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Artemis J Brassnuts posted:Let's all meet up back here in a few years and discuss what kinds of $500+ deferred maintenance items we're replacing on our Vantages. Right now there is a sub-30k maserati quattroporte on Toronto autotrader. Man, that's all kinds of terrible decisions. It'd be like dating a washed up model with an expensive coke habit with a temper and a penchant for smashing poo poo. It does make you wonder if you could get away with just driving it until it breaks completely and then parting it out to get some of your money back... this is the point where the model analogy starts to break down a bit... E- although, thinking about it, the kind of person who would buy that car, at that price? The analogy probably holds up pretty well. Finger Prince fucked around with this message at 15:48 on Sep 23, 2015 |
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I looked into it a year ago and there were 3 used late-model AMs in good shape I could easily afford if I switched to an all-ramen diet, abandoned my apprenticeship and stopped saving money to get a place outside direct proximity to 3 competing meth/crack dealers.
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Linedance posted:Right now there is a sub-30k maserati quattroporte on Toronto autotrader. Man, that's all kinds of terrible decisions. It'd be like dating a washed up model with an expensive coke habit with a temper and a penchant for smashing poo poo. It Is A Human Analogy. Funny that. But the scant few What year is it? Rigged Death Trap fucked around with this message at 16:29 on Sep 23, 2015 |
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Sep 23, 2015 15:26
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Bape Culture posted:The employed? Those employed with non-archaic labor laws, perhaps.
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Bape Culture posted:The employed?  That's the cost of a smallish home, no way am I squandering money on a British junkpile.
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Rigged Death Trap posted:It Is A Human Analogy.  http://m.autotrader.ca/a/5_24639022?prx=250&orup=1_10_34 2005. Oh wait, there's two..  http://m.autotrader.ca/a/5_25358555 2006 Personally, I'd have the blue one, even though it's higher mileage. Means it's been well looked after, right? Right? You could probably get arrested for possession if they ran a damp cloth over the seat. Like, I'd never spend my hard earned money on it, but if someone said "here's 25 grand, go buy a car - and only a car - none of this sensible investing bullshit", you're goddamned right I'd pick that one. Finger Prince fucked around with this message at 16:01 on Sep 23, 2015 |
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Never liked those Maseratis, they look like the designer shaped the body and then died without putting headlights on it and someone high up raided the spare parts bin for a set. They just don't 'fit' the front end.
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I've been looking at used car listings and man, the things that are just beyond my grasp. Citron DS 23 Pallas for <10k? several Alpine A610s in the 10k-30k range? Alfa Romeo 155 Q4 for <5k? just drink my blood, why don't you. And I could totally afford a Honda City Turbo II if someone, anyone imported them
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EightBit posted:
That right there is part of the problem - where I live, in the bay area, a smallish home is more than a jumbo mortgage. So unless I have 70-80k cash floating around, I can't even *buy* that POS house with no garage and a termite problem. But I can totally rent a place and pay for a sweet ride, and when you're making $150K/yr as a fresh-out-of-college grad, what's more appealing? That's a big part of the reason, that and people who work in the industry in general with a solid chunk of experience are *very* well paid.
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fyodor posted:
*price is AS-IS and does not include the $55k you will dump into the thing before years-end.
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:*price is AS-IS and does not include the $55k you will dump into the thing before years-end. Pretty much true of anything more exotic than a Honda Civic.
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Falken posted:Tell me/show me more about this tube frame 924/44. I think it's a 968. I don't know who's building it, have just seen a few pictures on the wtac facebook.  They have done some pretty impressive chassis work, basically removed everything you can within the rules  Like, you have to keep the b-pillars and floor pan.
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hackbunny posted:I've been looking at used car listings and man, the things that are just beyond my grasp. Citron DS 23 Pallas for <10k? several Alpine A610s in the 10k-30k range? Alfa Romeo 155 Q4 for <5k? just drink my blood, why don't you. And I could totally afford a Honda City Turbo II if someone, anyone imported them jamal posted:I think it's a 968. I don't know who's building it, have just seen a few pictures on the wtac facebook.
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Das Volk posted:That right there is part of the problem - where I live, in the bay area, a smallish home is more than a jumbo mortgage. So unless I have 70-80k cash floating around, I can't even *buy* that POS house with no garage and a termite problem. But I can totally rent a place and pay for a sweet ride, and when you're making $150K/yr as a fresh-out-of-college grad, what's more appealing? I'm not exaggerating in the slightest, either - last month we looked at a home with a gaping hole where the kitchen used to be, a half-disassembled deck and every thing else about it was 1950s original. Sold, all cash, for $515k. After a few years of dealing with that kind of real estate market, having something stylish street parked in front of the place we're renting would take a bit of the sting out. Sorry for the BFC derail. AM still makes the best looking cars and I frankly don't care if they fall apart a bit.
