellow ribbons and a bald eagle - transformers poo poo - a little model jet plane hood ornament Need a shot of the interior plz thx.
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I had a mountainbike as a kid which had the same white/orange fade. It was cool in like 1990...
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InitialDave posted:A lot of the racing ones have fixed lights, so it's not uncommon. This reminded me when someone brought an SA22 to a rally  It sounded absolutely magnificent, I can only imagine how awesome the actual Gr.B beast wouldve sounded. To keep on topic:  3cyl diesel moped car for old people and... teenagers.
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tobu posted:Guys. It's for sale. That's pretty cool until the orange fade starts in. The wheels could also gently caress off.
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Darchangel posted:No they're not. Those spun aluminum discs cost about $100/ set. This is the reason my winter steelies still don't have a set.
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tobu posted:Guys. It's for sale. Oh my gosh the flames have a snakeskin texture to them  That's a new one for this thread, I think.
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Darchangel posted:Bravo! That made me honestly laugh put loud. The fires were mostly because the GM management said "No we will NOT buy you a new oil pan for your smaller engine bay! Use your older brothers!" And then people put oil in it till it said it was full, and not 2/3 like the manual said.
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That's GM's fault, not the owners. I would never think to check the owner's manual on how high to fill up oil, instead of using the marks on the dipstick.
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How does filling up the sump to a given depth cause fires in one engine but not another? Or do you mean the dipstick is too short, so "full" is actually higher than in the other applications?
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InitialDave posted:How does filling up the sump to a given depth cause fires in one engine but not another? Or do you mean the dipstick is too short, so "full" is actually higher than in the other applications? Yeah GM wouldn't spring for a new oil pan, or new dipstick, because it was cheaper to just print the change in the owners manual.
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Polymerized Cum posted:Yeah GM wouldn't spring for a new oil pan, or new dipstick, because it was cheaper to just print the change in the owners manual. I guess throwing an entire model into the garbage was a better use of that money. Or maybe setting piles of it on fire.
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I thought it was the opposite problem in Fieros; that not putting enough oil in them caused a conrod to pop and shoot oil through the new block window onto the headers. edit: Wikipedia posted:There are several possible contributors to Fiero engines catching fire. The primary cause is thought to be a batch of poorly cast connecting rods, produced in GM's Saginaw plant, which failed when the oil level became too low. One theory is that the sports car styling attracted buyers who would drive the car hard, most notably by excessively revving the engine. Another factor was the incorrectly listed three-quart oil capacity; the actual oil capacity is 4.5 quarts, but a misprint on the dipstick and in the owner's manual resulted in owners using only three quarts, any leakage or consumption would allow the oil level to decline over time to a dangerously low level. If the proper oil level was not maintained, the bearings could seize, snapping the porous castings of the connecting rods. This could result in a hole being punched in the engine block, allowing oil to spray onto hot exhaust components where it could ignite. Has GM ever actually fired someone?
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Polymerized Cum posted:Yeah GM wouldn't spring for a new oil pan, or new dipstick, because it was cheaper to just print the change in the owners manual. Edit: I think what SSS says makes more sense, to be honest.
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Okay, that makes way more sense. I guess the legend of the Fiero was distorted in my head over time.
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Welp I didn't see that the HDR totally hosed up the photo until i put it on my computer screen. The light was green so i only had one shot. The lights weren't crooked that's just what i get for leaving hdr mode on. It actually looked pretty... okay i guess. It was painted on properly and if it wasn't a lovely acura with an awful muffler then it would probably be cool? maybe? not really. nope.
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punakone posted:This reminded me when someone brought an SA22 to a rally https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-hMT3iIMQY 
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Group B does not belong in this thread. "Post terrible retarded crowd stuff in this thread", sure.
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Seat Safety Switch posted:That's pretty cool until the orange fade starts in. The wheels could also gently caress off. Did no one notice that the cream/orange paint is actually inspired by the cream/orange leather interior?
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So this dude is nearly done with his car now.  What I really want to know is why that particular era of Celica?
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