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BuckyDoneGun posted:https://twitter.com/DirtFishRally/status/1539383603741720576?s=20&t=0-oRi6JyHDuCBW7tDdp4MA Man I wish for a chopper view of that!
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Jun 22, 2022 10:59
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That video is pretty much how my Irish relatives drive down those lanes. Complete disregard for the possibility of anything else coming the other way  It is quite nerve wracking.
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Jun 22, 2022 11:15
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BuckyDoneGun posted:https://twitter.com/DirtFishRally/status/1539383603741720576?s=20&t=0-oRi6JyHDuCBW7tDdp4MA How the gently caress did the driver save that. Good lord
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Jun 22, 2022 11:23
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:With a couple of very high profile yooootooobers using El Caminos as drag car or burnout cars the chances of getting a cheap El Camino to manual convert would be getting slimmer by the day Is this not true for literally anything these days? We can no longer have nice things
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Jun 22, 2022 12:38
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:With a couple of very high profile yooootooobers using El Caminos as drag car or burnout cars the chances of getting a cheap El Camino to manual convert would be getting slimmer by the day For the G Body ones I expect people to buy them, see how much of a pain to work on they are and then sell them again. Just in that perfect era of vacuum everything with electronically controlled carbs.
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Jun 22, 2022 13:23
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BigPaddy posted:For the G Body ones I expect people to buy them, see how much of a pain to work on they are and then sell them again. Just in that perfect era of vacuum everything with electronically controlled carbs. The G-bodies are prone to rust too. I don’t think I’ve seen one on the road in ages.
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Jun 22, 2022 13:27
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:How the gently caress did the driver save that. Good lord  Yeah I could do that, in a video game... 1 time out of 100.
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Jun 22, 2022 15:11
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I don't know if this is terrible or awesome, but honestly kinda made me giggle https://twitter.com/AleksKalashnkov/status/1539369162333728770?s=20&t=bxrHstI_eU4wYX8QxBvWPQ CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:With a couple of very high profile yooootooobers using El Caminos as drag car or burnout cars the chances of getting a cheap El Camino to manual convert would be getting slimmer by the day I wanted an El Camino but put a Powerstroke or other V8 Turbodiesel in it. You also probably knew that's what I would say. https://dieselcamino.wordpress.com/ CommieGIR fucked around with this message at 15:22 on Jun 22, 2022 |
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Jun 22, 2022 15:14
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Guy in the process of doing a 3 rotor time attack FD. Says he'll be on instagram more so here: https://t.co/CB4mOxYvvR https://twitter.com/fsNLRSgZ4Fl7TtW/status/1539565968485019648?s=20&t=Gj2wXdAsRD4RicFih03VcQ https://twitter.com/fsNLRSgZ4Fl7TtW/status/1529792290570792961?s=20&t=Gj2wXdAsRD4RicFih03VcQ Previous iteration: https://twitter.com/fsNLRSgZ4Fl7TtW/status/1517608250954620928?s=20&t=Gj2wXdAsRD4RicFih03VcQ
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Jun 22, 2022 16:02
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MrYenko posted:The G-bodies are prone to rust too. I don’t think I’ve seen one on the road in ages. Oh trust me, A-bodies aren't exactly rust proof central neither.
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Jun 22, 2022 17:50
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Need to start a service to go find rust free Phoenix cars and ship them to the rest belt for  * many. Pretty sure someone was doing this in NH as there was the same guy selling tons of old trucks that were rust free.
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Jun 22, 2022 17:53
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BigPaddy posted:Need to start a service to go find rust free Phoenix cars and ship them to the rest belt for There's a whole industry around this, but for european buyers usually.
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Jun 22, 2022 18:42
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MrYenko posted:The G-bodies are prone to rust too. I don’t think I’ve seen one on the road in ages. I drive one, but I'm in the south. 1000% agree on the vacuum everything being absolute bullshit to work on.
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BuckyDoneGun posted:https://twitter.com/DirtFishRally/status/1539383603741720576?s=20&t=0-oRi6JyHDuCBW7tDdp4MA What the gently caress
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BigPaddy posted:Need to start a service to go find rust free Phoenix cars and ship them to the rest belt for Dad did this a few times after he retired, didn't make a lot but got to drive and work on nice old trucks. He'd find them in TN/NC/GA and sell in WI/MN.
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Jun 22, 2022 22:04
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Nidhg00670000 posted:Oh trust me, A-bodies aren't exactly rust proof central neither. gently caress no. Not even here in TX. Leaky windshield did me no favors, and doubled sheetmetal around wheel openings loves to collect leaves and dirt.
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Jun 22, 2022 22:21
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So who wants to buy my 1983 V8 low mileage rust free El Camino?  Trick question I ain't selling.
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Jun 22, 2022 23:15
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Darchangel posted:gently caress no. Not even here in TX. Leaky windshield did me no favors, and doubled sheetmetal around wheel openings loves to collect leaves and dirt. In the north, cars rust from the bottom up. In the south, they rust from the top down. Down here in Florida, El Caminos were particularly popular with pool guys, and suffered hard when the inevitable chlorine spills happened. It tended to rust the tailgate and bumper clean off.
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Jun 22, 2022 23:39
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Olympic Mathlete posted:Guy in the process of doing a 3 rotor time attack FD. Says he'll be on instagram more so here: https://t.co/CB4mOxYvvR I've followed along on his progress and I wish I could get my car this far along. Time and money...
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the spyder posted:Time and money... I hear you on that one, too little of either!
