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slidebite
Nov 6, 2005

Good egg
:colbert:

Drives a 993, car is dirty and apparently gives no fucks if it gets scratched a bit.

Like him more and more.

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MrYenko
Jun 18, 2012

#2 isn't ALWAYS bad...

slidebite posted:

Drives a 993, car is dirty and apparently gives no fucks if it gets scratched a bit.

Like him more and more.

Ya, he’s pretty high on my list of people I’d like to have a beer with.

BlackMK4
Aug 23, 2006

wat.
Megamarm
He runs a bunch of normal people motorcycle trackdays in socal too

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

BlackMK4 posted:

He runs a bunch of normal people motorcycle trackdays in socal too

I want to go ride with him :lovebird:

Bape Culture
Sep 13, 2006

How the gently caress is that tied on?

PBCrunch
Jun 17, 2002

Lawrence Phillips Always #1 to Me

Bape Culture posted:

How the gently caress is that tied on?

When you think about it, there is no Christmas tree.

slidebite
Nov 6, 2005

Good egg
:colbert:

Bape Culture posted:

How the gently caress is that tied on?
Considering his door was wide open, string dangling on the ground and he wasn't driving yet, it was probably in process of being attached.

CAT INTERCEPTOR
Nov 9, 2004

Basically a male Margaret Thatcher

Bape Culture posted:

How the gently caress is that tied on?

He is the One

Powershift
Nov 23, 2009


He's waiting for his passenger, and they're each gonna stick an arm out the window and grab a side.

Uthor
Jul 9, 2006

Gummy Bear Heaven ... It's where I go when the world is too mean.
Is gonna drive backwards balancing gravity and the push of air pressure to make sure it neither slides off nor flies away.

wesleywillis
Dec 30, 2016

SUCK A MALE CAMEL'S DICK WITH MIRACLE WHIP!!
He and So-krates are going to tie that bitch up, go for a cruise and philosophize after they get some drive thru.

Humphreys
Jan 26, 2013

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


Keanu is at the very top of my list of "Please don't ever end up being a serial killer or rapist."

Raluek
Nov 3, 2006

WUT.

Humphreys posted:

Keanu is at the very top of my list of "Please don't ever end up being a serial killer or rapist."

do vampires count as serial killers? :thunk:

Powershift
Nov 23, 2009


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

OBAMNA PHONE
Aug 7, 2002
lmao

Big Taint
Oct 19, 2003

Olympic Mathlete
Feb 25, 2011

:h:


BMW N68 V8 with 375bhp? Into it.

https://twitter.com/morganmotor/status/1468867305107070976?t=1uj7rdeI6T8-YRqYbWBccg&s=19

antimatt
Sep 12, 2007

ultima ratio regum

I guess I don't get it, but why? There are so many better choices to throw a full frame under but they chose ignorant.

Like it's not a Corvair, it's not anything,

If it was a limp-wristed attempt at art I supposed I could excuse the attempt. But this is just like... anti-Binky. And offensively so.

antimatt fucked around with this message at 21:18 on Dec 11, 2021

StormDrain
May 22, 2003

Thirteen Letter

antimatt posted:

I guess I don't get it, but why? There are so many better choices to throw a full frame under but they chose ignorant.

Like it's not a Corvair, it's not anything,

If it was a limp-wristed attempt at art I supposed I could excuse the attempt. But this is just like... anti-Binky. And offensively so.

Did you create this account just to hate on any Matt related content? If so well done that's a good bit.

Memento
Aug 25, 2009


Bleak Gremlin

antimatt posted:

I guess I don't get it, but why? There are so many better choices to throw a full frame under but they chose ignorant.

Like it's not a Corvair, it's not anything,

If it was a limp-wristed attempt at art I supposed I could excuse the attempt. But this is just like... anti-Binky. And offensively so.

Because it was the car he had fallen in love with as an 8-year-old - it doesn't have to make sense.

And it's an incredibly capable off-road recovery vehicle, if you watch the videos where they use it to haul, for example, buses out of sand traps.

stone soup
Jul 8, 2004

"really we're going to do it out in the desert where we wont go to jail"

lmao ok

ewiley
Jul 9, 2003

More trash for the trash fire
code:
B    Y    T
|  - + -  |
L    A

Wasabi the J
Jan 23, 2008

MOM WAS RIGHT

I wanna know what the transmission says.

Powershift
Nov 23, 2009


Wasabi the J posted:

I wanna know what the transmission says.

ahahahaha, reversirovaniye!

Basically "ahahahaha, reversing!"

that's why he looks backwards.

Memento
Aug 25, 2009


Bleak Gremlin

stone soup posted:

"really we're going to do it out in the desert where we wont go to jail"

lmao ok

Hahaha yeah that didn't age well

antimatt
Sep 12, 2007

ultima ratio regum

StormDrain posted:

Did you create this account just to hate on any Matt related content? If so well done that's a good bit.

Yes. That's why I consistently shitpost about smoking tires. I dislike bad takes.

Memento posted:

Because it was the car he had fallen in love with as an 8-year-old - it doesn't have to make sense.

And it's an incredibly capable off-road recovery vehicle, if you watch the videos where they use it to haul, for example, buses out of sand traps.

He's not eight years old. If he was then it's only natural to excuse the behavior.

Anyone can put a postage stamp on a capable chassis to recover stuck vehicles in sand traps, but that doesn't make it a letter to santa.

