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I'd rather buy a reliable domestic like the honda civic or toyota corolla than a lovely import like the f-150 or mustang ~someone from an alternate universe where people paid attention to where stuff is actually made
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For real, only the crustiest of fogey cares about the foreign/domestic paradigm of where a car was built/assembled. At least in my circle of Canadians. When I look at a car I'm concerned with build quality, design, and engine technology. The industrial culture of the supposed country of origin has a small bearing on my decision, but only in certain cases.
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Mar 13, 2017 21:53
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"I prefer Japanese quality!" *buys a Civic made in Swindon*
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Mar 13, 2017 21:54
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Anyone want an SUV? http://www.kijiji.ca/v-cars-trucks/edmonton/porsche-cayenne-turbo/1246174386?enableSearchNavigationFlag=true http://www.kijiji.ca/v-cars-trucks/calgary/2005-porsche-cayenne-s/1246677637?enableSearchNavigationFlag=true  
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Mar 15, 2017 18:55
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Spring is here and it's warm out, best get the van and start working on the kart so i can hit the track soon. *field it's parked on in dewinton is now a marsh* 
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Mar 16, 2017 01:38
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Mary Browns chicken is pretty drat good. Not super oily/greasy like KFC, fries and wedges are good and their salads aren't just a vat of mayo with something in it. Only thing I'm not a huge fan of is their gravy, it's almost like a beef/oxo based gravy but it's not bad for fast food. Had a 15% off coupon so the Mrs and I went to get some take out for dinner. Ended up with a 20 piece meal and a poo poo-ton of fries, salad for $40. We've got food for days now.
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Mar 18, 2017 16:35
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The dirt and grime all over the car, it never ends. 
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Mar 18, 2017 16:39
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slidebite posted:Mary Browns chicken is pretty drat good. Not super oily/greasy like KFC, fries and wedges are good and their salads aren't just a vat of mayo with something in it. Only thing I'm not a huge fan of is their gravy, it's almost like a beef/oxo based gravy but it's not bad for fast food. I prefer chicken on the way but it is in no way healthy food.
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I don't believe you. In other news, Lethbridge is doing another airshow this year. July 14-16. They're doing another extended Friday show into the evening again which, while I didn't go last time, they supposedly did a good amount of Pyro and the people I heard of that did go said it was pretty good. Snowboards, usual CF18 demos, C117, US Golden Knights are confirmed. Typically the US sends some static AC and do a demo or two (they did a good A-10 demo a few years back). Anyone interested in coming down? Weather down here in mid July is usually a pretty safe bet for being dry and hot.
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Mar 18, 2017 18:33
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slidebite posted:Mary Browns chicken is pretty drat good. Not super oily/greasy like KFC, fries and wedges are good and their salads aren't just a vat of mayo with something in it. Only thing I'm not a huge fan of is their gravy, it's almost like a beef/oxo based gravy but it's not bad for fast food. Wistful of Dollars posted:The dirt and grime all over the car, it never ends. The juxtaposition of these two posts is causing me a silly amount of giggling.
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Mar 18, 2017 19:29
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Such a shame when you look at a high end sub like a Cayenne Turbo and it has a Bose sound system. Same with Cadillac. The new ct6 has something like a 32 speaker bose system. 32 cheap as gently caress overpriced lovely glued paper speakers.
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jonathan posted:Such a shame when you look at a high end sub like a Cayenne Turbo and it has a Bose sound system. Same with Cadillac. The new ct6 has something like a 32 speaker bose system. 32 cheap as gently caress overpriced lovely glued paper speakers. I had to buy a $125 MOST adapter (copper to bose proprietary fiber optic) for the replacement head unit for the cayenne because of that poo poo. Eventually I'm gonna gut those loving speakers and amps out of there and replace them with something that cost 1/2 or less of the factory option price and sounds twice as good. Also, you can't get a second battery in the cayennes with bose because the loving sub is in the way. I would have much preferred a factory second battery.......but you can't find a turbo without the kitchen sink of options up right up to what I actually wanted: advanced offroad package (which is impossible to find). I mean....I like the rest. Full leather everyfuckingthing and heated seats and poo poo is nice. But the bose is a PITA, and mine is so old that it didn't even have bluetooth.
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Mar 19, 2017 01:58
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Guys I'm scared. I really liked the Volvo V90.
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Seat Safety Switch posted:Guys I'm scared. I really liked the Volvo V90. Do not be afraid, it was a great car. We should go test drive one sometime. That was a fun auto show too. I'm still hyped for the swap meet next week though.
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Slung Blade posted:That was a fun auto show too. I'm still hyped for the swap meet next week though. Slung Blade posted:
Come with us and make bad decisions over a delicious morsel from burger baron.
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Mar 21, 2017 05:53
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The internet is bad for my brain. I'm developing an attraction to the Saturn Sky Redline.
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DrakeriderCa posted:The internet is bad for my brain. I'm developing an attraction to the Saturn Sky Redline. Time for me to start sending you links to RX8's. 
