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Seat Safety Switch posted:It was meant to be. It's like rescuing a pound puppy that ends up tearing the throat out of a home invader. You've been reading too much Dean Koontz, dude. But that Celica is every kind of excellent, fantastic find. I'd like to see a video that includes the pop-up headlights, please.
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McTinkerson posted:I also need some goons to chime in and confirm that my fiance is in fact amazing for letting me plan and do this - she doesn't believe me when I say that she's awesome and other goons significant others wouldn't be this chill with such an endeavor. Chiming in for exactly that. Your future-wife is absolutely amazing and awesome and you're a lucky, lucky bastard to have found her. I've not (yet) met either of you, but clearly everything about this is completely fantastic. McTinkerson posted:Here is what the car looks like now: The plan is still to sell this magnificent beast after the rally (assuming it survives), right? 'Cause you can consider me interested.
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How many points would this be worth in the rally, assuming it could be done for under-budget?
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Ooooh... 3 new updates in the wedding-rally thread! Lesseee...McTinkerson posted:Let's loving do this. DrakeriderCa posted:
Seat Safety Switch posted:I wish you better luck than I had today. What a disaster. THAT'S ALL WE GET??!!??!! I DEMAND MORE DETAILS!
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wish I was there but I'm currently painting impressionist clouds in a Newfie themed seafood pub with the wife
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Seat Safety Switch posted:Man if we do this again I'm going to get something really stupid. + a big stupid lift.
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Amazing. Is there a twitter account for the rally?
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Iceland shows the way! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MjySBPFCvw
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Boaz MacPhereson posted:Unfortunately, I lack the proper equipment for a moment of BRAP. Eat more beans.
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DrakeriderCa posted:Pemberton Religious Compound/Hostel You guys have been moaning about Pemberton without ever saying WHY it's a shithole / burn it to the ground / never go there. What happened at the PRC/H?
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Tommychu posted:It should be vans if only because we can then call it the Warped Vans Tour. If you're gonna call it that, then all of the entrants have to have some kind of frame or at least very very visible body damage. Straight lines will be heavily penalized, in other words. Tear-drop windows and airbrushed Valkyries should be worth mega bonus points, though.
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Liquid Communism posted:Just how many body panels do I have to leave on to still be road legal? You can legally drive around in an old jeep with the windshield folded down onto the hood, no roof, and the doors removed. New cars have side-impact requirements that mean converibles have big tall doors, but modified-by-owner rules are (I believe) more relaxed. And look at the Ariel Atom - it's basically a cage with car-stuff bolted on, and no real body panels at all. My personal definition of "van" means "large enclosed internal volume" though I'd still call it a van if it the enclosure was basically a series of steel tubes forming a roll-cage like arrangement. So Powershift's example is not, to me, a van anymore. Details of cab shape (e.g. ratio of hood length to windshield height) aren't enough, that's a flat-bed truck.
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Prairie car-photo backgrounds: Gravel pit  SD 144 Topper and Ferry 2 by Martin Brummell, on FlickrLow angle from the ditch, clear blue sky background  Truck! 1 by Martin Brummell, on FlickrDusk at the Badlands  Horseshoe Canyon 2 by Martin Brummell, on FlickrUnderground parking lot at a grocery store  Underground Chrysler 300 2 by Martin Brummell, on FlickrBarbed-wire fence  Prairie Chrysler 300 5 by Martin Brummell, on FlickrPassing a shiny, shiny truck  Transcanada 13 by Martin Brummell, on FlickrThe wan glow of the tow-truck's lights  SD 135 Towed 3 by Martin Brummell, on FlickrAcross a frozen lake  SD 120 Ice Crossing Riverhurst 6 by Martin Brummell, on FlickrTake that fucker off-road  OR Prelude 02 by Martin Brummell, on FlickrBecome one with both the Earth and the Sky  SD 040 Car & Landscape meld by Martin Brummell, on FlickrI'll be in Alberta starting tomorrow, for about 3 weeks. Come find me - I'll mostly be at Seba Beach, 80 km west of Edmonton - and we can make photos like these happen to any car. That goes for anyone, I'm gonna be bored and kicking around a boring rental car. There are also interesting *things* for backgrounds around, like Inland Terminals and there's even a lighthouse in Cochin, Saskatchewan.
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Slung Blade posted:poo poo, I've been procrastinating. I'm saving these images because while I have no idea about the bridesmaids, my GF *might* be usefully swayed by these we-took-this-little-car-camping shots. Also I like the car.
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Slung Blade posted:Also WOULD YOU LIKE TO PURCHASE THIS FINE AUTOMOBILE? Camping stuff: noted, and agreed. Purchase. Yes. I WANT to purchase that fine automobile, but actually making that happen seems doubtful. HOWEVER. I face a (small, many-options-to-solve-it) transportation problem in Western Canada around christmas time. I am *not* in Western Canada at the moment, and I won't be west of Sudbury before mid-to-late December in any case. The tl/dr is, I need to get my GF and her cat from Regina to Calgary sometime between Dec 16 and Dec 24. One option, probably the "comedy option" is: Purchase a car in Alberta, drive it to Regina, then drive with my two ladies (go ahead, make a bad pun here, I don't mind, but *I'm* not going to do it) to Calgary. After christmas, well, other problems happen later anyways and I can solve those then. Realistically, the current efforts focused on SK friends also visiting AB over the holidays seems like the cheapest and easiest options. But "cheap and easy" is usually far from "best (most exciting!)" Let's talk numbers here: Sweet Chili Heat sold for $2700. What are the current bids on the Hellica?
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Slung Blade posted:Betting you don't either. This irresponsible purchase by me is pretty unlikely overall, but I'd appreciate (and other potential future buyers, I'm sure) it you could come up with some winter tire options. As much as I love studded winters, southern Onterrible says No Way.
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Talk of me purchasing anything aside, Kal Tire has treated me well in the past. New steelies seems like an unnecessary expense for the Hellica. Can't you get a set of 4 for $100 from the local JY? Or does the Hellica take a really unusual wheel / bolt size / pattern?
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