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I haven't seen any of the Fast and the Furious movies. Worth it, or would I hate them as an actual car person?
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blk posted:I haven't seen any of the Fast and the Furious movies. Worth it, or would I hate them as an actual car person? They're good popcorn movies. by 3-4 it starts turning into just action movie but cars. The first one is just point break but cars
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Oct 25, 2019 02:43
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I think the F&F movies are fun. I think it's the 4th movie where they become superhero movies more or less.
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Oct 25, 2019 02:55
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Applebees Appetizer posted:I've been using Amazon Music because of Prime and have been re discovering long lost albums I haven't listened to in awhile.....Got to listening to AC/DC's "Ballbreaker" (1995) and was laughing at how inappropriate it would be today with the first three songs being "Hard as a Rock", "Cover You in Oil" and "The Furor" Get an Echo Auto device, it's been game changing for my music listening.
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Oct 25, 2019 03:05
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Guys. GUYS. I found the best website. http://lamborghinimiura.co.uk/
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Oct 25, 2019 03:59
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Tokyo Drift was the best one of all you monsters. I genuinely enjoy the Furious movies. I watch them in chronological order about once a year. I also have pour taste so keep that in mind. Today I saw petrified dinosaur footprints where we could actually be right up on them and see them. The kids thought it was amazing (because it was).
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Oct 25, 2019 04:19
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Somewhat Heroic posted:Tokyo Drift was the best one of all you monsters. Tokyo drift is by far the best one. The lil boy from sling blade and lil bow-wow team up with "cool Asian older brother" to produce a genuinely good pulp action but also still in school movie. .. I occasionally shout wabaki around the house when looking for my sandals.
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Oct 25, 2019 04:29
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuJDhFRDx9M Obligatory
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Oct 25, 2019 04:36
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Wife vetoed the F100 idea, oh well. Currently sitting at the detention center waiting for my brother to be released.... What a wonderful way to start the day. I've been here since 3:15am.
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Oct 25, 2019 08:48
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Having come of driving age in the late 90’s, I am still shocked none of my cars ended up with full length vinyl decals down the sides and under glow lighting. I always spent my money on engine mods instead. F&F is still an awesome franchise, gently caress the haters.
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Oct 25, 2019 10:39
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Imperador do Brasil posted:Having come of driving age in the late 90’s, I am still shocked none of my cars ended up with full length vinyl decals down the sides and under glow lighting. I always spent my money on engine mods instead. I got my licence when the first came out. I spent my money on body mods and random engineering one off builds. My friends were all motor. Quite a bunch of cruising buddies.
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Oct 25, 2019 13:45
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I still remember watching number 2 in the theater 4 times totally pissed because we used to have parties there and it was the only movie showing for a month My brain is at the point where i feel like poo poo if i don't accomplish something every day, and i absolutely destroyed my knees and hips hammering away on the garage and house. i got put on pain pills, and just got the best sleep I've had in a decade out of them. That's scary. At this point i hope building a bitchin pig farm in farming simulator is enough to tickle the restless part of my brain. Luckily my right flight stick has a hand throttle because i don't think i could even use the pedals for an hour at this point. Powershift fucked around with this message at 13:51 on Oct 25, 2019 |
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Oct 25, 2019 13:46
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Speaking of F&F I took my son for his first ride in the S2000 yesterday. He loved it. The VTEC crossover noise on an S2000 with full exhaust is a glorious thing to a teenager.
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Oct 25, 2019 13:50
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Imperador do Brasil posted:Speaking of F&F I took my son for his first ride in the S2000 yesterday. He loved it. The VTEC crossover noise on an S2000 with full exhaust is a glorious thing to a teenager. Just wait until he wants to borrow it.
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Oct 25, 2019 13:53
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I parked the Subaru too close to the Saturn the last time I saw it. Why do I say this? I got a strong whiff of gas coming home from work this morning.  Pulled over on a side road and started poking around, found out one of the injectors is leaking a bit. There was a tiny bit of gas pooled around it, and I never smelled gas before, so it's probably seeping at a decent rate.Upside: Rockauto has a complete o-ring kit for the fuel rails and all 4 injectors for... $7.56. Had. I got the last one at that price. A quick look under the hood doesn't make it look too bad, just have to remove some crap to get the rail off. Figure I may as well do all of the o-rings instead of just that one. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 14:25 on Oct 25, 2019 |
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Oct 25, 2019 13:58
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STR posted:I parked the Subaru too close to the Saturn the last time I saw it. Why do I say this? My old VY Commodore had a fuel system that was eating it self apart after a backpacker I was hosting put ethanol fuel in it. I couldn't afford a full new fuel system at the time, but I could afford a new 'known good' fuel rail with injectors every 2 months to keep me going.
