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MrYenko posted:GM marketing had a single hit with the “Like a Rock” campaign, and has been a clown car of continuous failure ever since. They are singularly incompetent when attempting to promote anything that doesn’t say “Silverado” on the side. they also had "Heartbeat of America" that ran for a while lol but that tiktok is pretty much what a Boomer thinks will sell trucks to gen z
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My favorite GM was “our trucks are made of cold rolled submarines, not beer cans!”. Only to be followed a year later by the aluminum 1500.
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This was a pretty good campaign from the 70s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqweygy9K9Y
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they gonna like, kick his rear end when they find him?
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Rhyno posted:they gonna like, kick his rear end when they find him? I mean, I would
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https://twitter.com/midnightdorifto/status/1599910808712282112 Holy poo poo
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I've been watching this for a couple days and I am trying real, real hard not to buy it. https://www.ebay.com/itm/334648103516 As some of you may know, I already have a '66 Bonneville - convertible - but this has been my fantasy DD for over thirty years (my Dad 's first new car was a '66 Catalina wagon). I've been wrenching on Pontiacs, particularly these B-bodies, about 32-years, so they are well-known to me.. The photos look great in general, especially for under five grand. There's some gnarly roof rust, but nothing I can't weld. It's complete; nothing I can't find or contract (like a new headliner). My chief concern is what I can't see & the seller is not posting: comprehensive shots of the underbody, especially the rear half. The gas tank's not operational, which leads me to believe it, or at least the piping out of the sending unit, is rusted - and if it is, a whole lotta real-estate around it is worse. Thing is even if it's compete cheese under there, I could use a spare (well, another spare) Y-code 389 engine, TH400 trans and a factory air-conditioning set, along with a couple hundred hard-to-find or NLA parts. I need another project like a hole in the head.
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PainterofCrap posted:I've been watching this for a couple days and I am trying real, real hard not to buy it. thats a lot of words, but none of them provide any reasons not to buy it that i can detect. how long will you regret it if you let is pass by? if you find a better one later, you can always use the parts from this one.
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buy that fuckin car or I'll eat this entire box of saltine crackers
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Toyota did the best at catering to their target market and have aussie humour in it too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPYmtEQiG18
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:Yep gently caress off forever GM. And they can shove that turd they call a Corvette while they are at it where the sun dont shine. I had a bloke in a supercharged camero put me in my place outside the shops at Emu Plains yesterday simply because I pulled up next to him at the lights. a) a mazda 3 was never going to beat him and b) I was turning at the next left so it had no skin in the game
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Dr. Garbanzo posted:a) a mazda 3 was never going to beat him not with that attitude 
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Dr. Garbanzo posted:I had a bloke in a supercharged camero put me in my place outside the shops at Emu Plains yesterday simply because I pulled up next to him at the lights. a) a mazda 3 was never going to beat him and b) I was turning at the next left so it had no skin in the game You just know in his mind you chickened out and turned because you were owned.
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PainterofCrap posted:I've been watching this for a couple days and I am trying real, real hard not to buy it.
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slidebite posted:Is that mold in the interior? That car has corrosion in places I’ve only ever seen from salt-water immersion. Based on the roof, cowl & front fender tops rust, my guess is that it sat within a mile or two of the ocean for several years with some / all of the windows partially open.
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Condition wise it looks a lot like a Chevelle SS I’ve been helping disassemble. I was told it was stored for a long time in a carport (in Ontario). The back window leaked into the interior and it had similar looking water damage inside. The floors are pretty good except the section beneath the back seat where the water pooled and completely rusted it out. There was also major rodent damage, there was a nest made of seat stuffing behind the speedometer! Maybe the wagon’s big back windows have rusted channels or it’s leaking in where the luggage rack is bolted to roof.
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I was today years old when I discovered 555 cigarettes, iconic sponsor of the Subaru rally team, is Go! Go! Go! when you say it in Japanese.
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Finger Prince posted:I was today years old when I discovered 555 cigarettes, iconic sponsor of the Subaru rally team, is Go! Go! Go! when you say it in Japanese. was this from the Adam LZ Japan trip videos cause i caught that yesterday i think
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slothrop posted:not with that attitude My favourite game on the way back up the mountains in the arvo is sports mode to put derps in their place at the lights. Humphreys posted:You just know in his mind you chickened out and turned because you were owned. His hot orange camero with custom plates clearly demonstrate his package size and I'm okay with that
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Dr. Garbanzo posted:My favourite game on the way back up the mountains in the arvo is sports mode to put derps in their place at the lights. Atta boy. I do miss driving some of those roads, epecially the one from Bleakheath down to the Megalong. Might be a post xmas roadtrip for the Astina and I.
