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TotalLossBrain posted:Mad Mike Hughes (the moron with the steam-powered rocket built out of old RVs) has announced that he's going to be pursuing the water speed record now. Prepare for future Schadenfreude. 82% chance he dies if he ever genuinely gets a boat in the water to try it. Almost certain death if he gets beyond 470+kph, only Ken Warby has done that and lived.
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TotalLossBrain posted:Mad Mike Hughes (the moron with the steam-powered rocket built out of old RVs) has announced that he's going to be pursuing the water speed record now. Prepare for future Schadenfreude. It’s a spectacular way to commit suicide.
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Autonomous car in Australia sees a thing, doesn't get it.
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Of all the things in Australia for it to "not get", it's a 'roo?
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It's a leaping dogfrog. It's a joke, the sign in the background makes it obvious. The world knows more about australia than eastern staters know about WA though. It's funny watching eastern starters lose quizzes on TV when a question about WA comes up. E: That's my new hobby besides drinking and getting snippy on the internet. Fo3 fucked around with this message at 12:20 on Sep 20, 2018 |
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Olympic Mathlete posted:Autonomous car in Australia sees a thing, doesn't get it. That's just the Qantas sign tho
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boxen posted:a co-worker showed me a video of RC car tires "pizza cuttering" at high RPMs and now I'm imagining that happening on an actual car. Look up slow-mo videos of Top Fuel dragsters. It's a thing that happens.
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Olympic Mathlete posted:I getcha. This golf cart is described as having a "2.0 Pontiac motor and is road legal" https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/232915494224246
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gvibes posted:How about playing 18 on the local muni? Yeah, I'll believe that 2 litre "Pontiac" motor.
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gvibes posted:How about playing 18 on the local muni? This guy did it better.
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wesleywillis posted:Yeah, I'll believe that 2 litre "Pontiac" motor. Well, probably the GM corporate 2.0 from like a Sunfire, but wasn't that a derivation of the "Iron Duke", which actually *was* a Pontiac engine? Edit: nope. The Iron Duke AKA 2500, AKA Tech IV, was 2.5L 2.0 would be a variant of the GM 122 designed for the J-bodies and S-trucks. Had the 2.2L variant in my wife's Sonoma. Probably pretty decent scoot in a nearly weightless golf cart. Darchangel fucked around with this message at 23:24 on Sep 20, 2018 |
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Fo3 posted:The world knows more about australia than eastern staters know about WA though. It's funny watching eastern starters lose quizzes on TV when a question about WA comes up. For the longest time I thought I went on a trip to Perth when I was 7 or so. It took ages to get there so of course it's Perth. Turns out I went to Adelaide. That is the extent of my WA knowledge, Adelaide is not Perth.
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Falken posted:Of all the things in Australia for it to "not get", it's a 'roo? I like how forcing things into a pretty wrong frame of reference turns out to be the result when a machine learning algorithm stumbles upon something it doesn't understand because it was trained on data from the US (where it was developed I'm guessing). If it's truly human natured probably it'll also think either melbourne or sydney is the capital of australia
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Darchangel posted:Well, probably the GM corporate 2.0 from like a Sunfire, but wasn't that a derivation of the "Iron Duke", which actually *was* a Pontiac engine? Forgive me if this is not the appropriate use of this: 
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Old Binsby posted:I like how forcing things into a pretty wrong frame of reference turns out to be the result when a machine learning algorithm stumbles upon something it doesn't understand because it was trained on data from the US (where it was developed I'm guessing). If it's truly human natured probably it'll also think either melbourne or sydney is the capital of australia ... they're not? (kidding - though I'll be honest and admit that I don't know what is without Googling.) wesleywillis posted:Forgive me if this is not the appropriate use of this: Well, I knew that was supposed to be , but I initially thought that the 2.0 was Pontiac derived, which would have made it not a joke, then corrected myself.
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This is...quite the collection. Not necessarily in size but certainly very unique and probably the kind of things I'd fill a garage with if I had many millions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99bBHALV37A Two Dodge Demons, some Packards, some Ferraris, an Isetta covered in corks and a 6 wheeled van with a sick as hell paintjob.
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redgubbinz posted:This is...quite the collection. Not necessarily in size but certainly very unique and probably the kind of things I'd fill a garage with if I had many millions. Dragula. You left out Dragula. How could you? Definitely some neat stuff in there.
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So, a friend of some friends of mine who runs a rather special shop in London has announced that his dad is selling his 1950 Mercury. I've seen it in person and it is immaculate and perfect in every way and utterly gorgeous. I posted some pics of it here a while back, it's the one with the gold tooth. Lord only knows what sort of price he's asking but I wanted to post it here because the thing is legend. Also I have no idea how to work the Instagram because I am old and out of touch, sorry. /See this Instagram photo by @duke_of_london https://www.instagram.com/p/BoAgEgonCEM/?utm_source=ig_web_share
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 C63 to 190E conversion http://www.thedrive.com/news/23752/mad-scientists-graft-an-80s-mercedes-benz-190e-body-to-a-modern-c63-amg-chassis
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incels interlinked posted:
fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck this owns so hard good lord
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It might be my new favorite car of all time
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quote:First the team had to build a custom jig to lift the old body off the 190E, then slice and dice the W204 C63's unibody chassis until the old sheet metal could fit around it.
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incels interlinked posted:
Now this is art.
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extremely my poo poo. Exactly the sort of thing I'd do if I won the lotto.
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I caught that subtle bit of "wear your seatbelt" propaganda. Not today, commies!
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Saw some german stuff over the weekend   
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Argh, all those now-classic cars... even a '57 Chevy coupe!
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Power Wagons are fuckin' rad. So are M715s.
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Darchangel posted:Argh, all those now-classic cars... even a '57 Chevy coupe! It's a shame, but look at it this way; each one of those that gets crushed, leaves the rest that survive more valuable
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https://twitter.com/CovertShores/status/1044471739093315585 Edit: wow that tweet got deleted quick. I managed to grab the image, cut-away of a submarine used to smuggle cars:  Edit2: and now they've reposted the tweet augh. Pile Of Garbage fucked around with this message at 07:24 on Sep 25, 2018 |
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Pile Of Garbage posted:https://twitter.com/CovertShores/status/1044471739093315585 Neat as hell http://www.hisutton.com/Armored%20Stealth%20Boat.html
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His narco sub page is also probably the most comprehensive on the net that I've seen so far. I love backyard engineering, even if it is for questionable purposes, and I wouldn't get in one of those for anything less than 7 figures (especially the mini subs)
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Octopus Magic posted:His narco sub page is also probably the most comprehensive on the net that I've seen so far. good news! you'll get in the sub because they'll threaten to kill you and your whole family if you dont 
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