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Mercury Ballistic posted:Virginia is the ruler of special interest license plates. I'm amused at the Texas plates with rival sports teams on them. Particularly OU. 'Course, there's no less that 4 each of UT and A&M, which is only to be expected. The Door Frame posted:
I'm pretty sure that's why TX went to the plain white with black lettering standard plate - to make it easier for the plate recognition systems adorning the roof of half the cop cars. NoWake posted:I pulled a legit '74 Ohio plate from my grandpa's garage & registered custom Ohio antique plates using the same numbers, took the registration sticker and put it in the correct spot. It looked great on my '74 VW until I blew the engine up. In TX, we're allowed to run year-of-issue plates if the car is registered as an antique (25 years old, basically.) I have 1970 blue on white TX plates for my Cutlass if it ever moves under its own power again. Dagen H posted:Ohio allows you to register antique cars using year-appropriate vintage plates. Yeah, that. But TX. 
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All this license plate talk reminded me of the recent Michigan plates: http://www.mlive.com/lansing-news/index.ssf/2014/10/worlds_best_license_plate_quie.html The old style was nice, but apparently too low-contrast for law enforcement.
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Okay enough plate chat, jeez
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Sir, I think you have the wrong thread. Thats pretty god damned awesome.
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Nov 15, 2016 02:21
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Was hoping the glass would shatter into a million tiny cubes.
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Hugh G. Rectum posted:Okay enough plate chat, jeez Footage straight from New Zealand, taken yesterday evening.
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Geoj posted:And the two that proceeded it: My North Carolina tag would like a word with your friends here 
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Hugh G. Rectum posted:Okay enough plate chat, jeez How do you hear them? If it's flexing metal, wouldn't your ears kinda pop?
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Hugh G. Rectum posted:Okay enough plate chat, jeez I need to know more!
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GutBomb posted:I need to know more! 140+dB sound pressure level.
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wallaka posted:140+dB sound pressure level. They got to hear what that sounds like only once.
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The Door Frame posted:How do you hear them? If it's flexing metal, wouldn't your ears kinda pop? It's not really flexing the metal, the metal is vibrating and the camera is catching the image progressively from top to bottom, distorting the final image, it's called a rolling shutter artifact, here's a cool video showing it with a prop
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Nov 15, 2016 07:34
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FCKGW posted:In CA if your plate gets lost or mangled enough than that's it, even for vanity plates. So if you get rear ended and your plate gets ripped in half you lose those plates forever. This is only true if you lose both. You see the mangled plates because they'll be replaced with the ugly new plates rather than blue or sun rise plates or whatever.
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Just another day in the life of an R56 Cooper S. 
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Megabound posted:It's not really flexing the metal, the metal is vibrating and the camera is catching the image progressively from top to bottom, distorting the final image, it's called a rolling shutter artifact, here's a cool video showing it with a prop Yup, cabin gain in cars is hilariously large because the amount of air sealed inside is relatively small. When you put large subs in capable of moving large amounts of air they kick and basically try to force air out of the car through any gaps it can find and doors/windows are usually the weakest link. ...but this now has me thinking, SPL drag cars should ideally be sealed as much as possible so every tiny amount of sound pressure gets fired into the mic taking the readings. I know people weld up doors and such but I'm wondering how many people go to the trouble of blocking off the HVAC completely. Add in a crap camera and you get this effect,
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FCKGW posted:In CA if your plate gets lost or mangled enough than that's it, even for vanity plates. So if you get rear ended and your plate gets ripped in half you lose those plates forever.
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Ludicro posted:Just another day in the life of an R56 Cooper S. Eh, that's usual British build quality
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Nov 15, 2016 22:24
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BraveUlysses posted:more like bmw
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They need to get on Fiat's level. I had a sump develop a rust hole on a Panda, yes, below the oil level. No-one knows rust like the Italians.
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InitialDave posted:They need to get on Fiat's level. I had a sump develop a rust hole on a Panda, yes, below the oil level. No-one knows rust like the Italians. Eh, Volkswagens have done that since the dawn of time. I remember hanging out in high school watching my buddy try to learn to weld for the first time on an oil-contaminated mk3 Jetta sump.
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Rhyno posted:Famous potatoes.
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Honda fit with Si badges and a III% window sticker
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Olympic Mathlete posted:Yup, cabin gain in cars is hilariously large because the amount of air sealed inside is relatively small. This is why the single 12" Sub and 2 6x9" two-way's +300 watt amp the PO threw in my Justy sound  I don't normally listen to music on my 12 minute commute, but sometimes when something good comes on I'll totally crank it for no reason.
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BraveUlysses posted:more like bmw oil leak engineering Superior Bavarian gaskets my friend. Actually to be fair the car is a couple of months shy of being 10 years old and all I'm really doing is replacing gaskets at this point which doesn't seem too unreasonable.I think this is mainly because 90% of explodey bits were replaced well before I got the car, I should find the list and post it actually, its comically long for the first 3 years of its life.
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We have literally nothing else. Well, homophobic, gay senators, too. But "FAMOUS LARRY CRAIG" doesn't have the same ring.
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:We have literally nothing else. Well, homophobic, gay senators, too. But "FAMOUS LARRY CRAIG" doesn't have the same ring. I think CA should have a FAMOUS ROY ASHBURN but people around here have no sense of humor about anything anymore. And to be fair, good potatoes are worth getting pretty excited about.
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No god themed vanity plate? 7/10 Also "Honk love God's if you not Jesus Dead"
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Nov 17, 2016 22:44
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DON'T JESUS HONK INSIDE
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=415Zv9JH4uU
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That car should be given an unroadworthy certificate for all that dumb poo poo obscuring the rear window
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Jesus that's ugly.
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On behalf of sane Texans (?), I apologize.
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You Am I posted:That car should be given an unroadworthy certificate for all that dumb poo poo obscuring the rear window 
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Scruff McGruff posted:Also "Honk love God's if you not Jesus Dead"
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slidebite posted:Sounds like a threat
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You Am I posted:That car should be given an unroadworthy certificate for all that dumb poo poo obscuring the rear window Joke's on you. There is no legal requirement to be able to see out the back of the vehicle here. Fully opaque tailgates are A-OK.
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 http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/262721436795
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That's loving rad.
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