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blk posted:How many cars is too many cars? I'm about to try and justify a potential third purchase (our fourth, combined) to my wife and don't really have anything that could be considered objective justification; just subjective to me. The Saabaru is very practical but I don't have much fun with it on the street; I have to drive excessively fast to enjoy it. I love the Miata on the street, but don't drive it in the winter because I hate the visibility with the top up and don't fit that well under a hardtop, even with foamectomy. Now I'm looking at a 318is as a winter counterpart to the Miata - something i can drive at 8/10s to the grocery store, and I've always wanted to have an older BMW. That makes sense in my mind, but to someone who isn't a car person, I'm sure all they see is wasting time and money (in my circumstances right now, time is a real issue). My wife gets particularly worked up by cars because she doesn't understand them and doesn't want to; she just sees potential moneypits that could blow up and steal your baby at any second. She has never bought or sold a car herself and doesn't understand how easy it is to get into something you're interested in and get out if it doesn't work out. I, uh. Too many?  Well right now I have... seven and three halves. The 5 ton, three MJs (one of which I've never seen in person, need to pick it up soon), the XJ, the Forester, half a 97 XJ for parts, two halves of MJs (both backs, so no it doesn't count as a whole), and the mystery vehicle Tremek picked up for me. One MJ is going away soon. The forester will probably be sold in a couple months when the new vehicle has proved itself. The half-XJ is getting stripped and scrapped once I use it to testfit an engine swap. One half MJ is turning into a trailer, the other is to fix one of the remaining two MJs. The XJ is getting stripped and scrapped. The mystery vehicle will be the DD. So I guess I'll have four when alls said and done.
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Mar 18, 2015 20:42
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Oh God, I have more cars than Kastein. And I live in a 3-bed end terrace.
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Mar 18, 2015 20:43
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The place I'm trying to buy has space for 2-3 cars and a single garage. I was genuinely trying to figure out it parking a landrover on the 45' roof of the garage was allowed.
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Mar 18, 2015 20:59
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Cakefool posted:I was genuinely trying to figure out it parking a landrover on the 45' roof of the garage was allowed. I think it's encouraged.
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Mar 18, 2015 21:05
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Cakefool posted:The place I'm trying to buy has space for 2-3 cars and a single garage. I was genuinely trying to figure out it parking a landrover on the 45' roof of the garage was allowed. Alternative option: 
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Mar 18, 2015 21:16
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Hmm, what's the cappuccinos wheelbase?
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Mar 18, 2015 21:54
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Cakefool posted:Hmm, what's the cappuccinos wheelbase? So more than an original Land-Rover...
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Mar 18, 2015 21:59
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Damnit, so I couldn't store a project car on top of my daily driver?
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Mar 18, 2015 22:03
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5 tons have 14x7 foot beds, just sayin'. 15x7 if you get the M55A2 instead of the M54A2. Park a car in it, park it somewhere, you are taking two parking spaces still but it's one vehicle so what are they gonna say?
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Mar 18, 2015 22:09
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I was thinking of parking a mini on my e46 roof but yeah let me run that part the wifahahahaha
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Mar 18, 2015 22:13
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Oh and sadly in the land of tea and crumpets I'd need a class C license to buy much bigger than a defender.
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Mar 18, 2015 22:18
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Cakefool posted:Oh and sadly in the land of tea and crumpets I'd need a class C license to buy much bigger than a defender. Cakefool posted:Damnit, so I couldn't store a project car on top of my daily driver?
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Mar 18, 2015 22:19
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Cakefool posted:Oh and sadly in the land of tea and crumpets I'd need a class C license to buy much bigger than a defender. If you got your licence before '96 or something, you already have Class C+E so good for 7.5t.
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Mar 18, 2015 22:25
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My 1 year old tabby cat is afraid of the dark. Like, refuses to go into a dark room alone, will come running if you turn off the lights in the basement while he's down there terrified. I have no idea why, he was born in this house and has never really been trapped in a dark place or anything. Cats be weird and stuff.
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Mar 18, 2015 22:25
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InitialDave posted:Not so! If it's pre-'60, and you don't actually drive it anywhere laden or towing anything, you can have as big a truck as you like on your normal licence. If you're a farmer, you can get basically anything registered as an "agricultural showpiece" 
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Mar 18, 2015 22:26
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KozmoNaut posted:If you're a farmer, you can get basically anything registered as an "agricultural showpiece"
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Mar 18, 2015 22:27
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Cakefool posted:I was thinking of parking a mini on my e46 roof but yeah let me run that part the wifahahahaha Selling point: It's a convertible. ... I really need to fix mine, driving it in the summer was great.
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Mar 18, 2015 22:28
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KozmoNaut posted:If you're a farmer, you can get basically anything registered as an "agricultural showpiece" Interesting. But how can they prove you're not a farmer?  I now declare myself a farmer, and will buy something ridiculous and register it as an agricultural showpiece. Maybe a pink Unimog.
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Mar 18, 2015 22:29
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I am watching real steel and it is a far better movie than it has any right to be.
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Mar 18, 2015 23:04
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Cakefool posted:Oh and sadly in the land of tea and crumpets I'd need a class C license to buy much bigger than a defender. You could get a 101  having measured (not yet tried - would need some massive ramps!) my aygo would fit in the back of my 101 but would overhang by a foot or two.I'm not sure what the weight of a 4x4 pinz is either but I suspect you could get one of then under 3.5t? And like dave says - pre 60 and you are good!
