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Awesome for the idea and execution. Not the wheels though. Standard Dub level poo poo these days though... :/ Seat Leon with a VW Scirocco front end
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Hello Spaceman posted:Remember this BMW April Fools' joke? http://blog.caranddriver.com/the-full-scoop-on-bmws-april-fools-m3-pickup/
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http://www.kijiji.ca/v-classic-cars/edmonton/1985-chevrolet-astro-panel-van-350cu-in-v8-5-7-litre/1065114536 X-postin from ABAI because I'd drive the poo poo out of this thing
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http://www.rocketlabusa.com/index.html
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InitialDave posted:No joke, that kicks rear end. Seriously yes. I want an M-ute.
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I saw this  pro street Nova at Sheetz earlier. It sounded like hell on earth when he started it up. You don't see the circa 1990 paintwork much these days. Also featured in the background is my dumb GTP. Just cleaned her up nice today. 
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Apr 19, 2015 02:26
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That thing owns so hard  I always love seeing stuff like that just get driven around on the streets.
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I can understand why you don't see that many tubbed pro street cars actually riding around. That Nova had such a ridiculous stall that the guy could barely get it out of the parking lot. It looked and sounded cool as poo poo but I can't imagine what it would be like to drive that thing that daily. That having been said, I would drive that to work and back every day with a smile on my face. Only after I put a hunourmous roots blower on it.
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Grumbletron 4000 posted:I can understand why you don't see that many tubbed pro street cars actually riding around. That Nova had such a ridiculous stall that the guy could barely get it out of the parking lot. It looked and sounded cool as poo poo but I can't imagine what it would be like to drive that thing that daily. My buddy had a gear driven, tunnel rammed pro street Vega back when we were fresh outta high school, complete with late 80's paint, tweed seats and a digital dash. It was a chore. When you have tires that big and paint that flashy, you need the cam to match. Big cam plus a high stall makes them hard to live with, and multiple carbs just add to it. We used to laugh on a Friday night about how Two Lane Blacktop the situation was, because the car basically dictated a driver and a mechanic at all times. We had a loving blast in that thing, though. Pro street is the best niche scene.
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That thing had a big old lumpy cam too. It was straight out of my old hot rod magazines from back in high school. The guy driving it was definitely too young to have actually built it. Unless he had really eccentric taste. I'm guessing it was probably inherited from dad. He was a nice dude and seemed to love the car so more power to him. The world needs more 3 mpg 12 second street cars.
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Don't be so quick to judge that, I have a friend who flew a few states away and drove back an old Nova he bought with his own money. He was 14 at the time. He's like 21 now and is almost done building a 37 model t hot rod
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Party Alarm posted:Don't be so quick to judge that, I have a friend who flew a few states away and drove back an old Nova he bought with his own money. He was 14 at the time. He's like 21 now and is almost done building a 37 model t hot rod I've got a friend who's in his 20s and has one as well 
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On for the love of cars, they just restored an old Aston Martin DBS and sold it in auction for £150,000. Good God.
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oh poo poo I didn't know that was coming back for more episodes, thanks.
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Party Alarm posted:a 37 model t hot rod Do you mean a '27 T? Or a '37 Ford (which is not a T)?
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I don't know poo poo about cars that old, so 37 Ford I guess? Flathead and stuff e: '30 Model A with a '47 flathead  ee: He graduated high school here in TN and moved to Ventura to build hot rods immediately afterwards, kid's AI as gently caress Party Alarm fucked around with this message at 21:59 on Apr 19, 2015 |
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That's pretty neat. Buy him an account, he for sure belongs here.
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Grumbletron 4000 posted:That thing had a big old lumpy cam too. It was straight out of my old hot rod magazines from back in high school. The guy driving it was definitely too young to have actually built it. Unless he had really eccentric taste. I'm guessing it was probably inherited from dad. He was a nice dude and seemed to love the car so more power to him. The world needs more 3 mpg 12 second street cars. Lumpy cams are the greatest things ever https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yH1VhQt1hg
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Falken posted:On for the love of cars, they just restored an old Aston Martin DBS and sold it in auction for £150,000. Good God. Thanks for the spoiler as well
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Giblet Plus! posted:I've got a friend who's in his 20s and has one as well Yeah my dad and I restored this sucker and I daily drove it for about a year: 
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Did those turbos come off a 1.3 starlet or something?
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Elwood P. Dowd posted:Yeah my dad and I restored this sucker and I daily drove it for about a year: Every time you post, I'm disappointed that you don't still.