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If you wanted one of the £560,000 Prodrive 22B restomods, you're poo poo out of luck as all 25 are spoken for. https://www.prodrive.com/post/the-prodrive-p25-a-recreation-of-the-iconic-blue-subaru-impreza Lots of carbon means under 1200kg, 400hp, 600Nm, 6 speed sequential "semi-auto". https://twitter.com/PistonHeads/status/1539925376717258752
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BuckyDoneGun posted:If you wanted one of the £560,000 Prodrive 22B restomods, you're poo poo out of luck as all 25 are spoken for. That is dumb as gently caress.
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Jun 23, 2022 12:51
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Humphreys posted:That is dumb as gently caress. Uhhhh......... I dont really that at all? It's basically a WRC car but with a interior / no cage, how is that not awesome?
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Jun 23, 2022 12:58
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:Uhhhh......... I dont really that at all? It's basically a WRC car but with a interior / no cage, how is that not awesome? It's awesome, but not half a million awesome. Make a homologation series and let me buy a WRX with an actual race bred motor and chassis in it. Subaru has fallen a long way.
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um excuse me posted:It's awesome, but not half a million awesome. Make a homologation series and let me buy a WRX with an actual race bred motor and chassis in it. Subaru has fallen a long way. Except . . . this isn't Subaru making it? I get the value point but that's true for every restomod. You're paying a huge premium for a modern version of your dream car, which already has a high starting point because for any car for which a restomod is viable you're not the only one for whom it's a dream car.
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Jun 23, 2022 13:09
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JohnCompany posted:Except . . . this isn't Subaru making it? They made 25 of them. They don't exist as anything other than rich people to embezzle money into and make posters with. These cars basically don't exist to the vast majority of the human population.
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Jun 23, 2022 13:13
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um excuse me posted:They made 25 of them. They don't exist as anything other than rich people to embezzle money into and make posters with. These cars basically don't exist to the vast majority of the human population. I have no problem with something both being a Veblen good and awesome. I see you disagree. There were, what, 400-some original chassis to begin with? So a significant fraction of them are now updated.
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JohnCompany posted:I have no problem with something both being a Veblen good and awesome. I see you disagree. There were, what, 400-some original chassis to begin with? So a significant fraction of them are now updated. I'm just saying that this representing Subaru doing something interesting seems true until you consider how many people will be affected by their existence. At least when I had a Diablo poster as a kid, you could just go out and buy one assuming you had the resources. As with any growing car brand, they're in their identity crisis phase. They can either embrace offering something different or just become another SUV factory. I think we can see which way they're leaning.
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This reminds me of the new Lancia Deltas that were made a couple of years ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZagcSGReUo If I had stupid money, I'd absolutely have one of those.
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Just buy yourself a 205 GTI from France and make it look like a T16 and live your Group B dreams.
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Anything Prodrive is rad and AI as gently caress, get outta here with your logic and financial arguments It's also not that pricey when you consider the cost of a clapped out 22b
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um excuse me posted:They made 25 of them. They don't exist as anything other than rich people to embezzle money into and make posters with. These cars basically don't exist to the vast majority of the human population. So what else doesn't exist in this manner? Singer 911s? Koenigseggs? F40s?
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Had I the means, I'd sooner have one of these than a faster much more expensive cookie cutter hyper car. I mean all your Koenigsegg and McLaren's are cool but honestly I can barely tell them apart. I agree with the comments on the tweet above about the wheels being too big though. If it's necessary for the brakes I guess it's ok, but asthetically it's the only thing I don't love about that car
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Motronic posted:So what else doesn't exist in this manner? Singer 911s? Koenigseggs? F40s? How bummed out are you prepared to be? They exist now as much as you know they exist. Seen pictures and photos? Seen one a car show once? Yup, that's as close to experiencing one as you. Will. Ever. Get.
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um excuse me posted:How bummed out are you prepared to be? They exist now as much as you know they exist. Seen pictures and photos? Seen one a car show once? Yup, that's as close to experiencing one as you. Will. Ever. Get. That sounds like how bummed out you are. First of all, you probably don't want to speak for what I've driven and secondly it's up to you if you want to be depressed about things existing that you can't personally have/use/touch. Seems like a pretty awful way to look at life.
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lilbeefer posted:I agree with the comments on the tweet above about the wheels being too big though. If it's necessary for the brakes I guess it's ok, but asthetically it's the only thing I don't love about that car In that first photo with an actual race car wearing appropriate sized wheels and meaty rubber it just tells you that these were made as museum pieces which may get the odd tootle to a car show once a year.
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/\/\ maybe. But there could be one or two of the 25 that just love the concept and want to drive the gently caress out of it. I imagine with such a tiny production run there would be some sort of vetting process Why the malaise posting? Sheesh (not directed at poster above me)
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Motronic posted:That sounds like how bummed out you are. First of all, you probably don't want to speak for what I've driven and secondly it's up to you if you want to be depressed about things existing that you can't personally have/use/touch. Seems like a pretty awful way to look at life. Okay I never said what you've driven, I said if you haven't driven one by now you never will. I stated what is observably, measurably, true. If the truth depresses you that's your baggage, but it doesn't slow me down at all.
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I would just like to add here that one of the Ford Escort rally restomod projects (Mk1 I think) that a friend is around is currently on hold because the old fuckers designing it want to put in a shitload of too-modern kit (think touchscreens and associated toss), are doing dumb poo poo with the drive train and have realised how insanely expensive the project is (mainly because of those dumb decisions) so it's currently shelved.
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