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    WhoIsTheLeader

    @WhoIsTheLeader

    Kinja refugee, Cruze commander, car loving collegiate

    Has a thing for big trunks and small cars, mainly Citroens of all kinds.

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    • Be the car enthusiast

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      Just a reminder that car enthusiasm isn't just nerds debating torque curves online. Car enthusiasts should encourage others to find out why we like cars, all cars, for what they are. Especially deeply imperfect ones.

      My good friend has only driven a handful of times. That was driving a manual, in traffic, in a big city in Ghana. And even that was two years ago. He talked a little of trying to get an American driver's license and I realized he was never going to if he thought all driving was that difficult and that stressful.

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      So I took him to a big parking lot and had him do some medium intensity pulls in the ol' Tundra. I learned to drive in this truck and it's perfect for the job. Big, clunky, and tons of slop to iron out jerky inputs. And the truck readily communicates its very very accessible limits. I even got him to lightly explore the limits of grip.

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      He was pretty atrocious at parking however. He hit every cone every time. But my point is be that guy to other people. Don't be stupid but don't be uptight and pretentious either. Help others experience how much fun cars can be! It can be as simple as letting them do some hard cornering in a parking lot. He came away convinced that driving could be fun in a way he hadn't experienced before. Rant over.

      posted in Oppositelock
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    • Got woken up last night. . . :(

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      By a horrible crashing and crunching sound that lasted 10s of seconds. It was 4 AM.

      Further inspection revealed my parents were totally fine and wondering what had happened as well. We suspected a tree limb had fallen.

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      It was not a tree limb. It was a tree. The ol' pecan tree had finally let go. Not a breath of wind or a drop of rain to provide encouragement. It just went. And took most of an entire room with it.

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      It didn't look that bad from inside at 4 AM but the break of dawn revealed that the walls were bowed outward so badly you could poke your fist between the studs.

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      As an architecture student, this provided some interesting studies in the vernacular. You can just make out the sideways rough cut 2x4s laid between the old studs. Over that is a layer of plaster with original wallpaper still stuck to it. Over that was more modern drywall.

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      This rot was a long time in the making. Due to some family connections, 6 hours after the roof was flattened, we're talking to one of the best tree experts in the business. We should have the tree gone by tonight. The rebuilding will take a whole whole lot longer however.

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      It must have been a slow day as two articulated fire trucks, 4 police cars, 3 boom lift trucks, and 3 crane trucks were on the scene within 3 hours.

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      Including this big ol' honker right here. Dual steer and everything.

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      About 8 AM we had tons of neighbors showing up who heard the big 4 AM crash. Fortunately a handful were around from the beginning to bring us coffee and keep us entertained. It wasn't the most fun night I've ever had but it wasn't the worst. It's times like this that I realize just how good God is to us all. It could have been so much worse. But still, pray for us if you pray. It will be a long and difficult road ahead towards restoring this 110 year old cottage back to its former glory.

      Man, the one night I'm home in 3 weeks and my childhood home gets flattened by a tree.

      posted in Oppositelock
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    • Down at the Car Museum

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      I have no words. Pictures can't possibly do it justice but it's the future we didn't deserve then and certainly don't now.

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      A genuine, 1-of-51 Tucker! It was breathtakingly perfect in every detail. Seen at the new Savoy auto museum near Cartersville, Georgia.

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      The dashboard stuck out to me. Or more, the lack thereof. It was a little strange looking because we're used to dash boards going all the way across but why should they? They just get in the way!

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      Each cylinder gets an individual exhaust pipe. This rear vent treatment makes me think of the later Renault Dauphine.

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      It's bigger than I thought from photos. Really big. And not a single inch of it is done how the others were doing things. If Tucker hadn't been sabotaged before it had a fair shot, this could have been the blueprint for a whole generation of cars. Oh, the 'what ifs.'

      I'm unbelievably happy I've had the chance to admire one of these historic machines.

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    • Mini Oppo Meetup

      @Taylor-Martin was passing through Atlanta for Thanksgiving so we decided to meet up for a few hours this morning. We settled on picking him up from the airport and me dropping him back off there when we were done.

      Queue phone call at 9:30 AM. "Hey man, where are you?"

      This phone call woke me up. 🤔 Hey, it was an exhausting week, ok. It was only a 30 minute delay anyways.

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      I made up for it by showing him some cool sights around Atlanta. We drove around and ventured on foot for a bit. I also had to pay a man $10 to leave us alone after I caught onto his parking scam. I'm far too trusting.

