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Sinestro posted:It's a BL car, some of them probably left the factory like that.  It's from the Leyland-ownership era, but just scrapes in prior to it becoming the British Leyland clusterfuck. Leyland themselves really weren't too bad at all, it was being paired to the sea-anchor that was BMH to form BLMC that did them over.If they had set Dawn Of The Dead in late-sixties Britain, you would probably have found Harold Wilson handcuffing the infected to healthy but unsuspecting survivors in the hope it'd help them to stop wallowing in their silly zombie nonsense.
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Octopus Magic posted:I dunno, I've always considered the dudes who go around to parking lots with their hood up and a folding chair to be the most boring, insufferable guys, be they import tooners, corvette owners, or british car owners. some texas redneck posted:If you recognize that quote, then TCC is leaking again  CD, surely?
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I think his point was probably more that it's likely a fake one.
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Poing posted:That's some Vitamin J poo poo in the front.
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Dec 13, 2012 20:29
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Cakefool posted:I can't imagine how badly an MGB with a Russian v8 would handle. I'd like to find out though.
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Mister Kingdom posted:I want to see under the hood. Ok, watched the Pacific Rim trailer, and while a Figaro didn't seem out of context here:  Is that a Ford Ka? In California?  I guess it's sourced from one of the South American markets. I mean, trans-dimensional portals, 300' tall monsters and mecha are one thing, but a non-CARB compliant vehicle in San Francisco? I'm not the only one who does this, right? Right? 
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I think it's an issue with filming it, rather than the helmet itself?
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veedubfreak posted:So car makers are trying to confuse the gently caress out of people with their naming convention like video card manufacterers eh. It's like Ford used to have "Zetec" as a designation for the cars which had, you know, Zetecs in them. Then it became a trim level.
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The Ford Capri was actually the second use of the name, there was a Consul Capri earlier. VVVV: Hmm, didn't know about that one. InitialDave fucked around with this message at 19:32 on Dec 18, 2012 |
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Yeah, they changed the top one to being "Titanium" just recently, though. And yes, it's Ghia as in the stylists.
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anonumos posted:How else can you say you have a 10 second car?
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Viggen posted:A black Carlsson!
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Devyl posted:It's not a "proper" car (for me anyways) until Chevrolet gets off their stuck-in-the-past attitude about keeping the engine in the front. Make it rear-engine, shorten the front by a good bit and now we're talking. But yeah, they should really build something more like a productionised Factory Five GTM. I also think the healthy approach would be to give the Camaro designers free reign to make the car as ball-out fast as they can in the top-performance version, and then tell the Corvette design team that they can do whatever they want as long as the end result is better in every way. They should have the Camaro as the tried-and-tested front-engine-RWD car, and push the Corvette further into supercar territory.
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Load-bearing eco-friendly composite chassis section.
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Kill-9 posted:I wanna know how he got the 2X4 in there to start with. How'd he get it over the bend in the frame if he slid it from the back? I guess he just slipped it in through a gaping rust hole? Edit: The fact that the answer to "How did you get that through that gap?" is "C-section" amuses me.
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KozmoNaut posted:Have some terrible car stuff, then: As soon as I saw it, I thought "Is that The Pratmobile?"
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GutBomb posted:I liked it until I saw the inside. That's like saying you'd buy the Blues Brother's Dodge if it had a working cigarette lighter. It's meant to be everything that's wrong about the term "modified Capri".
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tobu posted:Some 'p' platers pulled up beside me in their RX8 and pointed repeatedly at their 'FOURDOORS4WHORES' sticker.  Ignore the watermark in the corner, this is a real advert they ran.
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Hey kids, who likes ordering car parts? My friend had a smashed mirror glass on her car, so I said I'd order one in and fit it when we met up earlier in the month (we live 200 miles from each other). Glass turned up, excellent quality, good as the original, just what I wanted, went to fit it... and it's for the wrong side. The box says it's correct, but the part itself is wrong. Order another and send it back, this one turns up and it's a stick-on glass with a cheapo fitment clip thrown in the box with it, great, thanks guys! That goes back too. At this point, they've received the message I sent them about the first one, and misinterpret what I say to send me out a replacement. Which arrives, and turns out to be another stick-on one, only this time it has the cheapo clip attached to it. No. No. No. I tell them to stop sending me parts and order one from someone else, paying extra to get it delivered quickly. In the intervening period, I have a parcel arrive while I'm out and go to the post office to get it. It's a fourth one from the first guys, having obviously been sent out before they got my "For the love of God, stop" message. I just tell the postie to sling it back, I've got another one on the way, right? Mirror glass from company number two arrives just in time for the weekend. One of the mounting lugs is missing from the fitment clip. Not snapped off in the packaging due to damage in transit, broken before being wrapped up and sealed. Ugggghhnnn. Ask them to send out a good one, which they are doing, but they don't understand why I want them to refund the premium I paid to have it sent by fast post. Yes, it got here on time, but I paid extra to be sure I got the part for a given date. Sending me a broken part for that date doesn't really help me much, does it? Frankly, as long as the next one that turns up fits, I honestly don't care any more. It's been hilarious the disproportionate amount of frustration I can feel over a part that costs about a tenner and takes twenty second to fit.
