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    • Hour rule
      Oppositelock • hour rule ford fomoco tumblr • • pip bip

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    • Krusty Walnut

      Interesting Craigslist Finds
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      ranwhenparked

      @kiltedpadre yeah, you could definitely get one you can park outside and drive in the rain for a ca $3,000 pricetag (although lots of people are asking crack pipe money for clean '90s B-bodies these days, though I wonder how many actually sell at those lofty asking prices). It would need to be slightly above scrap value/throwaway play money levels for someone to really be interested.

      It's amazing how many people don't think of these things, I've been watching one of those Shay Model A replicas for sale, guy's asking absolute beyond top of the market price for it, but the convertible top (frame, everything) has been completely removed and thrown away, with a padded parade boot installed where it used to mount, so the car is permanently open at all times. Been listed for months now with no budging on the asking price, yeah, good luck with that. You'll have to wait for an 80 year old who just wants something to take the grandkids to the ice cream place in walking distance from the house 6 times a year for a cumulative 12 miles, and who will be happy leaving it in the garage the remainder of the year

    • late night oppo
      Oppositelock • late night oppo ford fomoco tumblr venezuela • • pip bip

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      pip bip

      @Rusty-Vandura powahhhhhhh!

    • WBizarre

      Sexifying Morph 2
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      amoore100

      @WBizarre The RWD platform makes it look super wagoney...at this rate the next one will just be the return of the Country Squire 🤔

    • WilliamsSW

      And a bonus Dentside
      Oppositelock • f-250 dentside ford • • WilliamsSW

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      @Shoop them's the rules of truck ownership. Your truck is either used for Honest Work, or it is a poser compensating for inferior body parts.

    • hour rule
      Oppositelock • hou rule vintage advert tumblr ford fomoco • • pip bip

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      @Cé-hé-sin — They used the name here in the malaise era for a dignified looking family sedan based on a. carryover of a 15-year-old Falcon platform. (Ford jumped into the "malaise era" with both feet.). It sold very well, but you seldom see one anymore even as a side-yard derelict, let alone on the road.

      A meter maid who is not into cars mistaking it for a Cadillac is not completely silly, although the Ford badging should have been a bit of a giveaway. In the same timeframe, Cadillac took a similar approach to a smaller car, turning the Chevy Nova (etc.). in to the Seville. They put some work into it and had a big success. Ford, responding to this on the cheap and in a hurry, tarted up the Grenada and called it the Lincoln Versailles. "Let them eat cake," said the market. Its greatest success was as a source of junkyard rear disc brake upgrades for Mustangs.

    • Winner winner
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      Turbineguy-Nom de Zoom

      @pip-bip said in Winner winner:

      @ranwhenparked not a big problem here that i'm aware of.

      I sense a business opportunity here.

    • hour rule
      Oppositelock • hour rule ford fomoco mercury vintage advert tumblr • • pip bip

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      @pip-bip
      But did they drive the Darian gap?
      https://www.topspeed.com/cars/guides/the-story-of-the-chevy-corvair-rotting-away-in-the-darien-jungle/#why-was-one-covair-left-in-the-jungle

    • WBizarre

      Racecarening morph 4
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      BeaterGT

      @Nibby All the melt you could ever want

    • hour rule
      Oppositelock • hour rule ford lincoln fomoco tumblr • • pip bip

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    • Krusty Walnut

      Targa Mode Activated
      Oppositelock • supra tractor ford gmc truck stuff • • Krusty Walnut

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      Krusty Walnut

      @RazoE it was converted at some point. Just need to get someone to fix it.

    • Ford CEO: EVs With 600-Mile Ranges ‘Will Not Make Money’
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      @ranwhenparked — without interacting with any other people

      Of course, in cars, we do interact with other people, sometimes unpleasantly and even violently due to the dehumanizing effect. Much has been written about driving psychology, but a good tl;dr was provided by J.P. Donleavy 40 years or so ago, when he wrote of people "isolated in their individual mobile temples of discontent."