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      We also saw some cool cars. I managed to take a photo of this cool notchback Celica outside of MLK's birthplace.

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      The Tundra earns a 3/10 mark for cruising around. It didn't break down but it also bounced us all over the place, annoyed Taylor with the broken seatbelt winders, and didn't want to fit in any parking spots.

      Once again, meeting strangers off the internet is a 10/10. Though he's not really a stranger as we've crossed paths before. Taylor has some Volvo related adventures ahead of him so we should be hearing some more soon.

      posted in Oppositelock oppo meet atlanta
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    • I have acquired part of an Aztek

      Yesterday, we looked at a bespangled Dodge I found at Gray & White U Pull It. But far more interesting things were afoot.

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      You see, this yard had a Pontiac Aztek. Naturally I investigated it to see if they're as ungainly up close as they are far away. I regret to inform you they're somehow even uglier on the inside.

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      Unfortunately, this low spec purple one didn't have any of the dubiously useful accessories that characterized the Aztek.

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      Fortunately, they had another Aztek in their inventory that did! I managed to find a rare Pontiac Aztek removable center console cooler! And best of all, I only paid the entry price for it as the cashier seemed genuinely repulsed by the disgusting mishappen lump of plastic.

      It was even grosser than the complete one David wrote up for the Autopian. Except, unlike him, I cleaned mine.

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      Admittedly, this particular Aztek cooler isn't perfect. It's missing both the rubber insert for the lid and the drop-in coin sorter and the exterior is scuffed up. But after a lot of scrubbing, the layers of filth dissipated. With some mild abrasives, most of the black marks even came off the inside liner. Against all odds, it actually appeared someone used this one as a cooler. And it somehow stayed with the vehicle for 15+ years.

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      I'm not sure what to do with it now, though. Ebay listings show values of around $50 for complete examples. I'm not sure I'll use it but it is an interesting piece of automotive history to have around. If any of y'all really want it, DM me.

      I also scored these badges. Bonus points for guessing what two cars they came off of.

      posted in Oppositelock
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    • I made a lounge chair out of a car seat (comprehensive DIY project guide) UPDATED

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      The prospect of turning a seat out of a car into a piece of furniture sounds alluring, but it's more difficult than you might think to pull it off with any degree of polish. Nevertheless, after more hours than you might expect, I did it. I visited a junkyard, pulled and bought a seat, built a custom wooden stand using basic tools, and put it all together to make a comfortable addition to my living room.

      Here's how I turned a Honda Accord seat out of a junkyard into a reasonably well executed lounge chair for around $50 all in. Since I found online how-to guides woefully lacking, here's an in depth look into my process.

      Choosing your seat

      Even with my meager woodworking skills, the hardest part of the whole project turned out to be finding a good seat as a starting point. I ended up visiting two junkyards on three occasions before I found a seat that I felt would be worth the effort. Lowballing Craigslist sellers will be easier than tramping around a junkyard, but I chose the hard route.

      I came up with a few specific requirements for me to pounce. It had to:

      • have manual seat adjustment
      • be free from major blemishes
      • predate in-seat airbags
      • look cool

      Some of these are more important than others. But, for various reasons, this whittles down the sea of junkyard cars to a small subset. I was looking for a pre-2010 mainstream car, most likely with more durable cloth instead of leather. It's also worth noting junkyards upcharge for both power and leather in a seat.

      The manual seat adjustment is the most important qualification. Many seats cannot be easily removed from a junkyard unless you can slide them away from the bolts holding the rails in. Furthermore, you don't want to have to hook up a power supply just to get the seat back tilted like you want it.

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      Though I am not, in fact, a 90s baby, I did try to remove a power seat from an 80s Mercedes only to be flummoxed by the last bolt; the seat was in the wrong position along the runners and, try as I might, I could not work my way around this issue. Mercedes' famously durable MB Tex seats are one of the few non-cloth seats that are commonly found in junkyards in good condition, but most are powered.

      Seat rail conundrum

      Before you choose a seat, check the precise location of the seat rail mounting brackets.

      Most passenger cars have the outside edge mounted to the floor and the inside edge mounted to the transmission tunnel. This means your stand will be trickier to make. However, on some seats, the sliding seat rails can be omitted entirely for simplicity.

      Most trucks, SUVs, and minivans have relatively flat floors and therefore have mostly symmetrical seat slider rails. This vastly increases the simplicity of attaching the seat to a custom base but these seats also tend to be more boring in appearance and less supportive.

