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Olympic Mathlete posted:The guys involved with the Polestar without a rear windscreen gave reasoning as to why. The guy was quoted as saying "how often do you look behind you anyway?" and then went on to say they needed to remove it in order to have enough strength for the enormous full length panoramic glass roof. I recall complaining about this stupid poo poo in this thread before. Good to know the actual reason why was the stupidest poo poo imaginable and whoever designed the car should be shot into the sun.
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Olympic Mathlete posted:The guys involved with the Polestar without a rear windscreen gave reasoning as to why. The guy was quoted as saying "how often do you look behind you anyway?" and then went on to say they needed to remove it in order to have enough strength for the enormous full length panoramic glass roof. More often than I look out of the freaking roof.
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Nothing is more 80s than boning on the hood of a Trans Am. Not that I would know.
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wesleywillis posted:Nothing is more 80s than boning on the hood of a Trans Am. A formula hood might have better ergonomics
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CommieGIR posted:Try a Miata. Was not the most comfortable for us. Front seats of a 90's Toyota Tercel. One of us accidentally hit the parking brake and didn't realize until we rolled off the parking lot and onto the beach. Ooops. Luckily my buddy was close and towed us off before a cop came through or something and getting into any trouble. E: we used my car a little more often after that, 1991 Crown Vic.
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ili posted:How does a car even know your sexual orientation or activity? I get if you're constantly plugging in warhammer shops or dnd conventions into the satnav it could fairly reliably infer your answers are "n/a, none" but for regular people it doesn't really seem like something your car would know. Many of these cars have wifi routers and when your phone makes requests to grindr.com theyre gonna know. When you send pics over HTTP of you gettin a blowie theyre gonna know. And when you get a blowie and the driver facing camera is watching, they're gonna know.
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dissss posted:More often than I look out of the freaking roof.  honestly!
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  AI:SS 2023 - Late But Not ForgottenI'm running it this year to give slothrop a well-deserved break: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4047118 This is a pretty late start and the deadlines are tighter, so don't dilly-dally.
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I know this isn't Automotive Sanity but holy poo poo this seems like a terrible idea. Carrying 2000+ lbs almost entirely above a 1/2 ton pickup seems like a body roll and center of gravity nightmare. I want to be nowhere near this mess on even the gentlest of curves.
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Olympic Mathlete posted:The guys involved with the Polestar without a rear windscreen gave reasoning as to why. The guy was quoted as saying "how often do you look behind you anyway?" and then went on to say they needed to remove it in order to have enough strength for the enormous full length panoramic glass roof. Toyota managed fine   ili posted:That's why utes are best. Utes are Beauts!
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WTFBEES posted:I know this isn't Automotive Sanity but holy poo poo this seems like a terrible idea. Carrying 2000+ lbs almost entirely above a 1/2 ton pickup seems like a body roll and center of gravity nightmare. I want to be nowhere near this mess on even the gentlest of curves. I've seen this, but also towing a camper and doing 65-70 down the interstate. I made sure to keep a very large distance between me and the overloaded doom pickup.
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WTFBEES posted:I know this isn't Automotive Sanity but holy poo poo this seems like a terrible idea. Carrying 2000+ lbs almost entirely above a 1/2 ton pickup seems like a body roll and center of gravity nightmare. I want to be nowhere near this mess on even the gentlest of curves. Now add a lift kit. 
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CMD598 posted:Now add a lift kit. This is the guy swerving past me on the right in 4-lane mostly stop-and-go traffic on the 101 in the middle of LA and giving me the finger because I'm in an M3 and it's clearly me holding up traffic. He's the one guy in 750,000 cars that has a Trump flag Ether Frenzy fucked around with this message at 10:40 on Nov 12, 2023 |
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Wanna get in front & stay in front of that yard-sale-to-be
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https://packaged-media.redd.it/wqav...52d2ae11399#t=0 Must be the fancy new slotted rotors
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So I’m away from home all weekend because I’m on call for work, and today my wife send me these pictures:   It’s a 2020 escape, and luckily she and my son saw the oil light 15 feet past the end of the driveway and shut it off. Apparently there’s still oil on the dipstick, so hopefully no damage. Any guesses on what the problem was?  Oil filter is super duper loose. My son said it’s about 1/2” away from the sealing surface. It’s serviced at the dealer she bought it from so either it’s the wrong filter or someone forgot to actually tighten the fucker down. It’s been about 2000 miles but I’ve NEVER had a correct filter come loose ever. They’re getting a call in the morning… The under tray is SOAKED in oil so that will probably need to be replaced as well. I’m not sure how to get oil out of that padded material.