      In other words, driving at its worst is like the Internet at its worst—only with the possibility of actually giving strangers the ability, not just the urge, to maim and kill each other.

      Driving at its best is of course wonderfully convenient and even enjoyable...

    • WWYR: Evolving Escapes Edition
      Oppositelock • wwyr ford escape taiwanese cars • • amoore100

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      SilentbutnotreallyDeadly

      @amoore100
      The Tribute was dropped by Mazda Oz in 2008 after the CX-7 launched. Given the fact it sold poorly by then but still outsold the Escape by some margin, Ford Australia would have been forced by economic reality to ditch the Escape at the same time...like most Australians at the time, I never noticed!

    • pip bip

      Sad trombone
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      SilentbutnotreallyDeadly

      @pip-bip
      I feel like Laurence of Project Cactus fame @The-Autopian might know someone deranged enough to take that on.

    • hour rule
      Oppositelock • hour rule tumblr vintage advert ford fomoco • • pip bip

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    • Hour rule
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      415s30

      @pip-bip My grandpa had the 500, that car sitting in the garage is probably my earliest memory of a car that was interesting to me.

    • night oppo
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      ranwhenparked

      @pip-bip you'd have to be pretty oblivious to do that, the trolley kind of splits off from the road and turns away on its own toward the tunnel. Might have been a different traffic pattern back then, but it seems like you'd have to be drunk and zeroing in on the back of the trolley, excluding all else, to do it now

    • hour rule
      Oppositelock • ford fomoco hour rule tumblr • • pip bip

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      TheJWT

      @pip-bip That looks tough as hell

      I saw a similar one earlier this year
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    • night oppo
      Oppositelock • night oppo ford fomoco tumblr • • pip bip

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      Vondon302

      @pip-bip That's a sweet Pinto!

      G night

    • late night oppo
      Oppositelock • late night oppo ford fomoco mercury tumblr • • pip bip

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      Roadkilled

      @pip-bip

      GET YOUR CAR OFF MY LAWN!

    • DOTS: Van-Truck Stash With Corvairs!
      Oppositelock • dots corvair van truck yellow econoline ford chevrolet • • WhoIsTheLeader

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      WhoIsTheLeader

      @WilliamsSW said in DOTS: Van-Truck Stash With Corvairs!:

      installed aftermarket sunroofs

      Pretty much the only use case for one I can imagine. Even then it might have been tight in there.

    • night oppo
      Oppositelock • night oppo ford fomoco tumblr • • pip bip

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      awesomeaustinv

      @pip-bip Pretty 🙂 That's the same color my T-bird was prior to someone repainting it. I like the orange, but the burgundy paint on original Thunderbirds is beautiful.

    • night oppo
      Oppositelock • night oppo ford fomoco tumblr • • pip bip

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      john norris

      @pip-bip

      Good night.

      10:41 am for me.

    • hour rule
      Oppositelock • hour rule ford fomoco tumblr • • pip bip

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      @kac

      Yup. it was such an interesting operation.
      I've read somewhere that at Ford they were exceedingly pissed off when the Perana Capri kicked the mighty GT40's ass at some event in SA. Can you imagine? Being defeated by somthing put together (admittedly very nicely) by what at Dearborn must have looked like a bunch of shadetree mechanics in a shed?

    • G’night, Oppo
      Oppositelock • bring a trailer ford • • Just Jeepin'

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      Nauraushaun

      they look smaller than factory RS wheels
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    • night oppo
      Oppositelock • night oppo ford fomoco tumblr • • pip bip

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      awesomeaustinv

      @pip-bip "...and so easy to park!"

      Lol.

    • DITJY: A Handful Of Fords
      Oppositelock • ford ford ltd crown victoria tempo • • WhoIsTheLeader

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      awesomeaustinv

      @WhoIsTheLeader You know, the Tempo was originally supposed to have one of their Lima 4-cylinders, but they didn't have the production capacity to spare any of those for the little Tempo, so instead they took Ford's long-running 200 ci "Thriftpower" inline six that was about to be retired, chopped two cylinders off, and reused as much of its original tooling as possible to make a "good enough" engine for the Tempo. Of course it would run forever, but it was still based on 1950s technology.

