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Seat Safety Switch posted:I was getting ready to laugh at this post and then go to another thread until I realized the car still has a plate and was not inside the junkyard. "$500 fine for impersonating a Ranchero/El Camino"
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rscott posted:Climax, eh? Seems like someone had some drunk sex Makes me want to see a new drifting van mock-up by Chevy - the Astro Glide
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Seat Safety Switch posted:Man if I were building a custom limo and only could make two doors into scissor doors, it would be the back doors. Scissor doors in front, suicide doors in back. The only way to go 
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General_Failure posted:That is amazing and if I had a pickup I'd want that. It'd probably get me in trouble eventually but it'd be so worth it. Unless I get shot. I'd go a step further and make it a lenticular image, so when the truck moves/turns it looks like the person's struggling
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SaNChEzZ posted:Related videos: I wanna see this guy take a corner at 10mph and flip the car
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Scirocco Griffon posted:
It's like the tainted offspring of a VW Beetle and a FJ Cruiser 
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Didn't get a picture, but yesterday evening on my way home from work I saw someone in a 2004-05 Hyundai Sonata that had all the badges swapped out for Jaguar X-Type ones. Even had the nifty Jaguar hood ornament, not sure why they'd even go through the trouble when that car looks nothing like a Jag in the first place 
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Darchangel posted:Geeze, there's so much crap back there it's sitting on the bump-stops. You think that's bad, I used to work with a lady who had, I think, a Ford SUV...I believe an Expedition. She was a literal hoarder, and her SUV was jam-loving-packed, floor to ceiling behind the driver's and passenger's seats, with various clothes, stuffed animals, and miscellaneous bags of stuff. She couldn't see out the back or side windows, and apparently she still lived with her mother (this lady was probably at least in her late 40s or so), so no idea what was going on there.
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JaysonAych posted:In more capable hands, the Cadillero would be a really neat thing. I can see what he was trying to do, and I like the idea. Just needs better execution. I think the grille and rear tail lights are what stands out - he should've tried using a front end and tail lights from a Caddy from a similar year of the El Camino to better match to the body.
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Pham Nuwen posted:I hate people who talk about zombies more than I hate stick families, so... yaaaaaaaaay. Boy howdy do I have something for you, then! 
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:When the Concorde loves the Mach V very much... My first thought was "reminds me of Rodimus Prime" 
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Tha Chodesweller posted:Defrost isn't a sudden and violent temperature change. It had probably chipped or cracked in a way or place you couldn't see, and then a few weeks later it cracked to the point where it's at now. This was what I was thinking - most likely already had a small crack or chip in it, and the temperature change caused it to crack under stress. I had that happen a few years ago, got a small rock chip in my window in winter and within a couple days it turned into a good 24"+ crack across the windshield, mainly because it got down way below zero at night.
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Feb 9, 2014 18:36
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Fayez Butts posted:The first bit of the first line of the author's bio tells us a lot: I was just about to point that out - the whole article reeks of high maintenance, picky, stuck-up idiot that refuses to compromise on anything. Probably why her last relationship "fizzled over a text message" - betting the text was from the ex boyfriend, along the lines of "die in a fire" or "I already have one mother, I don't need another one".
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Feb 14, 2014 05:05
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Wasabi the J posted:I can't be completely certain but it looks like there is a rope/strap securing those mattresses longitudinally as well as laterally; what's so terrible as long as they're not going 70? I saw a pickup last week that was doing 65 on the insterstate, had about 6 boxes of painter's pouches in the bed, and none were secured. One box flew out and almost hit the car following behind, I'm guessing they were really lightweight since the box got flung out pretty easily and sorta floated in the air for a couple seconds. I worry more about idiots that don't secure their stuff, versus the ones who do and know not to drive like a jackass.
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Feb 16, 2014 18:56
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Terrible Robot posted:poo poo, that's terrible. I remember when you posted the pictures of the beautiful wiring harness job and in general the whole car was just great. I saw one of these in a storage lot when I went to get some furniture and belongings out of storage, brought back memories of when I lived with my family in the UK for 3 years and we had a navy blue Ford Sierra 
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Feb 24, 2014 21:13
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I can't count how many cars I've seen with some kind of hosed up wheel(s) driving around like it ain't no thang here. Cars that look like someone smashed into the wheel well and the camber is so jacked there's barely any tire hitting the road, and countless times seeing idiots with front wheel drive cars, with a donut tire on one of the fronts. Makes me shiver and I usually end up either hanging waaayyyy back from them in anticipation of an accident, or pass them up as fast as possible so I don't get caught in the inevitable 27 car pileup they cause.
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Wasabi the J posted:Conetent from my daily travels Dammit Beavis, it's TITICACA 
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Crotch Fruit posted:This is in thewrong thread only if they installed jacuzzi jets and fill the 'bed' with hot water. At the very least, it looks slightly less dangerous than El Cavaliero. Only thing I'd change is how they cut out the hatchback section - just follow the window shape and put in slightly angled glass (and take out the godawful "rivets" or whatever those are on the black parts) Boom, Ford RANCHAURUS (or TAURANCHERO?) 
