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kastein posted:some guy posted on a local facebook auto parts trading group looking for tires. Apparently he goes through tires pretty fast? A Continental owner (who posts on this site, can't remember his name though) once told me that he loves the MEL engine because, "as long as you don't crack the secondaries, it's a perfectly sedate old man's engine. But once you do, it becomes Dr. Rockso the Rock-n-Roll clown. And guess what? He loves cocaine" Terrible Robot fucked around with this message at 17:58 on Sep 6, 2014 |
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angryhampster posted:Dammit I love the sound of hopped up Vipers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkq-eb03vno This V10, well, lets just say it has an indescribable quality. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U16mK9UdsMw On another topic, I hope they can truly revive Lincoln now that Mulally is gone, and maybe they can bring back the Town Car and Continental while they're at it. I hate the alphabet soup scheme they've gone with for their current offerings.
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Tekne posted:That particular Viper sounds amazing. It's better than "everything is an M" or "everything is an F".
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lolz Evo X hoonage!! what what. The Evo VIII is more metal tho, seriously. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaA3aQ9SPSI A3th3r fucked around with this message at 22:01 on Sep 6, 2014 |
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awesome-express posted:Bonus bros in a jeep
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Fucknag posted:I can't find it, but there's a really old video I'm thinking of where they did this, but also had the hose laying in a puddle for part of the video. It was a green car, I wanna say a Festiva but probably not. Seems to have been removed from youtube but I found it on another site. With poo poo, poo poo audio quality. VOLUME WARNING http://www.garaget.org/video/16916
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You can do way better for videos of that Evo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAXhbUnHGno
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VikingSkull posted:Yeah, it's time that new tracks get constructed to reflect the march of technology, or else racing is going to stagnate. Make new tracks wider, leave a ton of runoff, and bank the turns. Problem is no series has the billions upon billions needed to do that.
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Yesterday I stopped by a burger festival that was taking place nearby over this weekend. Besides the burgers, there were some cool ride: I don't care if it's a POS (even had an automatic) but it looks like the best Corvette ever.    The owner of the Cadillac looked like a clone of Clint Eastwood from Gran Torino, and chased some people away from climbing on the hood. 
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Falken posted:The problem is that new tracks ARE being constructed, but they are going in the opposite direction. They are trying to reign in the F1 cars etc with shitloads of chicanes. And then when MotoGP shows up and wants smoother corners they loosen them up a bit. 
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It's got popup headlights, side pipes and white lettering on the tires. I don't care if it's got an Iron Duke and a CVT, it's still great.
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Ineptus Mechanicus posted:
It looks a fair bit better than the actual pace car trim for that year:  And even if both of these are dumpy C3 corvettes, everything in that museum in the background is AI as all hell.
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I actually really like that Pace Car trim. I think it's snazzy 
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bennyfactor posted:It looks a fair bit better than the actual pace car trim for that year: Everything except for the building itself. I hate brutalist architecture or whatever you call that. mobby_6kl posted:Yesterday I stopped by a burger festival that was taking place nearby over this weekend. Besides the burgers, there were some cool ride: That's in Prague? Where is it? A Chevy Silverado wouldn't be anything special back here in the states. There are millions of them. Don't know if that's part of the show or is just there. And now for something Viggen can enjoy:  Driven by an attractive woman, saw her as I was leaving.  Nice Mercedes.  Electric motorcycle! The owner saw me taking a picture and came over to say hi. It has a 50 mile range, while the newer models will be able to get further. edit: here is their website: http://www.zeromotorcycles.com/ Kia Soul Enthusias fucked around with this message at 00:12 on Sep 8, 2014 |
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bennyfactor posted:And even if both of these are dumpy C3 corvettes, everything in that museum in the background is AI as all hell. I think C3 corvettes look rad as hell because I am basically an 8 year old boy.  MY WIFE likes them too, to the point where she checks craigslist daily to try and find one to trade for the Studebaker.
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CharlesM posted:And now for something Viggen can enjoy: Next time you're at the Fred Meyer come say hi
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CharlesM posted:
I rode a Zero at a bike show once. It was really disconcerting both for myself and the other trade show motorcyclists who couldn't understand my magic dirtbike going by that didnt go BRAPAPAPAPAPA.
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OFFICER 13 INCH posted:Next time you're at the Fred Meyer come say hi I was with my mom that time. I don't know if she'd approve...how to put it gently?... someone like you. :P 8ender posted:I rode a Zero at a bike show once. It was really disconcerting both for myself and the other trade show motorcyclists who couldn't understand my magic dirtbike going by that didnt go BRAPAPAPAPAPA. He started it up for me and of course while not moving it was completely silent.
