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InitialDave posted:Yes, the Lamborghini has rollover protection that fires out: I wonder if it also comes with a hammer to break the window out like the Countach if it ends up upside down.
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It's fantasy wank material for boomers and olds with worthless poo poo heaps, made by aftermarket parts manufacturers so they'll spend their retirement checks on kits to get them running, because the program convinced them gentlemen of taste will bid hundreds of thousands of dollars for their car once "a little bit of work is done". I loving hate car shows on TV.
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Funzo posted:I turned on "What's My Car Worth" after watching F1 Quali today. Holy poo poo is this terrible. I knew boomers had driven up muscle car prices, but drat. I love the people who bring their cars on and expect way too much for them. Just because it's old and in good shape, it doesn't mean it's worth something. And I cringe every time I hear the word "Hemi".
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I've grown to hate the word "resto-mod"
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Funzo posted:I turned on "What's My Car Worth" after watching F1 Quali today. Holy poo poo is this terrible. I knew boomers had driven up muscle car prices, but drat. That sounds cool what episode?
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Mr-Spain posted:That sounds cool what episode? It was just a segment where people send in pictures of their cars and ask the "experts" on the show to value them.
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I have no idea, I just switched it on. The Cuba car wasn't a full segment, just one of their viewer email things.
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say hello.jpg posted:That bumper on the Baja maybe a requirement for it to be allowed on the road in Canada. Here in Australia you'd get a defect notice if you ran an open engine bay like the traditional bajas had. All the ones here have similar caged in engine bays with rear bumpers because they have to. my mini copper s had to have the exhaust tips shortened because of stupid people, and 2 stupid kids kept me from having a rocket firing bobba-fett
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Wasabi the J posted:I loving hate car shows on TV. American car shows are the worst. I'll watch Chasing Classic Cars, but the rest is just 50 year old bros wearing Skechers and flat-brimmed caps doing EXXXTREME MODS.
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They all seem to be trying to ape the success of Orange County Choppers, but OCC kinda sucked IMO Speaking of car shows, I've just started watching Roadkill (I don't like American cars and I will totally admit I was wrong for ignoring this masterpiece for so long) and it makes me feel so much better about my own skill with a wrench. Watching 2 experts gently caress with a carburetor float for an afternoon only to have a clogged fuel line makes me feel like less of a failure for misdiagnosing problems. Even good web series like MCM mostly gloss over themselves completely loving something up
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Aug 26, 2017 17:25
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Road kill is the good stuff. It has stray a bit from it roots in the later episodes but it is still fun. I enjoyed it the most when it was just two guys and a poo poo heap of a car trying to get it running and home. Now It is kinda well lets go to the junk yard and make this car run and tow it home.
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Funzo posted:I turned on "What's My Car Worth" after watching F1 Quali today. Holy poo poo is this terrible. I knew boomers had driven up muscle car prices, but drat. Is that the one when they try to value stuff and then it goes to auction so you see exactly how much it is worth? If so they are usually close even if the prices are utterly insane. The thing is that they only have showroom quality restored garage queens and they command those prices since they cost almost around that to take what is available and restore to that level. Problem is that in the coming decades as the Boomer generation shrinks the number of people who are interested in those cars will shrink and the prices will start heading down again and it will be come a game of hot potato. The opposite is happening in the 80s and 90s markets right now since those who grew up in those decades are now those who are looking to get their childhood dream car.
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a mysterious cloak posted:American car shows are the worst. I'll watch Chasing Classic Cars, but the rest is just 50 year old bros wearing Skechers and flat-brimmed caps doing EXXXTREME MODS. The modification/hot rod shops tend to be the same: The owner is an rear end in a top hat. The shop is always on the verge of going out of business just on a single build. There's the mad genius mechanic and the oh-my-god-how-can-you-be-such-a-loving-idiot mechanic/helper.
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Applesnots posted:Road kill is the good stuff. It has stray a bit from it roots in the later episodes but it is still fun. I enjoyed it the most when it was just two guys and a poo poo heap of a car trying to get it running and home. Now It is kinda well lets go to the junk yard and make this car run and tow it home. Their signal to noise ratio has gone up a bit in the past twenty episodes or so, but there's occasionally a Stubby Bob, Mazdarati, or VetteKart that redeems them.
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Mister Kingdom posted:The modification/hot rod shops tend to be the same: The owner is an rear end in a top hat. The shop is always on the verge of going out of business just on a single build. There's the mad genius mechanic and the oh-my-god-how-can-you-be-such-a-loving-idiot mechanic/helper. Also, ridiculous artificial deadlines to create false drama. "Oh, no - we promised we'd have this done by Tuesday (even though nobody actually cares if it's done by Tuesday) and we need this special Ferstenburger linkage that can only be obtained from Zimbabwe on alternate Fridays. We're screwed, the build is ruined." - Fade to commercial break - "Oh, just by sheer coincidence, I had a spare one in the back of my truck. Build is back on!"