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Humphreys posted:Toyota managed fine Yupppp. Modern car design is rear end. Everything bigger, heavier, quicker is a physics nightmare. It's the dumbest combination of things.
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WTFBEES posted:I know this isn't Automotive Sanity but holy poo poo this seems like a terrible idea. Carrying 2000+ lbs almost entirely above a 1/2 ton pickup seems like a body roll and center of gravity nightmare. I want to be nowhere near this mess on even the gentlest of curves. My Dad used to haul his Model Ts like that! Except his ramps were made entirely of wood with chicken wire for grip. I'm certain he still has them too. Someday I'll share some of that old junk.
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WTFBEES posted:I know this isn't Automotive Sanity but holy poo poo this seems like a terrible idea. Carrying 2000+ lbs almost entirely above a 1/2 ton pickup seems like a body roll and center of gravity nightmare. I want to be nowhere near this mess on even the gentlest of curves. Looks like a 3/4 ton so it's not going to instantly poo poo balljoints and tie rod ends everywhere but taking a turn must be terrifying.
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Olympic Mathlete posted:Ewwwwww
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Ether Frenzy posted:This is the guy swerving past me on the right in 4-lane mostly stop-and-go traffic on the 101 in the middle of LA and giving me the finger because I'm in an M3 and it's clearly me holding up traffic. He's the one guy in 750,000 cars that has a Trump flag Well, this was taken in socal...
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Chris Knight posted:More like Crapi! Looool they made it into another CUV 
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The most recent Capri was a base model Mazda Familia Cabriolet that they pretended was a high spec car, enough so to be sold as a Mercury. I'm not going to clutch my pearls over the good name of the Capri being tarnished
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StormDrain posted:My Dad used to haul his Model Ts like that! Except his ramps were made entirely of wood with chicken wire for grip. I'm certain he still has them too. Someday I'll share some of that old junk. Are you 90 years old?
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Disgruntled Bovine posted:Are you 90 years old? No but he is.... In spirit. He's one of those weirdos who got into cars that were old when he was young. The ramps fit on his mid 80s GMC 3/4 ton with a stake bed.
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The Door Frame posted:The most recent Capri was a base model Mazda Familia Cabriolet that they pretended was a high spec car, enough so to be sold as a Mercury. I'm not going to clutch my pearls over the good name of the Capri being tarnished Did the US get a cool Capri at all? Guy who lived across the street from my parents when I was a kid had a sick white Tickford one like this. 
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StormDrain posted:No but he is.... In spirit. He's one of those weirdos who got into cars that were old when he was young. The ramps fit on his mid 80s GMC 3/4 ton with a stake bed.
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Olympic Mathlete posted:Did the US get a cool Capri at all? Guy who lived across the street from my parents when I was a kid had a sick white Tickford one like this. I think we had a few years of the European Capri, but I've only ever run into Fox bodies and Familias in person
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stealie72 posted:Yeah, a friend of mine has had a barn/workshop full of brass era cars in various states of completeness since he was in his 20s. Not every Model T guy is 90. Just most of them. Correct, most of his friends are 20-30 years older and passing.
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The Door Frame posted:I think we had a few years of the European Capri, but I've only ever run into Fox bodies and Familias in person Can't say I ever saw a Euro-Capri in the US. Saw plenty of the rebadged Mustangs though.
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The Mk I and Mk II Euro Capris were sold in the US until 79 when the Fox body Capri came out.
