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Method Loser posted:Hey! I remember him! The one that kept preaching how bad safety equipment was. Other way round. SMB123 was a safety equipment nazi, swore everyone else was going to die if they so much as cruised down to the gas station to fill up without dressing as a power ranger. Then he highsided into a street sign. Fully dressed of course.
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Method Loser posted:Hey! I remember him! The one that kept preaching how bad safety equipment was. I remember some custom titles about him but I think that was just before my time in AI.
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trouser chili posted:Other way round. SMB123 was a safety equipment nazi, swore everyone else was going to die if they so much as cruised down to the gas station to fill up without dressing as a power ranger. Then he highsided into a street sign. Fully dressed of course. Where is the story on that one?
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blk posted:What do you drive? Pelican Parts has a decent forum as well, I usually cruise between that and rennlist for any Porsche digging I may need to do. edit: I find the Pelican Parts for sale section is always littered with plenty of air cooled porsches. shoopeach fucked around with this message at 17:00 on Jul 9, 2014 |
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blk posted:Talked to the Porsche seller; they don't know why its sagging. There's 133k on the body. What concerns me most is there's apparently rust in the front near the battery. I've never dealt with that before and don't know how to. A pre-galvanization Porsche with rust in the hellhole, a sagging rear end, and a bit of lipstick on it selling at market rate for a decent "driver" grade example? Yeah.....if you really want one and have that kind of money to spend get on Rennlist and find something that isn't a pit of despair.
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 What the gently caress is going on here? I'd jump on this immediately if not for the "registered in Oregon, not in CA" and "AS-IS and cash only". $3200 for an 850 with 36,000 miles? Is it stolen? Help what do I do
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If it's a scam, it's a weird one. My best guess is that it won't pass CA smog for some reason, making it unregisterable (except as non-op) until it's fixed, and the owner doesn't want to gently caress with it. Failing to pass smog could be as simple as a cracked gas vapor cannister hose, or as bad as a cracked engine block, so who knows. The usually ubiquitous phrase that is conspicuously missing from that ad is "runs good." By the way, I think it's technically illegal for him to sell it in California as an operating vehicle, because the law requires he have a smog cert from within the last (I think it's) 90 days.
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trouser chili posted:Other way round. SMB123 was a safety equipment nazi, swore everyone else was going to die if they so much as cruised down to the gas station to fill up without dressing as a power ranger. Then he highsided into a street sign. Fully dressed of course. This is ten years ago on an internet forum and my memory is poo poo so I guess I'll take your word on it, but I could have sworn he was the one advocating riding without a helmet before dying. EDIT: Or was he the annoying prick who was a nazi about people 'not being able to handle their bikes' and smashed while overriding a highpo (R6? R1? Busa?) bike on public roads. Maybe that was it. Method Loser fucked around with this message at 05:41 on Jul 10, 2014 |
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atomicthumbs posted:
Well, assuming it hasn't failed inspection for some reason (emissions) I think it is just a case of the guy not wanting to pay the fees. It cost about $500 to get my mother's car registered when she moved California 12 years ago. Probably a lot more these days.
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It's not that bad. My Miata was plated for Washington and IIRC, it was 100 - 200 for initial CA registration, not including new plate fee. I'm certain it wasn't more than 300. This was last year
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Method Loser posted:EDIT: The R6 guy you're thinking of may be Abunchofnumbers, aka Backpanther. A man incapable of listening to the advice of others. https://encyclopediadramatica.es/Abunchofnumbers
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Coredump posted:The R6 guy you're thinking of may be Abunchofnumbers, aka Backpanther. A man incapable of listening to the advice of others. https://encyclopediadramatica.es/Abunchofnumbers Holy poo poo, that couldn't get any worse.
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Geirskogul posted:Holy poo poo, that couldn't get any worse. He didn't die from the bike wreck. He lost his right arm and got a settlement, then proceeded to buy a manual Corvette. He died from an infection related to the lost arm.
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Noeland posted:He didn't die from the bike wreck. He lost his right arm and got a settlement, then proceeded to buy a manual Corvette. He died from an infection related to the lost arm. The link says he bought a Lamborghini.
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Nocheez posted:The link says he bought a Lamborghini. His payout was something like $160k, doubt he bought a Lambo. Edit: ED also says it was $900k, but I don't believe it, considering he said in IRC that he bought a Corvette. Noeland fucked around with this message at 14:35 on Jul 10, 2014 |
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Wait backpanther died?
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Method Loser posted:This is ten years ago on an internet forum and my memory is poo poo so I guess I'll take your word on it, but I could have sworn he was the one advocating riding without a helmet before dying. He was an annoying prick about safety gear. We often butted heads because I would advocate for riding helmet-less if you liked it and were willing to accept that risk. SMB123 found that basically unthinkable because he wouldn't ride to the corner store without boots, pants, jacket, back protector, helmet and gloves, all armored of course. I was fine with that, it's his choice of course. I just wanted him to understand that other people can and should make their own choices. I think we had come to an understanding, but any time someone else came along with a opinion different than his, he was right up their rear end about safety gear again.
