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There's a company that does Sydney / Newcastle runs for weddings and the like, that has three or four of these in white, pink and black, as well as silver and white 300C limos. I served the owner when I worked as a console jockey at a truckstop, after he'd just picked up the pink one. The loving thing ate around 200L of fuel. At $1.65/L. It was retina searing bright pink and the interior was like a coked out nightmare of neon and shag. People actually hire these monstrosities for weddings. 
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8ender posted:I'm trying to make sense of that and now I've got a headache. What is that vertical bar in the middle behind the rear diff doing? WHY IS ANYTHING LIKE IT IS HERE?? That is the front diff and it still has no business being there. I don't even know, man.
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kastein posted:hey man, that's not cool, we have teeth and don't beat each other up. Check out the lift block on the left side of this picture. It looks like it's about to catastrophically fail. kastein posted:That is the front diff and it still has no business being there. I don't even know, man. My guess is that the chunk of square tubing protecting the steering gear isn't attached to the front axle, it's attached to the body by a yard of rusty metal, such that it'll fall off the second it hits a medium-sized rock. Safety Dance fucked around with this message at 01:21 on Feb 3, 2014 |
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Safety Dance posted:Check out the lift block on the left side of this picture. It looks like it's about to catastrophically fail. The leaf spring and ubolts aren't even close to aligned right on that side, I think he pushed it out of the shop and had someone tap the brakes and it flew apart already. As for the tubing, you may be right, but it won't even take a medium sized rock. It will likely break off at the welds or simply flex back and forth uselessly if he even tries to turn the wheels.
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88h88 posted:Luigi Colani! Dude hates straight lines with a passion. So that's how new cars are made!
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Cacafuego posted:So that's how new cars are made! When the Concorde loves the Mach V very much...
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Saw this terrible terrible buick at the grocery store this evening.
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I wonder what the red covers behind the wheels are/are made of.
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iForge posted:Saw this terrible terrible buick at the grocery store this evening. Needs large fake calipers.
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Slavvy posted:I wonder what the red covers behind the wheels are/are made of. Despair.
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iForge posted:Saw this terrible terrible buick at the grocery store this evening. You know what? I have to admit that I would post this in the awesome car poo poo thread instead. I can't hate on donked out american yacht cars. They spend all the money on being flashy and eyecatching, which is probably a better idea for a car you're only going to cruise around the streets than turboing it up to 450hp and running it into a tree.
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Not to mention noone will ever argue that they're somehow destroying a priceless piece of automotive heritage. They're abortions from the second-worst era of american cars, it's better that it happens to them than something actually worth saving.
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kastein posted:The leaf spring and ubolts aren't even close to aligned right on that side, I think he pushed it out of the shop and had someone tap the brakes and it flew apart already. im pretty sure that the brake lines are just lopped off at the leaf springs like the diff breather in the middle is!
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Slavvy posted:Not to mention noone will ever argue that they're somehow destroying a priceless piece of automotive heritage. They're abortions from the second-worst era of american cars, it's better that it happens to them than something actually worth saving. People need to destroy them faster, because in the past few years I've started seeing cars from that era rolling around with vintage plates on.
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Am I the only one that [img]tags aren't working for? Maybe it's just imgur. But I can dig the URL out of a post and see it by pasting directly to the URL bar. Weird. Edit: Well gently caress, they're working for me now. Here's content. *click to make worse* 
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88h88 posted:Luigi Colani! Dude hates straight lines with a passion. Hey look, an inbred Cylon.
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trouser chili posted:Am I the only one that [timg]tags aren't working for? Maybe it's just imgur. But I can dig the URL out of a post and see it by pasting directly to the URL bar. Weird. That seems to be the type of project that's a result of a bunch of dudes sitting around a campfire emptying a case of beer trying to design the most ironically ugly ricer.
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:When the Concorde loves the Mach V very much... My first thought was "reminds me of Rodimus Prime" 
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Well, I made this about 8 or 9 years ago -- so somehow I feel sort of responsible for this... 
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kastein posted:hey man, that's not cool, we have teeth and don't beat each other up. I'm not entirely sure, but the base car looks very similar to an old NASCAR chassis to me, with that front valance and everything
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The reflection in the front bumper looks kinda like a deformed set of steer horns. That really needs a normal-sized set of horns mounted to accentuate the size.
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HDC posted:I'm not entirely sure, but the base car looks very similar to an old NASCAR chassis to me, with that front valance and everything Wouldn't surprise me at all, since rednecks love putting cars on top of truck frames for MUDDIN'! 
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In parts of NC there are retired NASCAR chassis and body work everywhere. You could probably get a 5-10 year old race car for pretty cheap.
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I'm pretty sure this belongs here: 
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anonumos posted:In parts of NC there are retired NASCAR chassis and body work everywhere. You could probably get a 5-10 year old race car for pretty cheap. Seriously, I've seen rollers for < $10k. I really need to stop looking at race cars. I'll just end up with a few.
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keevo posted:I'm pretty sure this belongs here: Maybe you should add that the owner of this is deadmau5...
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wayfinder posted:Maybe you should add that the owner of this is deadmau5... Set fire to it and then unwrap the car.
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quote:Dear drukqs, Is murder legal yet?
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I too get unreasonably upset at my neighbors because I can't afford modern windows on my house.
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The entire fact that they said "you moving to a new exhaust system is the sensible thing to do" really pisses me off. I live next to a major road and there are plenty lovely rear end riceburners that fly through the area at night, and it doesn't wake me up. Maybe try fixing your own problems before putting the onus on other people?
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Galler posted:Set fire to it and then unwrap the car. Why? Dude's got oodles of money, and it's not like he's doing something irreversible to a rare car.
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I just want someone to set fire to deadmau5 and think the car would look better without the wrap 
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drukqs posted:Is murder legal yet?
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drukqs posted:Is murder legal yet? The obvious answer is only use first gear on your street, and always do exactly whatever the speed limit is. e: What is the offending vehicle in question? Panty Saluter fucked around with this message at 00:33 on Feb 4, 2014 |
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Passive-Aggressive Shithead posted:As I read your message about moving to another exhaust system, I’m thinking that probably is the sensible thing to do, sooner rather than later. gently caress the legality, I'll help.
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I would just try a progressively louder series of mufflers to see if they can help you figure out which one is the best one. You said you were moving to a different one, not a quieter one. Present it as a hypothesis, then write it up as a whitepaper and get NSF grant funding.
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keevo posted:I'm pretty sure this belongs here: This is absolutely, unequivocally, the wrong thread.
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drukqs posted:Is murder legal yet? I can only hope this is the new exhaust system you're thinking about.
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drukqs posted:Is murder legal yet? Your neighbors sound like mine, except instead of blocking you by parking in the middle of the road they whine to the landlord? police? their parents? about it. I'm not sure which I prefer but I'll trade you so we can each experience a different kind of terrible neighbor who whinges about not-very-loud exhausts in an unreasonable manner.
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