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Hadlock posted:The Ford Aerostar will forever be the van our Scoutmaster drove. In that terrible two tone light blue with dark blue accent color. My Scoutmaster drove an old delivery van, AKA "bread truck" when we were going to camp. It would tow the canoe trailer, and you could load literally everything in it, including us Scouts. Yes, we were bouncing around inside the thing without seats, much less seatbelts. It was the '80s, what can I say? randomidiot posted:If you mean "hard of hearing and a mile away" by closely. I was stunned when my Crown Vic didn't "make the noise." Still am. Guess they finally figured it out. randomidiot posted:Clearly you've never tried to bang in the back of an 80s Civic in a dark corner of a parking lot. Is that the new version of "in an uncomfortable place", replacing the back seat of a Volkswagen? CommieGIR posted:Try a Miata. Was not the most comfortable for us. Closest I've gotten to that was a '78 Celica Coupe, but in that the seats recline all the way *waggles eyebrows*. Collateral Damage posted:And that's before you try to bang it in! <laugh track and applause> Olympic Mathlete posted:The guys involved with the Polestar without a rear windscreen gave reasoning as to why. The guy was quoted as saying "how often do you look behind you anyway?" and then went on to say they needed to remove it in order to have enough strength for the enormous full length panoramic glass roof. Maybe if you didn't put in a GIANT GLASS ROOF THAT SERVES NO PURPOSE... dissss posted:More often than I look out of the freaking roof. randomidiot posted:Early 00s Subaru Outback was pretty solid for a little action too. So. loving. Slow. Though. The Windstar or Aerostar would have easily outrun it... with the PS pump screaming the entire time. Perfectly fine with a decent engine  quote:Crown Victorias though... no. They're shockingly cramped for such a large car. Can confirm... unless you get the taxi "L" version (P...74?). Extra 6"  in the rear footwells - same as the Town Car.Olympic Mathlete posted:Did the US get a cool Capri at all? Guy who lived across the street from my parents when I was a kid had a sick white Tickford one like this. Yes, we got them for a few years, then they became rebadged Fox Mustangs. 1970-1978, as a Mercury, per Wikipedia.
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Darchangel posted:My Scoutmaster drove an old delivery van, AKA "bread truck" when we were going to camp. It would tow the canoe trailer, and you could load literally everything in it, including us Scouts. Yes, we were bouncing around inside the thing without seats, much less seatbelts. It was the '80s, what can I say? Not a scoutmaster, or bread van but in highschool the teacher who ran the Outers Club had a big Ford van and when we took the (4ish hour?) trip from the school up to Algonquin Park there would be like 3 canoes on the roof, 6-7 students in the back just laying on whatever (backpacks etc) with no seats, and added bonus of the passenger seat swiveling and whoever that was in that seat facing the back so we could all bullshit about whatever bullshit on the way up there for a 4 day canoe trip. It was the mid 90s in my case, but in my brothers' day it was the 80s.
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stealie72 posted:Yeah, a friend of mine has had a barn/workshop full of brass era cars in various states of completeness since he was in his 20s. Not every Model T guy is 90. Just most of them. Honestly it was not specifically the model T talk, more the wood ramps with chicken wire. To me that sounds like great depression improvisation.
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Disgruntled Bovine posted:Honestly it was not specifically the model T talk, more the wood ramps with chicken wire. To me that sounds like great depression improvisation. Ah! That makes sense. It makes more sense if you've seen the quality of his woodwork in comparison to his welding.
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Disgruntled Bovine posted:Are you 90 years old? No... guys that get into Brass-era or older can't afford mechanic's tools so they get into cars that can be maintained with cow tools. wesleywillis posted:Not a scoutmaster, or bread van but in highschool the teacher who ran the Outers Club had a big Ford van and when we took the (4ish hour?) trip from the school up to Algonquin Park there would be like 3 canoes on the roof, 6-7 students in the back just laying on whatever (backpacks etc) with no seats, and added bonus of the passenger seat swiveling and whoever that was in that seat facing the back so we could all bullshit about whatever bullshit on the way up there for a 4 day canoe trip. That sounds awesome, actually.
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