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angryhampster posted:drat that looked rough. Was it recent? Quite recent. http://jalopnik.com/soaring-race-car-crash-puts-ricky-bobby-to-shame-1625703950 Dude popped his steering wheel off and hopped out before the marshals got to him.
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"A slight bit of fire on his clothing as he gets out, but he was ok."
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I spent that whole gif hoping the second car would pass under him completely unmolested and continue the race.
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KozmoNaut posted:"A slight bit of fire on his clothing as he gets out, but he was ok." Automotive Insanity › Post terrible car stuff in this thread - A slight bit of fire
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Maker Of Shoes posted:Automotive Insanity › Post terrible car stuff in this thread - A slight bit of fire Automotive Insanity - A slight bit of fire.
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xzzy posted:I spent that whole gif hoping the second car would pass under him completely unmolested and continue the race. This totally doesn't belong in this thread, but here you go! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzFgGcfgjZ0
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Sagebrush posted:That one at 2:35 did NOT go the way I was expecting Is all the foam stuff an automatic fire extinguisher or what?
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I experienced a 1974 Mustang II steering column yesterday... you have to press a button on the opposite side from the key to turn the key on, and then you also have to press it to turn the car off. That was weird poo poo, I remember my parents having a pickup where you had to press the little tab in order to turn the car on, but never to turn it back off.
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It always amazes me how slow and undramatic everything looks in those situations until the car a/ rolls, b/ hits something or c/ becomes totally loving airborne.
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I *really* wish I knew what the hell was going on here...
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Lamar Smith R-TX posted:I *really* wish I knew what the hell was going on here... Using the tow hook to pull the crushed-in section of body/frame/etcetera back out? That blanket is really gonna help if that cable around the pole goes all "gently caress you I'm snappin'". 
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Lamar Smith R-TX posted:I *really* wish I knew what the hell was going on here... What are the odds that the pole was also involved in the damage to begin with?
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Root Bear posted:What are the odds that the pole was also involved in the damage to begin with? The pole giveth and the pole taketh away.
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Root Bear posted:What are the odds that the pole was also involved in the damage to begin with? I don't know, but I can almost guarantee the owner blames "snap oversteer" for the damage. Granted I have "fixed" body damage on a few cars that way. One being the $300 suzuki swift my brother bought while we were in NZ.
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Lamar Smith R-TX posted:I *really* wish I knew what the hell was going on here... I'd say he had no jack stands and was using the comealong and the pole to anchor the car and keep it from rolling forwards off the floorjack.
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Aug 27, 2014 01:31
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The comment and the mallet all point to ameture frame-straightening.
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He's trying to straighten out the rear part of the frame of an MR2 with a mallet, a hydraulic jack and a cable tied round a pole and attached to a tow point... I'll put $10,000 on: a) that car being terrifying as hell to drive b) the same thing being done to that car again within a month Atleast he admits it a "Ghetro" repair
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Xy Hapu posted:Saw this today while filling up at Costco's . . . I know one reason you do need to hold the nozzle upsidedown:  loving flatbed utes. You can see the fillpoint in the photo at the front of the tray. The fuel line always seems to run horizontally for about a foot before angling down. This mean that fuels washes back and touches the nozzle during filling and makes it shut off. I worked at a petrol station about 20 years ago when I was at uni. It happened then and it still happens now and it beggars belief that the design hasn't been changed. So you turn the nozzle upsidedown so that the fuel doesn't touch the little sensor hole and when you finish filling you spill a bunch of petrol from the horizontal section of the pipe onto the ground.
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Spotted by some dude I know with a jeep.   All I want to know is which of these thermal exhaust ports I can torpedo to make the main reactor blow.
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Gorilla Salad posted:I know one reason you do need to hold the nozzle upsidedown: Thats not uncommon with any flatbed truck, mostly because they try to build them with the lowest deck height possible. I used to drive a POS 80's f350 flatbed for work and carried a chunk of 4x4 to drive onto get a slightly better angle for filling the tank. And of course it had a giant gas tank in it so it took forever to fill up. I was so happy the day it got stolen and replaced with a brand new one.
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 I think I've found another picture of the tunnel car. It's worse than I could have imagined.
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Motronic posted:
Nope, but good guess. That's a Belgian car right there, while the tunnel car is in Japan.
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Also isn't the tunnel car car a Murcielago? If I'm recalling the gif correctly. E: apparently not but it was a newer face lifted gallardo.
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I would wrap every car I ever owned like that if I could.
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Cakefool posted:I would wrap every car I ever owned like that if I could. Nothing is stopping you http://www.ebay.com/itm/36-x60-SILVER-CHROME-MIRROR-Vinyl-Wrap-Sticker-Decal-Sheet-Air-Bubble-Free-/140979075628
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PCOS Bill posted:Nothing is stopping you http://www.ebay.com/itm/36-x60-SILVER-CHROME-MIRROR-Vinyl-Wrap-Sticker-Decal-Sheet-Air-Bubble-Free-/140979075628 That's just chrome mirror. This is what you want (been sitting in my watch list since the video was first posted months ago): http://www.ebay.com/itm/321223266601?_trksid=p2060778.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT
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Geirskogul posted:That's just chrome mirror. This is what you want (been sitting in my watch list since the video was first posted months ago): Duh, right. Silly me. Pretty sure that's even cheaper than what I linked to. Oh hell, I might order some tomorrow and go guerrilla wrap my wife's car while she's at work after it comes in. Edit: Actually, how well would this stuff hold up to heat? The hood insulation is missing in her car and that's where I'd want to start PCOS Bill fucked around with this message at 08:02 on Aug 28, 2014 |
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We have an ambulance wrapped with blue 3M professional vinyl (a "stay safe around water" ambulance in Phoenix run by Southwest Ambulance), and the entire hood area, including five or six inches to both sides on the front quarter panels, is burned brown. I don't know how long it took to do that, but rumor is that all wraps happened last summer. That is with the insulation intact, but they are Ford 7.3 diesel engines that sit and run for sixty hours at a time, so usage is probably a lot different than in a car.
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They say a wrap could be expected last 3 years when exposed to sunlight, i would think a reflective vinyl could do better, as it wouldn't be absorbing as much of the sun's poo poo. I wonder if you could go over a vinyl with something like por15's UV coat
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That would ruin the holographic effect. Of course, we could be talking about normal vinyl wrap and not the  wrap, but that's no fun.
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Powershift posted:They say a wrap could be expected last 3 years when exposed to sunlight, i would think a reflective vinyl could do better, as it wouldn't be absorbing as much of the sun's poo poo. It's not light above I'm worried about, it's "really hot engine that annoys the poo poo out of me, why are you so goddamned hot?" below
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Sigma X posted:Oh, I didn't know Wangan Midnight was factual. (Wangan Midnight WAS loosely based off the Mid Night Club which had a Porsche and Z rivalry)
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Sigma X posted:Oh, I didn't know Wangan Midnight was factual. It actually was an actual real thing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid_Night_Club Fake edit: Beatean
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I like how obviously uncomfortable the white guy aping anime Japanese mannerisms makes the actual Japanese guy with the cool car.
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I like this more than a person should. These guys decided their Lamborghinis aren't vulgar enough already, so they added hologram wraps and flashing lights. I hate it, but I like it.
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bisticles posted:Any idea what this is? Not that 3 wheeled cars are bad, but in this configuration (1 wheel at the front, 2 in back) this one isn't much better than a Reliant Robin. The Morgan 3 Wheeler is way more stable, 2 wheels in the front, and 1 one in the back.
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