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Large Testicles posted:was this from the Adam LZ Japan trip videos cause i caught that yesterday i think Nope, my sister said her shinkansen train is "#555, go go go!", and the penny dropped.
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Finger Prince posted:I was today years old when I discovered 555 cigarettes, iconic sponsor of the Subaru rally team, is Go! Go! Go! when you say it in Japanese. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YTq7AJm_GI
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PainterofCrap posted:I've been watching this for a couple days and I am trying real, real hard not to buy it. Now why would we do that? That is some rust on the roof. Originally a vinyl top, or is it rusting from the inside from trapped condensation like the sunroof on my RX-7 I parked for way too long? edit: also can confirm that parking leaking door seals and a hole or two rusted in the cowl can rust a floorboard almost as well as salt up north. Darchangel fucked around with this message at 00:57 on Dec 8, 2022 |
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Finger Prince posted:I was today years old when I discovered 555 cigarettes, iconic sponsor of the Subaru rally team, is Go! Go! Go! when you say it in Japanese. What 'til you discover what a pun the original Japanese title of Speed Racer is... ...bugger. OK, still needs a little explanation. The car is the "Mach 5" - "Mach Go" - of course. "Speed" is Go Mifune in the Japanese. So it's Mach Go, Go (Mifune), GO! (as in the English for git gone.) Also, the English version has better noises for the Mach V in the title. It's supposed to be a V12 - the Japanese opening sounds like maybe an inline 6. Maybe.
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This is like when you look at someone and think "why the hell do I find them attractive?". It makes so little sense and so much at the same time. I can't stop looking.
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Sir Sidney Poitier posted:This is like when you look at someone and think "why the hell do I find them attractive?". It makes so little sense and so much at the same time. I can't stop looking. "jolie laide" French noun phrase jo·lie laide zhȯ-lē-led : good-looking ugly woman : woman who is attractive though not conventionally pretty AKA ugly hot.
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Darchangel posted:Also, the English version has better noises for the Mach V in the title. It's supposed to be a V12 - the Japanese opening sounds like maybe an inline 6. Maybe. Its probably a 2000GT. the anime and the car debuted in the same year. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWrAcwk64gQ&t=31s The prototype was unveiled in 1965 and the record breaking tests were 66. the other well known sporty inline 6ers of japan (240z, skyline) wouldnt be for another 2 years after the 2000gt Rigged Death Trap fucked around with this message at 16:45 on Dec 8, 2022 |
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Owns. Nice use of the flares that come on the FX4 F-150s that look silly with the stock tires that are too narrow for the stock fenders as-is (on the F-150.) I've been watching r/battlecars (I know, Reddit - I don't post just watch), and stuff like this comes up daily. Rigged Death Trap posted:Its probably a 2000GT. the anime and the car debuted in the same year. That would make sense. edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoXsV_Vw5-Q&t=71s Darchangel fucked around with this message at 18:52 on Dec 8, 2022 |
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Got some seat time in this today. Interior is as cramped as you'd expect, and your seating position is angled towards the center-line of the car. Feels really squirmish when driving, which I think is likely down to the stupidly short wheelbase, but holy hell the induction noise in the cabin when you roll into the throttle and get some load on the engine is god tier.  
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i'd love to have one of these if i ever become dummy rich but even then i know my 6'2" 240lb self will never comfortably fit in it
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GramCracker posted:Got some seat time in this today. Interior is as cramped as you'd expect, and your seating position is angled towards the center-line of the car. Feels really squirmish when driving, which I think is likely down to the stupidly short wheelbase, but holy hell the induction noise in the cabin when you roll into the throttle and get some load on the engine is god tier. One of the best looking cars of all time. Jealous.
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BuckyDoneGun posted:Shane Van Gisbergen celebrating his championship win and farewelling Holden from V8 Supercars. Aftermath screencap: 
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Darchangel posted:Owns. Yeah pretty sure that’s where I found it. Reddit is like any other platform, it is what you make of it. If you figure out what you like and get rid of the extraneous bullshit it’s doable
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slothrop posted:Yeah pretty sure that’s where I found it. Reddit is like any other platform, it is what you make of it. If you figure out what you like and get rid of the extraneous bullshit it’s doable Yeah I have a few hobby subs that I follow and help out on. It's kind of a mirror in my eyes. It's only as toxic as yourself.
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The perfect car doesn't exi...... https://twitter.com/jmbordallo/status/1601264654743130112?t=7vTwLE92Pb9lYlU8Zoju4g&s=19
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The "can't afford a messerschmitt kr-200" starter pack That is pretty rad though. Amazingly, looks like it even uses the stock engine, just had to clearance the heads?
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