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Oct 25, 2019 14:27
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meatpimp posted:Claire uses a Dremel to sharpen metal. Aw yiss, gonna be checking this out when I get home.  Imperador do Brasil posted:Having come of driving age in the late 90’s, I am still shocked none of my cars ended up with full length vinyl decals down the sides and under glow lighting. I always spent my money on engine mods instead. I didn't start getting into cars until AFTER I got my first car, which was a Chevy Aveo. I seriously contemplated buying one of those eBay "electronic superchargers" that you put between your airbox and intake or whatever the gently caress. Then someone smarter than me told me I was dumb. Then I gave that to my older sister and got a giant piece of poo poo '94 Accord and god damnit that car was so much fun. Wringing out that F22 with a 5-speed felt like a rocket ship to teenage-me, even though it felt like the rest of the car was going to fall apart around it. Except for the somehow pristine entirely maroon suede interior 
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Oct 25, 2019 14:38
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Powershift posted:Just wait until he wants to borrow it. Snap oversteer > tree
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Oct 25, 2019 14:41
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Powershift posted:Just wait until he wants to borrow it. Amazingly, he’s incredibly respectful in general but especially of cars and bikes. I taught him to drive standard when he was nine years old, and he learned to ride motorcycle at 12. He helped me repair and modify the RX7 all last winter, so that will be his first car although it won’t really be a daily driver. He will probably end up getting the FXT for that job.
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Oct 25, 2019 14:51
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You're the coolest dad ever. Can you adopt me?
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Oct 25, 2019 14:53
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Powershift posted:You're the coolest dad ever. IDB’s home for wayward goons. I might let him drive the S2K in the high school parking lot one of these weekends just to say he did.
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Oct 25, 2019 14:56
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I think my mums 1994 Camry copped a lot of poo poo before I got my own car. Ghetto rigged a Minidisc player controller into the steering column. Then a laptop with a kicking rad winamp visualiser strapped to the rear centre seat and screen mirrored so I could read the track list in rear view mirror. That laptop was controlled by a (then) $300 Bluetooth USB dongle to my Sony Ericsson T68MEi (fully upgraded with every firmware ever by sending into SE because that was a service then). I then aquired a Skyline R33 bodykit and was sizing it up thinking I could make it fit on mums car. About this time, mum made me buy my own car. The car has been featured here or in the terrible car thread many times so won't post.
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Oct 25, 2019 15:07
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When I was 16, my dad promised to let me ride his old rear end 70's Kawasaki 900 to school one day, which always needed a lot of coaxing to get it started. I needed to get out of the house earlier than him and he was still in bed that morning and didn't feel like loving with it, so he just mumbled "The keys to the GSX-R 1000 are on the dresser, take that instead." Even then I was like  that's probably a bad idea, but gently caress it!I dropped it at a stop sign when I killed it pulling forward and it lurched and tiny weak baby 16 year old me got caught off guard and tipped over
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Oct 25, 2019 15:11
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We used to load up into my dad's truck and bomb down oilfield roads. That thing got air more than once. I was an idiot. I'm all growed up now and drive responsibly and only 50% of my current vehicles have left the ground.
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Oct 25, 2019 15:12
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Imperador do Brasil posted:Speaking of F&F I took my son for his first ride in the S2000 yesterday. He loved it. The VTEC crossover noise on an S2000 with full exhaust is a glorious thing to a teenager. A friend of mine owns a nice one with an aftermarket exhaust which sounds quite saucy when you open it up. So he let another friend take it for a ride because we were trying to convince him RWD is life. I got in the car with him and was telling him to keep his foot in aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand he never even got it to VTEC territory despite me telling him repeatedly. Drives like a fuckin' grandma. Like I fully understand not ragging a car but when you're handed the keys and told to put your foot in, please do!
