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Guinness posted:Cool old Subaru Sambars This makes me miss the days when pickup trucks weren't mile-high plastic Johnson extenders. More this:  Less this: 
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Thats a pretty nice interior.
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Ford is singlehandedly keeping the entire button manufacturing industry afloat.
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Aug 5, 2014 17:42
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Better than loving touchscreen-only controls for everything.
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Aug 6, 2014 02:23
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But not as good as climate controls operated by three rotary knobs. Even fancy automatic temperature control can be operated with three knobs and two or three buttons.
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Aug 6, 2014 03:11
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What racist rear end country do you live in, mister??
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PBCrunch posted:But not as good as climate controls operated by three rotary knobs. Even fancy automatic temperature control can be operated with three knobs and two or three buttons. I am very partial to a good climate control. I use one knob to go hotter or cooler and generally touch it two to five times in a four hour drive. If I'm feeling fancy I push the button for a/c. Mind you, my Ford has a dozen more buttons, but I trust it can figure out everything else. Cold on top vents, 70 degrees outside is very low fan to hit my goal of 72 in shade. Those buttons are for my meddling wife who thinks she knows better.
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SyHopeful posted:What racist rear end country do you live in, mister?? I like how you can tell most of the people in the city are racist just by looking at a simple picture. It's true though. 
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88h88 posted:I like how you can tell most of the people in the city are racist just by looking at a simple picture. I think he's referencing the store selling blacks. That kind of store was outlawed in the states in the mid 1800s.
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88h88 posted:I like how you can tell most of the people in the city are racist just by looking at a simple picture. It was probably a joke about Blacks in the back Where they belong 
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Aug 6, 2014 08:18
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 I see this outside my work occasionally; I don't know anything about it, I just think the paint is 
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xzzy posted:Ford is singlehandedly keeping the entire button manufacturing industry afloat. My Focus is very irritating for this reason. The buttons on the stereo (except forthe main control knobs) are very nondescript and impossible to use without looking.
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freelop posted:It was probably a joke about Blacks in the back  I got the joke, it was obviously a failed attempt at humour on my part. :/As penance have a trio of 3 little electric ad cars tootling around Japan somewhere. 
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Guinness posted:Cool old Subaru Sambars That is adorable. Love the color too.
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Those look they should have a fuse coming out the back.
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revdrkevind posted:This makes me miss the days when pickup trucks weren't mile-high plastic Johnson extenders. So trucks are supposed to be custom fabricated tube frame monstrosities that cost in the six figure range? Ok.
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It was a bad example, but his point is that there are no small trucks on the market anymore. Even today's "small" trucks are ginormous compared to 90s era small trucks. And yeah of course all vehicles have bloated in size compared to their 90s-era counterparts, but trucks way way more than anything else.  These size trucks are awesome for urban homeowners and DIYers that don't need to tow 10,000 lbs, and live in places where an F-150 is an obnoxiously huge vehicle to drive/park. The only real "small" truck left is the Tacoma which hasn't been updated in 10 years. Even the new Canyon is pretty huge compared to a D21 or old Tacoma/Ranger.
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Guinness posted:It was a bad example, but his point is that there are no small trucks on the market anymore. Even today's "small" trucks are ginormous compared to 90s era small trucks. And yeah of course all vehicles have bloated in size compared to their 90s-era counterparts, but trucks way way more than anything else. problem solved: http://www.smythkitcars.com/    It's a $3500 kit for the mkiv jetta, meaning you can even have a diesel pickup!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gxb7b0jGZvc How have I not seen this before?
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Powershift posted:problem solved: Okay, that's nice. Suppose you could always take the hatch off a Porsche 944, weld in a window behind the rear seats and call it a pickup.  e: Like this:  I suppose that goes a bit beyond just taking out the hatch, but eh. I'd fuckin drive it, that or the Shooting brake conversion.