      But the funny thing is, there are performance parts for those inline sixes. A lot of them could theoretically be adapted to or directly installed in Ford's lazy solution for the Tempo engine, making it in theory the world's crappiest potential tuner car, but the tuning potential is there nonetheless. You can get better-flowing heads (if you're willing to chop the excess cylinders off), bigger forged pistons, and much more. The most difficult thing to source would probably just be a performance camshaft. If you were crazy enough, you could force the Tempo to be fast.

    • Highlander

      Cosworth Wednesday
      Oppositelock • ford cosworth blue is the best color • • Highlander

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      mhr555

      That's a great blue.

      My Dad was a designer for FoMoCo and they had a Escort Cossie as an evaluation car. He'd bring it home for weekends and toss me the keys.

      That was such a good car. Lag for days...

    • People's Choice: Giga-Truck
      Oppositelock • peoples choice trucks ford chevrolet international • • amoore100

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      FourMalibus

      @dogisbadob even better…the GM twins share the doors with the Full size vans!

    • late night oppo
      Oppositelock • late night oppo mercury ford fomoco tumblr • • pip bip

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      ranwhenparked

      @pip-bip I'll take that Chris-Craft Constellation in the background

    • late night oppo
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      awesomeaustinv

      @ranwhenparked Oh my goodness, yeah those do look eerily similar.

    • late night oppo
      Oppositelock • late night oppo fomoco tumblr ford • • pip bip

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      SilentbutnotreallyDeadly

      @pip-bip
      It's always amusing when the Thunderbird comes up on Oppo because it always makes me think of the Australian Brush Turkey aka Bush Chook
      alt text thanks, Wikipedia!

    • LaLD: progress on the Ford truck
      Oppositelock • live and let diecast ford whered i put my truck nuts • • Noodles

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      Noodles

      @Camshaft_Chris yes.

    • late night oppo
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    • Automotiva Obscura: The Ford 9 3/8" Differential
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      @BurntClutches

      Never heard of it. Thanks for the education.

    • Mustang doing Mustang things
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      HFV_Junkyardin

      @pip-bip If you wrap your phone cord around your shifter you're a bad person. f2624582-4c1c-4487-9677-e689dee5919b-image.png

    • People's Choice: Muscle Reborn
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      @amoore100

      Mustang from 2011-14 years for me with updated engines. 2014 is the most refined version of that generation, you get better tail lights, headlights, better fuel economy, performance, better dash, and slightly better interior than 2005-2009 models. My second choice would be a challenger, because it is not trying to be anything else other than being a challenger. It is big and roomy. I don’t know how bad is the drivability, but it just looks good to me. The Camaro is a third for me if it is a 2015 which has really good driving dynamics and improved looks over other generations. Too bad Chevy didn’t make visibility a bit better, they really had a nice package there.

    • BurntClutches

      Ever Wonder How Self-Canceling Turn Signals Work?
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      @BurntClutches Since I fixed my horn yesterday I got to see this exact same mechanism in my Thunderbird, though I didn't mess around with it to see if it was the turn signal cancelling mechanism. I was curious what the plastic thing was though, this is pretty neat! My right turn signal stays up but doesn't automatically cancel, so I have to do that myself. Perhaps I should take another look in the steering column...

    • Hour rule
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      HFV_Junkyardin

      @Nauraushaun I think those are just the covers that pop off. Which I remember being a thing when I was a kid. I know one of my Dad's friends had a red Gran Prix coupe with them. I remember even then thinking it was list sunglasses for your car.

    • late night oppo
      Oppositelock • late night oppo ford vintage advert tumblr • • pip bip

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    • So I went on craigslist...
      Oppositelock • ford tempo craigslist • • HotWheelsAndFriedChicken

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      @HotWheelsAndFriedChicken I've been trying to figure out how to use that ad in SBSD for a couple of weeks now. I can't find a worthy competitor.

