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I may take you up on that Slung, I'm going to do a crude weighing tomorrow using two bathroom scales and try to figure out the amounts I need to balance it. I sit so far back in it that its probably going to handle like a 60s porsche right now. Tons of work to do on that thing and the rookie school is this weekend  That's incredibly lovely. I've got no clue how you can keep taking money out for six years straight and not think you're going to be caught, much less sleep at night.
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I'm going to guess that it has something to do with the Slingshot being built from steel and having an engine compartment, whereas the Morgan is made from wood and they bolt the engine to the front bumper.
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I've seen two of those Slingshots in GP. One was stopped by the fun busters.
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jonathan posted:I've seen two of those Slingshots in GP. One was stopped by the fun busters. Since it's a motorcycle you legally have to be wearing a DOT helmet - I imagine lot's of people are going to forget that the second they drive one off the lot.
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McTinkerson posted:Also, that Benelli went for STUPID money. Some one is as masochistic as the best of AI.
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Jesus this Kart. The rear axle (which holds the only brake) had loose bolts on not one but both the points its bolted to the chassis.
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jonathan posted:I've seen two of those Slingshots in GP. One was stopped by the fun busters. Hahaha, I think I saw that thing get stopped like three times in a week. A girl was driving it one time. Pretty cute girl. 
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slidebite posted:How much? I left after it surpassed $10k. Opening Absentee bid was $3500. Someone could have bought a new Speed Triple - but nope, they wanted something comparatively old & Italian 
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McTinkerson posted:I left after it surpassed $10k. Opening Absentee bid was $3500. Someone could have bought a new Speed Triple - but nope, they wanted something comparatively old & Italian  That's crazy. They aren't even collectible. God, auctions are so lovely nowadays.
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I'm now back to lusting after that MT-01 that Riverside has on consignment for $6k. I also really really need to get the bodywork done on my Goldwing. Enough bike chat - I caved and spent the $30 on my Amsoil preferred customer membership - $8 quarts of 5-30 synthetic is awesome. Especially when the Wrangler takes 6 of them. gently caress St. Albert Dodge for rounding off my oil drain plug though.
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I'm finally getting serious about my Alberta Summer Truck plan - I called a few ads on Kijiji tonight. In Alberta AI's opinion, given the choice should I take option A) 1998 Toyota Tacoma with 380 000 km for $4000 or B) 1993 Nissan Hardbody "Frankentruck" with a lie for KM (no way it's less than 200 000) and a mess of weirdness and "character" for $3000 As I was typing this, the seller of the Tacoma called me back and I'll be meeting him Friday morning, conveniently nearby. Any horrible warnings I should be aware of?
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ExecuDork posted:I'm finally getting serious about my Alberta Summer Truck plan - I called a few ads on Kijiji tonight. In Alberta AI's opinion, given the choice should I take option Oh hey these are the ones that rot straight through. Maybe Toyota will buy it off you for frame rot and crush it. Plus 400k for $4000? That sounds almost like a terrible loving deal and you should call the seller back and tell him where he can get enough dildos to fill the rotten bed of this shitheap. Even through the sideways picture and terrible angles I can plainly see the bed rust he's trying to obscure. ExecuDork posted:B) 1993 Nissan Hardbody "Frankentruck" with a lie for KM (no way it's less than 200 000) and a mess of weirdness and "character" for $3000 This is the biggest piece of poo poo Hardbody I've ever seen and a guy down the street from me was selling one for $350 last winter because he couldn't move it out of our shared alley and wanted to transfer the title before the cops rolled up. Someone with that much garage should really be driving a higher caliber of automobile. That's a $1250 truck. Do this, deliver it to my house: http://www.kijiji.ca/v-cars-trucks/calgary/1988-ford-f-150-lariat-pickup-truck/1071688321 If you speak incest a non-turbo IH F250 might be an option: http://www.kijiji.ca/v-cars-trucks/grande-prairie/ford-f250-4x4-6-9lit-diesel-4-speed-pick-up/1071120663 Or this, if you insist on a Hardbody: http://www.kijiji.ca/v-cars-trucks/calgary/1987-nissan-pick-up-truck-4x4-v6-manual-must-go/ Or a Frontier, if you're easier on gearboxes than I am and get less attached to your automobiles than I do: http://www.kijiji.ca/v-cars-trucks/calgary/1999-nissan-frontier-4x4-2500-obo/1069598088 Otherwise just get a Ranger. Everyone should have a Ranger. If the frame's good on an Alberta Ranger, you're good to play ball. The 2.3 four is the right engine to get but it's hard because guys who option a 4x4 will usually get a Vulcan with it  Sweet stepside with an (ugh) V6: http://www.kijiji.ca/v-cars-trucks/red-deer/2002-ford-ranger-edge-pickup-truck/1071167395 Yellow stepside: http://www.kijiji.ca/v-cars-trucks/red-deer/1996-ford-ranger/1070032547 4x4 with a V6: http://www.kijiji.ca/v-cars-trucks/red-deer/2002-ford-ranger-4x4/1067249973 2WD B2300 with a topper (this truck would be my best friend for life): http://www.kijiji.ca/v-cars-trucks/calgary/1995-mazda-b-series-pickups-pickup-truck-1500/1071468479 St. Albert garage queen 2WD B2300 (this truck would break my heart): http://www.kijiji.ca/v-cars-trucks/st-albert/1994-mazda-b-series-pickups-2300-pickup-truck/1071277824 Seat Safety Switch fucked around with this message at 03:52 on May 14, 2015 |
