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kimbo305 posted:At a light, this father was crossing with his 6/7 year-old son. The father was pointing at this cherry BMW 3.0 CS, saying, "I had one just like it, a 1974 3.0 CS... son? Look!" Sad indeed.
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# ? Jul 13, 2015 04:26 |
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BrokenKnucklez posted:Sad indeed. To be fair to the kid, I didn't give a poo poo about cars until I was 16 or so. My dad used to tell me about his 42 Ford he sold to buy me a bedroom, take me offroading in his old Bronco etc. and it was all lost on me. My mom tried to get me interested in my neighbor's 60s fastback Mustang and I saw it as old and smelly. I really thought of cars as appliances, or videogame super-things until I got my first one (1997 Seville SLS) and tried flooring that big old dumb V8 on a long, wide interchange at night. Once it hit 110 and I got scared I was hooked. AI confessions....
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# ? Jul 13, 2015 04:37 |
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Conceptually I understand, and yet, that's so weird to me. My mom (to her chagrin) claims that my second word was car. I've never not remembered wanting something fast, low and probably a bit loud.
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# ? Jul 13, 2015 04:41 |
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Ether Frenzy posted:If you're put off owning amazing cars because they are more complex than a Volvo 240.... you might be an AI poster (outrageous laugh track) I actually enjoy working on my own cars thank you very much. More complicated != better That said, I was having a similar discussion with my dad a while back about how I'm not really engaged by most newer cars (well, anything under $100k, hypercars are awesome). I've decided that as I get older and have more money, I'll stick to buying better examples of old cars.
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# ? Jul 13, 2015 04:45 |
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I didn't give a poo poo about cars until I was 20 or so. Now I love them so much I'm spending stacks on stacks on stacks on avatars for a movie that worships the car in hope that my love can spread to those over the internet.
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# ? Jul 13, 2015 04:54 |
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The Royal Nonesuch posted:CA crossover, but I've been shopping bikes lately after I sold mine and I rode a V4 Aprilia Tuono today. I am a generally risk-averse sensible person... I care deeply about things like Wise Purchases, Cost-of-Parts, Probability of Police Attention, etc. Then I rode this stupid bike under an overpass at 6000rpm in 1st and the sound nearly brought me to orgasm (that's a stock can, mine had an Akra). The drat thing will do like 90 in 1st and I was on side streets/test riding someone else's bike, but when I hit 2nd with gas it tried to get out from underneath me and I loved it. quote:Song of the Sausage Creature
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# ? Jul 13, 2015 04:56 |
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Geirskogul posted:I didn't give a poo poo about cars until I was 20 or so. Now I love them so much I'm spending stacks on stacks on stacks on avatars for a movie that worships the car in hope that my love can spread to those over the internet. I love your new avatar.
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# ? Jul 13, 2015 05:08 |
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Geirskogul posted:I didn't give a poo poo about cars until I was 20 or so. Now I love them so much I'm spending stacks on stacks on stacks on avatars for a movie that worships the car in hope that my love can spread to those over the internet. Thats a good title, i like that title. I also like that Hunter S. Tompson piece. It makes me wish I wasn't a big fat goon that would look completely out of place on a cafe racer.
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# ? Jul 13, 2015 05:17 |
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Song of the sausage creature is awesome. I've read it so many times but it never fails to please me.
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# ? Jul 13, 2015 05:18 |
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Geirskogul posted:I didn't give a poo poo about cars until I was 20 or so. Now I love them so much I'm spending stacks on stacks on stacks on avatars for a movie that worships the car in hope that my love can spread to those over the internet. [combusts internally]
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# ? Jul 13, 2015 05:19 |
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I've always enjoyed things that move or have some mechanism in them. Be cars, small engines, etc... If I can make it move, I'm interested. Lego's were my first foray and I used to have tons of Lego technics (the bricks with holes) and was always making some kind of contraption out of it.