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It relates to the interior comments, but I've never understood why companies building higher-end cars settle for parts bin switchgear etc. Give me a sportscar that costs £60k and has Ford Fiesta stalks and heater knobs, and the question for me is why I can't have them in machined aluminium and have it cost £61k. Even in smaller quantities, CNCing up bits like that isn't that expensive. You can buy quite nice fittings like that off the shelf anyway, there's no need for something that shouts to you about where they cut the costs right in front of your face every time you drive the car.
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Of the 10 "Most Popular" stories listed down the side, 3 are about people having sex with animals.
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West SAAB Story posted:When was the last time you checked your cookies?  I think it's because I was reading the "Horsemeat in burgers" story. I love that the American perspective on the situation lacks the "What kind of loving weirdo would eat horse? Oh yeah, the French." angle that all our stories include. 
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Romani ite domum! I actually think this is fun, but it's such a bad joke that it has to go in here. 
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You should put it in a plastic case and troll people about how the aerodynamic improvement gives you higher MPG and better front-end bite in corners.
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Fucknag posted:Now I wanna see an Evo done up like a Zero for shits and giggles. Guess that's a moot point.
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There's probably a Canadian Dodge owner who has its opposite.
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neckbeard posted:a block over from my place - redneck done wrong Beach Bum posted:"Goddamn Imperialist bastards, get over it, you lost the war"
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Bear in mind that Ford/Mazda were managing to get 200bhp out of pretty much the same engine for the Japanese market, yeah, that's a bit poo poo. Besides, it's a UK car, and you can pick up a ratty Mondeo ST200 for £500 here and nick the engine out of that. Or spend a bit more and you can have a 3.0 out of an ST220. For thirty grand, gently caress it, get the twin-turbo (300+bhp) lump out of a Noble. Hell, if you want a Ford V6-engined coupe, buy a bloody Noble.
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Faerunner posted:I believe you mean "out of a completely different engine that had a few parts in common"
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Sagebrush posted:Little shits. Throatwarbler posted:I mean I don't want to jump immedietly to any national stereotypes, but really?
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If it makes you feel any better, when a neighbour's lovely kids did vandalise a car I cared about, I settled for them being evicted. I am not an idiot. However, being sensible enough not to take the law into my own hands doesn't mean I'm going to shed any tears if people who do that sort of thing have a run in with someone who will. I'm actually a fairly nice, calm guy, I just don't particularly give a poo poo if people's decisions to act like assholes cause them to suffer a sudden and blunt object lesson in actions having consequences. Come home to find a bunch of kids using your car as a trampoline and kicking in the panels because they think it's funny and they know they are more or less untouchable, and I guarantee your viewpoint will take a sudden nosedive away from anything that could be called "bleeding heart".
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veedubfreak posted:Why do people like bringing attention to it.  It roughly translates as "Please be gentle when you put it in". 
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Collateral Damage posted:Redditor spotted. Physical posted:I never understood how people could not be aware of how anime looks like thinly veiled child-porn, and how by associating with it you look like a pedo. I know they aren't naked, but geez the implication of it makes it impossible for me to watch.
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DJ Commie posted:Unibodies can't really be cut up like that, they won't deform correctly in the second accident, and grinding welds removes a lot of the strength. It'd fold like a can, probably tear apart rather than just deforming.
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It's probably a Ford Sierra-based Caterham clone.
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Octopus Magic posted:Hong Kong is not the mainland
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Puddin posted:This piece of poo poo Daewoo Matiz comes screaming past at about 30kmh, turns out that when you remove the whole exhaust from one of them, it sounds exactly like a Porsche. I almost lost it laughing, it was such a weird thing to see. The best trick is to pull up at a three-lane traffic light on the end lane with a cop on the far lane when there's someone in something chavvy or ricey in the middle. Then blip the throttle menacingly and watch the cops give the look of death to the hot hatch kiddies while not even noticing your anonymous beigemobile.
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Cars for furries, now in stock. Learn more at www.FiskersWithWhiskers.com!
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Giblet Plus! posted:a walking beam is better yet  Also, the rear brakes use this crazy collection of rods and pivots to give all-mechanical actuation without binding during the travel. Seeing as this is the terrible car stuff thread, here's today's terrible thing: My co-worker needed me to put some air in his tyre for him, because it looked a bit flat. It was at 5psi.
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