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Leperflesh posted:If you can't sell a red VW Beetle in the San Francisco Bay Area, you're not trying. This is a new beetle, not an air cooled.
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nm posted:This is a new beetle, not an air cooled. Yeah, I know. SF is jam packed full of people who buy cars because they look cute, it's not just the aircooled VW scene. Probably the dealbreaker isn't even the no-smog (which makes it technically illegal to even sell as an operable vehicle, lol)... it's the sideswipe damage.
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what does danno want for the VW? and can you deliver it to TN?
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Dec 14, 2016 22:49
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Over 500 under 1000 and I do not know. I realistically doubt it this winter
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Its 18° and I just domed myself on the corner of the underside of the drivers side step
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Dec 14, 2016 23:18
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Just take off your hat, no icepack required.
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   The cute little snow birds I've started throwing out seed for have taken to following me from the bushes by the house to the bushes by the truck while I walk. They chirp and take adorable little snow baths. I call this the happy trail of tears now 
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Dec 14, 2016 23:33
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I like the cinder block windbreak for the BBQ danno. Being a fellow flatlander, I know your pain.
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Dec 14, 2016 23:44
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14 BAR RIFF posted:Im out of time on the Fastback. Ive been getting pictures of Rosie sleeping on my laundry back home Dude, why are you worrying about the fastback now. It doesn't look like its going anywhere! Start thinking about it next spring after you've ridden the thunderhorse and been back home to Rosie
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Dec 15, 2016 01:20
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I Bought A Truck: The Happy Trail Of Tears
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A Long Time Coming: A Happy Ending for 14": Or how I learned to stop worrying and enjoy the tears.
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Dec 15, 2016 01:56
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I know this may be a little early, but is there a planned route along the Fury Road to Florhalla?
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Dec 15, 2016 02:06
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My Man Shran posted:I know this may be a little early, but is there a planned route along the Fury Road to Florhalla? South east to Tennessee then south to Orlando
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14 BAR RIFF posted:I call this the happy trail of tears now ah, the fury choad
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Dec 15, 2016 02:26
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the other road of bones
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Dec 15, 2016 02:27
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Keep out of mountains and such and you'll probably be fine.
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Dec 15, 2016 02:27
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That takes you right by my section of swampland, assuming I-75 to hwy 50 instead of 27 to avoid the tolls and stay to slightly more populated areas if the war rig needs to be coaxed into staying running.
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Dec 15, 2016 02:31
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Having safe GoonStops would probably be a good idea for the trip to FL right?
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I thought someone was going to drive a chase car, but that doesn't seem like the case, especially this close to christmas. Instead, put the Jeep on dollies, strap a blow-up doll in the charred remnants of the driver's seat, and tow it behind the truck to Florida. E: Work out some way to tow it back home. I think at this point, you have to return with something, 14. Even if it's only to give gremlin the closure he needs by returning the body to him for proper burial. Fermented Tinal fucked around with this message at 05:01 on Dec 15, 2016 |
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Dec 15, 2016 04:59
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I was kind of figuring it would be sane to fly back to Seattle from Florida.
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Dec 15, 2016 05:07
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14 BAR RIFF posted:South east to Tennessee then south to Orlando So are you going to cut down at Knoxville and go through Chattanooga, or are you going to go I-81 to I-26 and go through Asheville? Or maybe there's another way through TN that I'm not aware of (I live right at the 81-26 interchange and always go 26 to get to FL, but I'm always going to the east coast when I make it down there). That truck may not like the mountains too much so I'm assuming not 26.
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So, 14, are you cutting doughnuts across danno's lawn yet?
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empty baggie posted:So are you going to cut down at Knoxville and go through Chattanooga, or are you going to go I-81 to I-26 and go through Asheville? Or maybe there's another way through TN that I'm not aware of (I live right at the 81-26 interchange and always go 26 to get to FL, but I'm always going to the east coast when I make it down there). That truck may not like the mountains too much so I'm assuming not 26. Picking up I-24 in Illinois and going through Nashville, then catching I-75 in Chattanooga would be the most direct route.