    • WBizarre

      Explorering Morph 2
      Oppositelock • ford volkswagen morphs • • WBizarre

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      BJ

      @WhoIsTheLeader nicer wheels, too

    • Trekkster__T

      Live and Let Diecast - Ford Friday - Malaise for days
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      vdubyajohn

      Love it! Didn't know Zylmex made this one

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      Ford, diminishing
      Oppositelock • ford clearout • • Cé hé sin

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      Milky

      @Cé-hé-sin Not saying I know what the answer is, but completely leaving the high volume lower end of the market, doesn't feel like Ford knows what it is either.

    • hour rule
      Oppositelock • amtrak trainlopnik police hour rule mopar ford • • pip bip

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      BicycleBuck

      @Brickman

      Canadian National owns a lot of the railway in Louisiana (highlighted blue in the map below) so it doesn't surprise me much that they would have their police down here.

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    • Fish McSticks

      Does anyone know anything about these GT350s?
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      Fish McSticks

      @LooseonExit Hee hee turbocharged "GT350"

    • Longtime Lurker

      Test drove some cars today
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      @Longtime-Lurker

      Maverick remains on my list - hope it proves to be reliable once the initial kinks are worked out.

      Will be interesting to see what Toyota brings to market to compete with it.

    • Explorering Morph - and Explorer thoughts
      Oppositelock • morphs ford stablediffusion • • WBizarre

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      KA467

      @WBizarre They sold the first and second gen Explorers in Europe to little impact. They brought it back to Europe with the current gen as a Plug-In only, and while I can't say how well its doing as its not sold in the UK, it must not be very well as it's being replaced by this.
      Apparently the reasoning for using the MEB platform is to get out an EV entry in the segment ASAP, with the rumours saying that it will be a stopgap product until Ford gets round to developing its replacement on its own platform. Still, the Mach-E is based on a C-Segment platform, why couldn't they use that? Is it because it was not a ground up EV platform, but an adaption of an existing ICE one?

    • Hour rule - dots
      Oppositelock • hour rule dots ford fomoco freo • • pip bip

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      SilentbutnotreallyDeadly

      @pip-bip
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    • Krusty Walnut

      Stereotypes are bad unless...
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    • Mid arvo oppo
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      @pip-bip That's a hour and a half drive away from me and my brother used to work there when it was co owned by Mazda.
      Small world.

    • Hamster V10

      Jada Toys 1/24 Bigtime Muscle Ford GT 2017
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      DOTS with added volts
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      Krusty Walnut

      @Roadkilled MA has a very generous program for commercial EVs. Even a Rivian is eligible for a $7500 rebate.

      https://mor-ev.org/mor-ev-trucks

    • pip bip

      Hour rule
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      @Krusty-Walnut
      It's utterly decorative. Pretending to be something it isn't...

    • Arch Duke Maxyenko

      Ford "Re-Organizes" It's Financial Reporting Because Stonks
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      bison78

      @Arch-Duke-Maxyenko said in Ford "Re-Organizes" It's Financial Reporting Because Stonks:

      and Ford Model e (for Fuck You, Elon electric vehicles). Please treat Ford Model e as a startup and boost stocks noaw pls.

      Doesn't work unless it's a separate legal entity that is publicly traded.

    • Ford is about to reveal how many eggs it broke to make an EV omelet
      Oppositelock • ford electric vehicles money money money money money • • tophercrowder

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      Darkbrador

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    • night oppo
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      @Mark-Tucker
      That makes sense why other gens look more Mazda 626.

      1983
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    • pip bip

      Ewwww
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      ranwhenparked

      @pip-bip It's like from an alternate history where the 1948 F1 stayed in production at Ford do Brasil into the late 1990s and kept getting clumsily facelifted to stay current

    • pip bip

      Hour rule
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      Roadkilled

      @pip-bip

      If my internet search skills are working, this is the current view.

    • Just Jeepin'

      Ancient DOTS
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      Just Jeepin'

      @RallyWrench ¯\_(ツ)_/¯