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BlackMK4
Aug 23, 2006

wat.
Megamarm
centurion is more about what your yearly spend is :v:

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Literally Lewis Hamilton
Feb 22, 2005



Amex Plat is not hard to get, Centurion is invite only and you gotta have some assets too

randomidiot
May 12, 2006

by Fluffdaddy

(and can't post for 11 years!)

metaxus posted:

The sort of credit that someone who buys and sells his own exotic cars probably has, no doubt.

Bingo. I wouldn't be a bit surprised if he has a Centurion card.

Olympic Mathlete
Feb 25, 2011

:h:


Excuse how poo poo the photo is, my phone camera is awful zoomed way in but it kinda saves you from the worst of this... yes that's a shiny gold wrap.



It had a fat straight piped exhaust coming out of the centre rear and it sounded like complete poo poo which matched the look perfectly.

slidebite
Nov 6, 2005

Good egg
:colbert:

From imgur

MomJeans420
Mar 19, 2007



Customer declined replacement

Colostomy Bag
Jan 11, 2016

:lesnick: C-Bangin' it :lesnick:

Duratrac?

ihop
Jul 23, 2001
King of the Mexicans
Go home tire, you're drunk

Memento
Aug 25, 2009


Bleak Gremlin

slidebite posted:

From imgur


I initially thought this was an artefact of a progressive shutter on an older digital camera, like when spinning airplane propellers look curved.

It isn't, huh.

Olympic Mathlete
Feb 25, 2011

:h:


https://twitter.com/harrismonkey/status/1162002657348919298

MetaJew
Apr 14, 2006
Gather round, one and all, and thrill to my turgid tales of underwhelming misadventure!

What is that? Some coach built Bugatti?

Darchangel
Feb 12, 2009

Tell him about the blower!


MetaJew posted:

What is that? Some coach built Bugatti?

Nope. Real Bugatti.
https://www.cars.co.za/motoring_news/bugatti-eb110-homage-centodieci-leaks-early/47229/

Olympic Mathlete
Feb 25, 2011

:h:


Nah it's a legit model! State of it! I mean the EB110 was never really a looker but this is shite.

KillHour
Oct 28, 2007


CommieGIR posted:

Eds a nice guy. I rebuilt his Audi he did cross country that he overheated by pushing too hard

Ed is terrible car stuff because when some state cracked down on people registering their million dollar cars in Montana, he went on TV to cry about how it's not fair that the Job Creators will have an unexpected tax bill and probably have to lay off their hard working employees to pay it and can't you see taxing the rich is hurting the middle class? :reddit:

MetaJew
Apr 14, 2006
Gather round, one and all, and thrill to my turgid tales of underwhelming misadventure!

KillHour posted:

Ed is terrible car stuff because when some state cracked down on people registering their million dollar cars in Montana, he went on TV to cry about how it's not fair that the Job Creators will have an unexpected tax bill and probably have to lay off their hard working employees to pay it and can't you see taxing the rich is hurting the middle class? :reddit:

Eat him and split his cars among the laborers.

evobatman
Jul 30, 2006

it means nothing, but says everything!
Pillbug
He did have the Georgia Department of Revenue on his channel to explain what it was all about :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4GziDICSSg

Ed is a sleazy 1%er, but it is possible to be that and still have an entertaining youtube channel.

um excuse me
Jan 1, 2016

by Fluffdaddy
That's pretty much my thoughts on it. Watching his channel is the equivalent of watching reality TV. His reality and my reality may exist on the same planet, but we live in two separate worlds.

Grakkus
Sep 4, 2011

I enjoy his guests' stories, but listening to Ed's smug, self-congratulatory poo poo makes my eye twitch.

Watching him get butthurt about the supercar tax thing was great though,

KillHour
Oct 28, 2007


I don't want to give him more money by watching him be smug about being a rich person who can repeatedly break laws without consequences.

TehRedWheelbarrow
Mar 16, 2011



Fan of Britches
yeah vinwiki stories can be from time to time interesting but holy poo poo you could cut the smug with a chainsaw some points and whoever that repo guy is is the worst

hitze
Aug 28, 2007
Give me a dollar. No, the twenty. This is gonna blow your mind...

Give me all the Rabbit stories you can give me

Bass Ackwards
Nov 14, 2003

Anything can be used as a hammer if you try hard enough.

hitze posted:

Give me all the Rabbit stories you can give me

Yup. Rabbit and Doug Tabbutt from Switchcars are both great storytellers.

Casey Putsch too.

Humphreys
Jan 26, 2013

We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule


hitze posted:

Give me all the Rabbit stories you can give me

Yep, Rabbit is the star. No drat 'shrewd negotiators required'

Memento
Aug 25, 2009


Bleak Gremlin


Pulled over in Spain apparently

Dr.Smasher
Nov 27, 2002

Cyberpunk 1987
I would've guessed Russia first. Maybe that's just instinct by now, though.

xzzy
Mar 5, 2009

Russia doesn't have that much color.

Frank Dillinger
May 16, 2007
Jawohl mein herr!
Previous owners of a SEAT Marbella, maybe?

Humphreys
Jan 26, 2013

We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule


Memento posted:



Pulled over in Spain apparently

I just had a dumb/fun thought.

