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Eat This Glob posted:I should have read more carefully before driving 20 miles to get this picture. I got a picture of the wind power source, but not what it's powering so we'll call it a non-entry, I guess: Nono, that's great - you got it - just what I had in mind. I was expecting it to take more than an hour though  Post your challenge. meltie fucked around with this message at 01:18 on May 25, 2017 |
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Eat This Glob posted:I should have read more carefully before driving 20 miles to get this picture. I got a picture of the wind power source, but not what it's powering so we'll call it a non-entry, I guess: Quote for a new page since the challenge was edited in!  Take a picture of your vehicle in front of something that makes you smile! Thanks meltie! It was an easy one for me since I have about 200 giant turbines about 5-10 miles away. I went a little smaller for the challenge though!
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Eat This Glob posted:Thanks meltie! It was an easy one for me since I have about 200 giant turbines about 5-10 miles away. I went a little smaller for the challenge though! Yeah, you're all good. I just wanted to preclude flags and fake windmills on waffle house roofs 
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Eat This Glob posted:Thanks meltie! It was an easy one for me since I have about 200 giant turbines about 5-10 miles away. I went a little smaller for the challenge though! I think you went with the better option, since it would be quite difficult to get both a car and a full-size wind turbine in the same frame. (Depending on how far away from the road they are.)
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Eat This Glob posted:
The Sydney basin. My home for the last 10 years. I genuinely like living here and this view makes me smile every time I drive past.  I now challenge you to take a picture of your car reflected in the hubcap of a prime mover, in the daylight, in motion.
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rednocare posted:The Sydney basin. My home for the last 10 years. I genuinely like living here and this view makes me smile every time I drive past. Yarramundi burnout pad 
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:Yarramundi burnout pad wouldn't that be down by the bridge... I'd call this the hawkesbury heights burnout pad 
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rednocare posted:I now challenge you to  gently caress that was hard, so many truckers have dirty hubcaps, or non reflective ones (E: or none, the cheapskates). I assume prime mover is ausie speak for semi truck, if not accepted I'll rescind my challenge.  Get a picture of your car far above you, you must be at least 5 ft below your car, looking up at it.
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Oh boy, my first quote != edit. My bad.
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Magnificent! I don't know why we call them prime movers, but we do. This was the inspiration for the challenge that I took a number of years ago:  (Eunos 30X with the 2.5L V6 that was turbocharged for anyone wondering. Stupid car that one.)
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Bajaha posted:
Here, have a picture of the drippy underside of a 51 year old dodge.   Post a picture of the biggest fluid leak stain in your garage / driveway / whatever. E: with the perpetrator in view, like car shaming. Slung Blade fucked around with this message at 18:33 on May 28, 2017 |
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pfaugh the culprit? this rusty 9MPG gettin tranny slippin fluid leakin Chrysler built POS  note the secondary stains Anyway.  Post a pic of your vehicle with all its wheels suspended in the air through non-standard means. (i.e. no jacks, stands, ramps, lifts, etc.)
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buttcrackmenace posted:Anyway.
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A bunch of variations on this theme, but there's no rule against repeats so far as I can remember.
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Bajaha posted:gently caress that was hard, so many truckers have dirty hubcaps, or non reflective ones (E: or none, the cheapskates). I assume prime mover is ausie speak for semi truck, if not accepted I'll rescind my challenge. I honestly assumed "prime mover" was the term for those people who drive around doing deliveries for Amazon Prime, which seemed like an awfully specific task to achieve.
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Yeah I thought he meant a train and I was imagining some modern goon western
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Adiabatic posted:Yeah I thought he meant a train and I was imagining some modern goon western 
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So basically high centered or.... [IDEA!] Show us your vehicle with something interesting more than 10 miles from home and work and the path between them (I like that challenge) ilkhan fucked around with this message at 19:14 on May 29, 2017 |
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 In the afternoon of May 25th, 1979, American Airlines flight 191, a DC-10, began it's takeoff roll from Chicago O'Hare airport bound for l Los Angeles. Seconds later, it's #1 engine ripped off of the wing. The crew initiated an emergency climb out, but inadvertantly stalled due to a loss of power. The plane crashed in this field here, killing all 271 people aboard and two on the ground. In the spirit of this photo, drive at least 10 miles to the site of a tragedy.
