@KITT222 said in The Autopian Meet at Galpin Auto Sports + LA DOTS:

@1969r16 said in The Autopian Meet at Galpin Auto Sports + LA DOTS:

Tesla Powered Jaguar:

Hey, SuperFastMatt! He has a great Youtube Channel. He has some other cool projects.

Overall, looks like a really cool show.

He's an ex-Oppo as well! I don't think he posts here anymore and I don't recall his username, but he was on KinjaOppo back in the day!

@azw123 so far I have not gone to electric shifting but have fully embraced disc brakes and through axles.

@Gabriella
I don't know a ton about either career path, but I can say one thing that's potentially helpful. Get out there and try to do the thing you want and don't be afraid to fail. You're probably going to have times that seem like failure, but if you learn from them and keep going, they're just setbacks.
Good luck.

@ash78 Nailed it. I’m nostalgic for the music and some of the movies, the rest was a tire fire.

@Sam-Blockhan Loving that Renault! I do love me some nice rear-engined cars! 😄

@Sam-Blockhan That Ghia is gorgeous...

@DSM_OR_DIE Do eetttt! I'd love to get a kei car someday....probably a kei truck actually, as it would be super practical and handy. I would worry about getting spare parts when needed if I were to DD it a lot though 😞

@facw I dunno, a friend of mine worked at Amazon and he said many companies operate more efficiently. Amazon sacrifices many things in order to have next day delivery across many countries.

@ash78
Do you have a North America and China (NMS) Passat or a world Passat?
I love that VW retired the Passat CC and replaced it with the Arteon which primarily was the response to the success of the Skoda Superb which was hurting Passat sales.

@Roadkilled I've always really liked the Kizashi...loved the styling 🙂

@Darkbrador Looks good to me! Even small tractors can be surprisingly capable!

@Sam-Blockhan said in Have You Ever Gotten Into An Argument On The Internet Over Cars…:

@PatBateman What I think of that a lot of people miss, unfortunately, is that behind every profile picture and pseudonym is a real person with real feelings. While it is easier to throw an insult online, and design one that's particularly horrible, it hurts just the same, or worse.

Shows what you know, I haven't had a real feeling in years, but I do know how to simulate them realistically so people don't think I'm weird

@nickhasanexocet No reason why it should be realistic, DMVs should want to provide good service, and given that everyone hates the DMV, it should not be unreasonable for them to be funded at a level that would allow them to provide it (they may already be, and just need better management).

@Miss-Mercedes 47 degree water?! NOPE!

I am a pool temp snob. If it doesn't feel like bath water I don't swim in it.

@azw123 It's doing all that. I really love it.

@davidh @orneryduck will be your go-to guy for anything and everything Mustang.

I’m not aware of any engine tunes for less power and better fuel economy for the 4.6 litre.

@svend Well, new word for karen.

Fast forward to today and Publix Premium frozen gourmet pizzas are the best frozen pizza on the market. We’ve stopped ordering delivery completely.

@Urambo-Tauro came here for this!

@Snakesm13

$52,000

Not much utility there for me. I don't see the safety ropes and the wicker seats being very useful towards a grocery getter, or anything else. I guess the multimillionaire that already has 50 cars in his collection might get far enough down his automotive bucket list and get into this. Even if you had a beach house wouldn't you be better off with a side by side or a jeep?

But it looks like they pull in some serious money, even for a converted one.

@Longtime-Lurker Good point. It was the tow truck that came out ahead!

@DuckDuckGreyDuck

You noted that this car is a V12, right?
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I simply do not understand dealers adding additional mark up. Do they not want to build a relationship with the customer and have them use the service department, and buy their next car there? I know in Canada there are ways for the manufacturers to penalize dealers for this, why do they not do this in the States?

And finally why do people pay these mark ups?

@415s30 I can always appreciate a corvette with some good patina.

@dtg11 Ah cool, that explains it, I had wondered about that but the damage seemed like it was all over. I guess they found some bits from all over and will paint it.

@kleebrz It’s my second. I have the black on black with grey indices, but I wanted a cheap colorful watch. Of course, I already have a Seiko “yellowfin” Tuna with yellow details, so now I have two yellow watches - but this one is really yellow.

@Sovande said in Breakfast of champions:

@ike808 I thought it was a 7-11 chili dog and sleeve of powder sugar donettes?

High school bus stop was sleeve of chocolate mini-donuts and as big a Mountain Dew as you could afford.

@HammerheadFistpunch Aaaaand added to wishlist

@Urambo-Tauro said in Evora Thoughts:

@CB Great time of day to photograph that color!

I'd love to be the one to take these kinds of photos.

Errrr Toronto-ish area Oppos, lend me your cars for photo shoots when I make it there?

@EssExTee Oh I saw a white one parked the other day, those things are cool.

Guy on the right looks like good times.

That's John Daly, whose propensity for good times, sometimes in excess, is the stuff of legend and did not always serve the interests of either his considerable talent or a conventionally stable personal life. You have to give him this: through all the ups and downs he has always exhibited a genius for being himself.

His sartorial sensibilities made him the spokesgolfer for a brand called, wait for it, LoudMouth Golf.

@krustywantout have you ever noticed the folks with these speakers never play the sort of music you want to hear, either? Always blasting mumble rap or bro-country

Rerfresh my memory. Have you checked the transmission mount, the drive shaft mount and the guibo (rubber universal joint). I would think they are all shot and any combination may allow the drive shaft to shake while revolving.....

