@Mr-Ontop said in night oppo:

@ranwhenparked Do you think that car sizes will get smaller again like they did in the 80s?

I'd say no because I think the push for small cars of the '80s was a direct response to the oil crisis of the 1970s and the success of small Japanese cars in the US/Canadian market. I don't see a similar shock coming any time soon.

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@pip-bip That pic is almost nice enough to forgive the slammage done to that poor car.

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@pip-bip nite mate

@pip-bip Great photograph. Gonna save that for background use.

@pip-bip night, pip!

@pip-bip Oh no! Its suspension is broken! Give it to me and I'll fix it.

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@Vondon302 no idea

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some nice zed content in the last 24h

@RacinBob

All the plywood!

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@pip-bip I don't wanna test that roll bar.

@Ad-absurdum-per-aspera I am not sure about the domestics, but I know MB was using the system well into the 60s.

Lifestyle cosplay guy. He makes video reviews of period cars, especially unrestored original vehicles. "Charles Phoenix" is his name, he has a big online following.

@Vondon302 I believe what there was of the flat Earth movement largely died out in the 19th century, then got revived in the middle of the 20th

@pip-bip -- Lovely vision of American luxury of the period. '64 was the first model after they'd brought in Elwood Engel, who'd recently done one of the best Lincolns. The looks of this era of Imperial have held up very well in my opinion.

@Roadkilled I guess so, I didn’t even think of it

@pip-bip Gives me 1st gen Tercel vibes.
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@pip-bip 'nite, pip!

@Old-Busted-Hotness I think they actually had roll bars, although in some cases that was literally all they had. Especially later in the brief life of the Convertible Series, a few even had proto-cages, which don't look like much by today's standards (in particular, they don't look triangulated at all) but probably did some good. Other pictures show for instance that #49 in that picture had a hoop behind the windshield frame, and a later black car with the same number added an ell across the passenger side.

I had a dream about this car. I was standing near it and someone told me it weighed 600kg, and somehow Gordon Murray's name came up. And then he walked in and it turned out he designed the car.
in the dream it was a roadster rather than that absurd roof

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"The mainly Northern Italian craftsmen of Brussels coachbuilder Jacques Coune built 5 convertible versions of the Volvo Amazon 122 S, four cabriolets and a tourer, each one taking some 450 hours to build : just two Coune Volvo convertibles exist today, and this is the only one still on the road. Its original owner was an 18-year-old girl who was given the car as a birthday present by her father. The car he's been completely restored to its original grey metallic finish and red leather trim."

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@TheJWT gib

@ranwhenparked no idea where the "SUV" is

@pip-bip Rivian, is that you?

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I'd be interested to know how they landed on the beach so close to the pool among all those trees.

@farscythe better than expected

@WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAthenGTInowA4 https://www.whichcar.com.au/features/honda-mitsubishi-amg-collaboration

@pip-bip 'nite!

@pip-bip Night

@pip-bip My dad just snagged up one almost identical to this: 04a0dcb5-2b74-49d7-8d5f-edae7b727c73-image.png
1988 Toronado with 102k original miles, zero rust. Snagged it for $2400 from an estate.

They are amazing cruiser cars.

@pip-bip 'nite, pip!

@pip-bip That is so beautiful. 😍 Night

@SilentbutnotreallyDeadly They are just so slow you can do that stuff. Put a Subaru in it already!

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@Cé-hé-sin Yeah, Dasher became Quantum became Passat.

Because reasons...

Vento/Bora/Jetta 🙂

@pip-bip -- "warranted for twice as long as any other American car (24 months or 24,000 miles)"

And there's another quiet revolution in what we demand, and usually get, from car makers.

Recalls weren't really a thing yet either -- I don't think the government even had the authority to compel them until the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1966, and the first big one that comes to mind was Chevy motor mounts in the early 70s.

Then it took the Magnuson-Moss Act in 1975 to start chasing the weasels out of the language of warranties for consumer products generally.

Sorry, invisible-hand purists and drain-the-swampers: though competitive pressure played some role, a lot of the legal consumer protections and actual quality we take for granted today came about because the government forced companies into it.

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@pip-bip lot of effort went into not succeeding with this project. the number of doors isn't blasphemous to my god, but the forehead above the windshield is.

@BritsnSwedes-was-MINIGTI

in Oldsmobile's case, it was supposed to represent all the countries where GM had employees at the time, in Ford's case, it was to appeal to import buyers by showing them that their American-branded car wasn't really "American", because they sold the same model in other markets around the world, including in countries where those imports were coming from. So, if people there liked it, come on. The World Car marketing campaign was used only for the Fiesta and Escort, even though quite a lot of changes were made to federalize the Escort, so the final product didn't share all that much with the European version

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@Just-Jeepin no, AAV and AIL both still build older TJ-based models alongside the J8

@Ad-absurdum-per-aspera Same here.

@Vondon302 said in night oppo:

@pip-bip Finally a garage that's dirty and cluttered like mine.

G night

#nofilter #CampaignForRealGarages #DirtyIsPretty

@ttyymmnn no idea

@dogisbadob

If you bought one, the secret was to take it apart and put it together properly.

@pip-bip
I'm off to find a hedge too...

@pip-bip I love the Daytona too. That green looks great.

@pip-bip LOVE that profile. Just. Perfect.

@pip-bip Night.

@pip-bip

Don't let the bed bugs bite.

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There were some variations on the design.

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