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Scruff McGruff posted:I was behind what I think was a riced out Prelude that, in addition to the stickers on the rear window and the fartcan exhaust complete with scorch marks all the up the rear of the car above it, he also had this insane rear-view mirror(s). I'm not sure if it's multiple extensions on one mirror or multiple actual rearviews all layered three feet across his windshield. Guess he's just really nervous about his blind spots. I bought a $600 craigslist special 1980 tercel that came with a wink mirror and it owned bones. I'd put one in my supra but don't want to poo poo up the perfect interior.
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GutBomb posted:I saw a corvette in Cambridge, Massachusetts today with the plate CAVVET. Hey, maybe the person driving spent some time in Iraq in a tank. Y'ever think about that! Nah, it's a definite inability to pronounce Ahs.
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The Royal Nonesuch posted:Sick Bently, man. There's at least 20 of these badged thus here in my town.
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Jun 20, 2015 05:32
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Spotted this thing yesterday. I can't imagine it's there for any legitimate reason.
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On the plus side, if anyone rearends that thing it'll be a two for one. The rearender will probably total their car and that thing probably isn't properly affixed to the beetle either so yet another new beetle will be removed from the road.
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Malpenix Blonia posted:Spotted this thing yesterday. I can't imagine it's there for any legitimate reason. I'm more disturbed by the fact that this is apparently a sign of a terrible, dark future in ridiculous car modification judging by that timestamp. 2016 already looks like a bad year 
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Malpenix Blonia posted:Spotted this thing yesterday. I can't imagine it's there for any legitimate reason. Im gonna guess that the reason is humor. If its there for a serious reason then that is sad.
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Jun 20, 2015 23:02
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Maybe he has a really big kite.
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I don't get it, it's just a tow hook
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the poi posted:I don't get it, it's just a tow hook The tow hooks used to pull a fully loaded 100,000lb truck out of the mud is smaller than that. There is nothing a beetle is capable of, pulling or being pulled, that warrants a tow hook that size. unless he's got one on the front, too, and he's out looking for 2 tractors to stretch it into a 911.
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Powershift posted:unless he's got one on the front, too, and he's out looking for 2 tractors to stretch it into a 911. Well now that's just silly, the engine's at the wrong end.
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xzzy posted:Well now that's just silly, the engine's at the wrong end. Yeah, but it's a tradition thing. the beetle gets it half right at least.
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Powershift posted:Yeah, but it's a tradition thing. the beetle gets it half right at least. If you stretch an old Beetle, you get a 911. If you stretch a New Beetle, you get one of these: 
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The Tesla club up here is full of bad license plates, but the one with "FUBP" kinda made me chuckle. Apparently he told the DMV it's a stock symbol, so they let it through.
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MrChips posted:If you stretch an old Beetle, you get a 911. If you stretch a New Beetle, you get one of these: Nope, the GT3 is a really good fit though (I've actually done that stretch, the major difference is the line of the "hump" at the back)
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Sorry about the horrible potato pic but here's some more smug vanity plate fuckery: Not pictured are the blingin' chrome wheels and other assorted obnoxious chrome accents.
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That plate would be just as much at home on a Yugo 
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This TC had a raised peacock feather decal over the rear fender
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It's good to see Yugoslavians are represented among Corvette owners even if it does have chrome taillight trim from JC Whitney
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Enourmo posted:I drove a customer car once at Sears. Owned by an older dude, mirror was super wide like that. Great for visibility, especially if maybe you can't turn your neck due to arthritis or whatever, right? Ok, this is probably the stupidest story you're going to read today, but when I was 16 and had just gotten my license, my dad put one of these in his crown victoria. This coincided with me just starting to smoke weed. I can't put words to the amount of laughter my friends and I got out of this stupid mirror. Anyway, I'm confirming that "THA LANE-CHANGEAAAAAA" as we used to call it, is utterly worthless for actually being able to see anything. Thanks for bringing up a hilarious memory that I'd completely forgotten about.  
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I can't imagine anything more pointless if the car has side mirrors. Or if you're capable of turning your head.
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The Caravan we have as a company vehicle has a little fold down mirror like that, but I think it's really for checking on your kids in the back seat. One of the few things that isn't total junk on that van.
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Deeters posted:The Caravan we have as a company vehicle has a little fold down mirror like that, but I think it's really for checking on your kids in the back seat. One of the few things that isn't total junk on that van. Yeah this can be pretty useful.You'll find it on a lot of 3rd row SUVs/vans.
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Japanese SUV's had an odd assortment of mirrors. The surf/4Runner had a power mirror on the exterior of the rear. I think they have/had a legal requirement for a little side mirror on the passenger side next to the engine bay.
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Poolparty posted:Japanese SUV's had an odd assortment of mirrors. The surf/4Runner had a power mirror on the exterior of the rear. I think they have/had a legal requirement for a little side mirror on the passenger side next to the engine bay.
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A fairly rare 6.9 450 sel  one of 437 in north america for that model year.   
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Rhyno posted:There's at least 20 of these badged thus here in my town. I saw a lady who wasn't even trying - a Hyundai Sonata, like maybe '05 model, with Jaguar ornaments and fake air vents
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Ozz81 posted:I saw a lady who wasn't even trying - a Hyundai Sonata, like maybe '05 model, with Jaguar ornaments and fake air vents There are about 5 or 6 of these hyundais re-badged as bentleys in town here. 
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Powershift posted:A fairly rare 6.9 450 sel Oh gently caress this 
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Powershift posted:There are about 5 or 6 of these hyundais re-badged as bentleys in town here. lol got a pic of the rear
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Powershift posted:There are about 5 or 6 of these hyundais re-badged as bentleys in town here. So perfect.
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(Not quite) news from China, in 2011 a totally non-corrupt Police department spent around $150k (after tax) on a Mercedes ML350 squad car. To avoid criticisms they did some engineering:  After the inevitable backlash they of course denied changing anything at all.
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I vote wrong thread but I just wanted to continue the badge swapping posts
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The gbs OSHA thread has a couple of good ones lately  
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I can't decide if the ridiculous Half Life 2 style saw blade accident or the JMC knock off truck brand is better
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If you have to crash in a vehicle, be sure it's from the Jupiter Mining Corporation.
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