      Pulling the seat

      In my case, I located a confusingly clean 1993 Honda Accord Coupe.

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      This particular car had a surprisingly intact interior in a rather fetching shade of 'ox blood,' albeit with some fading.

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      I made the mistake of forgetting to take the plastic covers for the edges of the seat sliders. These can be tricky to remove without breaking them, which I did. I remembered to take the bolts I removed with me, though I didn't end up using them.

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      The driver's seat will always be more worn than the passenger seat. I pulled both but ended up only buying the passenger seat due to budget limitations. This particular junkyard wanted $38 a seat after I declined a sketchy "warranty," so I only bought one. Buying the seat was the most expensive part of the project by far.

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      Building the frame

      I am not experienced in woodworking but I did have access to a set of high quality tools and a stash of random scrap wood and screws. The most significant tools I used were these:

      • miter saw
      • cordless drill
      • cordless impact driver
      • sundry drill bits, sockets, etc
      • a large number of clamps

      Since I exclusively used random 2x4 cutoffs to build the stand, a can of black spray paint and some adjustable padded furniture legs were the only things besides the seat I bought.

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      In the case of this Accord seat, using the existing seat sliders was the easier path forwards, so I had to work with the asymmetrical mounting holes. Therefore, I set the seat up so they were level and worked out how I could reconcile the one irregular mounting point with the three identical others.

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      I worked backwards from the seat to the floor, checking for levelness at every stage to eliminate potential wobbles. First, I traced the angle of the metal bracket onto a sheet of printer paper. I then cut a test piece at that angle with the miter saw to check for fitment. I securely screwed these legs into place and found with no lateral bracing the seat was remarkably stable. I'm not particularly proud of this sloppy cutout to accommodate a protruding part of the rail, but it's not very noticable.

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      I quickly added some lateral bracing to keep everything in place (seen here after paint job). You can see here how the one oddball mounting point necessitated a different design.

      I found a small piece of 2x4 with a finished edge that worked well as a decorative kick plate. I cut and glued it to dry overnight. I am inexperienced, so I messed up the fitment slightly. Nothing some putty and paint can't fix (not that I bothered with the putty). I used the cutoffs from the vertical elements to triangulate the corners.

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      At this stage, it was nearly wobble-free. I added some adjustable screw-in felt pads (not shown) to the bottom to protect the floor and eliminate the last bit of shakiness. A light sanding and some black paint hid the worst of the amateur fitment.

      The finished product

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      I am elated that I was able to produce such a functional and interesting piece of furniture. For little outlay, I was able to learn a lot and gain confidence in my abilities to undertake a DIY project.

      Given my nearly complete lack of woodworking experience, I made plenty of mistakes. For one, I really should have extended the stand backwards a bit so it's less tippy with the seat moved backwards. It's far more stable than it looks, but it could be a little more fool-proof. Additionally, I did make the seat a little low, but it could be extended upwards without too much trouble.

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      I would highly recommend you give a similar project a shot. It was not overly difficult or overly expensive. All it took was patience with myself to learn my limits.

      This thread was a little long but I never saw any discussion of how difficult it was to find an appropriate seat in my research. This challenge needs to be discussed. Have any of you ever completed a similar project? Let me know.

      Update

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      I am by no means a tinkerer, but I decided to improve my chair by fixing a number of design problems inherent in the previous iteration of the wooden base. This involved taking it apart and completely redesigning it.

      By far the biggest problem is that I failed to make the chair an appropriate height. I had wanted it to be somewhat low, but in the end it was too low to be comfortable.

      I had noticed that it was about three inches lower than a particularly comfortable lounge chair I had sitting next to it. Evaluating my options for how to expand the wooden base to gain a few inches, I chose to cut new legs down to the decorative kick plate instead of tacking on height below this point.

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      you can barely the seams in the kick plate where three pieces of wood are glued together

      The biggest limiting factor was the amount of material I had, as I had committed by this point to only using castoff hardware and wood scraps. I had 6" of extra wood that had that same decorative finished edge, which determined the amount of height I could gain at the angle of the legs.

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      Compromise was inherent in this math, but fortunately the peculiar irregularities in the seat slider bracket lent themselves well to a satisfactory design. I managed to double the height of the wooden base using pieces from the old iteration plus an additional 4' of 2x4 pine I found.

      In the above picture, anything painted black was used in the old design.

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      My subpar woodworking skills did let inaccuracies flood into the execution, many of which you can spot much easier in these photos than you can in real life. But I was able to elevate the top of the cushion from 11" to 14", a huge difference in livability. In the process, I created a more aesthetically pleasing product whose jankiness is less visible.