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Grumbletron 4000 posted:That thing had a big old lumpy cam too. It was straight out of my old hot rod magazines from back in high school. The guy driving it was definitely too young to have actually built it. Unless he had really eccentric taste. I'm guessing it was probably inherited from dad. He was a nice dude and seemed to love the car so more power to him. The world needs more 3 mpg 12 second street cars. My highschool friend bought a rusty '57 Bel Air as a freshman (1996ish?) and by the time we went to senior prom he had taken it to show-level quality. There is a weird sort of drive in those that use a car to make other highschool kids jealous. spookykid fucked around with this message at 08:21 on Apr 20, 2015 |
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I knew a guy who bought a really mint 72? nova when he was 19. He began searching craigslist for Mom Suv's and ended up finding one he fell in love with. The seller ended up being some old dude who ended up selling it to him for a nominal $1000 with a built motor and a stack of parts in the back seat despite the listing being for like $10k, i think because my friend was really into novas, pulled the poor college student card and the seller was some lonely old car guy trying to pass the torch. Thing was 100% restored cosmetically and mechanically and was a loving blast to drive despite actually being kind of slow. It looked mean, it sounded mean, it FELT mean, that's all that mattered. Well turns out he passed the torch to the wrong teenager, because it ended up getting used to deliver pizzas and balls deep in the rear end of an Escalade maybe a year later. Shameful, I would have loved to have bought that one.
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BlackMK4 posted:So when BMW/Audi announced their new headlights that run high constantly and change the cutoff for oncoming traffic it was said that the system isn't legal in the US because the highbeams are no longer on a switch. ...Though there was that one time, where the dipped beams on my 944 didn't work, but the highbeams did. 10 miles of full highbeam. I pissed off alot of people on that journey. 
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No picture cause driving but today I saw a well-loved Ford Ranchero in Cream with whitewalls. Driven by a dude in his 50's/60's that knew exactly why I was gaping at him when I passed him. We exchanged thumbs-up's and smiles as I went on my way. Looked like he had a few fishing poles, a cooler, and a lawn chair in the back. Fuckin livin the dream, man.Falken posted:...Though there was that one time, where the dipped beams on my 944 didn't work, but the highbeams did. 10 miles of full highbeam. I pissed off alot of people on that journey. Reminds me of a classmate of mine in high school. His parents bought him an early 90s F150 with the floor switch. He had to ask me how to turn his high beams off because he had no idea (asked me because I was DDing my 1980 F250 back then) Beach Bum fucked around with this message at 13:37 on Apr 20, 2015 |
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Tashan Dorrsett posted:I knew a guy who bought a really mint 72? nova when he was 19. He began searching craigslist for Mom Suv's and ended up finding one he fell in love with. The seller ended up being some old dude who ended up selling it to him for a nominal $1000 with a built motor and a stack of parts in the back seat despite the listing being for like $10k, i think because my friend was really into novas, pulled the poor college student card and the seller was some lonely old car guy trying to pass the torch. Thing was 100% restored cosmetically and mechanically and was a loving blast to drive despite actually being kind of slow. It looked mean, it sounded mean, it FELT mean, that's all that mattered. Well turns out he passed the torch to the wrong teenager, because it ended up getting used to deliver pizzas and balls deep in the rear end of an Escalade maybe a year later. Shameful, I would have loved to have bought that one. I had a buddy do this to a 91 Eagle Talon TSi AWD. Little old lady owned, 10k original miles, not even a crease in the leather. She used it to ferry bags garbage to the end of her long rear end driveway when it snowed and she didn't want a huge truck to do it. Got it for 2k, she just wanted it gone. Car was perfect in every way. A week in he curbed it so hard it it ripped a side skirt off and damaged the control arm. He drove it anyway. Right up until the arm failed catastrophically, the wheel went a different direction then the rest of the car which incidentally took out a cinder block wall. A month in he parked it in the side of an Explorer. Couple months after that it was upside down in a ditch then sold to a scrap yard to help pay for the ticket.
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 So uh, this rocked up at work today. Anyone know anything about it?
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Bape Culture posted:
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A gorgeous shade of blue. Also it's old.
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It has delicate fenders. And small brakes. Probably French.
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Bape Culture posted:
Looks a lot like a Bugatti Type 37.
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It has a red oval on the front, so I'm gonna guess Bugatti, almost certainly a replica, but I don't know old cars at all.
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Interrupting Bugatti chat (yes, it's definitely a Bugatti or replica) to mention that Mighty Car Mods is doing a Mad Max special: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pV_rM2kW5YQ It's fun so far.
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I know it's a Bugatti I just don't know what it is. How much is it worth? I'm pretty sure it's a real thing there's about 50 years of goodwood and stuff passes on it and the owner is a director.
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Bape Culture posted:I know it's a Bugatti I just don't know what it is. How much is it worth? I'm pretty sure it's a real thing there's about 50 years of goodwood and stuff passes on it and the owner is a director. If it's the real deal and original it looks like they're going for 750k-2m, more original means more money. That's one hell of a car.
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Bape Culture posted:I know it's a Bugatti I just don't know what it is. How much is it worth? I'm pretty sure it's a real thing there's about 50 years of goodwood and stuff passes on it and the owner is a director.
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Back in the '80s there used to be a garage in Salem MA that specialized in Bugattis, I remember seeing them going in and out all the time - they were magnificent, and the sound of those engines would bring tears to your eyes. I was bummed when they closed and the place got taken over by a plumbing company.
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