Congrats! Hope it goes well.

@ITA97 with fathers day coming up there might be some good battery deals

@ttyymmnn

I think I posted this guy's attempt at replicating the dam buster last year.

@Manwich said in Food prices changing consumer behaviour?:

Today I bought a bag of yellow onions instead of red because the bag of yellow ones only cost $2.50 while the red ones were selling for $6.

I'm sure it's because of the war.

Now you can hang one off your belt, such is the style of the time

@Rusty-Vandura said in My contribution to empty bays of Oppo:

Engine-out tuneup? How many miles are on that engine?

Zero idea, it says 57,XXX but it's a 5 digit odometer.

I am 90% sure the passenger head is cracked as the valve cover regularly fills with snot even though compression tests good.

Oil pressure is pretty low on top of it after it gets good and warmed up with idle being 5-7 PSI even with heaver wt oil in it. The truck still works for around town or shortish runs so I'm gonna keep driving it as is until I get a wild hair to tear it apart or find another project I'm interested in (a MGB or Bug being the top contenders).

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Just wait until you start dealing with a PROPER sized truck. I honestly never parked it next to anything that wasn't a kei car and that makes me sad.

@tophercrowder Interesting pairing 🙂

@pip-bip Also pictured, a green Napier.
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@SilentbutnotreallyDeadly Oh neat - well, unless you're in a major hurricane zone, that's probably not desirable anyway

@pip-bip Wasn't the Ital considered kind of a big car by British standards? Just seems like pitching fuel economy would have been more of a job for the MiniMetro, but I guess they were pretty well out of alternatives for the Morris marque by then

@WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAthenGTInowA4 They were about the same because all of the 2019s were discounted beyond belief as they scrambled to get them off the lot. The 2020s were a redesign and were on their way.

Oh man, Petrolicious made some seriously great car porn. Though I kinda forgot about them in the last few years or so.

@Urambo-Tauro This snowballed very quickly from "want Jeep" to "let's build a Jeep!"

@Snakesm13

I better get this out there before the pitchforks and torches arrive.

That Lambo did have a little bit of the DeLorean look to it. So I'll go with this baby, with a little bit of the Marty McFly look.

This is a $16,000 truck, even without the full Marty McFly equipment and paint.

https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1988-toyota-pickup-16/

I bought an 1989 Toyota PU brand new. Sold it in the 90's. Never ever sell your cars.

@Saracen

Yeah, perhaps, but this particular car was EVO's Car of the Year.

FWIW, I hope you're right, because I'll love to be able to pick one of these up for 50 grand one day.

@doodon2whls I'll say it

Crackpipe

@monkeepuzzle it does have vents on the engine cover. but her the more the merrier. definitely one of the downsides of the MR2 - the trunk gets hot and the frunk gets hot, and you better believe the glass-roof'd cabin gets hot.

@Just-Jeepin

The real IMAX is IMAX Dome.

@MidEngine @MidEngine They don't have drawers, you have to unstack it all to get to lower storage. You can use this like a regular tool chest, I can get tools from different levels without unstacking unless I need the skil saw which is in the bottom with cords etc.. In the military we had the Pelican chests but people charge A LOT for those. But for home use they are just too small anyway, great for the field though.
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CUVs are just more practical for most people. It is what it is. For day to day use and for toting the two kids and us and the dog around, my wife’s Highlander is more useful and easy to deal with than my Mazda6. It just is what it is. The cargo area is taller and wider and that’s the main advantage to me.

My 90-year-old grandma switched to a 2012 Cadillac SRX from a 2004 Cadillac Deville in 2014 because the SRX was “easier to get in and out of.” I’d imagine a lot of elderly drivers do the same.

I love my Mazda6 and I make the most of it, but it’ll be replaced by a Mazda CX-9 someday. The fuel economy gap that used to plague SUVs when compared to cars has evaporated over the years with advancing technology as long as the car and SUV/CUV are in the same-ish class (CR-V vs. Accord, RAV-4 vs. Camry, CX-5 or CX-9 vs. 6, etc.).

Can you tape off the park that needs to be painted over and scuff/primer it before adding the new color?

@notsomethingstructural said in Let's remember some cars: 90's/early 2000's edition:

Pontiac Sunbird

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@Highlander Couldn't be bothered to vacuum, or clean those filthy floormats, rear suspension sagging... Cool car, though.

@Shoop I'm a teacher. I get hassled for doing my job on an hourly basis, so I can sympathize with that. My vet always seems to be a chill mood and was very helpful and comforting when I had to put my dog down, so let your gf know I appreciate her!

@Skyfire77

@ForSweden no idea

The one in Eugene is long gone.

@DipodomysDeserti it's not the same data. I divided the average price of gas against the CPI. My understanding is that you put the price change of gasoline as a component of CPI and that's not inflation adjusted. That said last time I used FRED was for a random essay years ago so I might be wrong.

@Vondon302 Eleganza II, fancy.

