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It's extremely likely this is at least somewhat tongue-in-cheek. Urban car culture tends to have a streak of irony to it that this thread seems to miss a lot of the time. Most of those food label donks and bubbles folks were posting earlier probably started as jokes too, but a big part of the culture is to start with a joke and then take it to the furthest point you can with the same care and detail you'd give a serious project.
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Lol that might be the whitest post I've seen yet on these forums.
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LeftistMuslimObama posted:It's extremely likely this is at least somewhat tongue-in-cheek. Urban car culture tends to have a streak of irony to it that this thread seems to miss a lot of the time. Most of those food label donks and bubbles folks were posting earlier probably started as jokes too, but a big part of the culture is to start with a joke and then take it to the furthest point you can with the same care and detail you'd give a serious project. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKjxFJfcrcA
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88h88 posted:...if we're keeping it strictly JDM that is. It's in the US though, do any of our subways use those? Just straps from my experience.
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Apr 9, 2015 18:01
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All of this whining is giving me indigestion.
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Apr 9, 2015 18:17
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Rhyno posted:It's in the US though, do any of our subways use those? Just straps from my experience. No idea. UK buses have them though so it's at least a possibility it's been stolen. If not. Lol.
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Delivery McGee posted:On topic: the paint is bubbling and flaking off down to the metal in several spots on my car where it was resprayed over the original white bits. Originally looked like this: Probably the usual problem Ford (and others) seem to have with white paint, on the paint underneath. My all-white P71 has several spots where the paint has just removed itself, no evidence of damage otherwise. Some down to primer, a couple down to steel. Also, what up Texas cop-car buddy! Prescription Combs posted:Just pollen things. No poo poo, even my white cars are yellow! PCOS Bill posted:I've taken a Cherokee to "Oh my god why are you doing this, the whole thing is about to rattle apart, are you retarded?" before My '95 XJ tops out at 95-ish. 4-banger just can't push it past that. I image the extra 60 HP from the 4.0L goes a bit faster. According to the specs for my P71, it won't hit the 140 MPH top speed on the speedo because I have the 3.55 rear gears. Top speed before fuel cut is something like 127 MPH. Did 120 indicated in my '70 Cutlass once, before I upgraded the suspension. It was *just* a bit floaty. At least I had the FE3 suspension stock, so it had somewhat stiffer springs, and an actual rear swaybar. Wojcigitty posted:Also, a 96 Chevy Express van hits fuel cutoff at 100. 2000 Astro van fuel cuts at 104. And is actually pretty comfortable at speed, surprisingly. On the other end, I was lucky if my '78 Fiat 128 would hit 65. Downhill. With a tailwind. Horrible stuff from a local swap meet:   It's a thrid-gen Camaro Dear god, there are more!  Powershift posted:It's you guys. You're the terrible car stuff. What is that, even? that's a Mustang front bumper/grill, and a BMW E30 hood, and maybe fenders, but I have no clue what the base car is. Altima? Puddin posted:If we're posting horrendous crxs. All, that, and still manual windows.
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Darchangel posted:It's a thrid-gen Camaro It's actually a fourth-gen, not sure if that makes it better or worse.
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Apr 9, 2015 20:48
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I think that Mustang/E30 thing is a MK4 Jetta.
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Apr 9, 2015 21:21
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Apr 9, 2015 21:28
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IOwnCalculus posted:It's actually a fourth-gen, not sure if that makes it better or worse. D'OH! You are correct.
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Memento posted:
This is textbook postmodernism
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IOwnCalculus posted:All of this whining is giving me indigestion. This is both threads. I mean it is terrible at face value, but I imagine the owners do this with tongue-in-cheek, and it's not like they are destroying especially rare or valuable cars. I see a few of these anytime I go to Georgia and the kids and I get a laugh from them, so they are accomplishing what I assume is there goal . Yeah, I'm going to say wrong thread Dr.Caligari fucked around with this message at 00:49 on Apr 10, 2015 |
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Apr 10, 2015 00:47
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Yeah I've never seen the issue with donks because, aesthetics and taste aside, they're doing it to worthless garbage cars from the worst eras of American car design that will never be worth anything anyway.
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Slavvy posted:they're doing it to worthless garbage cars from the worst eras of American car design that will never be worth anything anyway. Someone, somewhere considers them collectible.
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xzzy posted:You say that, but in the last few years I've seen a handful of those 80's shitboxes rolling around with vintage plates on, which you only do if you care about the car. Don't collector cars qualify for reduced registration fees in most states? They just "require" you don't drive it much.
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Apr 10, 2015 01:36
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POKEMAN SAM posted:Don't collector cars qualify for reduced registration fees in most states? They just "require" you don't drive it much. That's how it works in Illinois, yeah. The car is limited to 3000 miles a year to qualify. No idea if they actually enforce that.
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Apr 10, 2015 01:38
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xzzy posted:Someone, somewhere considers them collectible. I like to think of it this way: literally every car is a collectible classic. The only thing that varies is how long it takes for it to reach that phase. 80's/90's land-barge American junkers are at the far end of the spectrum, so they'll be collectible classics around 2050. By the time a car is over fifty years old it becomes collectible by default just because of how few survivors there are and how they represent a bygone era etc etc.
