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My first car was an 83 GSL, I'm biased but the styling still really holds up. I should look around and see how much they're going for now...
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Krakkles posted:I always liked early RX-7s, but I doubt I'll ever own one at this point. Or poo poo, drive one. If you're ever in the Dallas area, I'll offer a ride/drive in mine. Once it's back on the road, so, you know, don't hurry. It won't be 1979 original by that point, though, so don't expect a pure experience. Honestly, it hasn't been exactly 1979 original since before I got it (1981 engine in it by that point.) edit: you can find status in my thread. And probably a lot of schadenfreude/point-and-laugh.
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Bulk Vanderhuge posted:My first car was an 83 GSL, I'm biased but the styling still really holds up. I think so too regarding the styling. I wouldn't call it "modern", but it definitely doesn't look dated like some of it's contemporaries. On price - $10k CAD for a rust free, running and driving example, minimum, around here at least. Mine is for sale  (because I want to start a rotary swapped 60s/70s era German car project entitled "Wankels Revenge")
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Oct 21, 2021 19:23
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hot cocoa on the couch posted:(because I want to start a rotary swapped 60s/70s era German car project entitled "Wankels Revenge") I'm in. You WILL start a thread. That's not a request.
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Darchangel posted:I'm in. Lol, if this project ever materializes I definitely will. I posted a bit in the Porsche thread about it because I was put in contact with someone who has over a dozen 914's, I may use one of those if I can find one that isn't rotted to hell.
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Oct 21, 2021 20:03
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A young Kenneth Branagh poses with his co-star of Mazdado About Nothing. (Rotary and Juliet?)
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Oct 21, 2021 20:24
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davebo posted:Mazdado About Nothing. 
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davebo posted:A young Kenneth Branagh poses with his co-star of Mazdado About Nothing. oh no lol
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Rotary and J2zuliet - a tragedy of star crossed engines set in 90s Japan. Music by John Williams.
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Oct 21, 2021 21:47
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DO YOU BLOW YOUR APEX SEALS AT ME?
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Oct 21, 2021 22:23
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Rental car!!!! https://youtu.be/WDNtVFYTm4c Kind of shocked it was actually the v8 when i picked it up, and only $30/day
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Oct 22, 2021 05:44
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Voltage posted:Rental car!!!! I'm surprised that it had an LSD.
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Voltage posted:Rental car!!!! Well done, well done
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Oct 22, 2021 06:34
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Voltage posted:Rental car!!!! Nice. Unless you paid for the insurance, in which case I’m severely disappointed you didn’t ride the 11’s until the rims sparked.
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Oct 22, 2021 13:53
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And that's why you never buy a car previously owned by a rental company
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One time I found a GTI with launch control at the National Emerald Aisle, much fun was had
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Voltage posted:Rental car!!!! That's funny because my wife just had to go to Denver and Enterprise gave her a V8 Challenger she did not want but was all they had. She hates driving to begin with so it wasn't fun for her with poor visibility and it accelerating too quickly, but when she texted the first thing I said was do a burnout, thinking of this thread.
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Voltage posted:Rental car!!!! Proper.
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Oct 22, 2021 19:12
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My car was stolen, so I got a new Passat alltrack to replace it. It's pretty lovely.
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My friends got together to drive each other's cars and have an extended doggy playdate. Today my ride is this rare green NSX (tomorrow the red 993 coupe peeking out on the right)
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got off on a technicality posted:My friends got together to drive each other's cars and have an extended doggy playdate. Today my ride is this rare green NSX (tomorrow the red 993 coupe peeking out on the right) oh my goodness my heart...
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got off on a technicality posted:My friends got together to drive each other's cars and have an extended doggy playdate. Today my ride is this rare green NSX (tomorrow the red 993 coupe peeking out on the right) This makes me pine for the days of my excitement buying Need for Speed II on PC
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got off on a technicality posted:My friends got together to drive each other's cars and have an extended doggy playdate. Today my ride is this rare green NSX (tomorrow the red 993 coupe peeking out on the right) If this is anywhere near Maryland I would love to come pet some dogs and ride in some awesome cars, that's an amazing time right there.