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http://www.reidwashbon.com/racing_parts_racing_products/exhaust.aspx Incoming turbo manifold / race engine porn                BlackMK4 fucked around with this message at 00:19 on Aug 7, 2014 |
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Guinness posted:It was a bad example, but his point is that there are no small trucks on the market anymore. Even today's "small" trucks are ginormous compared to 90s era small trucks. And yeah of course all vehicles have bloated in size compared to their 90s-era counterparts, but trucks way way more than anything else. Not only the size but the stadium truck is also doing fun truck-things and getting dirty and torn up instead of living on blacktop and being a lifestyle device, without having to be three miles long, which apparently people are confused about judging by modern advertising. And going from this being a tricked-out ride (very nearly my dad):  To this being standard:  I especially hate how the trucks come lifted a foot off the tires now, for I approve this conversion.
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 So as a kid in the 80s I adored the Pole Position cartoon. Y'know, the one closely linked to the Namco arcade driving game of the same name. The one where your secret agent parents get killed solving some case and the villainous looking boss of theirs decides you can just take their place driving fast cars with talking computers in them whilst living a double life as a pair of circus-trick performing stuntmen/women. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dh_xGfrdbhY Yeah that one. I watched the intro video to this the other day and the sister's car is blatantly a Mustang, I've known that since I was little, it's very distinctive, just a few liberties taken with the convertible top. The brother's car though I always assumed was just one drawn up from imagination. There were a LOT of 70s concept cars which were wedge shaped, the one I think it takes most inspiration from is the Mazda RX-500, which I never knew was just THAT loving cool...   So yeah, that's my late night car-related ramblings.
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Oh jeez, I forgot about that cartoon completely until I saw the talking computer and the RX7 style 80s dash on the RX500. One of the cars was named Wheels, but I'll be damned if I know which one. edit: It's the Mustang. I guess that's mentioned in the video, if I had the sound on. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pole_Position_(TV_series) Seat Safety Switch fucked around with this message at 01:00 on Aug 7, 2014 |
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revdrkevind posted:I approve this conversion. They should sell Utes in America. America is more violent than Australia; Australia has Utes, America doesn't. Ergo, having Utes makes a country less violent.
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El Scotch posted:They should sell Utes in America. We were so close. And then, as GM always does, they killed it, right when it was about to get good. (Or in this case, just before release.)
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MrYenko posted:We were so close. Every couple of years a rumor about the El Camino returning pops up and it never happens. Is it so hard to rebadge a ute, GM?
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As much as i want one, i doubt the market for it is there. It could have been, but the generation of car buyer who would have bought it has been beaten to death. Basically every new car now has to appeal to baby boomers.
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As soon as I feel my skills are up to it I will buy a 70's EC and build the car I want myself. Screw you GM I'll do it myself.
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Rhyno posted:As soon as I feel my skills are up to it I will buy a 70's EC and build the car I want myself. Screw you GM I'll do it myself. I have fugues of looking into it. Last time I figured out how much it would cost to order all the G-body parts to convert an 80s Elco to stick shift. Then I decided not to buy the car, because it was mostly rust and the picture showed it parked in a ditch.
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Seat Safety Switch posted:I have fugues of looking into it. Last time I figured out how much it would cost to order all the G-body parts to convert an 80s Elco to stick shift. Then I decided not to buy the car, because it was mostly rust and the picture showed it parked in a ditch. I don't even need that, I'd just want something I could reliably drive on a road trip without worry of it breaking down.
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somehow wandered into looking at old military trucks for sale. All the cool stuff is in lovely europe. Why couldn't world war 2 have happened here    
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The US had cool utes, we just got rid of them all We still have the fairly crazy 460 big block in my basement.
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Powershift posted:problem solved: Now I kind of want to see this done to a short wheelbase Subaru to have a proper successor to the BRAT. One could probably even utilize the rear body panels and tailgate from a Baja. While I suppose you could also just cut the rear passenger compartment out of a Baja, I think the Baja still looks too funky with the longer wheelbase.
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Edward IV posted:Now I kind of want to see this done to a short wheelbase Subaru to have a proper successor to the BRAT. One could probably even utilize the rear body panels and tailgate from a Baja.  
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Great Beer posted:Every couple of years a rumor about the El Camino returning pops up and it never happens. Is it so hard to rebadge a ute, GM? It's like wagons, and man tran options on cars, you see people on the internet complaining they can't buy one, and when someone makes one, nobody buys it.
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