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[xoxoxoBruce]

I doubt it, I don't see any machine guns.

[BigV]

Originally Posted by Gravdigr

Did Wolf buy a murdersickle?

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You've been misled. There should be a speech bubble around the words on the seat indicating dialog. It's not supposed to be an affiliation logo.

[John Sellers]

I was going to post this in the "Interesting Links..." thread, but since it's mostly photos, I figured it'd be more appropriate here in RP. The site was put on the web a year ago, but I just found it today. So, here it is: Northern Lights over Teepees

[Gravdigr]

This sculpture is by Jed Lind, and is entitled "Gold, Silver, and Lead".

It's made up of seven cloned Honda Civics. The caption called them '1st generation' Civics, and referred to them as 1979 models, but I personally owned a 1977 Civic, and I remember mine being a little, idk, 'rounder', so...



ETA: I thought I had a pic of it. A scanned Polaroid, no less.



I don't if the art is Civics or not, now. Rabbits, maybe?

[glatt]

[jimhelm]

Plymouth horizon or dodge colt. The rabbit had 4 doors unless gti. Taller rise below the c pillar too

[lumberjim]

hmm.. maybe not. that rounded rear side window throws me. maybe a hyundai?

[lumberjim]

Lind gave in, eventually — these days, he negotiates via a 1973 Toyota pickup — but the experience stuck. And while it wasn’t exactly the impetus for the towering stack of clean, white 1979 Honda Civics he installed at the Toronto Sculpture Garden this week, it would also be wrong to assume it had nothing to do with it, either.

79 civics

[infinite monkey]

Originally Posted by jimhelm

Plymouth horizon or dodge colt. The rabbit had 4 doors unless gti. Taller rise below the c pillar too

I thought it was the plymouth horizon and dodge omni that were so similar to each other.

My friend in college had one (or the other) and she drove it down the middle of campus one night...I was in it. I don't even think we were drinking. I put something in the personals section of the college paper about the (one or the other car) being careful to not hit trees, and luckily I got the wrong car.

[glatt]

I've been looking at a ton of 1979 hatchbacks and can't find any that have that rear window. It's got such round corners. None of them have those curves.

[infinite monkey]

The Dodge Omni and the similar Plymouth Horizon were front wheel drive cars introduced by the Dodge and Plymouth divisions of the Chrysler Corporation in North America in 1978, and were based on a European Simca-based design of the same name. While they are generally not credited, they were the first of many successful front-wheel drive models, such as the Dodge Aries/Plymouth Reliant and the Dodge Caravan/Plymouth Voyager which helped return Chrysler to profitability.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_Omni

[Rhianne]

Is there some dispute? They look like Civic shells to me.

[glatt]

Perhaps stylized civic shells. The window is wrong and the sharp angles are wrong. But the holes for the tail lights are correct and the overall shape is close.

[Gravdigr]

I once drove my Civic for ten days with a broken clutch cable. Up-shifting was no problem as the tranny was not a synchronized design to begin with, just let off the gas and shift, no problem.

Stopping wasn't a problem either, go to neutral, stop, turn the engine off, wait for my turn, crank the engine with the car in gear and take off in one smooth move.

Downshifting was another story, I could make third by revving the engine up a bit when I hit neutral, but anything else called for a complete stop/restart.

[Lamplighter]

Aug. 27, 2012: Photomicrographs of a new species of ancient gall mite
found in 230-million-year-old amber droplets from northeastern Italy.
The mite was named Ampezzoa triassica.
(AP Photo/A. Schmidt, University of Göttingen, PNAS)
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