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Oh please come through Asheville i wanna see the war rig. Also it's a small world on craigslist, I kinda prefer the grille on this one 
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Deteriorata posted:Picking up I-24 in Illinois and going through Nashville, then catching I-75 in Chattanooga would be the most direct route. That's what I assumed, but if it was the 26 route, I could have offered a place to crash for the night on the way. But also the border of TN and NC and around 50 miles past on 26 is nothing but curvy ups and downs that would be pretty drat horrifying while driving that truck. My only other advice is to be wary of the fog on 75 before Chatty (without looking at a map, this stretch may be avoided by going straight from Nashville to Chattanooga) They have warning lights up, but there have been more than one terrible wreck in that stretch of road, one of which killed 12 people. It's not as big of a deal now that safety measures have been put into place, but depending on the time of day and weather, it's something to be aware of. http://www.wrcbtv.com/story/30729258/25th-anniversary-of-i-75-fog-crash empty baggie fucked around with this message at 06:14 on Dec 15, 2016 |
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empty baggie posted:That's what I assumed, but if it was the 26 route, I could have offered a place to crash for the night on the way. But also the border of TN and NC and around 50 miles past on 26 is nothing but curvy ups and downs that would be pretty drat horrifying while driving that truck. There's a big, long, steep hill to descend on I-24 at Sewanee, Monteagle Mountain, coming down off the Cumberland Plateau into the Tennessee River valley (technically the Sequatchee River valley, but they're connected). That's had its own share of bad wrecks and runaway trucks. Dave needs to keep it slow and easy and use lots of engine braking if he comes that route. I put the clutch in and let my car coast up to 80 or 90 for the fun of it, but that's not a good plan with a big, old truck with questionable brakes. He's much better off staying west of the Appalachians generally. There's no route devoid of potential problems, but I-24 is probably the safest.
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Deteriorata posted:That stretch of 75 has never been a problem when I've driven it, although the Bowater plant sure makes things smell bad. No way I'd go down 24 through Monteagle in that thing. He'd probably be better off keeping 65 to Montgomery and taking smaller roads down into the panhandle. Little slower, but considerably less pants-making GBS threads.
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angryhampster posted:No way I'd go down 24 through Monteagle in that thing. He'd probably be better off keeping 65 to Montgomery and taking smaller roads down into the panhandle. I wouldn't take I-65 all the way to Montgomery, I'd get on US280 in Birmingham, and take that all the way down/over back to I-75. That's the quickest route from the Birmingham area down to central Florida. EDIT: Actually, going down to Montgomery and taking US82 across to I-75 would take him by Radium Springs, where he could take a dip and get some of that proper War Boy glow. n0tqu1tesane fucked around with this message at 14:24 on Dec 15, 2016 |
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I thought the plan was to avoid the interstate all together in that beast? Christmas traffic in a 55mph cop magnet is bound to be fun.
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Crotch Fruit posted:I thought the plan was to avoid the interstate all together in that beast? Christmas traffic in a 55mph cop magnet is bound to be fun. Just need a shitload of those PBA stickers all over the truck.
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Crotch Fruit posted:I thought the plan was to avoid the interstate all together in that beast? Christmas traffic in a 55mph cop magnet is bound to be fun. I think people keep forgetting that the L05 is probably near double the power of the I6 the truck came with.
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Fermented Tinal posted:I think people keep forgetting that the L05 is probably near double the power of the I6 the truck came with. Even still, that thing is going to sway and blow around a lot with an empty bed and it'll probably get straight squirrelly above 60mph.
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The bed's framed entirely by wood if the pictures aren't lying. I would consider disassembling the tailgate, and chopping the bed sides down to like 2' tall or whatever height the first wooden crosspieces are at. Then just harvest the hardware and toss it in the height-reduced bed. It'll take off a lot of weight, and likely help with stability since the rotten sides will be less prone to shaking the rear end-end of the truck as they wobble in the wind.
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So are you going to swap the SBC into the jeep when you get to Florida and drive that to California?
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Fermented Tinal posted:The bed's framed entirely by wood if the pictures aren't lying. I would consider disassembling the tailgate, and chopping the bed sides down to like 2' tall or whatever height the first wooden crosspieces are at. Then just harvest the hardware and toss it in the height-reduced bed. It'll take off a lot of weight, and likely help with stability since the rotten sides will be less prone to shaking the rear end-end of the truck as they wobble in the wind. Looking at the pictures, it looks like the stakes sit in brackets at the bottom of the bed, so it might even be possible to just lift the bed front and sides out of the brackets, and lay them flat on the bed and ratchet strap them down. That way the cutting could be kept to a minimum.
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I'm worried about reducing the weight in the back too much over snowy/freezing roads. Before, there was going to be a car or jeep in the back, now it's just empty. Or am I overthinking on something this heavy overall? Also, this thing have a functional cigarette lighter? Because an electric car blanket might not be amiss.
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TheNothingNew posted:I'm worried about reducing the weight in the back too much over snowy/freezing roads. Before, there was going to be a car or jeep in the back, now it's just empty. Decreasing the rear profile to avoid getting blown off the road by high winds doesn't sound like the worst idea, especially if the sides come off easily as suggested by n0tqu1tesane.
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Y'all are need in to dial it back. I'm the fastest jeepslinger in the west, I got this 
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14 BAR RIFF posted:I'm the fastest jeepslinger in the west, I got this HOLD MY
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