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Terrible Robot posted:Chupathingy Chupacarbra, the gas-sucker 
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MrYenko posted:You get new tires when you can't see the wear bars anymore, right? If you're like my idiot uncle, you wait until the belt material underneath starts wearing through and the car can barely be handled safely to change them out.
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Dec 5, 2014 23:15
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A Melted Tarp posted:Cars aren't going to get any less porcine, unless extremely lightweight materials like carbon fiber and titanium suddenly get a lot cheaper. Society has decided that a vehicle is unsafe unless it has front/rear/side/knee airbags, stability control, traction control, lane departure warning and blind spot monitoring systems. Going back to this (and it may have been covered already), but I think the reason we're seeing a lot more situations of accidents being basically 50/50 of "he dead" or "barely a scratch" is people taking safety features for granted. Think about it: Safer car, airbags, ABS, sturdier builds...and what will some people naturally do? Get that false sense of security and get a bit more lax behind the wheel because they assume all these features will save them, so they don't need to be as cautious. On the other side, intelligent people know that safety features aren't a substitute for being careful and having common sense while driving, so any accidents end up being minor because they knew not to use their phone while tuning the radio, drinking a latte, putting on eyeliner and driving in a blizzard.
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rndmnmbr posted:Interior decoration by Eddie van Halen (and an exploding roll of tape) Red, white and black, I'll take one...and blast Eruption from the speakers the whole goddamn time
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xzzy posted:But I'm pretty sure their current design concept is the result of a concentrated effort to appeal to younger buyers. Only works if by "younger" you mean "approaching retirement age" instead of the usual 75-and-over crowd that putter around in these ugly excuses for land yachts because they think Buicks are for poors
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Astonishing Wang posted:I think it's safe to assume that the dude put the TOUGH MUDDER sticker on his truck not only because of the obstacle race, but because it would look kewl on his truck with mud tires. Simplest answer is he's just pants-on-head retarded and thinks TOUGH MUDDER is a truck obstacle race. Also that Liveleak video, holy poo poo  how the hell does a car even keep driving like that??
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Edmund Honda posted:Looks like the actual GTR from Elysium, besides the wheels. Not sure if that makes it any better? I initially thought it was some kind of replica of one of the Death Race remake cars
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T1g4h posted:The Slingshot just seems to me like one of those solutions searching for a problem. It's not particularly good looking, it's not really practical, and everything it's designed to do, you could do with something much cheaper that you could use any other day of the week. I admit i'm not the target market, I just don't really get who the target market is In all honesty, when I see the Slingshot or Can-Am Spyder vehicles, it screams "I want a motorcycle but I'm too pussy/too lazy to go learn how to drive one and get licensed for it". That's about the only segment of the market I could see getting one since it's smaller and more lightweight than a car but potentially has sharper handling and doesn't need an extra license or road course training to purchase/use.
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veedubfreak posted:Last time we had a good snow storm, as I was getting on the freeway a Cadillac goes flying past me, gets sideways then goes straight in to the guardrail. Had I been on lovely tires I'd have gone headlong into him. Instead I was able to actually turn and continue on my way. Of course this happened like 2 weeks before I got my dash cam First snow storm of the year here happened on a Saturday and I had to go to a client site to help boot up their equipment after a power outage - roads were poo poo, we only got a foot or so of snow but the plows hadn't been out. I puttered to the client office in my 2WD Malibu and hooned through some snow to get there, and on the way back had some jackass in an older model Tahoe was riding my rear end for a few blocks. He eventually sped around me, hauled rear end up the next hill and out of sight...until I crested and saw that he spun out and hit a power pole. Felt good to wave out the window at him a few seconds after
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Throatwarbler posted:
No lie, that looks relatively well done and I'd drive the hell out of that thing. Just needs a slightly bigger plow on the front and you're in business!
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Astonishing Wang posted:I got cut off by a civic with the custom plate "LOL PWNT" In a similar vein, got stuck in traffic this morning because a semi ran a red light and held us up. Driven for a company called RUDE. 
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For the goon in the L300 - I've seen and heard of times where airbags won't deploy if the sensors aren't triggered. Usually that happens in front end collisions, so you skidding sideways probably means there were no sensors outside the front bumper area, and I don't recall that model Saturn ever having the side curtain airbags (I could be wrong though). Case in point: I got rear-ended at a red light back in '99, on my way to deposit a paycheck at the bank. 78 year old guy delivering a new Ford F-150 to a nearby dealership wasn't paying attention and slammed into my car doing at least 45mph. Wrecked the frame, trunk wouldn't close, rear bumper fell off, and the jolt whipped me forward and back hard enough to break the driver's seat in the recline position. No airbag deployment at all in that case, messed up my upper back and neck pretty good (spent 3 weeks, 3 days a week at a chiropractor getting straightened out once I confirmed no bones were broken). I had another accident a few years after that during winter while driving home from the gym - it snowed a little bit and I took the interstate, all traffic was doing at most 35-40mph the whole way. I took my off-ramp, found out real quick it hadn't been plowed well and was covering black ice. I dropped gears to slow down, lost traction, over-corrected and spun front-first into a light pole, glancing off and spinning into the grass off to the side. Airbag DID go off that time, but in all the confusion and craziness, I just remembered the sound of the crash itself and the smell/heat from the airbag itself when it deployed. Pretty sure that the interior lights come on to make it easier for the victim (and any bystanders or emergency crews) to see, or tell if someone is inside and needs help getting out.
