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I’d love to know who has a budget to pay photographers properly these days. I know we don’t, beyond a Getty subscription, but then I barely have a budget to pay freelance writers either. If you want good pics to go with a story you basically have to take them yourself. or my case, get the missus a photographer credential since she’s much better at photography than I am.
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Just offer some random amateur the most valuable currency: exposure!
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May 23, 2018 13:59
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xzzy posted:Just offer some random amateur the most valuable currency: exposure! LOL. I’m glad to say that’s something we won’t do; people should get paid for their effort. (Also Condé Nast lost a big lawsuit about unpaid interns a while back.)
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drgitlin posted:I’d love to know who has a budget to pay photographers properly these days. I know we don’t, beyond a Getty subscription, but then I barely have a budget to pay freelance writers either. If you want good pics to go with a story you basically have to take them yourself. or my case, get the missus a photographer credential since she’s much better at photography than I am. Photography has been devalued because the market is crazy over saturated, so as a result budgets for it disappear. I did a bit of work for local publications but it just wasn't worth my time for what they were offering, so they offer hobbyists with a point and shoot camera to cover a local news story because "hey we can't pay you poo poo but you'll get published!" Especially when they wanted me to go across town RIGHT NOW to cover some dumb poo poo.....Um no sorry and eventually they just stopped calling me 
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May 23, 2018 15:33
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I like how they call it 4C-shaped. What a monster.
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I own a shitbox mk3 Supra and recently joined a facebook group about the love and care of shitbox mk3 Supras. There are some very odd people in the group as expected, one guy who's basically adding 3 tons in filler to make his look like some sci-fi design from the 80s. Then there's this guy who (for reasons unknown) has wedged a 5.7l Bentley V8 turbo under the bonnet. I need to find more photos but c'mon, this is pretty AI as is.
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Olympic Mathlete posted:a 5.7l Bentley V8 turbo regardless of what you're putting it in, where the gently caress do you even get one of those?
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Rhyno posted:And absolutely none of the have any manner of schooling or formal instruction. They just got a really expensive camera and convinced a few girls to pose for them. I know a dude who scammed his way into the VIP area of SDCC because he had a bullshit credential and a really expensive camera. I will say that one guy I've known for years is a professional photographer who does a lot of stuff for cosplay etc in addition to everything else, and in the (rather literal) spirit of "what you see of other people's lives is the highlight reel, not the behind the scenes", I'd imagine anyone just seeing the stuff he posts on FB now and then would go "so all you do is stand around taking pictures of hot girls as they prance around in what is basically fetish wear?" Yeah, it's not exactly the worst day to have at work, but it's not like he just dropped a few k on a camera and suddenly had the phone ringing off the hook. Olympic Mathlete posted:I own a shitbox mk3 Supra and recently joined a facebook group about the love and care of shitbox mk3 Supras. There are some very odd people in the group as expected, one guy who's basically adding 3 tons in filler to make his look like some sci-fi design from the 80s. Then there's this guy who (for reasons unknown) has wedged a 5.7l Bentley V8 turbo under the bonnet. I need to find more photos but c'mon, this is pretty AI as is. I do like those engines. I'm surprised that a lot of people think they're an American design, but they're a proprietary all-alu RR/Bentley lump that they used and developed for decades. I really want to put one in something at some point. I think they were kicking out like 600bhp in the final variants.
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The 6.75L is still used in the Mulsanne and makes 530 hp/ 811 lb-ft in the Speed trim. I’m not aware they ever made a 5.7 turbo but I’m also not an expert on Bentley engines
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He breaks the first rule of Italian driving pretty early on there... InitialDave posted:"Convinced" may well mean "paid" in many cases. The story I heard (which may well be apocryphal) was that RR was impressed with the improvements Packard made in regards to mass producing the Merlin during WWII and as a result purchased the rights to a Packard design that then became the six-and-three-quarter (never 6.75  )
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May 24, 2018 11:22
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Anal Del Raytheon posted:The 6.75L is still used in the Mulsanne and makes 530 hp/ 811 lb-ft in the Speed trim. slothrop posted:The story I heard (which may well be apocryphal) was that RR was impressed with the improvements Packard made in regards to mass producing the Merlin during WWII and as a result purchased the rights to a Packard design that then became the six-and-three-quarter (never 6.75
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InitialDave posted:Hmm, should be a 6-3/4L if it's a turbo? Possible it's not a 5.7, it wasn't the guy who owns it talking about it.
