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Acid Reflux posted:I think that's the first picture I've ever seen that's demonstrably *not* a product of Photoshop, but really really really really looks like it is. My first thought was that it was a google street view fuckup
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Acid Reflux posted:I think that's the first picture I've ever seen that's demonstrably *not* a product of Photoshop, but really really really really looks like it is. For the record I took this from my apartment this afternoon, which has windows overlooking an intersection. I happened to look out my window, did a double-take, and grabbed my Nikon D3200 as fast as I could.
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If you liked it you should have put a wing on it: Oh, oh, oh....oh well I guess you did that already, took this when leaving the store this morning, wish I had time to hang around and meet this young chap.
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Jun 2, 2014 14:05
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Yesterday I saw this car: It now has a mirror blue vinyl wrap though and I'm sad that it wasn't safe for me to get a picture of it. Fortunately the internet has me covered and I can show you a similar car: 
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Previa_fun posted:I used to think the Murano Crosscabriolet was fairly rare but I guess not because now I see enough of them a week that I've just stopped posting them. I've seen a couple as well and I couldn't figure that thing out. The Solara convertible is a great choice if you don't really care about having anything with more personality or performance than a Camry but want to take the top down...there's definitely a market for convertibles that aren't for car people. But the Murano convertible just makes no sense at all on any level, and it's 42 loving thousand dollars (or it was before they euthanized it this year).
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My aunt has a Murano X cab and absolutely loves the poo poo out of it. I'll admit that the interior is gorgeous and it's a hell of a lot of fun to cruise around in with the top down.
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The only thing that would make the Crosscabriolet better is if it had four doors. It's really neat though.
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Previa_fun posted:I used to think the Murano Crosscabriolet was fairly rare but I guess not because now I see enough of them a week that I've just stopped posting them. I had the displeasure of seeing one of these things on the way home today (being driven by someone that doesn't understand how lanes work) and I think I would rather be stuck behind a HHR.
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Galler posted:I had the displeasure of seeing one of these things on the way home today (being driven by someone that doesn't understand how lanes work) and I think I would rather be stuck behind a HHR. Am I crazy that the fat ugly rear end of the Murano CrossCabriolet reminds me of the equally-ugly fat rear end of the 4th-Generation Mitsubishi Eclipse Spyder?
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Cruseydr posted:Fortunately the internet has me covered and I can show you a similar car: Now I know what was up with the color/finish that SLS AMG in San Francisco. When you do it to an attractive car with red wrap, it looks incredible.
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I love the roll bar FOR SAFETY but he has the windshield header extend towards his head, nice and low, with a sharp edge on the bottom set just right to shear the top of his head off if he hits something.
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Wojcigitty posted:I've seen a couple as well and I couldn't figure that thing out. The Solara convertible is a great choice if you don't really care about having anything with more personality or performance than a Camry but want to take the top down...there's definitely a market for convertibles that aren't for car people. But the Murano convertible just makes no sense at all on any level, and it's 42 loving thousand dollars (or it was before they euthanized it this year). Eh, only because the Murano is getting replaced with a new model entirely. 
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Insurance covers that, right? .....right? Awww gently caress it, they cover fires..... Night Danger Moose posted:Only got these 2 pics as the owner was walking towards me, but it seemed gaudy enough for the thread. The rear end and inside had more black vinyl on it. The guy had two popped-collar polos on too, bluetooth in, smacking his gum, aura of the most important person in the world. Sorry if they're kinda potato quality, my phone is butt. I might be wrong, but I believe that's entirely factory. Bentley has become a lot more, uh, flashy over the last decade. Seizure Meat fucked around with this message at 12:36 on Jun 3, 2014 |
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Captain Postal posted:I can't even begin to imagine how much it would suck to operate those controls whilst wearing two layers of very thick gloves at +4g with a +-1g high frequency vibration shaking you around... I remember they discussed this issue with NASA, and the screens will actually sync to the vibration so that they'll look fairly still while the rocket is vibrating so you can interact should you need to.
