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Adiabatic
Nov 18, 2007

What have you assholes done now?

This is really interesting.

stump posted:

:siren: Post your car facing the factory where it was built, as if facing Mecca in prayer :siren: You should note the compass bearing for used as evidence.

:perfect:

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stump
Jan 19, 2006

There will definite be extra imaginary internet points for parking on a rug.

Glad people found that interesting, it's quite a good in depth wiki article.

Applebees Appetizer
Jan 23, 2006

We had the Sunshine Skyway Bridge collapse back in 1980, I remember as a kid when it happened being horrified and then freaking out every time we drove over it after that. Driving right by on the northbound turned north/south span and seeing the gap knowing that a bunch of people fell and died right there was spooky as hell.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunshine_Skyway_Bridge#1980_collapse

The bridge was rebuilt and is pretty cool now, I once got a flat at the very top at night and it was unnerving to say the least.

Applebees Appetizer fucked around with this message at 16:32 on Feb 20, 2017

IOwnCalculus
Apr 2, 2003





stump posted:

:siren: Post your car facing the factory where it was built, as if facing Mecca in prayer :siren: You should note the compass bearing for used as evidence.

Edit: improved my justification & a clarification.





From East Mesa to Honda East Liberty Assembly Plant in Ohio. Might redo this later with the C10 aimed at Fremont / NUMMI / the Tesla factory for shits and grins.

:siren: A photo of your car from at least 30 feet above it, so no leaning out your second or third floor bedroom window to shoot it in the driveway. :siren:

Safety Dance
Sep 10, 2007

Five degrees to starboard!

There's a 15 minute loading zone across the street from the Sears Tower...

beep-beep car is go
Apr 11, 2005

I can just eyeball this, right?



Safety Dance posted:

There's a 15 minute loading zone across the street from the Sears Tower...

If you can get to the observation deck in 15 you deserve to name the next challenge.

Modus Man
Jun 8, 2004



Soiled Meat

Safety Dance posted:

There's a 15 minute loading zone across the street from the Sears Tower...

Bonus points if it's being towed out of the loading zone right as you get up there to snap the pic

fridge corn
Apr 2, 2003

NO MERCY, ONLY PAIN :black101:
I managed to get a pic of our rental car from the top of the skytree

Pomp and Circumcized
Dec 23, 2006

If there's one thing I love more than GruntKilla420, it's the Queen! Also bacon.

IOwnCalculus posted:

:siren: A photo of your car from at least 30 feet above it, so no leaning out your second or third floor bedroom window to shoot it in the driveway. :siren:

If I was in work tomorrow I'd so be getting the Genie Z45 out into the car park.

morethanjake32
Apr 5, 2009
I guess I'll join in and take a pic from the knuckeboom tomorrow at work to keep things moving.

~Coxy
Dec 9, 2003

R.I.P. Inter-OS Sass - b.2000AD d.2003AD
I'm just waiting for nearmap to update their aerial photography map tiles.

Kia Soul Enthusias
May 9, 2004

zoom-zoom
Toilet Rascal


:siren:Have your car display a funny message of some kind.:siren:
(example, it plays DOOM, or if it was my car, it plays ZORK (I only have a text screen) Or a bumper sticker, whatever. I don't really care).

IOwnCalculus
Apr 2, 2003





drat, already used Bullet With Butt in the car audio thread.

Kia Soul Enthusias
May 9, 2004

zoom-zoom
Toilet Rascal
I can make my Mazda show lines from Zork but I can't even find a blank CD and :effort:. I wanted to do it as a joke after seeing where that guy said he installed DOOM on his 911.

CAT INTERCEPTOR
Nov 9, 2004

Basically a male Margaret Thatcher
Well poo poo, beaten. AAnd I had even done enough to prove my car was on this morning's satellite imagery. drat YOOOOOOOOOU!

Elmnt80
Dec 30, 2012


CharlesM posted:

I can make my Mazda show lines from Zork but I can't even find a blank CD and :effort:. I wanted to do it as a joke after seeing where that guy said he installed DOOM on his 911.

Your mazda sucks then, because mine proudly displays its status as the PartyWagon without needing a cd! (FuckThePO was a close second choice)



Lets get back to driving by :siren:taking a picture of your car at the beach!:siren:

Lake, river or ocean doesn't matter, so long as it has sand next to it where people go to do beach things. Bonus points if your vehicle is on the sand itself and/or has a scantily clad person posing with it.

Elmnt80 fucked around with this message at 08:12 on Feb 22, 2017

cursedshitbox
May 20, 2012

Your rear-end wont survive my hammering.



Fun Shoe
^^^^: beaten, FU!

Still a rad rear end bumpersticker:


Elmnt80
Dec 30, 2012


Suck it. :smug:

SlimManFat
Nov 12, 2010

RUST RUST RUST RUST RUST RUST RUST RUST RUST RUST RUST RUST RUST RUST RUST

cursedshitbox posted:

^^^^: beaten, FU!

:siren:THE FACE OF A MAN THAT JUST GOT OWNNNNEEED:siren:

disregard the fact that I got probd for mine :v:

Kia Soul Enthusias
May 9, 2004

zoom-zoom
Toilet Rascal

Cop Porn Popper posted:

Your mazda sucks then, because mine proudly displays its status as the PartyWagon without needing a cd! (FuckThePO was a close second choice)



Lets get back to driving by :siren:taking a picture of your car at the beach!:siren:

Lake, river or ocean doesn't matter, so long as it has sand next to it where people go to do beach things. Bonus points if your vehicle is on the sand itself and/or has a scantily clad person posing with it.

