While waiting in line for the ferry the other night, I saw this Subaru wagging his tail. Pretty funny!
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Funny? I'll tell ya what's funny.

Those wire spoke hubcaps, they're funny.

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Yeah, that's a 1978 Chevy Chevette. A buddy back in high school had one. Powder blue. We put about a million miles on that old car, running the backroads, wasting all our hard-earned Big Star grocery-bagging dollars.

It always needed gas.

But, not as much as this Chevette needs. Ya see, Bunky, this (otherwise fully restored) Chevette has had a big-block 427 shoehorned under the hood. TH-400, Holley 780, L-88 heads, yaddayaddayadda...

Word most frequently heard word by strangers spoken by the driver of this car:

"Pinks?"

Followed closely by:

"Sucka!"

Heh, it might go 300 mph, but, I bet it don't take off fer shit, with those skinny tires.

I also bet that thing jumps six feet straight up in the air every time he blips the throttle.

Paid a visit to the original Pie Wagon yesterday.

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The (supposedly) only surviving, original-to-the-movie "Easy Rider" motorcycle was auctioned last night.

$1,350,000

I cannot confirm that's the original in the above pic.

Link

Haggerty built 4 identical bikes for the movie, but 3 were stolen/dismantled, and the 4th destroyed in the film. When the filming was over Haggerty had to salvage and restore/rebuild/recreate, what ever you want to call it, the bike. The bike here is a reincarnation of the Captain America bike, but to say it's the one Fonda road in the movie is a stretch.

Could you take a piece of burnt metal, rebuild the Hindenburg, and legitimately call it the original? :eyebrow:

Forget about this, where is the cycle Joe Namath rode when he played C. C. Ryder in C. C. and Company! Huh? Baby boomers, where is THAT cycle?

I said supposedly, man, sheesh, put that knife away.:biglaugha

I wasn't talking at you, just adding what I think I know about it. Not everything is about you, ya know. http://cellar.org/2012/bwekk.gif

It ain't?:eek:

Oh damn, I'm sorry, I forgot it was a secret. Please forgive me. :ipray:

JCPenney? Rly?

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They even sold drag slicks at one time.

:eek:

...and not a single fuck was given.

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If you have a Segway, you have to look for uses for it.

they're perfect for changing the subject

I see what you did there...

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the Porsche Panamera Exclusive

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:drool:

100 of them will be made.

At right around $264,000. Each.

^^^Regarding the Porsche Panamera Exclusive^^^

Not $264,000, but, $310,000, each.

They sold out in 48 hours.

Uh...why?

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'Shopped?

Looks like a church parking lot. I'm guessing a youth group vehicle, or else a family with 15+ kids.

The Church of the Comfort Inn?

Ooh, good eyes. Well, church groups have to stay overnight somewhere, maybe?

Have you never been to the Comfort Inn and heard "Oh God, Oh God, Ohh God, Oh sweet Jesus!" coming through the walls?

No, no...You're talking about the Comfort Inn & Out.

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They have a chain of burger restaurants; best burgers ever.

Don't know what, where, or when, except what I see in the picture.

Chech Republic

I found out from elspode it was a 1941 Horch (1 of the Auto Union 4) chassis that was rebodied later. But still don't know by who, for whom, or exactly when, but I'd guess after the war.

edit:
I'd sent the picture to NAG because her husband is a retired Fire Captain, and I'll be damned if she didn't find the answer.:facepalm:

Hey, I was right about "after the war". :blush:

Meh, fill it with water and put fish in it.

Cool.

"One medium triple cheeseburger combo, please.

And if you fuck it up, I will take this entire restaurant, and..."

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I want it just for the drive-thru.

Oh, hells yeah!

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That ski-ulance is something you want to see coming towards you,
and something you don't...

No need to go around to the drive through, just pick up the building with that sucker, and spin the window around to you. :haha:

Oh my god.

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I see it's got the EconoBoost engine.

It's not EconoBoost, it's EcoBoost. Ford choosing that name was a very slick move, as it leads people to think things Ford doesn't claim. :haha:
It's a turbo-charged motor which is old hat, Ford turbo-charged Thunderbirds back in the 80s. Have to admit though, committing to turbos is a ballsy move for Ford.

You're right. I mixed the name up as I was typing.

I thought it was amusing. There's nothing ecological about a supercar like that.

It's extremely cool though.

Very cool, it's a full out competition car. Technical marvel, over 600 hp, sexy as hell design, but alas, no place for groceries. :headshake

Not in regards solely to the Ford GT, but, in general:

There has to be reason, and I'm bothered just enough to ask about it now:

Why are the brake calipers on the front mounted on the rear of the rotor, and the calipers on the back mounted to the front of the rotor?

The easy answer ~ it makes the brake lines shorter.
The hard answer ~ Damifino, everytime I hear a credible source explaining the effects of caliper mounting location on bearing loading, and why the front and back benefit from different loadings, after five minutes my eyes glaze over and I drool on my beer gut. :o

Windy day, no way.

sure, as long as you're traveling INTO the wind. whoooooosh!

I don't believe it. :headshake

But you see, the oil companies don't want you to know about it, so they are keeping the salt water fuel hidden.

Yes, they dumped it all in the ocean.

Come to think of it, they dumped a lot of oil in the ocean too. :eyebrow:

It would rust out in 3 years

Rust out! I dug out this picture of a rollback my buddy had in his junkyard. I think it's an Autocar but wouldn't bet on it. Not only a stainless steel deck, a stainless steel cab. Don't know the year of the truck or the history, only that it wasn't registered, wasn't being used. I didn't ask and he didn't volunteer.

http://cellar.org/2015/stainlessAutocar.jpg

It might seem like an odd situation, but along the driveway to his house, through the junkyard, he installed a Thunderbird planter for flowers. You can't tell because of the weeds but the hood is over six feet off the ground. Bolted the doors shut and filled it with dirt so it didn't take long to rust away.

http://cellar.org/2015/tbirdplanter.jpg

So you see, a stainless rollback sitting unused didn't strike me as outrageous... in context. ;)

It's not the same as seeing one in the wild, but that reminded me of this stainless 911 I saw years ago in the Deutsches Museum in Munich.
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I used to wonder why cars weren't all built out of stainless steel, but that was before I had a better understanding of consumer desires and economics.

Reminded me of this 36 Ford from a few years back:

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Linky

shiny!

The problem with that Ford is everything under the shiny is stock components, which rusted and rotted away because these cars were driven everyday by the steel company salesmen, except one show car.

There were four, I'm pretty sure. They were given to salesmen, that were special in whatever way, to drive. They all were driven in excess of 200,000 miles.

Rusty, rotty, still a Ford, whatthefuckever...I wonder how many 36 Ford Tudors went 200,000+ miles?


ETA:

from the link

I'm sure they got the best of service, plus I've noticed my truck seems to be "ageing" faster since I stopped driving it every day. Of course it may be driving every day you don't notice minor fading. Better to keep moving... my doctor keeps saying.

And sometimes, ironic shit happens. :rolleyes: