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When my mom got a new '67 Camaro RS, red with black vinyl roof, I found a scale model kit in the same colors and built it for her. Note: She would catch air on one of the roads in the area with us in the car. Decades later, 1996 or so, she drifted my Nissan 240SX (manual). taking my children to school. She was 66 years old by then.
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Humphreys posted:I kinda like this AE86 more. I don't know who designed it, but I got it on Aliexpress. Look a bit more closely at your pic. "by Carbo-"
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madeintaipei posted:Look a bit more closely at your pic. "by Carbo-" I'm comparing OPs post on my screen with my one. Humphreys fucked around with this message at 13:48 on Apr 25, 2023 |
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VideoGameVet posted:When my mom got a new '67 Camaro RS, red with black vinyl roof, I found a scale model kit in the same colors and built it for her. Thanks for sharing. She sounds awesome.
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Humphreys posted:I kinda like this AE86 more. I don't know who designed it, but I got it on Aliexpress. That's the one I actually have. Same: AliExpress madeintaipei posted:Look a bit more closely at your pic. "by Carbo-" Yeah, they're a bit different. edit: which reminds me. If you ever do find the actual designer, let me know. I'd like to pay them for the design. I'm sure Ali didn't. I did find the designer of my '66 Batmobile (same scale as the AE86, which is LEGO "Speed Champions" scale) that I got on AliExpress, and bought the design from them. Their instructions were clearer than the video the Ali seller provided, too. Darchangel fucked around with this message at 21:52 on Apr 26, 2023 |
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Apr 26, 2023 21:49
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Proof roll bars are just for sissies   
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If god intended me to survive an accident, he wouldn't have given me such a cool car
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The Door Frame posted:If god intended me to survive an accident, he wouldn't have given me such a cool car 
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The Door Frame posted:If god intended me to survive an accident, he wouldn't have given me such a cool car
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The Door Frame posted:If god intended me to survive an accident, he wouldn't have given me such a cool car
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The Door Frame posted:If god intended me to survive an accident, he wouldn't have given me such a cool car Threadtitle?
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Apr 27, 2023 09:28
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Humphreys posted:Threadtitle? Too long :/
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Apr 27, 2023 10:23
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Jesus take the wheel. No not like that!
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Apr 27, 2023 12:34
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Survival intention? No! Cool car!
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Safety Features? No! Only Speed!
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honda whisperer posted:Jesus take the wheel. No not like that! Fun fact: when Jesus walked the earth, cars hadn't been invented so he is a terrible driver.
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I hope this fits in this thread. My brothers birthday is in a couple of days so I made him a tap handle for his kegerator. He has a 73 Deville so I picked up an old hood ornament from eBay and plopped it on some dogwood that I turned into roughly the right shape. I tried to get relatively close to his car color with the epoxy fill. .  
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I bought a Bronco today at msrp. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3lFvkjQQzo
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AFewBricksShy posted:I hope this fits in this thread. 
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didn't someone already post a still(s) of this thing in here? It sounds awesome! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwP-wjN4mhg edit: found the full feature video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8tGm51hQLc edit again: this one the owner goes into a lot more detail about the mechanicals https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lz6Q30Mxtg This video also had his Insta: https://www.instagram.com/hhhcustoms/ Darchangel fucked around with this message at 06:19 on Apr 28, 2023 |
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Darchangel posted:didn't someone already post a still(s) of this thing in here?  That fuckin noise gawDAMN.
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The Door Frame posted:If god intended me to survive an accident, he wouldn't have given me such a cool car 
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Well hopefully you'd die lol cuz the alternative isn't great
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The phrase they are looking for is 'crumple zones', not 'airbags'
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Apr 29, 2023 02:42
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Oh it has a crumple zone, but unfortunately it's also the cockpit.
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Apr 29, 2023 03:04
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The driver and passenger are the crumple zone
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Wear steel capped boots for one extra NCAP star.
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LimaBiker posted:Wear steel capped boots for one extra NCAP star. I got shared a not so nice pic of what really happens when steel toed boots cop 8tonne.
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Humphreys posted:I got shared a not so nice pic of what really happens when steel toed boots cop 8tonne. NOPE.
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Humphreys posted:I got shared a not so nice pic of what really happens when steel toed boots cop 8tonne. 
