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Darchangel posted:Also, note the lack of a front driveshaft! I think it may be missing more than that.
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Have a peek under the back end of an old Frazer Nash, if you ever see one at a car show.
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InitialDave posted:Have a peek under the back end of an old Frazer Nash, if you ever see one at a car show. Wow, that thing got rear-ended by a lot of bicycles.
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I don't want to hear any of you motherfuckers saying anything mean about my boy Soichiro. Here's a closeup of that hub-diff: 
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Feb 10, 2017 21:48
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InitialDave posted:Have a peek under the back end of an old Frazer Nash, if you ever see one at a car show. Well, yes, but those cars had less horsepower than my lawnmower, and weighed about 10 oz. We're talking about a double roller chain driving a 4000 pound brick with couple hundred horsepower. edit: on the Frazier Nash, judging by the different sized sprockets, that appears to also be the transmission, correct?
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Humphreys posted:poo poo? Sure, but also what the market needed at the time. If the current config Commodore was a viable vehicle then they'd be selling more of them. Memento posted:Yeah I'll go with "poo poo" as well on that one. Huge step down from the HZ. And Holden's small car offering to replace the Torana could best be described as "literal oceans of piss". I've mentioned this before but my father worked at GMH (in NZ not Australia) during the Camira days so we had a string of them when I was growing up. After the tax laws changed to make company vehicles less attractive we never had another Holden and judging by the carpark at the factory nor did anyone else that actually worked there (dad switched to a second hand Japanese import Nissan Bluebird which was a comparatively excellent car despite being a few years old)
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Darchangel posted:edit: on the Frazier Nash, judging by the different sized sprockets, that appears to also be the transmission, correct?
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dissss posted:Sure, but also what the market needed at the time. If the current config Commodore was a viable vehicle then they'd be selling more of them. I learned to drive on a Camira that had the aforementioned crack in the firewall where the clutch bracket bolted on. Its friction point was... negotiable. On the plus side, I can basically drive anything with a clutch now because of how good I got at feeling my way through a hillstart or a gear change.
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Oh my god I finally looked it up and a Camira is a J-body. My god.
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My dad had a colleague who had a camira wagon new as a company car and they were having a smoko when my dad (tiny wiry dude) leaned against one of the doors and one of the wagon windows popped out and smashed on the tarmac. was better than his previous car which was a morris marina apparently
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https://www.youtube.com/shared?ci=G8wwgQjkbzs 522hp sr20 powered Camira. The definition of a polished turn in all senses.
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Puddin posted:https://www.youtube.com/shared?ci=G8wwgQjkbzs Polised turd. That's what I think you meant. Over 500hp is good though! I celebrated getting over 300 in my Sera when I was a young chap haah
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Phone typing in Berlin at below freezing. But yeah meant a turd. I mean if your gonna spend the money on getting that amount of power, at least have a decent car, though that vid is purely from a HP heroes era so I guess a free shell is better than paying for something to put it in.
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InitialDave posted:I believe so, but they're very far out of my range of experience. The chain gang Nash Nash and Godfrey hated cogs Built a car with chains and dogs Would it work I wonder if It was fitted with a diff? http://petergiddings.com/Peter_articles
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CharlesM posted:Oh my god I finally looked it up and a Camira is a J-body. My god. The Wikipedia page for J-body cars is great. An absolute cavalcade of automotive mediocrity. Can't believe they kept.making them until 2005.
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Puddin posted:Phone typing in Berlin at below freezing. Stay there - it's bullshit hot everywhere in Australia right now.
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I know I've been following it, it's nice to be cold but goddamn I miss the sun. Guys at work had to unload two 40ft containers the last week. I do not miss that (though I had to do one a few weeks ago in about 35 degrees, about mid 40s inside when I finished) Had to deliver some stock to the port last year and drove past some containers that had just been cracked open, 4 dudes looking very down staring at two full loads of bags of concrete in the middle of the yard and it was about 38 degrees. gently caress. That.
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These are the people you share your parking lot with:
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iospace posted:Base or srt-4? exhaust, wing and wheels say SRT, but I'm sure people put all that poo poo on base models all the time, like all the WRX's with STi wings.
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It didn't sound like anything special, no super loud BOV (in stop and go traffic), no loud exhaust, nothing. It also had these awful riced out headlights that made me wonder how light could come through them...in fact it probably doesn't. My guess would be tarted-up base.
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I know 'Solar Yellow' was a rare SRT color so unless this dude found a yellow parts car (highly improbable with intact body panels) or had the thing repainted (seems too nice for such rice) I'd guess it's a genuine SRT.
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Memento posted:The Wikipedia page for J-body cars is great. An absolute cavalcade of automotive mediocrity. Can't believe they kept.making them until 2005. Heretic. Without the J-body, there would have been no Cadillac Cimarron. The pinnacle of Cadillac.
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The Door Frame posted:Huh, I always wondered what made Cadillac stop being recognized as a luxury car manufacturer by the the general public Yeah, GM lost its way with the Cadillac brand in the 80s. They were no longer exclusive and luxurious, they were just rebadged Chevies and it was obvious. They squandered generations of brand value overnight. Then GM tried to turn Cadillac in to BMW and failed miserably. It just stands for pretentious bullshit now.
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You left out the best quote from the Wikipedia article:https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadillac_Cimarron posted:Car and Driver said a subsequent Cadillac product director, John Howell, kept a picture of the Cimarron on his wall captioned, "Lest we forget."
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The Cimarron was a good example of just how loving bad product planning at GM was. They basically identified that Cadillac's market share was being eaten by small imports but then completely failed to articulate why that was happening.
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Well I think the Cimarron was a great way to expand the middle Earth lore beyond The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
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Geoj posted:You left out the best quote from the Wikipedia article: Because they forgot quote:However, GM is looking at expanding the Escalade brand to the large CUV segment, which would see a vehicle using the Escalade badge sharing the same platform as the Chevrolet Traverse and GMC Acadia,
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GM needs to get over itself and the fact that the Corvette has to be the fastest offering.
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Good old Roger Smith.
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iospace posted:GM needs to get over itself and the fact that the Corvette has to be the fastest offering. But it isn't. I'm pretty sure the ss or g8 are as fast. They also aren't stupid poo poo box corvettes.
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The Door Frame posted:Because they forgot At this point, it couldn't hurt Cadillac to expand the Escalade brand in the same manner as Land Rover's Range Rover. Imagine an Escalade Sport and a smaller Escalade Evoq (lol) alongside the original Escalade and ESV.
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clam ache posted:But it isn't. I'm pretty sure the ss or g8 are as fast. They also aren't stupid poo poo box corvettes. Hah no. It isn't even close.
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I live my life 1/4mi at a time bro.
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clam ache posted:But it isn't. I'm pretty sure the ss or g8 are as fast. They also aren't stupid poo poo box corvettes. Geez you really are the worst at Corvette information.
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davebo posted:Geez you really are the worst at Corvette information. Yeah sorry if I just fix them at work and watch them get set back in a garage so some old gently caress can stroke his small flaccid dick to his wicked vette. Corvettes suck there ugly after the 70s and have always handled like poo poo and drove like poo poo. Still do to this day. But I've never driven a corvette so what would I know. Nor have I been tortured by the lovely optispark bullshit they had in the 90s.
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clam ache posted:what would I know. Not much apparently
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