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Apparently cell-phone pics are ok here so long as the cars are cool, so I'm X-posting these from the terrible pics thread: 
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Hah, figured it out at the same time /\/\ Yep, it sure is. It's a Buick Electra. Dunno why I had it in my head that it was a mopar, must be the swoopy front end, Dodges from that era had ridiculous(ly awesome) looking front fascias.
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Aug 22, 2012 07:15
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Warcabbit posted:Just for the hell of it, a quick tribute to SAAB. "Dammit, who let Sven run the louver-press again?  "Really cool car otherwise, I had no idea SAAB made a swedish-corvette thing. E: oh it's Sonett prototype, only 6 were made. Cool. The rest of the pictures are awesome as well, keep posting them. Terrible Robot fucked around with this message at 14:26 on Aug 22, 2012 |
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Aug 22, 2012 14:23
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Prototype Volkswagen Beetle built by Daimler-Benz in 1937. 1 of 30 ever built
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Aug 22, 2012 23:43
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If you're in a car like that and are worried about blind-spots, you aren't driving it properly 
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Aug 24, 2012 19:34
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Your dad is so much more AI than mine, not fair  . My dad would maybe impress the guys in SH/SC but this is soo much cooler, goddamn.
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Aug 26, 2012 18:32
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 Click for gigantic. I cannot wait to start restoring my friends '77 fastback. Devyl posted:Your dad never read Chilton's guides to you when you were little? No, but I'm definitely doing this with my daughter. Tonight we learn about Volvo turbocharging systems 
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Aug 28, 2012 17:44
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beedeebee posted:OK, tell me how many organs you want, I need this car... It can be all yours for the low price of $141 (it's a very well done model). edit: Proof Terrible Robot fucked around with this message at 17:03 on Aug 31, 2012 |
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Aug 31, 2012 17:01
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I spent a huge amount of time going through the Shorpy Kodachrome archives last night, thought I'd share a few of my favorites from the cars & trucks section. Click for huge. Old cars were loving hard  The Ford Motor Company, circa 1912 or so.  Ye Olde Autozone  This one was listed as the parts department of a dealership.  Too poor to purchase your own car? Safety and traffic laws non-existant? Just build your own  Better than a Smart car!  Why did such a plainly awesome sport like Auto-Polo die out?   Oh right.  
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Sep 27, 2012 20:35
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If you've ever been to Bristol, Tennessee you may have heard of Rt. 421, or The Snake as it's called. It's basically a lesser known Tail of the Dragon. It is a very loving fun and dangerous road. It travels over 2 mountains and through a valley in between. In the middle of the valley is a 4 way intersection with a store, The Snake Shop. They sell fuel (Snake Venom, the grades are snake themed as well) and have a room devoted to pictures and pieces of bikes/cars that couldn't hack it. It's a really awesome little place in the middle of an absolutely beautiful area. Anyway, they have this parked out front.
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Oct 5, 2012 02:24
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falz posted:I was going to suggest this is because of 'Get Shorty' but I think that was a different van. The van in Get Shorty was a Pontiac Trans-Sport I believe. Always thought they looked pretty cool for a van, but the Previa is hands down my favorite minivan. I wish they weren't all rusted to hell or run into the ground where I live, I want a supercharged 5 speed minivan dammit!
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Oct 6, 2012 16:21
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Bucephalus posted:Oldsmobile Silhouette, the Cadillac of minivans. I just watched the movie a week ago too.
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Oct 6, 2012 17:47
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There's exactly ONE Citroen DS in my town, but drat is it an awesome one. Automobile magazine did a story on it. The only picture I have of it in the wild is really lovely though. 
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Oct 6, 2012 17:55
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Matlock posted:Awesome Porsche stuff Cool pictures, looks like a great way to spend a day. I was just looking at an older Porsche design, actually.   Behold the Panzer VIII Maus, the largest tank ever made, designed by none other than Ferdinand Porsche.
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Oct 15, 2012 06:06
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That Subaru is loving awesome for many reasons, but I personally love it because an '86 Loyale is the first car I ever broke the 100mph mark in, and it's cool to see one that's actually built to haul rear end.SierraEchoBravo posted:These are words I never would have though I'd see written for an '86 Subaru. The Loyale I learned to love speed in was taken off the road a year later because the body was literally rusting in half; you could see it sagging around the B-pillar if all the doors were opened.  Every '80s Subaru I've seen in my area has been destroyed by rust, far worse than any '80s Toyota or Honda I have seen.
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Dec 7, 2012 22:05
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chrisgt posted:You went 100 in an 86 GL? Jesus loving christ. That's scary/awesome. Was it being dropped out of an airplane??? hah. Haha it took almost a half mile to get to 100 and felt like it was going to fall apart (which, in hindsight, it was). I was also 15 at the time, driving my friends car with just a learners because he was baked as gently caress and I hadn't discovered the wonders of pot yet, it was the middle of the night, and I was unfamiliar with the road. It was like the perfect storm of stupidity and bad decisions, but goddamn it was fun. I've gone faster in cars since, but I've never felt as scared as I did in that car. RIP Thrasher.
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Dec 7, 2012 23:58
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I buy Hot Rod and HR Deluxe when I've got spare money, there's not really a better car mag. Super Street  has an annual that focuses exclusively on classic Japanese sports cars that is actually really good, it doesn't have any of the regular mags stupidity (or at least, a whole lot less of it). I just wish they would make it a more regular thing, I'd probably get a subscription.