You can put a Warn on a cat turd and tie it to a tree and pull anything out of a ditch. Doesn't mean the cat turd was important.

But hey, they tried. I'm ecstatic that someone enjoyed their efforts. Cheers.

Memento
Aug 25, 2009


Bleak Gremlin

antimatt posted:

Yes. That's why I consistently shitpost about smoking tires. I dislike bad takes.

He's not eight years old. If he was then it's only natural to excuse the behavior.

Anyone can put a postage stamp on a capable chassis to recover stuck vehicles in sand traps, but that doesn't make it a letter to santa.

You can put a Warn on a cat turd and tie it to a tree and pull anything out of a ditch. Doesn't mean the cat turd was important.

But hey, they tried. I'm ecstatic that someone enjoyed their efforts. Cheers.

Wow

You're a loving toilet

Edit: sorry I forgot we weren't using that word, but you all know the word I wanted to use here

BuckyDoneGun
Nov 30, 2004
fat drunk

antimatt posted:

I guess I don't get it, but why? There are so many better choices to throw a full frame under but they chose ignorant.

Like it's not a Corvair, it's not anything,

Better choices like what? What would make it better for him?

CaptainTofu
Jun 1, 2021

antimatt posted:

Yes. That's why I consistently shitpost about smoking tires. I dislike bad takes.

He's not eight years old. If he was then it's only natural to excuse the behavior.

Anyone can put a postage stamp on a capable chassis to recover stuck vehicles in sand traps, but that doesn't make it a letter to santa.

You can put a Warn on a cat turd and tie it to a tree and pull anything out of a ditch. Doesn't mean the cat turd was important.

But hey, they tried. I'm ecstatic that someone enjoyed their efforts. Cheers.

I'm sorry sir, you seem to have mistaken this for automotive sanity.

MrYenko
Jun 18, 2012

#2 isn't ALWAYS bad...

CaptainTofu posted:

I'm sorry sir, you seem to have mistaken this for automotive sanity.

1200 pages of beige Civics, Corollas, and Camrys.

razorscooter
Nov 5, 2008




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ifv5FPxy5QI
https://www.instagram.com/p/BDE_w_jSgo9/

meltie
Nov 9, 2003

Not a sodding fridge.

MrYenko posted:

1200 pages of beige Civics, Corollas, and Camrys.

hey. mine was purple at least.

antimatt
Sep 12, 2007

ultima ratio regum

BuckyDoneGun posted:

Better choices like what? What would make it better for him?

At least keep a theme. Aircooled? Maybe?

Erulisse
Feb 12, 2019

A bad poster trying to get better.

Wasabi the J posted:

I wanna know what the transmission says.

"-first second third fourth...whats this? "reactive" (jet speed)? Reverse?
Transmission responds with
-"razrivnaya!" meaning "high explosive!"

antimatt
Sep 12, 2007

ultima ratio regum

Memento posted:

Wow

You're a loving toilet

Edit: sorry I forgot we weren't using that word, but you all know the word I wanted to use here

Thank you for editing to not use a gamer word.

Also toilets are for thinking.

Memento
Aug 25, 2009


Bleak Gremlin

antimatt posted:

At least keep a theme. Aircooled? Maybe?

you know you're absolutely right, turning a Corvair into an offroad recovery vehicle is dumb as poo poo, it's up there with doing something like looking for a 1981 AMC Eagle SX/4 because you think it would make a very interesting land-speed racing car

BuckyDoneGun
Nov 30, 2004
fat drunk

antimatt posted:

At least keep a theme. Aircooled? Maybe?

OK, that might make you happy, but for him, the guy who built and owns the car, sounds like keeping it aircooled would make it significantly worse for him. Seems he's got a good chassis and drivetrain for recovering broken off road rigs, in a body that has a style he likes. Why would he make his car worse just to keep some chucklefuck on the internet happy?

OBAMNA PHONE
Aug 7, 2002
please, please, give honor to the felon tow guy

CAT INTERCEPTOR
Nov 9, 2004

Basically a male Margaret Thatcher
Post awesome car stuff and stop arguing about Corvairs you weirdos

Thaaaanks!

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Humphreys
Jan 26, 2013

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


This is AWESOME

https://thumbs.gfycat.com/WelldocumentedIdleIndianpangolin-mobile.mp4

Also what I actually meant to post was this local spotto:

Hmm what an odd MX-5!


quote:

The MX-5 has always been criticised for lacking power but a small Queensland company has been providing the perfect solution to this problem since the 1990s.

Specialising in performance upgrades, most notably superchargers for a large selection of cars, Bullet first built its very own sports car in 1996. Based off the NA series of Mazda MX-5, the Roadster had everything underneath replaced and improved to handle more power, among other reasons. A space-frame chassis was used, as was fibreglass for the front end to keep weight low and provide a visual difference from the MX-5.

Other parts sourced from Mazda included the engine, transmission and brakes, which all came from a series IV RX-7. The 13B turbo rotary produced 225kW of power, considerably more than the top MX-5's 1.8 litre four-cylinder, which only mustered 99kW.

A new generation followed in 1999, but this time around the powerplant was now a 4.6-litre Rover V8 that could also be found in TVRs. A Borg Warner gearbox and heavy duty clutch were also fitted, but the body didn't change with this upgrade.



https://www.carsales.com.au/editorial/details/forgotten-cars-of-australia-the-bullet-roadster-106009/

Humphreys fucked around with this message at 10:22 on Dec 12, 2021

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