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Yeah, I know about them, they already sold two black Bulldogs on e-bay. But they're an ocean away from me 
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Powershift posted:It also leads to really terrible ebay taillights ending up on XJ220s. Growing up in the 90s I thought those Jags were like the strangest looking cars. I can't imagine what it looks like irl and probably will never see one...
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 The strip of carbon fiber is there to cover the nissan badging on the lens.
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 God that is so lazy. I wonder what car they stole the turn signal from. Has to be the only reason they couldn't line up the inside edges of the lights.
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fyodor posted:Pretty much true of anything more exotic than a Honda Civic. That's not even remotely true. Exotics have come a long way since the 90s.
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BoostCreep posted:
Designing your own federalized lights is really expensive.
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nm posted:Designing your own federalized lights is really expensive. It's true. Not only that it takes a lot of time and you are not allowed to use accelerated methods in weather testing the lenses. Has to be at real-life timescale, so you better have 3 years to wait for results... on each redesign you do. USC 49 CFR 571.108 S5.1.2(g) is a bitch that way. kastein fucked around with this message at 21:04 on Sep 23, 2015 |
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kastein posted:It's true. Not only that it takes a lot of time and you are not allowed to use accelerated methods in weather testing the lenses. Has to be at real-life timescale, so you better have 3 years to wait for results... on each redesign you do. USC 49 CFR 571.108 S5.1.2(g) is a bitch that way. Which is why it's so fun to play "What's that headlight?" on big pusher RVs.
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Boaz MacPhereson posted:Which is why it's so fun to play "What's that headlight?" on big pusher RVs. The guided tour tram+trailer at the Chicago botanical gardens has Ford logos on the trailer tail lights. I was quite amused by that.
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nm posted:Designing your own federalized lights is really expensive. Also see: Noble taillights are just upside down Hyundai Sonata taillights. Who cares. The diablo/300zx lights look awesome.
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Boaz MacPhereson posted:Which is why it's so fun to play "What's that headlight?" on big pusher RVs. you know you spend too much time around RV's when you can tell the engine by the headlights
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Das Volk posted:That right there is part of the problem - where I live, in the bay area, a smallish home is more than a jumbo mortgage. So unless I have 70-80k cash floating around, I can't even *buy* that POS house with no garage and a termite problem. But I can totally rent a place and pay for a sweet ride, and when you're making $150K/yr as a fresh-out-of-college grad, what's more appealing? All the articles I see about how $130k trying to live in the bay area being so hard make me seriously want to put a loving brick to the face of the people who just flat out ignore the ones trying to do the same loving thing on $30k a year, and without ALL those people the tech industry is loving worthless
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Newer UPS trucks have Oldsmobile Alero headlights, it always throws me for a loop because they don't really work with the rest of the truck at all.
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Terrible Robot posted:Newer UPS trucks have Oldsmobile Alero headlights, it always throws me for a loop because they don't really work with the rest of the truck at all. "Well, we officially closed Oldsmobile. Now what the hell are we going to do with all these brand new headlights?"
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The Howmet TX used Cortina taillights: It also was powered by a motherfucking Continental TS325-1 turbine.
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I think it was the GT40 that used Corvair taillights. They were the lightest factory lenses they could find.
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BoostCreep posted:"Well, we officially closed Oldsmobile. Now what the hell are we going to do with all these brand new headlights?" "Yeah, it's not like the cars we sold will last long enough to NEED new headlights, right?"
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Are (parent companies of) dead brands still required to maintain parts support for 15 years or whatever it is?
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Enourmo posted:Are (parent companies of) dead brands still required to maintain parts support for 15 years or whatever it is? Maybe ask GM about Saturn or Oldsmobile?
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The Locator posted:Maybe ask GM about Saturn or Oldsmobile? You can buy parts for 90s Saturns at Chevy dealers and they don't even look at you funny.
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This is loving awesome.
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Enourmo posted:Are (parent companies of) dead brands still required to maintain parts support for 15 years or whatever it is? I don't know I'm having a hell of a time finding a replacement headlight for a 2009 Saab 97x. I found a refurbished one for $550.... Supply/demand me right up the rear end.
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You guys are forgetting the best one. Mclaren used tail lights off a bus for the F1.
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Preoptopus posted:You guys are forgetting the best one. "If you wanted pretty you should look at the front... oh whoops too slow  "
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Preoptopus posted:You guys are forgetting the best one. Pagani Zonda, Spyker and Lambo Diablo and Saleen S7 all used the same tail lights as the F1 and the bus.
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