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Dec 10, 2012 00:24
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I don't get it but laughed anyway  . Maybe it registered subconsciously. Anyone care to explain the joke so I can laugh some more?
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Dec 20, 2012 03:55
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grover posted:It's not a bug, it's a feature! Ahahaha, so it was subconscious after all. Been a loong time since I exercised the "working on computers" part of my brain.
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Dec 20, 2012 04:28
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Is that one of Billy Bob Thornton's cars? It is pretty drat fitting...
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Dec 22, 2012 07:17
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I'm excited about a mid-size diesel pick-up, but that cab design is loving atrocious. It's a loving truck, it doesn't need a higher belt line. At least they seem to have fixed the massive wheel to fender gap problem. e: Or at least minimized it.
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Dec 23, 2012 08:11
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DixielandDelight posted:Billy Bob's is in Fort Worth Texas. World's biggest honky tonk. That makes even more sense  . Still, I could definitely see Thornton driving that car.
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Dec 23, 2012 20:06
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While that was a bit painful to watch, it was pretty loving awesome to see that 855 rip other cars apart and then just drive off with some dents  . Gonna show this to all my friends who don't like my wagon.
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Dec 28, 2012 02:23
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IIRC Roth's idea was that the three colored lights would combine to make one bright white light? Of course light doesn't work like that so it just looks (even more) goofy.
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Jan 8, 2013 23:36
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Guinness posted:How do you think RGB displays and projectors work? That post was poorly worded, I know how displays work, but in the case of the car it did not work so well.
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Jan 9, 2013 03:11
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InitialDave posted:I like how it looks like the beach is actually flat, so the appearance is of the truck just bounding around like a happy St Bernard. Well they are sponsored by Red Bull...
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Jan 17, 2013 22:06
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Backov posted:That probably gets about the same mileage as a H1, so it seems like a practical choice to pull your camper. The H1 most certainly doesn't get only 5mpg (based on fuel consumption of an LAV-25), it actually gets closer to 15mpg (Source). edit: Which is also better than the H2 Terrible Robot fucked around with this message at 01:32 on Jan 28, 2013 |
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Jan 28, 2013 01:29
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Renault Turbo 5 edit: wait, really? A Metro?
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Jan 28, 2013 22:30
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Pretty sure they are Dome Zero's.
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Feb 6, 2013 17:36
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KozmoNaut posted:Crosspostin' this from the Youtube thread, because it's pretty drat cool. "Probably one of the only cars in the world driving without camshafts". Yeah, you know, apart from the hundreds of thousands of Wankel powered cars out there. That was a really excellent video, I love listening to Christian talk about his cars  . I've been hearing about individually actuated valves for years, and it's really great that it's getting close to being viable for production. When he started talking about using an air tank for energy capture or (even better) as a kind of instantaneous turbo I got all giddy.
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Feb 20, 2013 18:54
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tbb9 posted:Don't the new Fiats use pneumatically controlled vales? Not exactly, the engine still has camshafts, they just don't act directly on the valves allowing for more precise valve control.
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Feb 20, 2013 19:28
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rcman50166 posted:TL;DR Camless systems aren't practical...yet. Thanks for taking the time to write all this up, it was very informative. I hadn't even considered the most basic hindrance to it, the Conservation of Energy . Still, it sounds like it will probably be put to use in high performance engines if nothing else and it will be interesting to see just how much of a game changer it will be in racing.
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Feb 21, 2013 06:58
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If you didn't learn how to counter-steer as a kid riding bicycles or driving a go-kart (or gently caress, a pedal-car), you had a bad childhood and I feel sorry for you.
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Mar 24, 2013 18:57
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^^^ Aaand there's my other favorite 80's BMW ever. It really was a good decade for them style-wise.Crustashio posted:
 Goddamn what a beautiful car. I always forget how completely-stupid-in-love I am with the E28 until the next time I see one, which is probably a very good thing for my wallet. In high-school auto class we had to strip one out as a project one day for a BMW-nut substitute teacher (he had a gorgeous E32 750IL), and I flat out refused and spent the rest of the class period trying to convince him to let me buy it instead. I think I'll just leave a tab open with that picture for a while. . . 
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Apr 9, 2013 02:09
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Boaz MacPhereson posted:No Eleanor. Bullshit. Eleanor is between the GTO from xXx and the Mustang from Bullit. It's the row started by the Thiokol Spryte snow-cat from The Shining, which is incidentally how you know this is the best "vehicles in movies" picture.
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Nov 23, 2013 03:37
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I remember the last time these got brought up someone found one that was made from the front-half of an Olds Toronado, wish I could find that picture. Pimp-est plane tug ever. E; gently caress why do I always end up with the snype. 
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Nov 25, 2013 23:24
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Found some Toronado (or other FWD V8 GM product) seaplane tug pictures     The last one looks like the frame is bending 
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Nov 26, 2013 03:26
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For a minute I thought it was an interior shot of the Pantera that some crazy (is there really any other kind of Northern European?) Swede threw a Hemi into. Would you like to know (a lot) more? The website is straight out of 1999 but has a dizzying amount of information on his build and all the custom parts he designed and built for it.
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Dec 11, 2013 01:53
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Mister Kingdom posted:http://www.hemipanter.se/ The link was in my post? 
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Dec 11, 2013 03:14
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Elmnt80 posted:There also a lack of cooling and generally everything else I'd expect to have under the hood of a vehicle. kinda thinking it might just be for show. Radial aircraft engines are air-cooled.
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