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This guy lives just down the road from my house, and 12 year old me always laughs when I see it. I wonder which came first, the plate or the company name?
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That tattoo was more money than the car it's depicting. And it's a pretty bad tatt.
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Aug 11, 2014 04:36
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First cars are like first girlfriends: you can have all sorts of fun in them but for god's sake don't get their name tatted on your arm. 
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Aug 11, 2014 04:44
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Hung out at the Pre-reunion this weekend. Here's the highlights. Oh yeah.  Ferrari 512? Whatever it was it sounded amazing. Edit: Note he most certainly failed the broomstick test. Seems nobody gave a poo poo last weekend.  E-Type parked in a bad neighborhood. 
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Aug 11, 2014 05:22
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Whoa.
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Aug 11, 2014 11:26
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88h88 posted:Whoa. I've always wondered what a DTM Integrale would look like. Now I know.
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Aug 11, 2014 11:38
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Aug 11, 2014 11:57
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Left Ventricle posted:Holy moley. Where does this guy hang out? I don't think I've seen that car near downtown. I don't go to Summerlin enough, I guess. I don't know but every time I see him, it's at that intersection, going into town. It's kinda nuts that I've come across him 10 times by pure chance.
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Aug 11, 2014 12:30
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The rules don't apply to Action Bronson, he's far too cool for that.
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Aug 11, 2014 17:36
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrrwDHZUK6I In which Matt Farah says "gently caress you" to the rules at the Silver State Classic and passes 3 cars in a "race" where you aren't supposed to pass any cars. Also they call their Mini a traveling deli.
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Aug 11, 2014 17:41
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13 INCH DICK posted:Cavaliers are actually pretty nice for what they are xzzy posted:Great "first car" for an entire generation of high school kids who's parents didn't have much money. I had a '94 Cavalier as a first car and I might still be in it if not for two separate incidents of people ramming the bright red car out of nowhere, poor girl was at like 140k and still trucking (admittedly, only because my dad had done quite a bit of work on it). When the family were all piled in the acceleration was a safety hazard, but that's pretty much exactly what you want in a starter car.   Bonus simulation of how I always hoped she'd go out: 
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Aug 11, 2014 21:58
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revdrkevind posted:Bonus simulation of how I always hoped she'd go out: 
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Aug 11, 2014 22:18
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13 INCH DICK posted:Im positive Ive seen this car bombing around seattle a cople times in the past weeks too because how many loving two tone Cortinas in this part of the world can there be? I just assumed it had to be a different one because how often do you see a car and then it hapens to be the same one someone else just randomly posted? Oh, that's owned by the guy I bought my Eclat from. I think his name is Steve Martin, I remember finding that kinda funny.
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Aug 11, 2014 22:46
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revdrkevind posted:Bonus simulation of how I always hoped she'd go out:  It's a Celebrity wagon, but still. 
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Aug 12, 2014 01:54
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It's time for this to get posted again, I guess. http://whatmonstersdo.com/blog2/2012/02/02/car-feature-joshs-1991-turbo-cavalier-rs-wagon/ quote:• 1991 Cavalier RS
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Aug 12, 2014 01:56
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aaaaaand checking out the classifieds for old cavaliers. god damnit.
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Aug 12, 2014 07:04
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SlimManFat posted:aaaaaand checking out the classifieds for old cavaliers. god damnit. dont
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Aug 12, 2014 08:39
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Left Ventricle posted:
I would love to see that landing... Ouch.
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Aug 12, 2014 13:47
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   http://www.thewholecar.com/2015-jaguar-lightweight-e-type
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Aug 12, 2014 13:53
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This is an amazing mash up of a GT1, GT2 and 959. They must build it!
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I'll be in my bunk. 
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SlimManFat posted:aaaaaand checking out the classifieds for old cavaliers. god damnit. Great first car back in the day, hilarious choice for dirt track racing, but seeing them modded up... meh. You can really just get a Neon or a Civic or something and have a driver's car if you want to go rat style. Either of those will actually be worth fixing up.
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Aug 12, 2014 15:26
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The Neon is a much better car, and that's speaking as someone who owned a Cavalier for several years. The Cavalier puts up with a lot of neglect (Like, a lot. One of the girls in my social circle has a 500,000 km 97 Sunfire that's been through three engine fires and a brake failure on the highway) but on its best days it's still a miserable little penalty box that requires you to bring a lot of your own fun to it. That said, perhaps the awesome AI car poo poo is making a car that's tough enough. Guys at the drags used to pump dry 50-shots of nitrous into the pushrod 2.2s until they blew up (after crushing the FPR feed lines in a vise grip to increase fuel pressure and therefore richness), then bought a new one. Seat Safety Switch fucked around with this message at 15:31 on Aug 12, 2014 |
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Aug 12, 2014 15:28
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Left Ventricle posted:
This generation of GM wagons was amazing. My dad had an Oldsmobile Cutlass with the 3.3 I believe, very little rust or trademark GM decay for its age. 30mpg reliably, more space than some full size SUVs, plus the holy trinity: bench seats, column shift and a rear facing back seat. Unfortunately a combination of a careless Prius driver tweaking the bumper, no heat and a temperamental starter meant its service ended at just over 200k miles.
