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GWBBQ posted:Ever played Space Invaders? Of course you have, you're reading this thread. I did not know about the re-release! And it's quite affordable. Thanks!
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Shai-Hulud posted:Every car made more than 25 years ago gets collected by someone. Even the really lovely ones. Cant wait for the Renault Twingo and VW Golf 3 market to explode! Ugh Golf 3 collectors. Buying new old stock suspension for the correct amount of wallow. I went Mk2 > Mk3, worse purchase ever. EVER GRINDCORE MEGGIDO has a new favorite as of 15:19 on Aug 13, 2018 |
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Shai-Hulud posted:Every car made more than 25 years ago gets collected by someone. Even the really lovely ones. Cant wait for the Renault Twingo and VW Golf 3 market to explode! Can't wait for whatever replaces hipsters to tool around ironically in their butt-ugly 1996 Tauruses. Maybe a Toyota Yaris for good measure.
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Shai-Hulud posted:Every car made more than 25 years ago gets collected by someone. Even the really lovely ones. Cant wait for the Renault Twingo and VW Golf 3 market to explode! I worked with someone at my last job who's apparent prized possession was a Chrysler Fifth Avenue. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysler_Fifth_Avenue He was a huge piece of poo poo, but I was really amused when he was calling some supplier to complain about how the replacement head lamp lens was not show quality. Krispy Wafer posted:Can't wait for whatever replaces hipsters to tool around ironically in their butt-ugly 1996 Tauruses. My dad had a '96 Taurus, and yeah, that thing was butt ugly like most cars in the mid 90's
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Trabant posted:I'd go over and kick your rear end, but my Krispy Wafer posted:Can't wait for whatever replaces hipsters to tool around ironically in their butt-ugly 1996 Tauruses.
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Aug 13, 2018 16:14
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Aunt Beth posted:I’d try to hide behind your car but you’d see me through the gigantic gaps between the body panels! Same, but a Bonneville. Considering GM's habit of using the same car across product lines, they were probably the same vehicle. But give me a B-body Oldsmobile Custom Cruiser station wagon any day.
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Aug 13, 2018 16:38
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Aunt Beth posted:I would honest to god drive a 1995ish Olds Cutlass Supreme. My grandfather had one and I always loved how it looked. My wife had one when we were dating/first married. Horrible, horrible car. It certainly looked nice. She had the "gold" edition that was the dark green with gold trim. Quality wise it was a giant piece of green poo poo. Constantly needed repairs and the repairs were at least $450 on up other than when the stupid electric radio antenna broke and I installed that myself after buying the replacement which was over $100. I finally convinced her to get rid of it when the transmission locked up at 61000 miles. We sold it to the transmission shop for $3500 in non-running condition and used that money to put a down payment on a new Mazda 6 that she drove for 13 years. There's a reason Oldsmobile doesn't exist any more - and that car is a prime example as to why.
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WescottF1 posted:My wife had one when we were dating/first married. Horrible, horrible car. It certainly looked nice. She had the "gold" edition that was the dark green with gold trim. Quality wise it was a giant piece of green poo poo. Constantly needed repairs and the repairs were at least $450 on up other than when the stupid electric radio antenna broke and I installed that myself after buying the replacement which was over $100. GM still exists though. I owned a Chevy once, I will never willingly own another Chevy. As a side note, I don't think that green is a good color for cars, I don't think I've ever seen a car that looked good in green.
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Aug 13, 2018 18:35
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Iron Crowned posted:GM still exists though. I owned a Chevy once, I will never willingly own another Chevy. Jaguars, old school lotus and Aston Martins all look pretty sharp in British Racing Green.
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Aug 13, 2018 18:46
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Mini’s look marginally classier in green. So it only works for British cars or pseudo-British cars.
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Krispy Wafer posted:Mini’s look marginally classier in green. And only in British Greens, American Greens are terrible, just look at any Jeep.
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Aug 13, 2018 22:52
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Someone, somewhere owns both a Tempo and a Topaz.   
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Aug 14, 2018 00:36
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Something about those pillars is really ugly.
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Shai-Hulud posted:Every car made more than 25 years ago gets collected by someone. Even the really lovely ones. Cant wait for the Renault Twingo and VW Golf 3 market to explode! Invest now! Twingos already have a cult following and they're right on that old car precipice where almost all of them vanish over the course of a couple years.