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      Ultimately, this is still a low cost low effort weekend project by a complete novice. The many mistakes I have made should actually encourage you to get out there and try something you've not done before. Because, despite its flaws, or perhaps because of them, I have quite an attachment to this unconventional homebrew chair project.

      Now we'll see how long I allow the seat slider rails to remain rusty.

      posted in Best of Oppo junkyard car seat diy project guide chairs
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    • For the first time in 111 years. . .

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      The lath walls in my house are now completely visible. All the old plaster has been stripped off as well as the drywall that was layered over it.

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      Why is all this necessary? Back in October, the room looked like this.

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      Ever since the old pecan tree let go, the front room of the house has been covered over with a tarp and left to sit while the insurance haggled over the details.

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      The house was built in 1912 and clearly most of the insulation is original. What material exactly is this stuff? Quite a lot of it appears to be missing entirely from the wall cavity resulting in the entire upper 1/5 of the wall becoming a massive thermal bridge.

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      Given the way the tree bowed the walls outwards, though, I'm really not sure how much of the original house can be preserved. The damage is pretty extensive.

      Anyways, I thought it was neat to see the walls laid bare like this on such an old structure. No one has seen that for over a century! Except in the places where various repairs have been made.

      posted in Oppositelock
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    • Another Lap of the Sun, DONE!

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      It's another lap of the sun completed for me today! Kind of a bummer of a workload today so send pictures of cool cars in front of architecture.

      Here's my car in front of a building I enjoy to start us off.

      posted in Oppositelock birthday
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    • Milestone; or, Ode to a Truck

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      At 10:34 PM yesterday, it made it! My dad's 2002 Toyota Tundra ticked over to 300,000 miles and counting. Or 482,803 kilometers, if that's your bag. While a somewhat arbitrary distance, the nature of the imperial system makes it an impressive number to behold.

      It was going to hit the mark on the way to Hartsfield Jackson today unless we intervened so I took it for a quick joyride to get it to 299,999. Then we drove in circles for a little while so we could stop and enjoy the moment.

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      When's the last time you saw an analogue voltmeter in a car?

      It's not gotten this far without some battle scars. There's some minor annoyances like a dash running out of lights to burn out. The driver's seat is on its last legs. Paint is flaking off at an alarming rate. The headlights can be perilously inadequate on dark country roads. It dumps oil and coolant on the ground faster than is polite. Closing the doors causes the rear windows to pop open. And some of the suspension components are more than a bit tired.

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      the finest in 2000s "luxury" truck interiors

      But this truck has been absolutely rock solid for the past 20 years. Not only has it never left anyone stranded from a mechanical failure (batteries excluded), but it has done it all without the benefit of a strict maintenance regiment. It's hauled thousands of pounds of yard waste, spun its tires pulling bushes out by the roots, yanked old trailers around, entertained kids with rides in the bed, taken the family of five on vacation (never again), and much, much more.

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      hauling brush in 2018

      It's difficult to overstate how pivotal this humble truck has been in shaping my ideas of what a vehicle can and should be. It's been a constant in my life.

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      And despite being the factory TRD offroad package, I can't recall a single time the 4WD has even been engaged in all of its years, much less been actually needed.

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      not luxurious by current standards but quite plush in its day

      And through it all, it has remained a fun and pleasant vehicle to drive. 245 horsepower coming from a 4.7 liter V8 sounds a little weak, but this engine is known to last forever. At the same time, the Tundra offered a much tighter driving experience than its slightly larger competitors from the Big Three without sacrificing much in terms of payload. It's quite a looker too, I might add, especially with its Imperial Jade Mica paint and the factory TRD fender flares.

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      it was just a dead battery

      Even if, by my calculations, it has likely burned $58,000 worth of gasoline, it's been an incredibly useful vehicle to have around. It's been a family sedan, an (un)economical commuter, and a total workhorse. You couldn't ask for more.

      Here's to all the "old faithfuls" in your life. Sometimes, the best car is the one that you have.

      posted in Best of Oppo truck high miler tundra 300000 miles
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    • Went to the sun and back

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      But I didn't get any good photos because I was on the wrong side of the car for the trip to the trailhead we hiked at Glacier National Park. Going-To-The-Sun-Road road was a bucket list item for me and I got to experience it. Possibly best known for the opening credits to The Shining as the road to the Overlook Hotel, it really goes over Logan Pass and connects East Glacier and West Glacier. Someday I will drive it myself at stop at more scenic overlooks, but that proved unnecessary on this trip.