@BeaterGT

I'm curious about the rate of importation on those...
past 25 years it seems like quite a few came in. Not unusual to see in LA anyway.

@e90m3 shotgun 2002 turbo.

@pip-bip https://www.hagerty.com/media/car-profiles/driven-to-xs-living-the-weird-car-life-with-an-isuzu-stylus/

I saw it in person at RADwood PNW 2021:

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@ZHP-Sparky-the-5th
$761,000?

For only one?

@MrSnrub said in Better Call Saul:

In the Sandpiper case, that's less ambiguous to me - he was dragging it out to get the biggest payout, because HHM was all he had left at that point. His father was gone, Chuck was gone, his marriage was all but dead, and, as you pointed out, he may have been in rough financial shape after partially buying out Chuck from his own pocket. His only priority by then would be what was good for the firm and/or himself. I think the show pointed in that direction when they showed him doing stuff like putting Irene in the wheelchair when she could still walk, which was a pretty Jimmy move.

Yeah, great point. And that's over-laid with stuff I'd forgotten. Howard clearly did reference "problems at the firm" after Chuck's death, but that they would "be back, stronger than ever". He probably WAS banking on a few more years of billable time against the Sandpiper file to carry overhead.

So, I don't know how "over the line" Jimmy would be to advocate for an early settlement. Legally, I guess it was the lead firms' calls... but if "Irene" as lead plaintiff was resolute in "we need to settle this now" (which if she was able, she'd have likely wanted) ultimately they'd have settled. And, I'd see nothing wrong with Jimmy-as-friend whispering in her ear.

The way Jimmy went about getting the case settled was clearly legally unethical, but yet the objective was morally the right call. Howard had the legal "right" to drag the case out, yet I'd view it as morally bankrupt to drag the case out 10 years to get paid even as his clients died off. That ambiguity is what I love about the writing-- and all I'm trying to articulate. Everyone has a "reason" for acting the way they do... yet sometimes those tracks lead right to a horrific train wreck.

I wonder if Cheryl's seeing anyone yet?

@SAAB_9-3_SportCombi

"your resume is impressive but you are very late to this interview"

"sorry, there were awesome cars!"

@AestheticsInMotion
Save the manuals!
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@Miss-Mercedes

Bingo. Yeah, in my case the office was ransacked by meth-heads, completely trashed, a couple of cars stolen-- and found in the backyard of a known dealer a few miles away.

"So, let me get this straight, the 'theory' you're running with is that I'm in business with the meth-ring and ransacked my own office building for some reason, when you can clearly see the flight records I ALREADY GAVE YOU that I was 2000 miles away?". I mean the whole episode was traumatic enough without getting brutalized by the detectives at Police Squad.

Anymore I consider the cops the moral equivalents of the pit bulls down at my local salvage yard... which is "glad you exist to keep an eye on things, but I'm adamant I want no further interactions with you guys ever again."

@Shop-Teacher what a bummer, but it sounds like it may save some other bikes.

@ranwhenparked said in Fargo’s Fabrication is Deemed Too Far Gone…:

needs to buy at least 6 more rusty VWs and write a story about how each one is the "holy grail" he's been looking for all his life. And hastily patch one up with duct tape and bailing wire just in time to drive it down to the Hippies Only Volkswagen Show in Galax, Virginia

Priceless!

@Ad-absurdum-per-aspera said in BAT Auction Oppo Game: Round 58:

A nosebleed price, but it looks like a superb example and a rolling textbook on how to present a car for sale.

I can't argue with that. Such good photography.

@DealkillerPoweredByFocus Mmm fresh brakes. Beer well earned!

I'll nose in just because it's quicker if there is a lot of traffic to inconvenience by backing in, or where backing in is prohibited, but agree with what you do and your rationale for it.

I might add that there's more situation to be aware of when going into the street than when going into the finite little environment of a parking space. And that cars have much bigger blind spots when backing up.

I think all this still holds true in the era of backup cameras, which are very useful but don't always give a great picture, don't have as wide a field of regard as an alert human looking through a windshield, and have been ubiquitous for a lot less time than it took to develop local driving customs.

@farscythe Its hazard lamps are broken on one side. There's no other explanation.

@ttyymmnn grandma's house in the '80s, maybe, because they redecorated it in the late '60s/early '70s when Montgomery Ward was having a big sale, because the kids were older and about out of the house and they could get new stuff without it being ruined

@ranwhenparked I do think it's cool.

@pip-bip That car was about peak oldsmobile. I believe the Cutlass was the best selling car in America for those years.

@DuckDuckGreyDuck $1000....if there is $500 in each one

@415s30 Big was amazing, the football stadium one was brilliant. Great Escapists a load of rubbish, Workshop (Smallest Cog) was good, rivers programme was boring.

@ash78 That event was 9/11 for me. I was in second grade. I didn't see any of it unfold, but I do distinctly remember the aftermath in the days following. Living in Eastern PA, we were "close" to all three locations. I can't imagine the impact of seeing the Challenger disaster in person.

Supposedly, the Challenger tag was the first specialty plate in the US. It's only one source saying that, so I'm kinda dubious on that claim.

I was completely unaware that this tag existed. I knew I had to buy it when I saw it.

@Smallbear Average Worker-Johnny Behavior

@Zaphod-s-Heart-of-Gold Is it really nice? It seems really well made to me.