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Aunt Beth posted:I’d try to hide behind your car but you’d see me through the gigantic gaps between the body panels! My first car was the hand-me-down family 1984 Delta 88 Royale Broughm. It was a boat of a car that felt more like a couch floating down the highway. Floor it and the engine made a wonderful noise, but it couldn't be bothered to do much else. There's a part of me that would love one in good condition.
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Aug 14, 2018 02:03
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Bring back the Del Sol and make it an EV!
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Krispy Wafer posted:Mini’s look marginally classier in green. I had a Volvo 240 that was a dark green and I think it looked pretty good. My mom once had a Mazda 626 in a similar shade of green, and it was painfully ugly.
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Iron Crowned posted:GM still exists though. I owned a Chevy once, I will never willingly own another Chevy. Hey, I just purchased a Chevy! 
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BigDave posted:Hey, I just purchased a Chevy! Dang.
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TotalLossBrain posted:They seem to be making some kind of retro collector comeback from what I've seen on a recent visit to the old country. Maybe it's just East boomers with a case of ostalgie? In fairness, they are somewhat interesting cars. The Trabant especially, being made from a composite material literally reinforced with recycled cotton. And it's been just about 30 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall. That's more than enough time for people to have been born removed from the context that made them truly awful cars i.e. them being the only options available to someone, so they're just objectively bad cars with subjectively interesting character. Also they take well to speed parts and tuning because they're really crude two strokes and incredibly light so they're popular for low buck racing too. Shai-Hulud posted:Every car made more than 25 years ago gets collected by someone. Even the really lovely ones. Cant wait for the Renault Twingo and VW Golf 3 market to explode! The first gen Renault Twingo is actually a meme on the 4chan automotive board and there are at least a few people who have bought them because of it. Mostly because it's cute looking.
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FilthyImp posted:Bring back the Del Sol Yaaaay, an excuse to post a Regular Car Reviews! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjQH2EUeXPs
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Who needs an excuse? While we’re discussing it, do you recall which video he did that had the car being examined leaking antifreeze everywhere? I need it for some choice voice clips.
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Horace posted:Invest now! Twingos already have a cult following and they're right on that old car precipice where almost all of them vanish over the course of a couple years. I was actually looking into getting one when i needed a cheap daily driver to get to work. Those things are cheap, roomy, and pretty reliable. They also weigh next to nothing. They never made one with a fun engine though so i skipped it and bought a MX-5 instead.
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Shai-Hulud posted:I was actually looking into getting one when i needed a cheap daily driver to get to work. Those things are cheap, roomy, and pretty reliable. They also weigh next to nothing. They never made one with a fun engine though so i skipped it and bought a MX-5 instead. ah, the MX-5, famed for its fun engine.
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It weights about a ton and makes 140HP stock. Seems alright to me for a daily driver!
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Dick Trauma posted:Someone, somewhere owns both a Tempo and a Topaz. I got a story! When I was very young my sister bought a Tempo. Same burgundy color as the Topaz in that pic. It was new then so it wasn't a bad car. It got traded in eventually for a Chevy Celebrity. That car was just as lovely and I drove it alot when I had my learner's permit. Anyhow, my mom always drove beater cars. $500 shitheaps that would last a year or so before going to the boneyard. One of those shitheaps was a Tempo. When my sister had her Tempo my niece left some crayons on the back deck and they melted into the cloth. The one my mom got had that same Crayola melted in. It's strange that the same car went through a few owners and ended up back in the family. Especially strange cause those cars really were awful and it's amazing it lasted that long.
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Tempo's were trash, but I unironically also liked the optional luggage rack on the rear trunk deck. BigDave posted:Hey, I just purchased a Chevy! Enjoy all your J.D. Power awards. I think every Chevy comes with at least one rolling around in the trunk.
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BigDave posted:Hey, I just purchased a Chevy! Sorry about your bad car. Grumbletron 4000 posted:I got a story! When I was very young my sister bought a Tempo. Same burgundy color as the Topaz in that pic. It was new then so it wasn't a bad car. It got traded in eventually for a Chevy Celebrity. That car was just as lovely and I drove it alot when I had my learner's permit. My high school used a Chevy Celebrity for Driver's ED. I got to drive my dad's '85 Camry a lot before I was railroaded into buying my first car (the aforementioned never again Chevy), and that's definitely the one I have nostalgia for, just boxy enough, and it had a sunroof. My dad liked that car a lot, and if the transmission hadn't started going to poo poo, I'm sure my dad would still own that car.
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Iron Crowned posted:Sorry about your bad car. My parents bought a boxy, manual transmission Camry when I was in HS (also an '85 I think?). I ended up buying it off them for $1000 and drove that thing to 198,000 miles. It was a beast.
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I had a friend push me hard away from Chevy and towards a Mazda. I ignored it and got a Malibu. I've been driving it for years with no problems other than standard maintenance, and she's had to take her car into the shop quite a bit according to her Facebook. We're no longer friends. Car nuts just aren't worth it.
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Are there any cars that are patently bad these days? Besides Mini's and anything from Chrysler-Fiat? Even low reliability vehicles today would probably rank highly compared to even quality cars stuff from the 70's and 80's. IUG posted:I had a friend push me hard away from Chevy and towards a Mazda. I ignored it and got a Malibu. I've been driving it for years with no problems other than standard maintenance, and she's had to take her car into the shop quite a bit according to her Facebook. Mazda's are better though.
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Krispy Wafer posted:Are there any cars that are patently bad these days? teslas
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Tunicate posted:teslas Luxury cars don't count, otherwise no one would own a Jag, Land Rover, or BMW. Metal Geir Skogul posted:Chevy Spark That's the stuff. Riding in one of those is like racing a Radio Flyer that's missing a wheel down a steep hill.
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ishikabibble posted:In fairness, they are somewhat interesting cars. The Trabant especially, being made from a composite material literally reinforced with recycled cotton. And it's been just about 30 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall. That's more than enough time for people to have been born removed from the context that made them truly awful cars i.e. them being the only options available to someone, so they're just objectively bad cars with subjectively interesting character. Interesting personal anecdote: A couple of years ago I visited a very small car / plane show in Anacortes, WA while on a family vacation. I saw a Trabant 601S Deluxe stuffed into the corner of a hangar that had a couple of jets in it. I walked over to check it out (East-German expat here) and started talking to the owner of all of it. He had bought a Czech jet trainer and had it shipped to him - presumably somewhat disassembled - in a standard shipping container which still had some room for perhaps a car, the shipper informed him. The shipper suggested some car he wasn't familiar with and when the man opened his container in Anacortes, he found the Trabant in there. Anyways, the really neat part: a couple of years after meeting that guy I found out that it was Bill Anders, who flew as Lunar Module Pilot on Apollo 8 - the first ever flight around the moon. This was the famous 1968 moon mission that had NASA get in trouble over the three astronauts broadcasting their reading of (some of) Genesis' creation story on Christmas Day, 1968. I sure wish I had known earlier whom I was talking to, because while Bill was trying to tell me about Czech trainers and Trabants, my kid was sitting in that trainer, wildly pushing buttons. Have a couple pics: Hey what's that?  No way!  Original tires!  I swear there is an engine in there. Oh and lol original battery!!  Standard issue Trabant interior, down to the seat covers.  Finally, some actually obsolete and failed technology: 
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If not for having a CVT transmission (can't drive stick), the 3-cylinder Mitsubishi Mirage actually really intrigues me. Really stripped down car and I wished it was MORE stripped down than it was. It's got a lot of features in this recent model year as standard, but I wish it actually had manual locks, manual windows, a generic basic push-button CD/AM/FM. It almost seems like it's so stripped down that an average person with a repair guide could almost keep it working should something break outside of the engine/transmission. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aCsNs3eYTE This is the 2015 version, I think. JediTalentAgent has a new favorite as of 06:27 on Aug 15, 2018 |
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Krispy Wafer posted:Luxury cars don't count, otherwise no one would own a Jag, Land Rover, or BMW. Jags, Land Rovers, and BMWs won't lock you out of your car overnight because the firmware update failed, or block used cars from being rebuilt and fueled.
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chitoryu12 posted:Jags, Land Rovers, and BMWs won't lock you out of your car overnight because the firmware update failed, or block used cars from being rebuilt and fueled. Oh and they don't monitor literally everywhere you go and everything you say and do in the car.
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Gynocentric Regime posted:Oh and they don't monitor literally everywhere you go and everything you say and do in the car. Or suddenly burst into flames in traffic because they've been cosmetically fixing damaged batteries and putting them back on the line instead of throwing them out. Or have a self-driving mode that lurches into a wall for no reason and kills you.
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