There's a beautifully preserved GMC motorhome at the Motorhome/RV Hall of Fame in Elkhart IN, a "Painted Desert" version:

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@Just-Jeepin this isn't a yolk guys, don't let these accidents go over easy!

@Old-Busted-Hotness said in Oppo Pixel Game 36:

@MontegoMan562 Ah, but what if I didn't?

you'll never know, better buy in with everything I guess lol

UPDATE: I live to do more inadvisable things another day.
Admin brought it up over lunch, I came clean about it and was generally laughed off. My boss's main irritation had been that random people were moving into our space and so wasn't against the idea of making the place look more occupied.
For now Gene stays and he provided a glowing reference for his Quebecois cousin Jean Erique....

@Shop-Teacher Yep. I was surprised at how close people were after my last guess-the-price where only one person didn't go over when they guessed $3.50.

@ttyymmnn "Press 1 to be removed from our call list" ...yeah, more like press 1 to confirm your number as an active one

@VeeArrrSix Absolutely. First factory car (that I’m aware of) that repurposed the headlight opening to route air to the intake. Plenty of racers were doing it by then.

@RallyDarkstrike There is a guy around here that has one, I occasionally see him tearing around in it. Looks fun in a slow car fast kind of way.

@facw Yeah, the SM5 I spotted is basically a Nissan Teana with different front end.

@facw Yep, the magical shrinking greenhouse. Although to be fair, I would gamble it was a running change. That trim piece that surrounds the front and bottom of the XC might house some airbags, wiring, etc. But I sure miss the clean look of the older ones (I fell in love with the 850 wagon in middle school, I think. Back before Volvo added shoulders back to everything. The slab look.)

Apart from styling, that's one of the big reasons why glass is disappearing and pillars are getting thicker all around.

@EssExTee Those feet make keyboards less ergonomic. If I never have a board with them I wouldn't miss them.

@Chariotoflove Thanks! I do like it. My wife likes the idea of it. If it was fully restored and drove like a modern vehicle, she'd be all about it.

@trivet Idk, part of me thinks those treads are after market...

@Huzer said in More Bronco content:

@MybirdIStheword I am now 100% convinced that you will have your Bronco before I have mine. New ETA for mine to be "complete" is end of July/early August. I don't believe they'll meet that ETA either.

Mine hasn't even been scheduled yet so I doubt it 😢

@KngT said in Unnecessary Car Shopping is no fun these days:

I'm noticing dealers intentionally listing a lower price or even MSRP so that it floats up tot he top when you sort by lowest price. Once you go to the listing on their specific website, Bam!

Encountered this with a Kia dealer. The salesman tried to insist to me that the price listed on CarGurus was not his responsibility, that they listed a lower price on their own without dealer knowledge.

@PlaysWellWithNOthers Don't forget Genesis following in the Japanese footsteps.

Also Audi at this point is just luxury VWs

@Just-Jeepin He sure does. Very refreshing in an era where all new country singers sound like bubblegum pop.

@wheelerguy the name is pretty bad though, Hoonipigasus? Yikes.

I always wanted an ex-cop car (or rough approximation) so I could argue that the license plate COPUL8 is simply a reference to the timeliness of the police.

@RallyWrench O'Leary complaining about management in Seattle when Boeing's corporate boogiemen reside in Chicago is either a very subtle nod to Boeing loosing its identity after the merger with McDonell or O'Leary not knowing anything about it.

@Bloody-the-resident-LandRover-apologist Good point! That was part of why I didn't run it up the firewall actually. I do have uhhhh moisture issues to put it nicely if I'm driving in the rain. Fortunately driving in the rain is not a super common thing in the LR, but it is something I'll be keeping an eye on.

@annoying_salman
Reach up and touch the sky.

@Skyfire77
I remember ShowBiz Pizza.

Once again, you've made me uncomfortable. And yet, I can't turn away...

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@Wrong-Wheel-Drive It seems in some sections of Top Gear mag it’s an advert every other page!

@ibRAD Ha! I loved owning my C4, but having been there and gotten the T-shirt I don't think I'd go back a second time. Mine was a one owner car with 55k when I bought it, so even starting with an almost perfect example I still ran into some of these issues.

For cheap vettes, I'd heartily steer people to early C5 cars. That ass may not be as good to look at, but I can't understate how much more modern of a car the C5 is. I think it's easy to forget on the later, desirable C4 cars that those roots under the fiberglass go back to a time when many a new car was still carbureted.

@AestheticsInMotion

Any videos of you playing that you can share?

@Sovande

The coolant pipes went through a couple updates, if you have the bill with part numbers tell me which ones they are. We just resealed 3 v6s this past week so get the engine clean and monitor.

@pip-bip Oh the noises this would make. Love the not an Alfa rotor grill. Night.

@pip-bip Vikings bringing their Germanic culture I see...

@derp You certainly live up to your pfp.

@Long_Voyager94 I can dig where this is heading