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Waffle House posted:We need a thread, AND more pictures. I'd pondered a thread, but the progress on EVERY project I have has been glacial recently thanks to building a Lemons car. Which raced this last weekend! And didn't blow up! And was probably the slowest car on the track! Everyone from my wife's family calls the Rolls "The Bentley," and some oral family history seems to imply it wasn't a factory Rolls, but I haven't done much research. I feel like an awful car person because I know next to nothing about this car that sits in my garage.   Right hand drive, but still right hand shifter, which makes getting in and out fun.   Back seat couch (yes, plenty of ash trays):  Aforementioned Lemons car. 94 Volvo 940, converted to turbo with Megasquirt installed at the last minute. Theme was weak (Swedish rednecks, words on roof read "General Leif" with a Swedish flag), car ran like trash, but had more fun than I thought possible. 
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Powershift posted:A couple like that went cheapish at the last mecum auction.
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shoncook posted:I'd pondered a thread, but the progress on EVERY project I have has been glacial recently thanks to building a Lemons car. Which raced this last weekend! And didn't blow up! And was probably the slowest car on the track! Holy poo poo, do you get a lot of "Would you have any Grey Poupon?" jokes? You should keep a jar in the glovebox just in case. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IN5EZwanClY
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shoncook posted:Aforementioned Lemons car. 94 Volvo 940, converted to turbo with Megasquirt installed at the last minute. Theme was weak (Swedish rednecks, words on roof read "General Leif" with a Swedish flag), car ran like trash, but had more fun than I thought possible. This joke works on so many levels.
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I never realized how much I wanted a fifties vintage Bentley/Rolls. I also didn't realize they could be had for so cheap.
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You can grab some cheap Rolls and Bentleys because the target market do not want and old one and maintainance on things like the suspension can be ruinous. If you can deal with it then you can roll around like a fat stockbroker for relatively little cash.
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For those Caprice wagon lovers out there: https://seattle.craigslist.org/see/cto/6163264249.html 
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shoncook posted:I'd pondered a thread, but the progress on EVERY project I have has been glacial recently thanks to building a Lemons car. Which raced this last weekend! And didn't blow up! And was probably the slowest car on the track! that car is dope friend thank you.
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BigPaddy posted:You can grab some cheap Rolls and Bentleys because the target market do not want and old one and maintainance on things like the suspension can be ruinous. If you can deal with it then you can roll around like a fat stockbroker for relatively little cash. Can confirm, my mother liked to go to police auctions and would sometimes come home with eclectic cars. Being a physician she did whatever she wanted and rarely asked my father for money or input. So pretty cool at the time. One day she showed up in a mid 60's droptop Rolls Royce. I remember standing in the driveway, mouth agape as my father asked my mother the usual questions surrounding her purchases. Turns out she paid $3.5k cash and drove it home. My father almost blew a gasket, imagining ruinous maintenance and unaffordable upkeep. The car remained for a week, until one day at the hospital she worked at, a new doctor appeared. Essentially he told her, he needed the car. The guy was an ER doc with all kinds of toys and cars, the kind of person who makes $200k and blows it. He offered $10k and insisted she went to the bank with him after their shift. My father by this point had grown somewhat attached and was sad to learn of the Roll's fate. Well theres my story.
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What I'm learning here is that I must immediately invest in a vintage Rolls
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I'm learning that I must immediately marry a doctor.
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boxen posted:I'm learning that I must immediately marry a doctor. My sister in law is a OB/GYN. She drives a Toyota Highlander with a mashed in bumper. She is doing it wrong.
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Meydey posted:My sister in law is a OB/GYN. She drives a Toyota Highlander with a mashed in bumper. She is doing it wrong. Is it a Camry dent?
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Meydey posted:My sister in law is a OB/GYN. She drives a Toyota Highlander with a mashed in bumper. She is doing it wrong. Different specialties different personalities I guess. People who gravitate towards acute emergency room work seem to be fast paced adrenaline junkie types. e.g. the hotshot trauma surgeons. Glad you guys appreciated my story, I sometimes forget how eccentric my family was at times. Some of my mother's other impulse buys include: forest green 96' mustang with 6 cylinders and a stick, early 2000's Lincoln LS with V8, finally topping herself with a god knows what year AMX (!!!) that my father ended up claiming as his daily driver for a few years. EDIT: The police auctions I speak of took place in Chicago and surrounding counties, check out Dupage county auctions in particular. They love seizing assets and holding vehicles for evidence until they can legally auction them off. Remember, these deals are so hot because it is cash at the door usually. Sometimes they accept a credit card with fees, but they never offer financing. The Sicilian fucked around with this message at 21:10 on Jun 7, 2017 |
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Awwww yeah https://seattle.craigslist.org/skc/cto/6147318617.html For posterity:  
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I went to a cop auction and all they had was a giant pile of poo poo and rusty bikes.