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Here's my ride, and I did something stupid! I have never been to radwood or concours d'lemons. For whatever various reasons, I've just never made it until now. They had a combined show in Greenwich, CT -- about a 250 mile drive for me. Naturally I entered the biturbo in lemons.   It all went well and there were lots of people excited to see the biturbo. I knew the four-door biturbo was a little bit rare, but I never realized just how rare. I had many people come up to me and say they'd owned many biturbos and other Maseratis and never knew the four-door existed. For my misguided taste in adventure, I won this prestigious award, it translates to something like "Do you know a good mechanic?"  The award turned out to be fairly apropos; although I had no problems on the 250 mile ride to the show, disaster stuck about 30 miles into the trip coming home. The front right caliper seized up, BAD. Fortunately I was less than a mile from a rest stop. I didn't bring much for tools, honestly there isn't a lot that can be fixed roadside on these stupid cars, but I did have enough to exercise the pistons to get it freed up.  Shortly after taking this picture, it started raining, just to help. About an hour of driving later it was dark. After some particularly nasty section of interstate (which to be fair, is like 97% of Connecticut, I thought Maine roads were bad...), the car started pulling to the left, pretty bad. I didn't take any pictures because it was dark, but I assumed it was probably a leaky tire. It couldn't be the brake on that side sticking, I hadn't touched the brakes for a while. Pulled over and all the tires looked fine, but the back right wheel was stuffed all the way up in the fender, riding on the bump stops. A quick look with a flashlight and I could tell that the spring wasn't broken... what the gently caress?!? I figured I'd get back on the road and take a better look at the next rest stop. At the next rest stop, I jacked the car up and the wheel .... STAYED STUFFED TO THE BUMP STOPS; WHAT THE gently caress? After a minute, it started to slowly return. Let the car back down and everything looked fine, but if I jumped on the bumper, every time i compressed the suspension, it went down but didn't come back up. I was literally pumping the strut down. Something must be majorly hosed in the valving, nothing I could do, so I hit the road and just drove like that 100 miles home. The rest of the trip was uncomfortable, but uneventful. After sitting overnight, it slowly returned to ride height and looks normal, a good-looking lawn ornament for now! chrisgt fucked around with this message at 20:25 on Oct 24, 2021 |
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Oct 24, 2021 22:27
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BraveUlysses posted:i bought a box Elements are great. I'm working on my buddy's element right now, he needs new headlights (easy to change) lock cylinders (I guess this is a common problem, fairly easy to change) and a passenger window regulator. This is after 17 years of ownership. I also just found out that if it doesn't have keyless entry, it's $125 and snaps in to the wiring harness in 10 minutes. I'm going to do that on his car too.
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Yeast posted:My car was stolen, so I got a new Passat alltrack to replace it. sporty wagon? 
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Oct 25, 2021 01:40
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It doesn't look anything like a minivan.
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Somehow it's worse because it lacks the sliding door convenience
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I decided having only one mostly red truck that needs a ton of work in the garage was not enough, so I bought another one.  
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I was at a job yesterday and a photographer I hadn't seen in years asked if I still had my silver C5. This photo made me miss it again. Every time I take my son in the bike trailer to the park up the street, we pass a C7, C4, C6 and C5 in that order and he says Corvette!
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It snowed a little. Before it snowed a little, it rained a lot, and a bear got into my truck and the jerk left the door open all night so it is very damp inside. Today my power was out so I went out for lunch, not in the truck.
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Oct 25, 2021 23:13
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I want to hear more about this bear.
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Post that bear
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No documentation of the specific bear in question. I'll admit I'm not 100% positive it was a bear, I was somewhat shocked at how little the inside of the truck was messed up. But something also knocked over and got into our (very heavy) compost bin, so on the [raccoon, human, bear] spectrum of possibilities, given how present the bears have been this year, I'm going with bear. Here is a bear in the neighborhood a few days ago (we can pretend it is the same bear, entirely possible) https://i.imgur.com/QOOE9Qp.mp4
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