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Oct 25, 2019 15:23
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STR posted:Upside: Rockauto has a complete o-ring kit for the fuel rails and all 4 injectors for... $7.56. Had. I got the last one at that price. A quick look under the hood doesn't make it look too bad, just have to remove some crap to get the rail off. Figure I may as well do all of the o-rings instead of just that one. If one is hosed then there's a good chance the rest are similar so definitely a good idea to do them all. A set of injector O rings for my rover v8 engine recently came to about £2 
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Oct 25, 2019 15:33
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Dodge once tried to charge me $17 for an thick o-ring for the cummins. I told em to pound sand and stuffed 3 regular sized 10 cent o-rings in there. Powershift fucked around with this message at 15:37 on Oct 25, 2019 |
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Oct 25, 2019 15:35
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Applebees Appetizer posted:I've been using Amazon Music because of Prime and have been re discovering long lost albums I haven't listened to in awhile.....Got to listening to AC/DC's "Ballbreaker" (1995) and was laughing at how inappropriate it would be today with the first three songs being "Hard as a Rock", "Cover You in Oil" and "The Furor" Different album, I think, but "Big Balls." The king of double entendres. blk posted:Guys. This is a leftover from 1995, right? Somewhat Heroic posted:Tokyo Drift was the best one of all you monsters. Where? We can do that here in TX at Dinosaur Valley State Park in Glen Rose, TX. https://tpwd.texas.gov/state-parks/dinosaur-valley It's pretty cool - about an hour and a half south of DFW. STR posted:I parked the Subaru too close to the Saturn the last time I saw it. Why do I say this? Oh, yay! Yeah, if you're pulling the fuel rail and/or injectors, it's generally cheap insurance to replace the affected o-rings. That's why I got new lower o-rings for the Crown Vic. Obviously the injectors have to come out to sap the intake.
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Oct 25, 2019 16:20
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It's taken longer and more organisation to get two sets of tyres swapped than to get re-registered at the GP (including getting my NHS number looked up), get an appointment, get seen and get a prescription for antibiotics. In short the NHS is great, you guys should get one.
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Oct 25, 2019 16:42
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Whew. Poly line was a conundrum but we found it. Old copper is out, new pex is in. Pictures later.
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Oct 25, 2019 16:44
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cakesmith handyman posted:It's taken longer and more organisation to get two sets of tyres swapped than to get re-registered at the GP (including getting my NHS number looked up), get an appointment, get seen and get a prescription for antibiotics. We have one in canda but it still took me 2 months to get in to my family doctor, then another 2 to get the results of an allergy text which showed 875 ui/ml when normal is 100 so i'm super allergic to something. Now i have to wait 4-5 weeks for a skin prick text to find out what is trying to kill me. I wasn't even reacting badly when i took the test, compared to a week ago when my eyes almost swelled shut
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Oct 25, 2019 16:48
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Olympic Mathlete posted:A friend of mine owns a nice one with an aftermarket exhaust which sounds quite saucy when you open it up. So he let another friend take it for a ride because we were trying to convince him RWD is life. I got in the car with him and was telling him to keep his foot in aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand he never even got it to VTEC territory despite me telling him repeatedly. Drives like a fuckin' grandma. Like I fully understand not ragging a car but when you're handed the keys and told to put your foot in, please do! Nothing under 5k and the fun only really starts at 6k. Drives great at all rpm’s but it’s not really EXCITING until any other car would be on the verge of exploding
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Oct 25, 2019 16:57
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Tomarse posted:If one is hosed then there's a good chance the rest are similar so definitely a good idea to do them all. So I started it to go to the store and the smell was a LOT stronger. Popped the hood, and.... saw dripping. Not Saturn-like dripping, but significant dripping. It's not the o-rings. It's a 3 inch long section of rubber hose that connects the steel line to the passenger side rail. Tightened up the clamp at one end and that stopped it for now. Guess I need to replace some rubber lines. Of course it's too late to cancel the order from Rockauto, but that injector DID look damp. Whether or not it's from fuel running down the line to it or not is a mystery at the moment (it's the first injector, so closest to the major leak). Thankfully it was the end of the hose that's accessible without removing anything. Either way, both injectors looked damp, so it probably does need o-rings. And even if it's just dampness from gas running down the outside of the rail, I'd rather throw new o-rings in when I pull the rail to replace that section of line. Darchangel posted:Yeah, if you're pulling the fuel rail and/or injectors, it's generally cheap insurance to replace the affected o-rings. That's why I got new lower o-rings for the Crown Vic. Obviously the injectors have to come out to sap the intake. It wound up being that tiny section of rubber hose that runs from under the intake to the passenger side rail; tightening the clamp at one end seems to have fixed it for now, but replacing that hose will likely disturb the rail enough that the o-rings will probably say  . I'm not 100% on it being fixed, but it's not visibly dripping anymore. It needs to sit and let the gasoline evaporate before I can make a solid call on that, but the smell through the HVAC was reduced to "barely noticeable" from "oh god am I trapped in a gasoline tanker?" after tightening that one clamp.I'm just gonna buy like 5-10 feet of EFI rated fuel line and replace every rubber section of line I can find. Several look like they've been replaced already (body line to fuel filter, fuel filter to rail (also has the wrong fuel filter, but hey, it works), underhood evap lines have all been replaced). May as well just go gung ho and do everything else. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 17:25 on Oct 25, 2019 |
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Oct 25, 2019 17:20
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STR posted:So I started it to go to the store and the smell was a LOT stronger. Popped the hood, and.... saw dripping. Not Saturn-like dripping, but significant dripping. Ironically, I think I may have that 3" rubber piece, along with the fuel regulator and the fuel rail, if it's the same as the STI of that vintage. Let me know if you need it sent down to you for spare parts.