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# ? Jul 13, 2015 05:21 |
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Geirskogul posted:I didn't give a poo poo about cars until I was 20 or so. Now I love them so much I'm spending stacks on stacks on stacks on avatars for a movie that worships the car in hope that my love can spread to those over the internet. What I find weird when you really get a hobby as an adult is that you have very different before and after levels of detail in your recall. I was pretty into cars as a kid, but not rabidly so. My mom's boss drove a red 1st gen Scirocco, but I always remembered it as an Audi. It was years before I could positively peg it as a Scirocco and not a Quattro of some kind.
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# ? Jul 13, 2015 05:36 |
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Preoptopus posted:The Sausage Creature You bastard! You posted that right while I was watching this RCR. Stop enabling goddamnit; I am turning 30 in a few months and some infernal cosmic clock tells me I need to be Responsible. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nhlIKKJzkg seems to be an accurate review of the V4 Tuono
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# ? Jul 13, 2015 05:38 |
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I didn't care about cars a whole lot as a kid. My dad helped me work on my first car a lot, and I started changing my own oil when I had my second car. I got tired of waiting two hours for a shop to do oil + tire rotation, so I started doing it myself. Nothing ever broke down, really, so I didn't really get into them any further until I started dating my wife and married into her family. Her brothers are a couple of gearheads and have sucked me into this. I still don't know a whole heck of a lot, but I tend to fix my own stuff either on my own or with their help (and help them fix theirs). That being said, I have always loved fast and loud cars, though I might not have grasped what they were. Love the way these engines sound: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpbKa3ipCcY&t=68s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXJyYFpTplg Fake E: I've spent like ten minutes now looking at various videos of 454s and 429s in boats and cars. I love the way these engines sound.
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# ? Jul 13, 2015 05:50 |
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Bajaha posted:I'll try not to, I hope. I've seen others driving on ticking time bombs that have pre-2000's date codes. Always makes me go wtf as to how they haven't blown out yet. It's storage that kills tires. I tried to run 8 year old Nokians once, they'd never been mounted and had been in a room temperature warehouse since manufacture. A month in I got a sidewall egg, managed to track another NOS of the same tire down and 3 weeks later 2 of them were spitting tread belt cords out of the shoulder. I've seen '70s cars on factory rubber that are doing fine, but they all get driven at least somewhat regularly. Still kinda sketchy though.
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# ? Jul 13, 2015 05:56 |
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BrokenKnucklez posted:I've always enjoyed things that move or have some mechanism in them. Be cars, small engines, etc... If I can make it move, I'm interested. This is me too. All I ever wanted for birthdays or christmas were Lego. I think I got Lego for gifts well into my teens. I still have my entire collection, unfortunately my daughter showed nearly zero interest. I helped my dad R&R a head at the age of 12, and was changing the oil by myself in the family Volvo at age 14. Voluntarily. Like "can I change the oil dad? Please?" And I was the only kid on the block with a quiet bicycle, because I understood how to dial in bearings for zero play but zero backlash, and I understood that moving parts need lube. Like when I would jump a curb, the only sound it made hitting the ground was from the tires. I was very proud of that.
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# ? Jul 13, 2015 05:58 |
Well. I think I'm quitting my job! 6 days on the clock has finally burned through any sort of drive I had for this job, but our new supervisor is an uppity douche who gets off on sending around asinine memos about "Facebook etiquette" and telling us to "get over" having so many in service trainings after our overnight shifts and how "that's life" when we get denied more benefits or pay for more work and less time with our families. I haven't even formally quit yet and I'm already second and third guessing myself. But it's so..TOXIC here..
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# ? Jul 13, 2015 07:23 |
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You could always do what I did for a few weeks before work transferred me to a new location and regularly eat a half pound of roast garlic as a snack the night before work and go in guns hot and ready to rock.