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Seat Safety Switch posted:4x4 with a V6: http://www.kijiji.ca/v-cars-trucks/red-deer/2002-ford-ranger-4x4/1067249973
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You can get a decent f150 at auction for 3 grand. A thousand bucks will get you a ranger. 4 grand would get you a nearly new one. The ranger had never really been as good as the taco but a ranger at 150k will be better than a taco at 400k. There have been over 600 trucks at each of the last Michener Allen and over 700 at Ritchie Bros. There is a Calgary Michener auction I think on the 23rd
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ExecuDork posted:I just called this guy, I'll get down there Friday or Saturday if I can - that truck ticks every box for me, even the colour! Thanks! Spend an uncomfortably long time under the truck, until the seller begins to get visibly nervous. Ask him if he's ok if you use a flat head screwdriver to look for frame rust. Also look for rot at the bottom of the suicide doors because those are always rotten. He knows something is wrong with that truck, but you don't yet. http://www.therangerstation.com/resources/How_To_Buy.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ-i56HWKHQ Seat Safety Switch fucked around with this message at 03:58 on May 14, 2015 |
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I filled the tank on the work truck yesterday - 2007 F150 4x4 - and I don't know how you guys can afford to run full-size V8 trucks out of your own pockets. Work will pay for the $120 it took to take that tank from just under 1/4 to full, and again and again all summer long so I don't have to worry about it, but there's no way I'm buying an F150 for myself. I want 4x4, extended cab, and manual transmission; a topper is a nice bonus but I know I can add one later if needed. I can afford to wait until late May to buy this truck, but I need to have it before May 30 so I can drive to Saskatoon that weekend. Getting to Ponoka - 170km away by Google Maps - is about at the limit of what I can rope my coworkers into tagging along with me so they can drive the work truck back after I buy something. Unless one of you wants to chauffer me around? (seriously - if a goon wants to help me buy a truck I will happily buy beer and pay gas and trouble and pay it forward upon request). Wasn't there just some discussion of how terrible auctions have gotten lately? or does that apply only to exotic Italian motorcycles? I'll meet the Tacoma seller on Friday morning, and now I know to look for horrible, horrible rust around the rear end and bed - thank you!
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Just get a Ranger. They're were the best bang for the buck. When I was looking everybody wanted crazy amounts of money for rusted out garbage.
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ExecuDork posted:I filled the tank on the work truck yesterday - 2007 F150 4x4 - and I don't know how you guys can afford to run full-size V8 trucks out of your own pockets. Work will pay for the $120 it took to take that tank from just under 1/4 to full, and again and again all summer long so I don't have to worry about it, but there's no way I'm buying an F150 for myself. If you're in Edmonton, I got lots of spare time, bored out of my mind and don't mind car shopping, but know nothing about trucks. If you're ok with that I can drive anywhere(tm). Hit me up at gmail. The only auction we have in the near future is Osman this Saturday: http://www.osmanauction.com
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I drive a Tacoma. Buy a Ranger or B series. Seriously. Used tacos are insane.
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Looks like you might get better luck finding something down south. Miscategorized and probably owned by a 17 year old idiot but might be a good deal http://www.kijiji.ca/v-cars-trucks/calgary/1991-mazda-b4000-4x4/1070836815?enableSearchNavigationFlag=true Pretty much exactly what you want. You could throw an offer at him http://www.kijiji.ca/v-cars-trucks/calgary/mazda-pickup-4x4-with-canopy/1071024831?enableSearchNavigationFlag=true
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Yeah, the 4.0L V6 is a Cologne, which is a drat sight better than the 3.0L Hateful Vulcans found in early Rangers and B3000s. Or: http://www.jegs.com/p/Trans-Dapt/Hamburgers-S10-V8-Engine-Swap-In-a-Box-Kits/1589023/10002/-2
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slidebite posted:Looks like you might get better luck finding something down south. Man, this looks like a sweet truck.
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DrakeriderCa posted:Man, this looks like a sweet truck. Seconding this. I don't think you'll find better. Looks like everything is already sorted - plus an interior that clean is usually a good sign.