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Oct 25, 2019 17:22
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Rail and line are probably the same since it's still an EJ25; fuel regulator is a big question mark since I'm NA. But bulk EFI line from Autozone will be cheaper than shipping all of that. I'm just gonna shotgun all of the rubber fuel lines under the hood. Thanks though, I appreciate the offer. I have some spare parts for the Saturn, and it looks like the dealer might actually try to fix the drat thing (it's been on their outside lift for several days). Should I be a nice guy and hand them the spare parts?  (I have sway bar bushings, a new accessory belt, and a new OEM oil pressure sender [which is where the one and only oil leak is coming from]). Nahhhh... think I might make  on ebay for everything.randomidiot fucked around with this message at 17:30 on Oct 25, 2019 |
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Oct 25, 2019 17:27
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NitroSpazzz posted:Wife vetoed the F100 idea, oh well. I don't recall seeing anything about this, not to pry but what happened to your brother?
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Oct 25, 2019 17:31
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Olympic Mathlete posted:A friend of mine owns a nice one with an aftermarket exhaust which sounds quite saucy when you open it up. So he let another friend take it for a ride because we were trying to convince him RWD is life. I got in the car with him and was telling him to keep his foot in aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand he never even got it to VTEC territory despite me telling him repeatedly. Drives like a fuckin' grandma. Like I fully understand not ragging a car but when you're handed the keys and told to put your foot in, please do! A late friend of mine swapped a 3SGTE (or something, whatever the 2nd gen turbo MR2 powerplant is) into his 4th gen Celica, and did a super good job on everything. Then proceeded to drive it like the grandma-iest of grandmas. Would literally up shift or let off the gas the second the thing hit boost, and we all gave him so much poo poo for turbo charging his car and then not utilizing the power of the snail. After he died, his mom liked to drive it around, and regularly got it serviced at the shop where my friend worked/built the car. Then his giant oval office of a sister tried hoarding it for a while and claimed that no one was allowed to touch it except for her and her "mechanic" boyfriend, who would be doing all of the work on it from now on. Eventually it wound back up at his parent's and my close friend just recently bought it from them. It's fallen into a pretty sad state since he was around, but we're excited to get it back up to snuff.  E: Oh yeah, to bring it full circle, one time a friend/co-worker and I were lot rats at a dealer and we took a recently traded in S2000 on a joyride run down the main drag in town and promptly got pulled over and chewed out by the cop
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Oct 25, 2019 17:48
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everdave posted:I don't recall seeing anything about this, not to pry but what happened to your brother? His issues with alcohol bit him in the rear end yet again, he broke some poo poo (at the rental) and got arrested. We're now stuck giving a girl he was allowing to live there, against the lease and our ok, a 30 day notice. We're borderline about giving him a 30 day as well. He's in a hotel for the week so she can pack her poo poo and hopefully move out but if she decides to stick around for the full 30 there's nothing we can do and he can't go near the place. This might be the thing that finally breaks any and all sympathy we've had for him. I'm running on two hours of sleep going to a wedding rehearsal in an hour to top things off. It's a poo poo show. Good news is Dad is driving down today to deal with this bullshit so we don't have to do 100% of it, he is the only ongoing point of contention in our marriage. NitroSpazzz fucked around with this message at 18:36 on Oct 25, 2019 |
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Oct 25, 2019 18:18
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STR posted:Rail and line are probably the same since it's still an EJ25; fuel regulator is a big question mark since I'm NA. But bulk EFI line from Autozone will be cheaper than shipping all of that. I'm just gonna shotgun all of the rubber fuel lines under the hood. Definitely replace the soft fuel lines, especially the ones connected to the fuel filter. My EJ25 Legacy used to split those every couple of years.
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I was a lot rat at a Chrysler dealer and took cars down the street to the gas station and then brought them back and detailed them for customer pickup. Of the new vehicles, the only fun ones were the big sedans with the 250hp v6 like the 300M Special. But a couple of times there were fun customers cars that came in for service that I flogged up and down that strip including a straight-piped plymouth prowler and a pt cruiser gt with the 2.4 with an upgraded turbo and all the bolt-ons. It was the fastest thing I had ever driven, but that’s not saying much for a 19 year old in 2001.
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