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McTinkerson posted:Time for me to start sending you links to RX8's. I don't want to hurt you but I must be blunt: I don't like how RX-8's look 
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DrakeriderCa posted:The internet is bad for my brain. I'm developing an attraction to the Saturn Sky Redline. FUN FACT™ the Saturn Sky and Pontiac Solstice have holes in the frame rails to accept stock engine mounts for the 1/2JZ motors. I guess somebody at GM was unhappy with their choice of powertrain and engineered a better solution.
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Mar 21, 2017 19:04
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Slung Blade posted:Come with us and make bad decisions over a delicious morsel from burger baron. Let me know when you're heading up and i'll try to meet you guys there.
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TWSS posted:FUN FACT™ the Saturn Sky and Pontiac Solstice have holes in the frame rails to accept stock engine mounts for the 1/2JZ motors. I guess somebody at GM was unhappy with their choice of powertrain and engineered a better solution. I feel like that must be some kind of coincidence between the 1JZ and the LS or some other engine in the GM Powertrain Hillbilly Family.
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TWSS posted:FUN FACT™ the Saturn Sky and Pontiac Solstice have holes in the frame rails to accept stock engine mounts for the 1/2JZ motors. I guess somebody at GM was unhappy with their choice of powertrain and engineered a better solution. Well that'd be pretty helpful once the LNF incinerates its pistons! 
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MrChips posted:Well that'd be pretty helpful once the LNF incinerates its pistons! Isn't that the point of the LNF? It's like a bottle rocket - put the GMPP tune on it, light it up till it burns out then put something else in there!
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DrakeriderCa posted:The internet is bad for my brain. I'm developing an attraction to the Saturn Sky Redline. For some reason I had the Saturn Vue in my mind when I read your post. I was an inch away from an intervention.
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The Pontiac Solstice is a most unrewarding car to watch at autocross. One of the other students in the weekend-of-autocross-school thing I did a few years ago had one. Every time he popped a cone it would fly straight up and come down right onto the top of the door and then BOUNCE OUT. Not one cone landed inside the stupid car! Meanwhile, my e36 would just eat cones and grind them up into the front suspension, or wedge them upside-down behind the radiator. Or stuff them up into the wheel well.
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Powershift posted:Let me know when you're heading up and i'll try to meet you guys there. Saturday morning, we'll probably get there around 10-11 or so. HOW WILL WE CONTACT YOU
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eh, just let me know here when you're heading in there and i'll aim for around the same time. beyond that, just look for the head sticking up above the crowd and throw somethin at it.
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So which one of you was this: https://www.reddit.com/r/cars/comments/610f3x/my_truck_was_stolen_4_months_ago_today_i_found_it/ Someone here must be either a) owner b) thief c) know pick'n'pull employees :P
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I am genuinely surprised that they don't need any proof of ownership to buy a vehicle from someone. Makes me think they don't check for ID of the seller either. Wreckers now join metal scrap yards in the "shady as gently caress" businesses list in my opinion. That said, I don't think I'd want the truck back at that point if it was mine.
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slidebite posted:I am genuinely surprised that they don't need any proof of ownership to buy a vehicle from someone. Makes me think they don't check for ID of the seller either. Wreckers now join metal scrap yards in the "shady as gently caress" businesses list in my opinion. I'd be putting dollars on either the owner, or one/many of the employees, 100% knowing where it came from, and that the yards a chop-shop (har har pick'n'pull joke). I guess if the trucks got sentimental value, it's worth grabbing, but yeah, its not looking to be in good shape.
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It may have changed since I worked there but we did require proof of ownership but generally we just accepted anything written on a pad of paper as proof, and it usually was just something scribbled on a scrap of paper for alot of guys. Tow vendors were always sketchy as poo poo though and there were ones during my time there that we stopped accepting vehicles from because too many of them ended up being stolen. You also had a lot of guys that it was fairly obvious were just tossing unclaimed vehicles that they really didn't own from their lot because they needed the space. We only checked the VINs if the police contacted us asking if we had vehicle X, Y or Z.
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drat, here the scrapyards won't even write you a cheque until after they call the MoT with your vin and you sign over the title.
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Fermented Tinal posted:drat, here the scrapyards won't even write you a cheque until after they call the MoT with your vin and you sign over the title. AB doesn't really have titles. I'm pretty sure you could register a car with the relevant deets written on a napkin, and even easier if the pink slip was in the car when you stole it so you can tear off the 'transfer of registration' bit which just needs a forged signature.
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Mar 23, 2017 23:58
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I finally pulled the trigger.
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Seat Safety Switch posted:I'm pretty sure you could register a car with the relevant deets written on a napkin Yup. I have done this, more or less.
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Mar 24, 2017 01:20
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Nice. You can fit a lot of dead hookers in there.
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Mar 24, 2017 03:30
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Time to break it in with a pick n pull trip.
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Rad. Let me know if you need any extra eyes to get it into your paddock stall. Backing up short trailers can be a bitch.
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Shrugs Not Drugs posted:Yup. I have done this, more or less. I've written out o bill of sale on a diner napkin to prove it could be done.
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Slung Blade posted:Rad. Let me know if you need any extra eyes to get it into your paddock stall. Backing up short trailers can be a bitch. I am likely going to take you up on this since I'm terrible with trailers to begin with and I'll be doing it in a Corolla with the worse clutch feel in the world.
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