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Noeland posted:His payout was something like $160k, doubt he bought a Lambo. The link says it was $900,000. You should check it out, so we don't have to keep replying back and forth 
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trouser chili posted:He was an annoying prick about safety gear. We often butted heads because I would advocate for riding helmet-less if you liked it and were willing to accept that risk. SMB123 found that basically unthinkable because he wouldn't ride to the corner store without boots, pants, jacket, back protector, helmet and gloves, all armored of course. I was fine with that, it's his choice of course. I just wanted him to understand that other people can and should make their own choices. I think we had come to an understanding, but any time someone else came along with a opinion different than his, he was right up their rear end about safety gear again. I am fine with people riding without any safety gear, as long as they are organ donors. If you need a transplant, move to florida. People ride year round and don't have to wear helmets!
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But if I get organs from a Floridian will it make me want to have dinner at 4pm?
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Elephanthead posted:But if I get organs from a Floridian will it make me want to have dinner at 4pm? 
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Elephanthead posted:But if I get organs from a Floridian will it make me into a redneck? Also quite possible. (What ever happened to those kinds of movies?)
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seeing as the 850 was a probable piece of junk being sold by a liar, here's something that's the polar opposite: an actually good, expensive, rear-wheel drive sedan   
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trouser chili posted:He was an annoying prick about safety gear. We often butted heads because I would advocate for riding helmet-less if you liked it and were willing to accept that risk. SMB123 found that basically unthinkable because he wouldn't ride to the corner store without boots, pants, jacket, back protector, helmet and gloves, all armored of course. I was fine with that, it's his choice of course. I just wanted him to understand that other people can and should make their own choices. I think we had come to an understanding, but any time someone else came along with a opinion different than his, he was right up their rear end about safety gear again. Oh okay, so you're the retard. Sorry, SMB123.
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Ugh.. Assuming clearance isn't an issue, is there any way to put some aftermarket headers on that thing and keep in legal in California?
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Saw this lovely thing show up locally. http://albuquerque.craigslist.org/cto/4566162164.html
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Speaking of awesome volvo's, I want this Rare 1983 242 GLT TURBO - $3450 (burlington) 
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Oh, Burlington WA not Burlington VT.
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This NA 244 seems pretty clean: http://eugene.craigslist.org/cto/4540326262.html I like the blue on cream, works well.
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No pictures, but fairly certain we looked at a stolen car on Craigslist yesterday. Guy gave us an address where nobody was home, but there were two guys waiting there looking to buy a different car. They had the same contact phone number that we did. We eventually got a hold of the guy who said to come meet him at a different address around the corner. We figured it was a bad idea, but curiosity got the best of us. The other guys took off. The car was way different than advertised, and had clearly been in a major accident and very poorly repaired. I asked the seller about the guys at the other address and asked why they had his phone number. He got nervous, said it wasn't his phone number (it very much was), and drove off.
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Extra posted:That's sexy as gently caress and for $2500 if it's not rusty why the hell is it not sold yet? Welcome to the PNW, the home of old volvo's(and mostly rust free cars). Seriously, I had a ton of friends who had 240's as their first cars.
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So I have to go buy this now.
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PleasusChrist posted:So I have to go buy this now. You at least have to go look at it and report back what it actually is.
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atomicthumbs posted:
The reason that 850 isn't registered in CA and is for sale so cheap is because it's a schedule J vehicle which means it's a nightmare to smog every goddamn time which involves multiple trips to a smog shop, a written letter by the smog technician that it won't pass smog because of too many monitors open that will never close (even though that's the condition it's on the schedule J) and finally a trip to the referee station where it will finally be deemed road worthy which takes no less than 25 hours every time. Needless to say, schedule J is an ultra secret type of thing that seemingly no smog shop has ever heard of. I had to google to see why the monitors would stay open and it lead me down the rabbit hole of CA smog bullshit. Burn in hell car, I will never miss you! Chances are the guy selling that vehicle is running into the same thing but hasn't googled far enough. Also 36k miles!!! (odometer 38000) in ad.
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Great example of why I will probably never own an aircooled 911  BringATrailer Link 
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IOwnCalculus posted:Great example of why I will probably never own an aircooled 911 Oh what the gently caress. For that kind of money I'll just pick up a 964 and take it to Singer.
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Ugh, air cooled 911's used to a bit of a bargain, but have soared in price lately.
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IOwnCalculus posted:Great example of why I will probably never own an aircooled 911 I saw that earlier and though,"Welp, that price is loving retarded." I'm seeing it again and thinking the same thing. It probably has more to do with the auction company and where it's being sold at more than the actual car though. Countdown until we see VW camper vans from the 80's skyrocket to 100k+.
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