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Slavvy posted:Yeah I've never seen the issue with donks because, aesthetics and taste aside, they're doing it to worthless garbage cars from the worst eras of American car design that will never be worth anything anyway. You'd be shocked, especially with 80s cars. Look up what a good condition 80s Monte Carlo sells for.
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88h88 posted:No idea. UK buses have them though so it's at least a possibility it's been stolen. If not. Lol. They sell them in some parts chains in the states and on the new MCM they showed that they're big sellers in Japan.
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Philip J Fry posted:Driven in by two 90-lb kids with emo hair and skinny jeans. post a fit
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Apr 10, 2015 02:47
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Spotted in the parking lot the local movie theater, presumably there for Furious 7:
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POKEMAN SAM posted:Don't collector cars qualify for reduced registration fees in most states? They just "require" you don't drive it much. And some states, no inspections
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iwentdoodie posted:You'd be shocked, especially with 80s cars. Look up what a good condition 80s Monte Carlo sells for. It sucks so bad because I really want a mid 80s Monte Carlo SS and they cost a fortune
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LeftistMuslimObama posted:It's extremely likely this is at least somewhat tongue-in-cheek. Urban car culture tends to have a streak of irony to it that this thread seems to miss a lot of the time. Most of those food label donks and bubbles folks were posting earlier probably started as jokes too, but a big part of the culture is to start with a joke and then take it to the furthest point you can with the same care and detail you'd give a serious project. If you read this post in the style of an 80s era animal planet special, it starts to make a little more sense. In fact, imagine it specifically in the monotone style of Richard Attenborough doing a documentary on the courtship displays of lowland primates, and it starts to all fit together.
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Apr 10, 2015 03:19
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Someone start a Kickstarter for a donkumentary please.
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Root Bear posted:Spotted in the parking lot the local movie theater, presumably there for Furious 7: I hope Rice Internal Affairs is nowhere near by.
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POKEMAN SAM posted:Someone start a Kickstarter for a donkumentary please. Been done http://midweststreetryders.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsGkm_Wk2ok
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POKEMAN SAM posted:donkumentary . 
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POKEMAN SAM posted:Don't collector cars qualify for reduced registration fees in most states? They just "require" you don't drive it much. There's "antique" and "classic" plates here. Antique limits you to driving to car shows, driving in parades, and "occasional trips to the mechanic" - also exempt from any form of inspection. Classic has no limitations, and allows daily driver status, but still gets a yearly safety inspection. Guess which one you see more of?
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In MA, the limits are: - mileage? Not sure - occasional use (you can drive one weekday) - sundays - parades - club events (so, say, if I wanted to take it to Pennsylvania for a 4 wheeling trip, starting on a Wednesday, with my jeep club) - bringing it to the mechanic or for maintenance/repair purposes I dunno about you, but I can give a list half a mile long of things I might possibly be troubleshooting at any given moment. Oh, and it only has to pass the inspection that was required at year of manufacture.
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I guess the 'joke that continues' chat was the cause of this classic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSOSJ68xOBA
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WHY GO ANYWHERE ELSE?
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Wasabi the J posted:WHY GO ANYWHERE ELSE? Looks like I'm headed to Midas. And if plugs really cost $242, then no way am I trying that myself.
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StormDrain posted:Looks like I'm headed to Midas. I bet at least half that price is the cost of 5 ~Superior German Spark Plugs~ that you can only get at the VW dealer or your car will blow up!!
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Neptr posted:I bet at least half that price is the cost of 5 ~Superior German Spark Plugs~ that you can only get at the VW dealer or your car will blow up!! Getting the equivalent NKG or Bosch plugs is $50 (exactly what VW uses, just don't come in a VW box).
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I think I agree with the reddit thread that given those prices I probably would just use that dealer. Only the transmission service is significantly more expensive, the rest of that stuff is more or less the same and I'd rather get the dealer service records, and even with the transmission it's probably worth it to go to the dealer just so they use the right fluid. Also newer VWs have 36 months free maintainance so 
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Throatwarbler posted:I think I agree with the reddit thread that given those prices I probably would just use that dealer. Only the transmission service is significantly more expensive, the rest of that stuff is more or less the same and I'd rather get the dealer service records, and even with the transmission it's probably worth it to go to the dealer just so they use the right fluid. And 10,000 mile intervals. That's three oil changes. Last I was at the dealer, that would have come out to $270 you're saving.
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fakeaccount posted:If you read this post in the style of an 80s era animal planet special, it starts to make a little more sense. In fact, imagine it specifically in the monotone style of Richard Attenborough doing a documentary on the courtship displays of lowland primates, and it starts to all fit together. I'm a half-cracker who grew up in a 90% black neighborhood. That post is pretty loving awkwardly phrased though. All I'm trying to say is that I think this thread doesn't respect donk owners sometimes and assumes they're being totally serious when they're really just putting a lot of effort into what's basically a joke car.
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