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freelop posted:It looks startled A perplexed Skeletor
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GutBomb posted:It probably would have gone much faster if you'd gone to an actual medical professional like a physical therapist instead of a purveyor of quackery and pseudoscience. Chiropractic is not a science and definitely should not be confused for "back doctor". This was after going to the ER, being put in a collar for an X-ray, getting confirmation that nothing was broken...but the chiropractor took another X-ray before doing any work on my neck/back and saw that a few of my vertebrae were twisted like a goddamn corkscrew. Looking at my neck from the side profile, the curve that was supposed to face forward was almost facing the opposite direction, and somehow the magnificent ER doctors completely missed this  All I got from the "medical professionals" was a couple prescriptions, one for 800Mg Ibuprofen and another for Vicodin. I'll trust the "quack" doctor that actually straightened my neck out and made the pain go away (negating any need for pain killers after that) and paid attention to the glaring, swollen lump on the right side of my neck.
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CommieGIR posted:http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/09-10-21/ By the same token, they could have at least referred me to a specialist - and none of that happened. This was the same hospital that sent me home after a sledding accident and said I had a sprained wrist, then called back 3 weeks later to admit they "missed the hairline fracture on the X-ray". While I sat home in a half cast in agony any time I moved my arm and didn't have it in a sling. Point still stands regardless, ending derail.
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CommieGIR posted:No bias due to family connections, right? Holy poo poo, it's like Mad Max meets Ghostbusters meets Back to the Future
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Preoptopus posted:And they are listening to thrift shop lol I got a big ol' flat Only got 20 dollars in my pocket I'm huntin', lookin' for some rubber This is rea-lly awk-ward
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nitrogen posted:remove the schrader valve cores from the tires before the towtruck comes. I never removed the valve, but got some revenge on lovely/illegal parking by using a little pebble inside the screw-on cap for the valve. Puts just enough pressure on it to start it leaking so their tires are good and flat by morning. Not only do they get it towed, but then spend extra money having the tires checked out
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NoWake posted:Bought a wrecked car last fall (smashed in the rear corner while parked) with plans to salvavge the interior, sell off the good body panels and put the engine and trans in another project. Checked it out a week beforehand to make sure it was running, driving and stopping, then winged it 350 miles from Iowa to Illinois. Starting to strip it down this spring and I notice this from the oversized rimmmmmz that had been on... Still amazes me how someone wouldn't notice that - I mean, you'd have to feel something when the wheel rubbed the liner, right? fjelltorsk posted:This is how VW polos Fixed BOOTY-ADE fucked around with this message at 15:06 on May 8, 2015 |
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Beach Bum posted:The thing I always liked about manual was regulating acceleration not with the throttle, but with gear choice. As in, wanna go fast, let it rev. Wanna be a bit more sedate, change gear earlier. The throttle is off/on unless cruising or in traffic or whatever. I'm a control freak, I guess This is precisely why I like manuals - I used to love revving up getting on the interstate in my old 5 speed beater years ago, was so much fun. Being able to control what gear you're in and when, versus the car choosing for you, is way, way better IMHO. Plus it helps to know how to drive manual if you ever need to drive someone else's car, like I used to when I helped my brother at his auto shop. Just makes you look like a dunce when you hop in a car, see the stick shift and go "welp, dunno how to use that, sorry"
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Ether Frenzy posted:If it takes you more than 3 attempts to learn how to drive any stick at any point in your driving career, you took too many tries. It's really not very hard and 85% of the world's driving population has never driven anything other than standard transmission. Yep, this is true - I learned to drive stick in less than an hour in an empty parking lot when I was 16. The only difficult part (at first) was timing the clutch/gas properly to avoid stalling, but once I had that down, it was a cakewalk. People that can't drive manual are either stubborn or lazy, it's really, really simple to learn.
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Twistershift posted:You can't fix stupid (or Chrysler products). Pretty much this - my folks bought a '14 Jeep Grand Cherokee thinking it was the greatest thing in the world - decked out, leather seats, hydraulic lift/lower system, the works. 2 days ago I had to help out because both their FOBs stopped working - couldn't unlock the car or do anything and both batteries had been replaced in the last 4 months. Dad got the little spare key out and was able to get in and take it to the dealership, at which point everything just...started working again.  They didn't even pull it in to check the computer system or anything, just told him "if it happens again, bring it back". Before that he had an '09 Compass that had all sorts of weird issues including a leaking sunroof (that still leaked after being "fixed" twice) and power windows that stopped working after a year or so (passenger front and driver's front/rear). With that and other horror stories I've heard about Jeep/Chrysler products, I'm avoiding them like the plague, they couldn't pay me enough to own one of those piles of poo poo. BOOTY-ADE fucked around with this message at 17:13 on Jun 1, 2015 |
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