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That's got to be the coolest production EV to date. And fairly reasonable in price considering the expensive nature of electric poo poo right now.
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dubzee posted:uh it's DETHKLOK I'm sure you meant to post this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o56w0WHaENQ Nascar-Type Theatrical Hybrid Event
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CharlesM posted:Everything except for the building itself. I hate brutalist architecture or whatever you call that. Yeah that was in Prague's Holešovické výstaviště (Holeshovice exhibition). The Silverado was just there, I think, there was an American-owned burger stand right next to it so I'd assume it was the owner's work truck. They are very rare here so it could easily be part of the show if they just washed and polished it a bit 
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bennyfactor posted:It looks a fair bit better than the actual pace car trim for that year: Sorry but that pace car is the best ever, because I had a matchbox of it growing up. 
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My brother in law is a car dude and has had this in storage since I've known him for a few years now but finally got rid of an old Corvette to have room for it in his garage. It's a 66 Sunbeam Tiger which has been modified with a 302 (pretty sure) and what he thinks is a Mustang drag car rear end/transmission. Manual 4 speed. I found it to be slightly scary to drive, pedals were unresponsive and spongy and of course it's got a lot of power. Seating was weird, and rollbar and seatbelt harnesses weren't fully installed but we just took it around the neighborhood. I swear I took a full body shot and am not a total idiot but my phone is a pos. Funny because my wife just justified a new iphone purchase so she could photograph our baby and while I don't care what the reason was I was like suuuure, photos. But I'll be damned that having a nice camera on you phone is not a luxury these days.    E: He said he's probably going to vinyl wrap it in "some weird color scheme". This car has a great story too. He was at a light when what appeared to be an NFL player (Denver) pulled up next to him in a 7-series BMW. Big guy said "Cute car. Is it fast" My brother in law is a very quiet unassuming guy and was like yeah it'll go. They ended up racing and when he beat the poo poo out of the BMW the guy pulled up to the next like and said "WHAT YOU GOT IN THAT LITTLE BITCH?!"
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awesome-express posted:M5 wagon I still say to this day that if I ever have the money, I'm importing one and doing god knows what to make it street legal so I don't have to register it as a show car.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXqGEkEZBkM This one hurts my ears & it's a little scary.. Comedians in Dodge Vipers getting coffee (I'm bored) A3th3r fucked around with this message at 19:18 on Sep 8, 2014 |
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The idle on that yellow one sounds so good.
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 It's a toy car EDIT: is imgur broken? direct link here: http://i.imgur.com/OzMW0Yi.jpg
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Somewhat Heroic posted:
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Hahah yes. The thunderchicken seals the deal on that car.
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This was posted in the Aeronautical thread and did not get any love. I give you the Gimli Glider  Canadian pilot glides a 767 with a dead stick for nearly 40 miles and lands at an airstrip converted into a race track during an event with no front landing gear. Everybody lives. Story is here. http://www.damninteresting.com/the-gimli-glider/
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Preoptopus posted:This was posted in the Aeronautical thread and did not get any love. That's loving insane. Great read, thanks for sharing.
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Somewhat Heroic posted:
Bitching, but the scale is off on some things that made my eyes go all  like the shelf height and the creeper.
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Panty Saluter posted:That's loving insane. Great read, thanks for sharing. That really was a pro-click. I think it's loving bullshit that the captain and first officer were punished, though. The captain was briefly demoted and first officer suspended for two weeks? You'd think saving the lives of 61 passengers would merit nothing more than an administrative slap on the wrists (censure or something of the sort). Also, I wonder what the consequences would have been if they HAD chose to ground the flight because the fuel gauges were not functioning, which as the article said was a common issue of the new 767 model. At least they were honored later on for their feat.
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I like corvettes.  But not when people drive them up power lines.
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Cole posted:I like corvettes. You know you've done some poo poo if firefighters are taking pictures.
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SuperDucky posted:You know you've done some poo poo if firefighters are taking pictures. That's a cop and it's likely for an accident investigation.
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Preoptopus posted:This was posted in the Aeronautical thread and did not get any love. With the front gear up it's like one of those parallel-bar gymnasts going "tadaaaaa" and bowing after a perfectly sick dismount
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Motronic posted:That's a cop and it's likely so he can show it to his buddies back at the station More accurate I think
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