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Aug 12, 2014 16:04
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Station wagons in general own bones, I still can't figure out why minivans became the de-facto family car when a superior solution already existed. I effectively grew up in a custom cruiser from the 70's, my dad nursed that thing for almost 30 years before rust finally destroyed the frame. There was a point in the late 80's where he redid the interior and gave it a metallic green paintjob, even put chrome smoothies on all four corners. It looked loving mean.
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Aug 12, 2014 16:13
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Apparently they're using chassis numbers from the last 6 E-types that never made it off the production line on these new ones... That's pretty loving cool.
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Ineptus Mechanicus posted:This generation of GM wagons was amazing. My dad had an Oldsmobile Cutlass with the 3.3 I believe, very little rust or trademark GM decay for its age. 30mpg reliably, more space than some full size SUVs, plus the holy trinity: bench seats, column shift and a rear facing back seat. Unfortunately a combination of a careless Prius driver tweaking the bumper, no heat and a temperamental starter meant its service ended at just over 200k miles. I suggest you get a forearm tattoo of it, it'll be like a permanent dedication.
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Aug 12, 2014 16:20
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Now for stuff you've seen a hundred times before. I went to get some stuff at the hardware store and saw two spotless and largely unmolested Nissans in the same car park. R34 Skyline Coupe Turbo   S15 Silvia Spec R   Really finding any S car that hasn't seen the humiliation of "aggressive" sideskirts is a small wonder on it's own. JDM.JPEG  Though technically it was the setting sun, not the rising one. RillAkBea fucked around with this message at 16:54 on Aug 12, 2014 |
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Aug 12, 2014 16:52
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Aurune posted:Hung out at the Pre-reunion this weekend. Here's the highlights. My father and I climbed up the hill in the background to go watch the cars at the Monterey Historics (that's what it was called at the time) come down The Corkscrew. It was steeper than we thought. Luckily, there was a bar at the top, so it was worth it.
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Aug 12, 2014 17:19
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xzzy posted:Station wagons in general own bones, I still can't figure out why minivans became the de-facto family car when a superior solution already existed. Because wagons developed a stigma about them as they were used by families. Much like minivans now and hopefully SUVs will soon.
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Cavalier chat. The only car I have ever totalled was an 85 Cavalier that an ex-gf grabbed the wheel and caused me to put into a guardrail at 55  Guess which person of the 4 in the car didn't go to the hospital. Also, guess which one was wearing a seatbelt.
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Cavalier chat: Bought a '97 GT as a first car, dirt cheap, with the 2.4L in it. Nothing quite worked right, the shifter felt like a bucket of gravel and I was never sure if I was going to get 3rd or 5th, the clutch slave cylinder leaked (and was located inside the bell housing) so I had dot3 with me at all times, but it never left me stranded, never overheated, had enough power to be stupid with, carried 8+ people more than once, all my stuff to and from university... I had a lot of fun with that car. Also there were a million of them in junkyards so when someone broke off my antenna, smashed a mirror and a couple lights it was like 15$ and an excuse to explore a junkyard to fix. I'd never buy another one now, but it was a great first car.
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Aug 12, 2014 18:44
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Maybe we should just make another thread for Cavalier chat because clearly we've touched a nerve here. I had the OHV 2.2, if I had the 2.4 twin cam I probably wouldn't be here right now with the way I drove that car. If I drove this for my first car? Obliterated. 
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Seat Safety Switch posted:The Neon is a much better car, and that's speaking as someone who owned a Cavalier for several years. The Cavalier puts up with a lot of neglect (Like, a lot. One of the girls in my social circle has a 500,000 km 97 Sunfire that's been through three engine fires and a brake failure on the highway) but on its best days it's still a miserable little penalty box that requires you to bring a lot of your own fun to it. I said in IRC the other day, Cavaliers keep running out of spite. Everything will break, plastic will fall off, electrics die, all to make the driving experience as miserable as possible, but they will never just up and totally die until they have made you suffer.
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Aug 12, 2014 20:04
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You also get to replace alternators, starters, and batteries with startling regularity.
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Did the rear glass open like that or is it just popped out?
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Aug 12, 2014 22:14
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that's ballsy
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I found it.
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