Is that one of those Eonon units?

Suburban Dad
Jan 10, 2007


Well what's attached to a leash that it made itself?
The punchline is the way that you've been fuckin' yourself




Looks just like the pioneer something or other that I installed once.

Terrible Robot
Jul 2, 2010

FRIED CHICKEN
Slippery Tilde
MOTHERFUCKER

Elmnt80
Dec 30, 2012


CharlesM posted:

Is that one of those Eonon units?

Pioneer 2800 with the metra install kit for the 6. Yes, I hate having money.

Alarbus
Mar 31, 2010


Folly Beach, South Carolina

:siren: Let's go the other way, post a pic of your car up a mountain/peak with the view :siren:

Somebody fucked around with this message at 19:15 on Feb 22, 2017

Astonishing Wang
Nov 3, 2004

Alarbus posted:



Folly Beach, South Carolina

:siren Let's go the other way, post a pic of your car up a mountain/peak with the view: siren:

lol nice try

Alarbus
Mar 31, 2010

I'm bad at image posting

Astonishing Wang
Nov 3, 2004

Alarbus posted:

I'm bad at image posting

awesome car at least :D

Alarbus
Mar 31, 2010

Astonishing Wang posted:

awesome car at least :D

Finally.

And I just detailed the car,I got it all sandy just for you people.

Elmnt80
Dec 30, 2012


Alarbus posted:

Finally.

And I just detailed the car,I got it all sandy just for you people.

Aw, you're so sweet. :bigtran:

Terrible Robot
Jul 2, 2010

FRIED CHICKEN
Slippery Tilde
Gonna try and get this one on the way home since my commute goes over a mountain

Bajaha
Apr 1, 2011

BajaHAHAHA.


I'm in that flat prairies, going to have time wait until next challenge to compete.

Alarbus
Mar 31, 2010
Dad and I are working on the beach house, so it was pretty convenient, once I figured out the imgur mobile app. I used to like driving up mount Mansfield in Vermont, so I'm looking forward to a nice vista.

The Royal Nonesuch
Nov 1, 2005

Alarbus posted:

:siren: Let's go the other way, post a pic of your car up a mountain/peak with the view :siren:



:siren: Your car next to a large orchard - no, not your neighbor's three spindly citrus trees, let's see a real orchard with rows! :siren:

The Locator
Sep 12, 2004

Out here, everything hurts.





The Royal Nonesuch posted:

:siren: Your car next to a large orchard - no, not your neighbor's three spindly citrus trees, let's see a real orchard with rows! :siren:

20 years ago, that would have been super easy here. Now? I think I'd have to drive about 90 minutes to the closest ones I can think of.

Alarbus
Mar 31, 2010

The Locator posted:

20 years ago, that would have been super easy here. Now? I think I'd have to drive about 90 minutes to the closest ones I can think of.

I could probably do it in ~40 minutes in PA or VT, but I have no goddamn clue in SC. Does make me want a hard cider, though.

Safety Dance
Sep 10, 2007

Five degrees to starboard!

Back in Atlanta, it would have been bitchin' to sneak the Jeep into the old abandoned prison farm. I did that once on a motorcycle at night, and it was weird when I realized, "holy poo poo, this is an orchard!"

angryrobots
Mar 31, 2005

Alarbus posted:

I could probably do it in ~40 minutes in PA or VT, but I have no goddamn clue in SC. Does make me want a hard cider, though.
The major fruit tree crop in sc is peaches. We produce more annually than "The peach state" Georgia, and it's pretty much the only commercially viable fruit tree that's happy with our climate.

Welcome to the palmetto state.

Fermented Tinal
Aug 25, 2005

by Pragmatica

The Royal Nonesuch posted:

:siren: Your car next to a large orchard - no, not your neighbor's three spindly citrus trees, let's see a real orchard with rows! :siren:



Hopefully you can see the rows of apple trees that start about 50' from the road. If not there's another orchard I can try.*

:siren: Post a picture of your car parked with less than 2.5cm or 1in of space between it and another vehicle. :siren:

E: *Or not, it's a pretty bad time of year because honestly that just looks like a bunch of randomass dormant trees and there's no way I'm gonna tresspass down a mud track to get a better shot. If you guys really don't believe me, remind me in two months and I'll take a picture when they're in bloom.

Fermented Tinal fucked around with this message at 14:12 on Feb 23, 2017

Pomp and Circumcized
Dec 23, 2006

If there's one thing I love more than GruntKilla420, it's the Queen! Also bacon.

Cop Porn Popper posted:

Your mazda sucks then, because mine proudly displays its status as the PartyWagon without needing a cd! (FuckThePO was a close second choice)



A future project on my RX8 is to hack the screen to do poo poo like this.

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Safety Dance
Sep 10, 2007

Five degrees to starboard!

angryrobots posted:

The major fruit tree crop in sc is peaches. We produce more annually than "The peach state" Georgia, and it's pretty much the only commercially viable fruit tree that's happy with our climate.

Welcome to the palmetto state.

I have heard that "peach" in "The Peach State" is actually a corruption of "pitch". Georgia's vast pine forests made it a valuable source of pitch, or pine tar, for shipbuilding back in colonial days.

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