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May 29, 2017 22:42
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At least 10 miles from the white house.
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Safety Dance posted:
You were like two seconds from my shop and house. Assuming no traffic.
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Safety Dance posted:In the spirit of this photo, drive at least 10 miles to the site of a tragedy. Argh, I wish I'd saved my trip to the site of the Battle of Coleto Creek for this one. It wasn't just a tragedy, it was a guddamn massacre 
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Anyone near bowling Green?
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Slung Blade posted:Anyone near bowling Green? 
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Officially declaring it: the sinkhole at the Corvette Museum is a tragedy.
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Safety Dance posted:Officially declaring it: the sinkhole at the Corvette Museum is a tragedy. You mean beyond what cars are featured there? (I KID I KID)
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Slung Blade posted:Anyone near bowling Green? Don't tempt me 
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iospace posted:You mean beyond what cars are featured there? 
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Safety Dance posted:In the spirit of this photo, drive at least 10 miles to the site of a tragedy.  See down the river, just before where the trees end and the river bends to the right? This bridge used to be there:  But 106 years and 5 days ago, there was a little more to the scene:  bigger The lynching of Laura and L.D. Nelson Take a picture of your vehicle helping you do a good turn for somebody. Failing that, take a picture of your vehicle with something cute, beautiful, uplifting or funny.
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That's coincidental. I was just about to head up the road to Goliad, Texas to snap a photo of our Pontiac under a landmark called "The Lynchin' Tree." It's a tree right there in the town square where (surprise) they used to...well, you know.
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I hope the answer is "watch Twin Peaks episodes", but I know better.
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InitialDave posted:The irony that you're too close to Coventry... Much too close
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Safety Dance posted:I hope the answer is "watch Twin Peaks episodes", but I know better. 
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Should have checked this thread, I was over by Pulse earlier today. Though that might have been a bit dark for a fun game...
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Enourmo posted:Should have checked this thread, I was over by Pulse earlier today. Though that might have been a bit dark for a fun game... Thematically appropriate given the month...
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joat mon posted:
Alright, so this requires some backstory. Several years ago, my grandparents gave me their old truck, a 1990 ford f-150. As these things tend to go, I grew up around this truck during family camping vacations and just hanging out with grandpa and grandma when I was a kid / teen. As of five years ago, grandpa couldn't really reliably drive and they don't camp anymore, so they didn't have much use for the poor old thing. I couldn't bear to see them get rid of it, it was too nice (mostly) and I'm clearly too sentimental about cars, so I asked if I could have it. They seemed happy that I wanted it and were glad to help me out at the time, as I wasn't nearly as financially secure then as I am now. That said, it wasn't perfect. This was a few years ago, the paint on the hood was classic 90s ford single stage and was peeling, cracking, flaking off, and causing the sheet metal to rust. I don't have many pictures of the hood before, I really should have grabbed some.  I kept meaning to fix it, or get it fixed, but I have so many other projects on the go it was always at the bottom of the pile. Partially because it's never really needed anything more than basic maintenance and just keeps going. Last year I spot some rust on the cab corner, and I figure I have to make a decision, do I let it rot slowly (as I keep it in the garage and never winter drive it) or do I get it fixed proper-like? Gramps isn't getting younger, and I'd like them to see the truck back the way it was when they bought it new nearly 30 years ago. About a month ago I take it in for an estimate to a couple body/paint places and they're really looking for work, they give me a pretty decent deal, so I figure why not get it done now? The rust is now gone, and the hood is back to the original paint colour, it's pretty well blended with the rest.   The front fascia was really covered in rock chips, they spot-painted all of them (sorry it's got a little road dirt on it here) so it's not perfect but it's way better than it was before.  This is the corner that was rusting out, they cut out the old and fabricated some new sheet metal and blended the paint quite well.  Stylin'  It's got a few dents here, and few dings there, but a power polish and some paint go a long way to cleaning up a nice old truck like this.  They even detailed the interior as part of the deal (note the hand crocheted seat blanket my grandma made for me).  I had dinner with my grandparents tonight, they seemed delighted to see it fixed up to nearly original condition   I couldn't let this truck fade away, it's got too much personality and way too many of my memories attached to it. It doesn't even have 160 thousand kilometers on the clock yet. What say you, does this fit your criteria?
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^^^ This is cool and good.
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A cool truck and a cool story.
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