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InfinEight posted:Second is something that was an instant classic: i.e. the biggest spacers you'll ever see ever: Oh god, the unsprung weight. 
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xzzy posted:RIDE OR DIE. *sits in a neon* *slowly dies inside*
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kastein posted:This gentleman has not painted ALL the poor choices he has made in a garish color, only some of them, so see if you can spot the rest.  Oh god those welds (can those even actually be called welds?).E: Are those shocks in the last picture fully compressed while it's just sitting there?
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I'm sure that they have applied the worlds simplest solution to the bump steer. Springs and shocks so stiff that the suspension can't actually compress! 
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Well, lightening is the only good move I can see on that entire car, they just went about it in a really stupid way (and undoubtedly for entirely wrong reasons).
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leica posted:I just bought a Samsung oven/range Check with your agent, make sure your homeowners has good fire coverage.
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Terrible Robot posted:Logged into youtube for the first time in 3 years just to tell them that they suck. Currently at 21 thumbs up, and 2425 thumbs down. It was 750'ish this morning when I gave them my down vote.
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Geirskogul posted:Yessssss Congrats on getting it past the sniffers! Not sure what year is the cut-off here, but I'm kind of surprised you had to smog the '73 too. Edit - Looks like 1966 and older don't have to test. Edit2 - FYI if you get collectible car insurance on it (say... from Hagerty!) you can get a 'collectible' exemption from the smog tests in the future. The Locator fucked around with this message at 20:27 on Aug 6, 2015 |
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GutBomb posted:I understand that. I've never seen it this way with tens x 100 before and was wondering if that was commonplace or a weird Italian thing. It seems like a few cars I had from the 70's were like that, but it's been a long time, so I might just be remembering wrong. It does look kind of odd now.
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nm posted:Uhm, that was a 1942 Lincoln Zephyr v12 coupe. Also, they were doing at least 55mph in the right lane, which is hardly so slow as to constitute a hazard -- trucker wasn't paying attention. drat, just watched that walk around video, that thing was immaculate. Did either driver survive that wreck? It looks pretty bad in the photo's.
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PhoenixWing posted:Wheel spacers for sale on a local car FB group Super light weight mod!
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Powershift posted:Those are $10,200 wheels.
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Deeters posted:Just a bro truck to start the day: That's a pretty special hitch cover he's got there.
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MullardEL34 posted:FUUUCK Sucks. A lot. Hopefully the guy had decent insurance from the financial side at least, and hopefully he'll get to spend some really warm time in Joe's tent city. Drunk drivers are terrible.
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Maker Of Shoes posted:Considering the latter of which is at the discretion of the arresting officer and contesting their "discretion" results in a year suspension of your licence regardless of the outcome of the case it's effectively zero. You contest their discretion in court, not in the street. The year suspension is if you refuse to consent to the testing.
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Nitrox posted:Or they can stop drinking beers, imagine that What? Impossible! Obviously drinking beers the night before work when they know that doing so will endanger their employment is entirely beyond their control. Kind of like smoking weed in the days leading up to a drug test for a job is something that simply can't be avoided. It's a miracle anyone has a job.
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The cockroaches in Wisconsin are loving huge.
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MrYenko posted:Valve/cam cover? Looks like a standard BMW I6 valve cover, yea.
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Spiders are fine except when they make stupid little webs in the window and corners of the room that I have to clean up. Outside I leave them alone unless it's a black widow, I hate them and their webs and they get nuked.
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iwentdoodie posted:Trying to clean around the car in the garage, and finally take bottles to recycle. I was working in my folks shed when I was probably 18 or so, had been in and out of it all day. Was starting to get dark and I walked back into the shed to start putting stuff away, and a loving black widow had made a giant web across the doorway in the couple hours since I had last been in it, and I walked right into it and got a black widow close up as it was on the right lens of my glasses. I'm pretty sure that's the closest I've ever been in my life to a heart attack.
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Sudo Echo posted:hi i'm johnny knoxville and this is the law of gravity That's funny, but next time maybe a link? That gif completely froze up my phone today, it's kinda sorta large.