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Throatwarbler posted:Eh, only because the Murano is getting replaced with a new model entirely. What exactly is going on here? I can tell it's a giant spider but it looks kind of crushed and/or dead.
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veedubfreak posted:What exactly is going on here? I can tell it's a giant spider but it looks kind of crushed and/or dead.
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veedubfreak posted:What exactly is going on here? I can tell it's a giant spider but it looks kind of crushed and/or dead.
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 Parked hard in a crowded parking lot. Because, you know, JDM bro. This is in a lot where people are just circling for spots so they can get to the food court on their lunch hour. Also not shown: giant shocker sticker (among many others) on the rear window, A pillar gauges, HUGE tach. Chinatown fucked around with this message at 23:22 on Jun 3, 2014 |
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Chinatown posted:
What I can never figure out about beige shitboxes being given all these absurd mods is that for the same amount of money they could have purchased an actually interesting fun car. On the upside, at least we're not seeing many actually interesting fun cars driving around with shocker stickers.
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Kenshin posted:What I can never figure out about beige shitboxes being given all these absurd mods is that for the same amount of money they could have purchased an actually interesting fun car. I tend to be of the view that you should buy the best/fastest/most powerful version (these are quite possibly not the same thing) in the first place, unless your plan from the get-go is a full rebuild and replace upgrading of everything, in which case granny-spec is the way to go. I had this debate with a guy with a pretty nice E30 318iS, who wanted to swap in an M20 and turbo it. Pointed out that he had a reasonably uncommon model in good condition, and he'd be far better to sell it and buy a 325i to modify, but he insisted that he wanted to do it that way - partly because the car was a known quantity to him and he'd owned it for several years, which I can understand, but I still think he was wrong.
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Chinatown posted:
Here's the opposite:  Luxury car parked 'hard', my beater don't care if you ding it's doors. Have fun getting back in you fuckwit.
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Post your favorite time that you were a dick to a dick Not quite my beater so I went out on my lunch break and moved it when there were other spots open.
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SaNChEzZ posted:Here's the opposite: I like you. A great deal. Thank you for doing this for the sake of us who can't [I don't want people dinging the new car  ]
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Code Jockey posted:I like you. I don't know; it's irritating when a car is "parked hard" but then I remember that sometimes you can be forced to be parked at a hosed up angle if SOMEONE ELSE was previously parked like an rear end in a top hat next to you. Then again, my Explorer has a split bench so it's not hard to climb over from the passenger side or the back.
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KoRMaK posted:I think a spider got sealed inside of the windshield during the pressing/layering process. Good QA. ... slumber in their crystal prison, waiting to reclaim Earth...
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InitialDave posted:They only have enough money to purchase/run a low-end model, and then have the sunk cost of having bought it dissuading them from changing it rather than upgrading, which of course gets worse and worse with the more they spend on it. Back in the 40's, hot rodding wasn't a thing yet. So guys that wanted fast cars went to the junkyard and bought '29 Model A's, or 32's, maybe picked up an Oldsmobile engine, some other bullshit when necessary. The vast majority of these cars ran like poo poo, had subpar work done on them, sat in primer for months and months, and everyone loving hated them. In a perfect world, they would have bought a Chrysler 300 with a Hemi, or a 283 powered shoebox Chevy, but sometimes people don't have the money up front to buy the ideal car. Beige Toyotas are the '32 Ford of the 21st century.
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VikingSkull posted:Beige Toyotas are the '32 Ford of the 21st century. Rat rods built in 40 years time are going to suck
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Captain Postal posted:Rat rods built in 40 years time are going to suck Junkyard turbo ratted out subaru outbacks with welded diffs doing burnouts at the veteran's day parade? I'm looking forward to that.
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Just imagine all the cool poo poo we will be able to 3D print
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Dr.Caligari posted:Care to share where you got the poster? Here ya go. It's an original movie display poster, had a friend look at it that collects them and he confirmed. Going to make an obnoxious "go fast" frame for it and put it in my garage. The guy sent it nicely rolled up with a protective sheet of thin paper but it's got a couple of nice creases from people folding it in the last 33 years. 