Mix this:



With



Ferremit
Sep 14, 2007
if I haven't posted about MY LANDCRUISER yet, check my bullbars for kangaroo prints

angryrobots posted:

And as I'll repeat ad nauseum, they really aren't that bad. The intake doesn't have coolant ports like 'Merican V8's and the bolts are all accessible.

And as MomJeans noted, they tend to last a long time, what with not being right beside the exhaust, and often the solenoid will give warnings (click, no start, try again and it works) well before complete failure.

There are FAR worse automotive engineering sins.

Unless you’ve got a V8 landcruiser. The gas and diesel V8s still have the starter in the valley, but the difference between the Lexus cars with UZ and UR Motors, the landcruisers go off-road and that means you fill the engine valley with dirt and water and poo poo, which pools around the starter.

They kill them quite regularly, and the diesels are an even bigger prick because they have a giant intercooler and a ultra high pressure fuel injection system in the way.

Humphreys
Jan 26, 2013

We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule


I've LSed a few things in my time but I think my friend is cursed. In the space of 3 months he has detonated two motors. Terrible bad workmanship (somehow water inside both times during build)

90s Solo Cup
Feb 22, 2011

To understand the cup
He must become the cup



MomJeans420 posted:

I'm confused.

re: Lexus V8s and starters, removing the starter in a LS400 was a penalty in LeMons once. While it's a huge pain to remove them, they're not especially known for failing early, and my LS400 made it 18 years and almost 200k miles on the original starter, before it got totaled.

Younger me said "gently caress that poo poo" and had a local mechanic do that job. Roughly $300 in parts and another $200 in labor later and the job was done.

Except I suddenly had no A/C, likely because the scumbag mechanic siphoned the R-12 refrigerant.

Looking back on it, I could have done the job myself if I had the courage and patience, because working on...

Colostomy Bag posted:

...the greatest engine ever designed, known as the Northstar...

...has given me a newfound clarity in vision and a deep appreciation of mechanically straightforward engine designs. And I have yet to own a modern BMW or Audi.

angryrobots
Mar 31, 2005

Ferremit posted:

Unless you’ve got a V8 landcruiser. The gas and diesel V8s still have the starter in the valley, but the difference between the Lexus cars with UZ and UR Motors, the landcruisers go off-road and that means you fill the engine valley with dirt and water and poo poo, which pools around the starter.

I can see that, but the intake on the gasser can be off in like 30 minutes loving around was my main point. The one I owned was in a truck also, but it wasn't used off-road... In the way that you mean. There was some sand collected in there but nothing a shop vac couldn't handle.

Can't say I've ever had to deal with mud on top of a motor. Sounds like your friends need a bigger lift and tires. :v:

drgitlin
Jul 25, 2003
luv 2 get custom titles from a forum that goes into revolt when its told to stop using a bad word.
In the flesh the Centidieci looks better than the rest of the Chiron-derived cars.

Nocheez
Sep 5, 2000

Can you spare a little cheddar?
Nap Ghost

Humphreys posted:

I've LSed a few things in my time but I think my friend is cursed. In the space of 3 months he has detonated two motors. Terrible bad workmanship (somehow water inside both times during build)

My brother grenaded like 4 motors one season before realizing he had a hairline crack in the intake which was allowing coolant where it shouldn't get.

Megillah Gorilla
Sep 22, 2003

If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.



Bread Liar
Imgur album of automotive grade chocolate milk and engine gravy

(most have sound)

https://i.imgur.com/6mgaOFS.mp4

https://i.imgur.com/VEcnMv8.mp4

https://i.imgur.com/MinnQUi.mp4

https://i.imgur.com/rt4mOGk.mp4

https://i.imgur.com/2XXU7vZ.mp4

https://i.imgur.com/CUSJDIX.mp4

Fayez Butts
Aug 24, 2006

drgitlin posted:

In the flesh the Centidieci looks better than the rest of the Chiron-derived cars.

Yeah I don’t really get the hate. It’s not like the EB110 was a good looking car

bird with big dick
Oct 21, 2015

NoWake posted:

modern-day cannonball

I was thinking about this just a couple days ago because I saw one of the new F-150 Limiteds that now has the Raptor motor and was wondering if you could break the current record with one by turning the entire bed into a fuel tank and never stopping for gas.

Olympic Mathlete
Feb 25, 2011

:h:


Fayez Butts posted:

Yeah I don’t really get the hate. It’s not like the EB110 was a good looking car

The EB110 has ONE good angle, profile and even then it's not a great looking car.

(and yet somehow the new version looks equally as bad like wtf is going on with the massive headlight flaps and double stacked exhaust??)

um excuse me
Jan 1, 2016

by Fluffdaddy

bird with big dick posted:

I was thinking about this just a couple days ago because I saw one of the new F-150 Limiteds that now has the Raptor motor and was wondering if you could break the current record with one by turning the entire bed into a fuel tank and never stopping for gas.

Filling the bed with a liquid exceeds the weight capacity of most pick ups at ~6 pounds per gallon. The smallest bed can hold nearly 2500 lbs of fuel

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Q_res
Oct 29, 2005

We're fucking built for this shit!

Olympic Mathlete posted:

The EB110 has ONE good angle, profile and even then it's not a great looking car.


Nah, it looks pretty fantastic from the Rear 3/4 too.

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