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Applesnots posted:Road kill is the good stuff. It has stray a bit from it roots in the later episodes but it is still fun. I enjoyed it the most when it was just two guys and a poo poo heap of a car trying to get it running and home. Now It is kinda well lets go to the junk yard and make this car run and tow it home. And Freiberger and Finnegan genuinely love what they're doing, which helps a lot. The lunatic levels of car knowledge Dave has in terms of trim levels, engine packs and trans combos, and production runs always blows my mind.
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Deteriorata posted:Also, ridiculous artificial deadlines to create false drama. I watched one show where they were working on a mid-60s Barracuda which had a distinctive rear window. One of the mechanics put the glass on a stand and I immediately thought - it's going to get broken. And then it did. They were able to get this supposedly rare piece of glass replaced the same day.
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My gawd, sounds like you folks are talking about someone like Richard Rawlings or somthing from Fast & Loud.
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Colostomy Bag posted:I wonder if it also comes with a hammer to break the window out like the Countach if it ends up upside down.
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InitialDave posted:Thing is, it's not really Lamborghini enough, is it? I want some explosive bolts and ejection mechanism that fires the door off straight into the thorax of a first-responder or something. Explosive bolts is weirdly Mercedes, didn't the SLS AMG come with those
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geonetix posted:Explosive bolts is weirdly Mercedes, didn't the SLS AMG come with those MB has the roll bar that shoots up. The real explosive bits are trying to change the brakes on certain models that we yucked on about.
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geonetix posted:Explosive bolts is weirdly Mercedes, didn't the SLS AMG come with those "You made it worse!" "Worse? Or better?"
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Doesnt jag have a hood that explodes at you to keep poors off your manifold?
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InitialDave posted:Yes, the Lamborghini has rollover protection that fires out: most convertibles have something like this. the Aston rops is fomoco branded,😶
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InitialDave posted:Yes, but I'd expect ones made by the Germans to work properly, and let you escape the vehicle. The Lamborghini system neads to technically work, but be on the Invader Zim metric: Like the Lamborghini engineer saw the German design that merely prevented the occupants from being crushed and decided the upgrade the system to self right the car?
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The Door Frame posted:Speaking of car shows, I've just started watching Roadkill (I don't like American cars and I will totally admit I was wrong for ignoring this masterpiece for so long) and it makes me feel so much better about my own skill with a wrench. Watching 2 experts gently caress with a carburetor float for an afternoon only to have a clogged fuel line makes me feel like less of a failure for misdiagnosing problems. Even good web series like MCM mostly gloss over themselves completely loving something up That episode was filmed in my home town too. Every time I rewatch that episode I wind up trying to plan a road trip... and dreaming of Chico's Tacos.
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Hugh G. Rectum posted:
Looks like it was made by a person who really longed to see a Renault 4 Fourgonnette.
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Galler posted:Like the Lamborghini engineer saw the German design that merely prevented the occupants from being crushed and decided the upgrade the system to self right the car? Like this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbAiYjovbBM&t=118s EDIT: Holy poo poo I forgot how rediculious that scene is Humphreys fucked around with this message at 10:10 on Aug 27, 2017 |
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Hugh G. Rectum posted:
Hearse for the Russian remake of "Harold and Maude"?
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Hugh G. Rectum posted:
Is one of them, "Why isn't this in my driveway?"
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Fo3 posted:I learnt something while looking up overlanders. Ford actually had new 1971 xy falcons put into jeep chassis' as an experimental thing by 1972, by ford themselves. Didn't last because the jeep diffs were unreliable or something like that. No one ever speaks of them these days as they were so rare so they are long forgotten - except for the utes which continued on a bit and ford offered at least a lifted kit for ages. But I'm talking about sedans, wagons and panel vans ie: Theres a guy local to my work with a HQ holden, cut down to a twin cab ute, stuck on a coil sprung nissan patrol chassis with a tray out the back and a supercharged 5L under the bonnet. Handles about as well as you would expect but it goes like a raped ape
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Humphreys posted:Like this? If I'm correct that hard shift seen just after the flip was from second to fourth or maybe fifth?  ^^ terrible. tobu fucked around with this message at 10:27 on Aug 28, 2017 |
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Donking a late model Jaguar, why the gently caress? https://memphis.craigslist.org/cto/d/2009-xf-jaguar-obo/6282131856.html
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Vanagoon posted:Donking a late model Jaguar, why the gently caress? looks good to me
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Vanagoon posted:Donking a late model Jaguar, why the gently caress? I'd drive it.
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big crush on Chad OMG posted:I'm impressed that thing has 120k on it. 120km*
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big crush on Chad OMG posted:I'm impressed that thing has 120k on it. Well given that it's got a 2015 front end installed, it's only been in that state for 2 years tops. Probably less. So make that 119k on the original 2009 in the first 6 or so years of its life, pre-donking.
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