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How much did the giant pile of poo poo go for?
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The Sicilian posted:Different specialties different personalities I guess. People who gravitate towards acute emergency room work seem to be fast paced adrenaline junkie types. e.g. the hotshot trauma surgeons. Dreadite posted:Awwww yeah https://seattle.craigslist.org/skc/cto/6147318617.html Poking around on the local CL, and found a few cheap trucks: I love the "patina" on this one.  Convert it back to gas, weld in new floorpans, and leave the exterior as it is, cut open the propane tank and turn it into a toolbox. "Good engine and transmission. They just aren't put together."  "Body has a few small dings" Y'DON'T SAY?  What do you want to bet that's the (disassembled) transmission in the bed? This one, the pictures aren't important (it's a $500 white '85 F150, looks about like you'd expect), but the text deserves quoting for posterity, I bolded the good part: quote:Truck was running 2 yrs. ago. Threw a rod on way home from town, drove home with good oil pressure and normal temperature, but making very loud noise. Has a quarter size hole in oil pan. Parked, took out battery and drained fuel out of both fuel tanks. Has been sitting since. Bought a second hand short block and is in truck bed under topper. It is a fuel injected 302- 5.0 engine with C-6 3 speed auto trans. Manuel windows, locks. A/c, heat, radio, work well. Has receiver hitch. $ 500. or possible trade. Price is with old tires and rims, tires and wheels in photos have less than 10,000 miles, will sell with for additional $ 250. Topper is not included in sale. Have extra parts. Will delete ad when sold. My father once had an E150 work van of similar vintage that, by the early '90s, was on its last legs, but the boss (dad's brother) refused to replace it until it was stone dead. So Dad and I hatched a plan for automotive assisted suicide -- we drained the oil and coolant and fired 'er up. After about half an hour of the fucker chugging away like nothing was wrong (aside from getting progressively louder), we started to get bored and thought that maybe there was some oil trapped in there, so he poured a gallon of A/C coil cleaner (industrial-strength degreaser) into the oil filler hole. It got a LOT louder, but otherwise no change. Glaciers came and went, but that bastard boat-anchor LoPo 5.0 just kept on idling, happy as a clam, the rod knock and predetonation knock masking the fact that the idle had slowed significantly. Eventually we gave up and turned the key off. It ran without spark for another minute or so, and finally wheezed to a stop. We gave it a few minutes to recover, and I turned the key as Dad called the junkyard to come pick it up. Guess what happened. it was completely loving seized, the starter just made that high-pitched whine electric motors do when they're prevented from turning. I kept trying until it stopped making any sound at all.
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Delivery McGee posted:quote=/= edit, oops Or it's a v fast impala driving at extremely high speeds
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Cage posted:How much did the giant pile of poo poo go for? They told people to take some when they left.
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 I was just looking for something to tow a boat but I'll take it.
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monsterzero posted:
This is how you become the best dad at the after-school pickup.
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Oh good, he's a lunatic, too.
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always nice to have a full sized spare
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Thief posted:always nice to have a full sized spare Yeah I hate being caught dead needing a new cab
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I'd make a treehouse or something out of the second cab.
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Nah, you do some Giga-Horse style double cab thing.
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Seat Safety Switch posted:This is how you become the best dad at the after-school pickup. Or the worst neighbor in the apt complex. MrYenko posted:Oh good, he's a lunatic, too. I've figured out the Jefferson logic. They want to annihilate their tax base so the roads all crumble. That means more 4-wheelin'!
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monsterzero posted:
Weeeelp. Looks like I've got something other than buses and Deuce and Halfs to look out for on surplus auctions.
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One of my favorite rvs is built of a hemtt. http://forum.expeditionportal.com/threads/112015-8x8-HEMTT-Expedition-Vehicle-w-Garage
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Kastivich posted:One of my favorite rvs is built of a hemtt. http://forum.expeditionportal.com/threads/112015-8x8-HEMTT-Expedition-Vehicle-w-Garage I was looking at prices for these normally and it turns out right now 15k is inline with a decent one. A couple years ago they were much more expensive but recently their prices have dropped. What I'm saying is that the RV one you posted isn't worth 130k anymore.
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Man it sure looks like that guy took the axles off a toy hauler and bolted it to the hemtt
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https://athensga.craigslist.org/cto/6173330907.html Sure, I'll give you Barrett Jackson dollars for your four door cadillac. 
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monsterzero posted:
Man, you would think there is $15k in just scrap metal there. Never in my life have "want" and "need" been so far apart for me.
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NoWake posted:Almost $15k in tires, assuming they're still good. Heh, just what I was thinking. Where to find replacements? Pull it into the Firestone tire center?
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