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14 INCH SLIT posted:You could always do what I did for a few weeks before work transferred me to a new location and regularly eat a half pound of roast garlic as a snack the night before work and go in guns hot and ready to rock. I don't really work with any employees. It's a home for mentally ill clients. I poop when I wanna poop and all I could do to the ungrateful clients here would probably get me arrested instead of just fired.
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# ? Jul 13, 2015 07:31 |
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Went to see the new house again over the weekend to see progress and get final measurements to book carpet fitters. Sod all progress outside Inside was 99.99% done though and looks great Then the builder said it might take a few weeks more, but couldn't justify why. We need to be in asap to get the kids settled into a new area before the eldest starts his new school. Had a slight argument, got a promise of a weekly progress report by email, I plan to chase him every couple of days and I'm keeping tabs on everything he says is an issue. I do project management at work and it hurts to see this and not be able to drive it.
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# ? Jul 13, 2015 11:10 |
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Holy poo poo my foremn is more of a degenerate than me. No wonder we get along.
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# ? Jul 13, 2015 11:19 |
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QuarkMartial posted:
Watching that thing rock back and forth from the torque
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# ? Jul 13, 2015 11:33 |
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Cakefool posted:Went to see the new house again over the weekend to see progress and get final measurements to book carpet fitters. Construction timescales are always complete toss. We have work going on at work at the moment, timescale was 12 months from February last year. They're still going now... Rather than go with the higher bid that would actually have poo poo done by now, work decided to take the word of a construction company (ahahaha) that said they could make it happen within the timescale and cheaper than everyone else. So we're what, 5 months overrun and no doubt a few million or so over budget? Noice. Hopefully they sort their poo poo out and get you in, the waiting is the loving worst. But make sure they have everything actually finished as working around workmen coming in and loving with things and halfarsing them for months is no fun.
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# ? Jul 13, 2015 11:50 |
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Elmnt80 posted:Thats a good title, i like that title. I also like that Hunter S. Tompson piece. It makes me wish I wasn't a big fat goon that would look completely out of place on a cafe racer. poo poo, now that I'm back on real (read: not Guantanamo) internet for awhile, I can see people's avatars and I can actually get on the site with a web browser instead of the mobile app, and I realize that I'm completely unoriginal.
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# ? Jul 13, 2015 12:25 |
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Bajaha posted:Date code was for 03, so drat old, no idea how they survived this far. The Royal Nonesuch posted:CA crossover, but I've been shopping bikes lately after I sold mine and I rode a V4 Aprilia Tuono today. I had a little interest in cars growing up but didn't become hooked until I started driving and doing driving schools. Once I had been on the track the downward spiral began and there was no looking back.
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Geirskogul posted:poo poo, now that I'm back on real (read: not Guantanamo) internet for awhile, I can see people's avatars and I can actually get on the site with a web browser instead of the mobile app, and I realize that I'm completely unoriginal. "Out here, everything has a Fury Road avatar."
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# ? Jul 13, 2015 14:13 |
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gileadexile posted:I don't really work with any employees. It's a home for mentally ill clients. I poop when I wanna poop and all I could do to the ungrateful clients here would probably get me arrested instead of just fired. Every business is a home for mentally ill clients.
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# ? Jul 13, 2015 14:20 |
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Seat Safety Switch posted:Every business is a home for mentally ill clients. True that. My unaffectionate nickname for work is "Shady Acres Retirement Home" NitroSpazzz posted:Buy it, those things are great. I mean it's an Aprilia so it will have fun issues but other than that... Yeah, I might. The older european gent who owns it claims to have owned 60+ bikes in his 50 years of riding, and says "Aprilia is Honda of Europe! Extremely reliable... My Ducatis? Break! Japanese bikes *frowns, waves hand dismissively* no soul! I had Kawasaki, it made me mad to see it! You will want to see this in garage every morning! The harder you ride it, the better it likes it! It is like woman! Too fast for me now, I am old. I want a 1190 Enduro" He was pretty cool.