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I sent the seller of that 1999 B4000 an email through Kijiji, basically saying I can get to Calgary next weekend (May 23-24) if it's still available. That is pretty much perfect, thanks! That other Mazda ad is a mess - "Wanted" instead of offering, two different years listed (1991 vs. 1994), and no mention of the drivetrain other than "manual". Is it 4WD? 4-cylinder? 6-cylinder? and what's up with under the front bumper - isn't there normally something there? Tomorrow I'll look at that Tacoma for fun if for no other reason, and I should be able to get to Ponoka for that purple Ranger as well. iv46vi posted:If you're in Edmonton, I got lots of spare time, bored out of my mind and don't mind car shopping, but know nothing about trucks. If you're ok with that I can drive anywhere(tm). Hit me up at gmail. My fieldwork can't be done in bad weather, so if a thunderstorm blows through or a day of rain I'll be running in to Edmonton or wherever to argue with sellers. Bonus Toyota-based fun http://www.kijiji.ca/v-cars-trucks/edmonton/1991-toyota-sr5-pickup-truck-220k/1063140727?enableSearchNavigationFlag=true http://www.kijiji.ca/v-cars-trucks/edmonton/1989-toyota-pickup-truck/1061472654?enableSearchNavigationFlag=true Edit: I sent you an email, iv46vi and I fired off a message to this one, too: http://www.kijiji.ca/v-cars-trucks/red-deer/1997-ford-ranger-pickup-truck/1066373197?enableSearchNavigationFlag=true - I'll be in Ponoka, Red Deer isn't much further. ExecuDork fucked around with this message at 23:53 on May 14, 2015 |
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ExecuDork posted:Bonus Toyota-based fun No. Well, maybe. It has its charms. Note that I buy cars for emotional reasons and have almost never been happy with a purchase that I didn't think through extensively. quote:and I fired off a message to this one, too: http://www.kijiji.ca/v-cars-trucks/red-deer/1997-ford-ranger-pickup-truck/1066373197?enableSearchNavigationFlag=true - I'll be in Ponoka, Red Deer isn't much further. Non truck comedy option: http://www.kijiji.ca/v-classic-cars/edmonton/1981-amc-eagle-4x4-sedan-rare/1069986125 Leave it in my driveway when you flee the province.
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Seat Safety Switch posted:Note that I buy cars for emotional reasons and have almost never been happy with a purchase that I didn't think through extensively.  That Eagle is loving awesome, I love the "I strongly recommend trailering due to the passenger rear drum is seized." I (very) briefly considered the $1200 he's asking as "spend the remainder of my $4000 budget after I buy a truck for $2500 and a trailer for $300" but there's no loving way I can do anything with a project. One of you other EDIT: Something for everyone! http://www.kijiji.ca/v-cars-trucks/edmonton/cars-trucks-suv-and-bikes-all-for-sale-must-go/1069583958?enableSearchNavigationFlag=true
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ExecuDork posted:EDIT: Something for everyone! I think that guy got arrested today. http://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/police-recover-1-9-million-in-stolen-vehicles quote:The recovered vehicles range from a 1970s yellow Ford Mustang to brand new $80,000 trucks, skid steer loaders, snowmobiles, ATVs and utility trailers, and together the 74 recovered stolen vehicles have an estimated total value of $1.9 million. 
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I doubt he's one of the 4 arrested, the ad states he's in (amusingly) Legal, AB, which google puts a little north of Edmonton. But that ad smells like either crime or mental illness, regardless. Or like the most hardcore of AI'ers - he's got a salvage title BMW 530 AND a pair of Duramaxen. Not that "hardcore AI" and "criminal mental illness" don't go together, of course.
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ExecuDork posted:I sent the seller of that 1999 B4000 an email through Kijiji, basically saying I can get to Calgary next weekend (May 23-24) if it's still available. That is pretty much perfect, thanks! Stay away from the other one I mentioned, looks like a wreck.