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Mar 18, 2015 23:17
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I think they know if you're a farmer based on your taxes. In the US, at least, if you are a farmer and own land or something like that you get a credit. Not 100% sure how it works but I'm sure the UK would know unless you farm chickens in your back yard lol
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Mar 18, 2015 23:22
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gently caress. I've made 90 transactions on eBay and USPS and this is the first time I've had an issue. It just so happens it's a $100 item I sold on eBay. The tracking hasn't updated since the 7th so I called the last post office it was at in KC. They have a whopping 1 star review on Yelp. Great. They said they can't find it and that it might have been sent back to the Recovery Center I ATL. I am hosed.
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HotCanadianChick posted:When I met my wife she at least appreciated a nice car; after teaching her to drive stick in the bimmer, showing her some of the funnier episodes of Top Gear, and letting her do some laps in Gran Turismo 6, she's adamant that we can't own any boring cars and they all have to be stick. Also she has her own helmet for autocross days. Nodoze posted:No such thing as too many cars CommieGIR posted:My wife doesn't mind my hobbies, as long as I let her be free with hers. Its been a good deal thusfar. How bad are first gen scion xB's? I thought they were built on the corolla platform but I guess it's based on the echo/yaris. Thinking about picking one up since in the 2 months I've looked, there hasn't been a FWD v50 Volvo manual, even at the dealers, in my price range (and less than 1k miles away). I'm hoping to replace the Volvo 740 and beater 540i with it so I don't feel guilty driving an e28 535i.
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mafoose posted:Same, but holy poo poo, who would of known crafting is just as expensive as cars? Seriously. But considering what I spend, I'm okay with it. As long as we're both aware that its a fair trade thing.
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Cakefool posted:I am watching real steel and it is a far better movie than it has any right to be. I legitimately enjoyed that film... It was great! Also in other news I got chauffeured around in a V6 F-Type this evening at legal high speeds. Pff. And man, that car is nice. It's so loving comfortable and the noise it makes is one of the best noises I've heard from a car in a good while. A lot of cars are loud but this was almost musical, it was just a loving joy to hear. The 'silent' mode makes a fair difference too but why would you ever use that when the car sounds so loving nice? The whole car is just theatre from the moment the door handles pop out to let you in with my favourite bit being the magic air con venting in the centre console... It was one of the test mules with a manual box and a well abused clutch along with slightly squiffy driving dynamics setup "...it sometimes does weird poo poo but it means you can get the back end out easier, have fun!". Where do I get £70k?
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Mar 19, 2015 01:42
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Woo, check for jury duty showed up! ..... I'll try not to spend it all in one place. 
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Mar 19, 2015 02:21
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Woo, new patch for The Crew came out today and they added Circuit specs to the classic muscle cars:  I know what I'm using in every Circuit race from now on 
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blk posted:How many cars is too many cars? 6 hours up and down ladders routing and plugging ethernet cables then a bunch of IB cables. Tomorrow more IB but we might finish up a full day ahead of schedule.
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So we have a new GM training at my store (we have a new store opening in May). She's wound up being pretty two faced; nice to your face, talks a ton of poo poo about everyone to the owners. Walked out the back door today after she'd gone to an office supply store. Saw her parked in the lot with a cop behind her. Turns out she blasted through a school zone doing 45 (which is already over the speed limit outside of school zone hours). All I could do was laugh my rear end off when she asked "so that's like a $75 ticket right?". No... not.even.close, it'll be closer to $250-300, and only if they wrote it for <25 over.. Couldn't happen to a nicer person.  Being 25 over, she might be facing a lot worse than an easy ticket; she should consider herself lucky she didn't get silver bracelets.She was bitching that she didn't see any flashing lights. I had the joy of informing her that Texas doesn't require flashers for school zones (she was moved here from another state by the owners). randomidiot fucked around with this message at 02:59 on Mar 19, 2015 |
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A few years ago my dad had some paintwork done at his place to one of his antique camper trailers. The (shady) auto painter left his 5hp 60gal CH compressor to "pick it up later". He then disappeared for awhile, apparently got in trouble with the law, and faded away. My dad stuck the compressor under a tarp out in the back, told the guy a year later that he still had it but would be charging storage fees on pickup if it stuck around longer, and never heard back. I had forgotten all about it, until my dumb Jeep engine decided to need a ton of work and I started apprehensively thinking about ways to expedite it. Dragged it out today, cleaned it up, changed the oil/checked the belt and filter, and bam - motherfucking air tools here I come!!! 
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Re: to many cars. 4 right now... But my next thing is going to b a flip. I have been trolling the ads for a Honda or a Toyota 4 door, but I need to really keep a couple thousand cash in the house and run out and buy it the minute I find it. I'd love to flip a BMW/Mercedes but I don't think I could move it quickly. Maybe a pick up might be a quick sell too, ranger or a nice half ton.
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Mar 19, 2015 03:36
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Aaaaand I'm broke. 
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Mar 19, 2015 05:27
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You're a mad man, those aren't even on sale right now!
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Mar 19, 2015 05:47
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Powershift posted:You're a mad man, those aren't even on sale right now! Thankfully Costco has a great price matching policy. Haha.
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Mar 19, 2015 06:24
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the spyder posted:Haha, I got my first car at 9. A 25 Model T. what You gotta tell that story.
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the spyder posted:Aaaaand I'm broke. I grabbed a few of them a couple months back. Really nice lights with good output, but the color temperature is too warm for my liking.  I'm using one hooked up as the light for each of the garage door openers, though, and they work great for that. Just sucks when I turn on the florescents and the LEDs look yellow.
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Mar 19, 2015 10:39
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some texas redneck posted:Woo, check for jury duty showed up! 
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the spyder posted:Aaaaand I'm broke.  Aren't those like 40-50 bucks a pop?
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Tide posted:
YOLO (you only light once)
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