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# ? Jul 13, 2015 14:45 |
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Geirskogul posted:poo poo, now that I'm back on real (read: not Guantanamo) internet for awhile, I can see people's avatars and I can actually get on the site with a web browser instead of the mobile app, and I realize that I'm completely unoriginal. Given we're both ripping off a terrible meme in the first place, I think we're fine. I'm ok with sharing my horribly unoriginal idea with someone else.
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# ? Jul 13, 2015 14:55 |
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Nodoze posted:Between using a jeep or an rx8 for deliveries I'd rather blow my brains out I'd go with the jeep TBH, the engine doesn't give a poo poo what you do about it and has all the torques for stop and go / city driving. Sorry about the fuel bill though. Bajaha posted:Date code was for 03, so drat old, no idea how they survived this far. Hope they don't turn pear shaped like my old tires did. Also look forward to hockey puck levels of traction. The Royal Nonesuch posted:To be fair to the kid, I didn't give a poo poo about cars until I was 16 or so. My dad used to tell me about his 42 Ford he sold to buy me a bedroom, take me offroading in his old Bronco etc. and it was all lost on me. My mom tried to get me interested in my neighbor's 60s fastback Mustang and I saw it as old and smelly. I really thought of cars as appliances, or videogame super-things until I got my first one (1997 Seville SLS) and tried flooring that big old dumb V8 on a long, wide interchange at night. Once it hit 110 and I got scared I was hooked. I spent my childhood helping my dad bleed the brakes and change the oil and such on our series of festering crapcans, and didn't care about cars at all. Got a job at a quicklube in high school / early college, barely knew my head from my rear end but became the best topside tech at the store by the time I left. Didn't get my license till halfway through college, didn't care about manuals. My requirements for my first car were "is under $3k, automatic, 4x4, boxy as gently caress" so I was looking at second gen Broncos, K5 Blazers, and YJs. Really glad I ended up buying an XJ instead of any of those, just wish it hadn't been that one. Only got into the manual thing after picking up the 5 ton and learning to drive stick in it... and goddamnit how did I end up with seven and three halves cars, only 6 and 3 halves of which have actually made it home? My yard looks like sanford and sons.
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# ? Jul 13, 2015 15:55 |
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I have a spare tire from 1993 in my Mercedes. I should replace it, but I keep thinking maybe it'll be valuable to sell it with "original spare" someday. Haha yeah right.
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CharlesM posted:I have a spare tire from 1993 in my Mercedes. I should replace it, but I keep thinking maybe it'll be valuable to sell it with "original spare" someday. Haha yeah right. We've decided no more Chump Car so now they are in a big rush to modify the car to the limits of WRL before the race in two weeks. No way this is going to come back and bite us in the rear end... Will be nice to have coilovers, camber plates and a reasonable lock-to-lock steering rack in the car.
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# ? Jul 13, 2015 16:47 |
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Working at one of the oldest buildings around in my city. The horror Oh the horror. Went into the attic to see a string of temporary/permanent lights with stripped wires shoved into a socket.
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# ? Jul 13, 2015 16:51 |
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They said I can buy the Miata.
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# ? Jul 13, 2015 16:57 |
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goatse guy posted:They said I can buy the Miata. Hello and welcome to black NA8 club here is your membership booklOH SWEET JESUS THE SWIRLS
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# ? Jul 13, 2015 16:58 |
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Seat Safety Switch posted:Hello and welcome to black NA8 club here is your membership booklOH SWEET JESUS THE SWIRLS I owned a black 1995 with the popular options package from 2010 to 2012. This one is much nicer though. My last one was kind of a rusty turd.
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# ? Jul 13, 2015 17:04 |
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Please tell me you've still got (and plan to continure using) those plates.
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# ? Jul 13, 2015 17:06 |
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Tommychu posted:Please tell me you've still got (and plan to continure using) those plates. I do still have the plates, but I have to register them at the DMV before I can put them back on.
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Way late to the party buuuuuut I finally watched Fury Road. Holy poo poo it was amazing.
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