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I'm planning on driving whatever I buy to Onterrible; a big part of the reason I'm looking at trucks instead of itty-bitty pseudo-sports-cars (aside: I miss my 3rd gen Prelude) is so I can haul my crap, currently at my GF's apartment in Saskatoon, across the Canadian Shield to Kitchener/Waterloo in early September. Then get some experience going off-road on purpose. Seat Safety Switch, I would be forever in your debt (read: random mailings of obscure Subaru parts from conference cities around the world - how's the Subbie scene in Vienna?) if you could check out that B4000 and its seller for me. My parents live in Calgary but I don't think I could convince them to buy a truck for me - they know less about trucks than I do (reminder: I know nothing) and care about such things not at all. They'd be happy to have me visit that weekend and would give me a ride out to meet that seller and take the test drive, but I don't think they'd buy it for me. They're wonderful people, but I've already taken a car from them this year. That offer of surprise car parts from parts unknown and unknowable applies to anyone who can check out that truck, confirm it is as good as it seems, and hold it for me. Seriously: I will mail you suspension components or aftermarket intakes or hard-to-find valves and sensors when I visit world cities for conferences. In the last five years I've been to Oslo, Amsterdam, Montreal, Hobart, Vienna, and Tampa. Sending weird gifts to my internetfriends would be fun! Alternatively, I could be convinced to donate my eventual purchase to a worthy person after I'm done with it. My position in Ontario is most likely to be for 2 years, and I could be moving anywhere after April, 2017. Driving to Alberta a week before I fly to somewhere would be a great road trip. All of this is conditional on what I find tomorrow - hopefully I can check out 3 vehicles and be in a much better position to determine what, exactly, I want to buy. EDIT: Holy crap the address for that B4000 is about a 10-minute drive from my parents' place. ExecuDork fucked around with this message at 04:01 on May 15, 2015 |
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I can offer very little insight to any of these trucks but the 4.0L V6 Ranger has criminally poor fuel economy.
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Shoota_McG posted:I can offer very little insight to any of these trucks but the 4.0L V6 Ranger has criminally poor fuel economy. Nah its OK. About the same as a 4.OIL leaker Jeep i6. You want poor ? Try my 7000lb truck with 5.7L hemi.
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Shoota_McG posted:I can offer very little insight to any of these trucks but the 4.0L V6 Ranger has criminally poor fuel economy.
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Every time I check potential vehicles at EPA.gov I trust the results less. I'll be looking at that 2002 Ranger 4.0 in Ponoka today, and EPA says 15MPG I'd like to look at the 1997 Ranger (unknown) in Red Deer, too, and assuming it's also a 4.0 V6, EPA says 16MPG. There were some updates between 1997 and 2002, surely, but does a 2002 weigh so much more than a 1997 that it knocks an entire mile-per-gallon off its average mileage? Or is the EPA's system just horribly unreliable for such fine-detailed examinations? Full-size trucks with engines from the smaller side of the range (big V6 / small V8) can have numbers as high as 15MPG but most are down around 12. Cars I've owned in the past, like my e36 BMW, hit the low-to-mid 20's easily. My GF used to have a 1997 Ranger 2WD, I don't know which V6 it had but it was certainly a V6 - if I assume the (hated) Vulcan, EPA says 17MPG. I don't know if 15MPG or whatever I achieve with my (half-incompetent) driving style counts as "criminal". Wikipedia's page for the Ford Ranger spends too much time talking about what was available in Brazil and not enough time talking about model progression in North America so I don't know if a 1997 is a full generation earlier than a 2002 or just separated by incremental face-lifts and minor revisions. Edmunds is similarly scattered and over-generalized, and refuses to tell me what Ford's "XL" and "XLT" designations mean - if they mean anything. I haven't spent enough time in Ranger forums to know if the enthusiasts there can tell me anything except which complete overhaul of the drivetrain and/or suspension is best for mud-bogging in Alabama.
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That 2007 Chev 2500 of mine drank ninety eight liters of fuel to drag itself and that little trailer ~350km back from radium. Which, honestly isn't too bad I guess, I was able to maintain it at the speed limit the whole way. Plus it was completely loaded with my sister's camping gear and like a billion kilos of golf clubs.
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I think I'm on the verge of uncovering a lead conspiracy to rival the water conspiracy in Chinatown Went running around a bunch of different places. Tire shops refused to give any old wheel weights away saying they sell it to suppliers. Went to the dive shop, an ammunition place and the kart store and the lowest quote I got was $4.50 a pound. Decided to phone up a junkyard and they told me to come on down, $0.70/pound. Guy said he couldn't get rid of them, nobody wants to buy lead. Its not crazy hard to melt down lead, so I don't know how the price jumps seven times going from the supplier to the end product which is more or less the same thing. Shoota_McG posted:I can offer very little insight to any of these trucks but the 4.0L V6 Ranger has criminally poor fuel economy. The 4L Ranger rather infamously had better fuel economy then then 3L since your foot didn't need to be glued to the floor the whole time you were driving it. F1DriverQuidenBerg fucked around with this message at 16:35 on May 15, 2015 |
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You guys really need to read switch's tumblr. It's a kind of wonderful automotive fiction comedy. The warp speed ice cream truck story has me laughing two hours after I read it. http://seat-safety-switch.tumblr.com/
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Slung Blade posted:You guys really need to read switch's tumblr. Seconding this whole heartily. New tumblr posts from SSW are generally the literary highlight of my day. Edit: I would also pay good money to have every single one of them illustrated. McTinkerson fucked around with this message at 21:06 on May 15, 2015 |
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