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wesleywillis posted:The driver and passenger are the crumple zone Only Real Men can be a crumple zone and become a quadriplegic
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Having a weekend out in the country and came across a small car show gathering HK Holden Monaro with the 186ci six in it. The car looks hot, but is slow  It really looks the part, but there were so many slow six cylinder Monaros of that era that ended up either in the junkyard or V8 swapped (as god intended)  Twin Turbo LS V8 VN Commodore. I hope the owner stiffened up the shell a bit with that power under the bonnet. Those cars were fairly flexible  XE Fairmont Ghia ESP with the EFI 6 cylinder and 4 speed manual box. I think this was the best looking of the XD-XE-XF generation  XC Fairmont coupe. The Fairmonts of this era had huge rectangle headlights, the Falcons had round sealed beam headlights  This XC had the 4.1lt six in it, being the only six cylinder coupe in this display  A fairly modified XB GT coupe  Another XC Fairmont coupe  A fairly stock standard XA GT coupe  A XB John Goss special. Gutless 4.9lt Cleveland V8 (this engine was only made in Australia as we dropped the Windsor at the time) with a two barrel carby  XC Falcon GS coupe. The GS pack gave it the extra driving lights at the front  A replica of one of Allan Moffat's XB Falcons. This car lives locally to me, as I have heard this thing driven in anger in the industrial estate that I sometimes go for a walk through  A fairly modified XA GT coupe  XB Falcon coupe. This is what Mad Max's Intercepter is based off  1970s Australian Falcon interior goodness  The difference in the rear treatment on a XB (left) and XA (right)
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These two are extremely my jam. Edit: for content there's a new episode of Project Binky out. I coulda sworn they'd finish that car...
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How did a country of (checks notes) 12 million in 1970 manage to secure their own totally separate auto industry? I can't imagine they were exporting just a whole hell of a lot of those to SE Asia. Fiji and New Zealand never were massive export markets
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Hadlock posted:How did a country of (checks notes) 12 million in 1970 manage to secure their own totally separate auto industry? I can't imagine they were exporting just a whole hell of a lot of those to SE Asia. Fiji and New Zealand never were massive export markets Maybe tariffs or it was just expensive to ship there? Czechoslovakia had its own auto industry and it had a similar population.
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Hadlock posted:How did a country of (checks notes) 12 million in 1970 manage to secure their own totally separate auto industry? I can't imagine they were exporting just a whole hell of a lot of those to SE Asia. Fiji and New Zealand never were massive export markets As mentioned, massive tariffs on imports plus being such a distant market with specific requirements, like strong suspension due to most of the roads being unmade and the extreme hot weather. The tariffs started coming down during the early 1970s, but for a while there were replaced with import quotas
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Yeah it's tariffs and shipping. It's from an era before free trade, before massive ro-ro ships and before even shipping containers. Something we forget now, but the tariff issue was more complicated than just a tax on imported cars/parts. Higher tariffs applied to non-British Empire countries, to protect Empire trade for Her Maj against certain filthy traitor ex-colonies. Hence, Escort and Cortina and Vauxhall products along with homegrown Falcons and full size Holdens. The economy and trade used to be much more highly controlled too. Why did NZ get Ladas in such numbers? Because the Soviets traded them for milk and butter with our Dairy Board! (Legend goes they offered a submarine, we settled on Ladas) Hell, NZ still had our own assembly plants up until the 90's, mostly slapping together CKD kits. GM ws the first, opening a plant in 1926, and by the time the last plant closed in 1998 (Toyota), almost everyone had been here in some form: GM, Ford, Mazda, Nissan/Datsun, Suzuki, Honda, Toyota, Jaguar, Rover, Rootes, Chrysler, BMC, Leyland, VW, AMC, Studebaker, Nash, Hudson, Peugeot, Skoda, Fiat, Renault.
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BuckyDoneGun posted:Yeah it's tariffs and shipping. It's from an era before free trade, before massive ro-ro ships and before even shipping containers. The submarine was just a Lada which was driven into a lake 8 years prior.
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Canada also used to have a lot of unique models despite sharing a border with the US. None of them were unique platforms like in Australia, instead they mostly mashups of US brands. Monarchs, Meteors, Beaumonts, Acadians and Fargos. Mercury had a full truck line. Canadian market full size Pontiacs had Chevy chassis and engines. Most of these are from the 50s and 60s, a more recent one is the Acura CSX.
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