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InitialDave posted:
yeah I did wonder if it was apocryphal. The stories of Packard adjusting the Merlin for mass production do at least appear to be true, given the quote I've most often seen used appears to come from a RR engineer's memoir “One day their Chief Engineer appeared in Lovesey’s office, which I was then sharing, and said, ‘You know, we can’t make the Merlin to these drawings.’ I replied loftily, ‘I suppose that is because the drawing tolerances are too difficult for you, and you can’t achieve the accuracy.’ ‘On the contrary’ he replied, ‘the tolerances are far too wide for us.’ We make motor cars far more accurately than this. Every part on our car engines has to be interchangeable with the same part on any other engine, and hence all parts have to be made with extreme accuracy, far closer than you use. That is the only way we can achieve mass-production.'" http://www.tested.com/art/makers/492418-packard-merlin-how-detroit-mass-produced-britains-hand-built-powerhouse/
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I was driving behind this pretty sweet Opel (Ascona B i'm pretty sure): And then i realized. That thing has plates. So its actually street legal. But not only has it plates, they are H plates. H meaning its classified as a historic vehicle. Which means it has to be at least 30 years old, must be in good condition, has to have some sort of historic value (so not every shitbox can necessarily get an H plate) and most importantly every modification has to be done with era appropriate parts! Of course the guy inspecting your car can let some stuff slide but in most cases even a new radio or rims that didn't exist when the car was build prevent you from getting an H plate. So they rebuilt this 30 year old rally car using only era appropriate parts. 
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May 24, 2018 15:02
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Don't think that's a period accurate domain in the rear window.
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Shai-Hulud posted:So they rebuilt this 30 year old rally car using only era appropriate parts. There are various vintage/historic racing classes that require such. Opel Ascona B in WRC trim was pretty sweet, I mean, up until AWD eclipsed it.
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mekilljoydammit posted:There are various vintage/historic racing classes that require such. And, to cater to that market, there are shops still making group 4 and group B race cars in 2018 AD, e.g. Makela Auto Tuning in Finland. They aren't content with just making you a replica of a historic group 4 Ferrari 308, they'll actually get it FIA-certified
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MAT is good stuff. I think at this point in time you can get completely new Mk1 and Mk2 Escort unibodies too.
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hackbunny posted:And, to cater to that market, there are shops still making group 4 and group B race cars in 2018 AD, e.g. Makela Auto Tuning in Finland. They aren't content with just making you a replica of a historic group 4 Ferrari 308, they'll actually get it FIA-certified Looking through their 'Cars for Sale' page. A poo poo load of 308s an inexplicable group of more modern cars, Then Stalin's parade car.
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Aren't there stories out there of Ferrari sending out thugs to persuade people to stop making 100% accurate replicas? Obviously Ferrari isn't the company it once was but I figured they'd at least have lawyers look into the use of their logo and stuff.
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xzzy posted:Aren't there stories out there of Ferrari sending out thugs to persuade people to stop making 100% accurate replicas? The "replica" part is that they'll copy the setup, livery, sponsors and even license plates of a specific historic car at a specific historic event, but they're still based on a production car. They would never get FIA homologated otherwise
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hackbunny posted:And, to cater to that market, there are shops still making group 4 and group B race cars in 2018 AD, e.g. Makela Auto Tuning in Finland. They aren't content with just making you a replica of a historic group 4 Ferrari 308, they'll actually get it FIA-certified Goddamn, if I ever come into possession of "gently caress you" levels of money, I'm so picking up one of those 308 GTB's.
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xzzy posted:Aren't there stories out there of Ferrari sending out thugs to persuade people to stop making 100% accurate replicas? the EU anti-counterfeiting laws resulted in a number of Ferrari replicas being crushed, which might be what you’re thinking of.
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Neon underlights are almost always "other thread"... Though someone put them on a dump truck and I can't help but say "awesome"
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In other, 100% awesome stuff. *lights the RADL signal* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMzLjgTArUI
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iospace posted:In other, 100% awesome stuff. Under power, rotarys never sound cool. It's that downshifting at high R's noise that makes them sexy.
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DiggityDoink posted:Under power, rotarys never sound cool. 
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DiggityDoink posted:Under power, rotarys never sound cool. 
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Like 1:31 in that video dude blasts past and hits the rev limiter. It sounds the tits. How can you not love a limit bash?
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DiggityDoink posted:Under power, rotarys never sound cool. There was have it, the most wrong opinion on the Internet today
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He's not wrong about them sounding the coolest while downshifting though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtUEPwHnxmU
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Never mind that a 3 rotor sounds a lot different from a 2-rotor, and a 4-rotor more different still. There's an underlying "rotary" sound, but they all "beat" differently, like V6 vs V8 vs V12 (or more accurately, V4 vs V6 vs V8.) Seik posted:He's not wrong about them sounding the coolest while downshifting though. And that peripheral-port idle at 3:40 in the first video. edit: LOL at the guy with the "loving PERFECT" ball cap @ 6:50. Darchangel fucked around with this message at 17:53 on May 25, 2018 |
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Speaking of rotary poo poo https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1985-mazda-rx-7-12/ I mean, drat, that car.
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Platystemon posted:If you were born before Christmas Day, 1981, the date of your birth is closer to the end of the Second World War than to the present day. Also, there was a mere 9 years between the last manned Moon landing (Apollo 17) and the first Space Shuttle launch (STS-1) (which was also manned because insanity) Just to keep my lovely post on topic, have some sexy rear ends.    
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Platystemon posted:If you were born before Christmas Day, 1981, the date of your birth is closer to the end of the Second World War than to the present day. I was born less than twenty years after WWII ended, less than ten after Korea.
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Man, I really like this. EV converted Range Rover Classic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGjOY4JBmy4
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