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iwentdoodie posted:Using awful app? Turn off autoload for gifs. Just a browser, but I'll have to look and see if it can not autoload them I suppose.
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8ender posted:Oh Jer-Bear, you've just learned a valuable lesson Yea, foil tape is terrible insulation. 
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atomicthumbs posted:woops I don't think they go together that way.
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kimcicle posted:The best part of this video is watching the guy's sunglasses fly off his face. A magical moment.
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Mr-Spain posted:you posted that one and not this? Holy crap that's a lot of cones!
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Enourmo posted:terrible truck stuff It's too bad they don't make some simple device that could have prevented that sort of thing. Maybe something that could be stuck in front of the tires on the trailer or even something that could brace the rear edge of the trailer to keep it from tipping. Sadly, such simple devices don't exist, so this sort of terrible thing will continue to happen.
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Sappo569 posted:I'll let you all discover the terrible car stuff slowly... What the hell?
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Six-Of-Hearts posted:Awful and awesome at the same time: So good.
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xzzy posted:Yes but if you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice. Nice sludge. Is that what happens when you never change your oil for 150,000 miles or something?
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DiggityDoink posted:Unironically agreeing. Dogs in the back of the truck is seriously terrible stuff. drat right, dog in the front. The back is for the kids.
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veedubfreak posted:Thank god they only use mag-chloride and sand out here in CO. Although mag-chloride does wonderous things to aluminum wheels. In northern Arizona they just use crushed ash-rock.
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The gensets for our data center (we have two, both able to handle about 2x the max load the data center can draw, plus the emergency stuff for the rest of the building) go from off & cold to 100% output in about 15 seconds, or so I'm told. The UPS systems in the data center can run the data center at full output for about 18 minutes. In the 5 years I've been at this building, I'm only aware of 3 times they've come on outside of testing, and one of those was when some idiot crashed into a pole and the power companies systems failed to reset and re-route the power properly after the circuit breakers tripped from the downed lines. Also, I always knew we had a lot of fiber coming into the building, but I found out a while back that each client actually brings their own redundant fiber into the building, in addition to our own main company redundant fiber links for our internal networks, and connections upstream to our vendors. So apparently we have over 140 (or more) separate fiber connections into the building from each side (physically redundant links so that a cut theoretically doesn't take out anything). Would suck a lot to be a contractor that dug across our parking lot and took out one of those sets of conduits.
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That's a hell of a lot of fiber and bandwidth. Of course that building houses 110 companies/datacenters, whereas we are just a single small 2-story building and a single company (and not the giant HQ which is back east). With the UPS's and gen-sets, it really doesn't make economical sense for our company to pay for that sort of a power feed either, given that the power here is extremely reliable, and everything we have in our data center is also fully mirrored at the HQ (all of our stuff is hot/hot on both coasts, and hot/hot redundant within each data center as well), with a third 'disaster recovery' data center in another state that is on warm backup. Also, I have no idea what this has to do with terrible car stuff anymore, I thought this was the general chat thread. Oops. Edit: Terrible car stuff - I saw a Honda Civic on the way home tonight (too dark to get a picture, even if I was silly enough to try that while driving down I-10) with the most amazing giant fender flares on the front. I think the entirety of the front tires were actually inside the flares, outside of the car's original fenders. It was.. something. The Locator fucked around with this message at 07:12 on Nov 27, 2015 |
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I bought a truck when I was much younger (like 20'ish) from the Ford dealership that was on Camelback (don't recall what they were back then, it's changed, as I know it wasn't "Camelback Ford" which is what's there now). Years later when I knew a lot more about car buying and looked back at that paperwork, I realized that I got royally reamed on the deal. Their service department was poo poo too, I went there once for something unimportant that I can't even remember now and never went back.
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IOwnCalculus posted:Alternatively, whatever impact bent the bumper down also bent the hitch. My old Chevy work truck had a receiver hitch under the bumper. The hitch was attached to the frame via a bracket that was connected with a single through bolt. When the truck got rear-ended and the bumper bent down like that, the hitch bent down too, because the single bolt attachment point worked like a hinge. The bumper bent down like that for the same reason, it pretty much just swiveled/bent at the bolt attachment points on either side if I remember right.
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