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Code Jockey posted:I like you. I also left them a handwritten note explaining that they're terrible  That poo poo really rustles my jimmies. And to be honest, it's my girlfriend's beater, I'd never do that with the supra.
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Here's some horrible shop stuff. Mechanic installs and safeties my brothers new used car. A week later he tells me the steering wheel is staying off centre after turns followed by it darting viciously left or right. I wasn't able to look at it so I had him hit Canadian Tire for an inspection:
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InitialDave posted:They only have enough money to purchase/run a low-end model, and then have the sunk cost of having bought it dissuading them from changing it rather than upgrading, which of course gets worse and worse with the more they spend on it. To me this sucks on an entirely different level - those are very rare and sought-after here (RHD country) and are worth significantly more than their run-of-the-mill 6 cylinder brethren. Also the M42 takes boost just fine so sticking in a lovely heavy m20 makes no sense at all. 8ender posted:Here's some horrible shop stuff. Mechanic installs and safeties my brothers new used car. A week later he tells me the steering wheel is staying off centre after turns followed by it darting viciously left or right. I wasn't able to look at it so I had him hit Canadian Tire for an inspection: So...they put the pin in despite the bolt being completely loose? What the gently caress.
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Tindjin posted:Here ya go. It's an original movie display poster, had a friend look at it that collects them and he confirmed. Going to make an obnoxious "go fast" frame for it and put it in my garage. The guy sent it nicely rolled up with a protective sheet of thin paper but it's got a couple of nice creases from people folding it in the last 33 years. I normally only lurk A.I. and almost never post, but I could swear that Burgess pilots a F-86 Sabre and not a Phantom in that movie... 
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Mister Macys posted:I normally only lurk A.I. and almost never post, but I could swear that Burgess pilots a F-86 Sabre and not a Phantom in that movie... This is like the time I could absolutely swear that Tom Cruise was the guy in The Arrival and it turned out to be Charlie Sheen somehow. I would've passed a loving lie-detector on it.
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Slavvy posted:
My theory is that they used an impact with the air turned way up and obliterated the threads but it took a week to work itself loose. I have other reasonable explanation unless they were drunk or out to kill someone intentionally.
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Slavvy posted:This is like the time I could absolutely swear that Tom Cruise was the guy in The Arrival and it turned out to be Charlie Sheen somehow. I would've passed a loving lie-detector on it. I knew it had a Sabre: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASCmH1HdG6g&t=150s
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Wasabi the J posted:I don't know; it's irritating when a car is "parked hard" but then I remember that sometimes you can be forced to be parked at a hosed up angle if SOMEONE ELSE was previously parked like an rear end in a top hat next to you. Is it really such an issue to park a little farther away?
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veedubfreak posted:Is it really such an issue to park a little farther away? In some places 'further away' means up to a quarter of a mile away. My old apartment was like this. And if you're time limited that means you aren't getting your errands done because some rear end in a top hat thought his car was too important for one spot.
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VikingSkull posted:Back in the 40's, hot rodding wasn't a thing yet. So guys that wanted fast cars went to the junkyard and bought '29 Model A's, or 32's, maybe picked up an Oldsmobile engine, some other bullshit when necessary. The vast majority of these cars ran like poo poo, had subpar work done on them, sat in primer for months and months, and everyone loving hated them. Make your car go fast? This is fine. Make your car look good? This is fine. Make your car look fast? Yeah, you're a knobhead. Definitely relevant seeing as you mentioned what is effectively the genesis of hot rodding: Taking a pile of crap and spending all your money making it fast (or, at least, work) is cool. Taking a perfectly ok car and ratting it out to give the appearance of having done the former? Straight to the knobhead corner. Slavvy posted:To me this sucks on an entirely different level - those are very rare and sought-after here (RHD country) and are worth significantly more than their run-of-the-mill 6 cylinder brethren. Also the M42 takes boost just fine so sticking in a lovely heavy m20 makes no sense at all. On one hand, it's his car, and a well-done M20 turbo is by no means a bad thing, on the other hand, he's still wrong.
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