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      I was glad I wasn't driving though when I got back from a long hike 8,000 feet above sea level and 2,200 feet above the trailhead off Going-To-The-Sun Road. Over the course of 10 miles, I ascended Siyeh Pass near the top of Matahpi Peak.

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      The path we took up was incredible but not overly difficult. It starts off as a climb through increasingly frequent alpine meadows full of Glacier Lilies separated by beautiful forest with burbling creeks and streams fed by glacier runoff.

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      Then the path switchbacked up a dry craggy trail in the midst of a boulder field. It was above the timber line and was devoid of most plant life.

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      Eventually the path cut along a cliff and out onto the highest point with a breathtaking view of the valleys below. But it was at this point that the adventure really began.

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      Fortunately, we had some time to relax at the top and try to ignore the enormous pile of rocks tourists had used to unsuccessfully try to steal the show from the magnificent unspoiled wilderness.

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      See that lake? We needed to make it to where Going To The Sun Road passes it. The trail became increasingly difficult on the way down. Snow blockage was present but wasn't too much of an issue except in one place.

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      This shot shows the only place where snow posed a challenge. There was a place to cross it lower down to reach the trail that was significantly less sketchy but I still wasn't fond of the experience.

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      The geography on the south side of the mountain was much more conducive to diverse plant life. It was still above the timber line but the scruffy grass and beautiful flowers sprouting out from among moss covered boulders between gushing ice cold streams was possibly one of the most beautiful sights I've ever seen.

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      This gave out to dry rocky terrain and grassy slopes depending on where you were in the valley we descended. The diversity in the terrain was incredible! You can just make out the broad expanses of burned land we had to pass through at the end.

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      Honestly a rather depressing sight. I was fine up until this point but I got pretty badly sunburned by the lack of shade here.

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      The verdict? The most beautiful place I've ever been by a longshot and easily the most intense hike I've ever done. 11/10 ultimate bucket list item.

      posted in Oppositelock bucket list driving roads glacier national park going to the sun road hikelopnik national parks
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      @Bylan-Hoarder-of-LS400-s Honestly not too different from how you'd describe my Cruze. Except the damage it has is a lot harder to fix than a simple bumper cover replacement.

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      @beefchips But what if I hate space efficiency?

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    • RE: DITPG 1 February 2023

      @Sam-Blockhan Track 3000GT, Daily Celica, burn Corolla.

      That's an impressive selection for one parking garage.

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    • RE: DOTS: Trucks and Stuff

      @amoore100 I'm pretty sure it's black paint. Clearly a homebrew paint job but not the worst look as the front and rear match.

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    • DOTS: Trucks and Stuff

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      I saw this crazy clean S10 in the parking lot of the junkyard I visited last week. The beautiful gold color really strikes my fancy.

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      Color matched bed cover to boot! Nice wheel choice as well.

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      And just in front of the S10 is a rare Dodge Ram SRT-10. Only about 10,000 of these were made.

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      500 horsepower V10, yes please! It's a sports car heart in a pickup truck package. It can't have been fun driving over the hilariously broken road to get to the junkyard.

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      I also saw this surprisingly clean Pontiac Grand Prix coupe. It's pretty uncommon to see a non-beater Grand Prix now.

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      I also saw this hideous Maserati Levante. Oh no. Why green?

      I definitely know which of these I'd be driving home. The two trucks would make for a redundant but still fun two car garage.

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    • RE: Brand loyal 3 car driveway

      @Cash-Rewards The real loyalty is going on next door

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      5 cars and 5 makes but all from the same country. That's impressive.

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    • RE: Searching the classifieds for a 3rd (manual) car.

      @Britishvillaininatl You're not shopping for a manual Tundra after seeing my lovely[sic] example last weekend?

      Admittedly, that Z4 was very clean.

      I will say that clapped out BMW is ludicrously overpriced. Besides, there are currently TWO S60Rs for sale for reasonable prices.

      https://chattanooga.craigslist.org/cto/d/chattanooga-2005-volvo-s60/7583116716.html

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      https://atlanta.craigslist.org/nat/cto/d/duluth-rare-manual-2004-volvo-s60r/7582205395.html

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      And the TC isn't going to be a very engaging car to drive, rare 5 speed and all. If you want a fun classic, buy this Scirocco.

      https://dothan.craigslist.org/cto/d/ozark-1987-vw-scirocco/7579799598.html

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    • RE: DOTS: 1989 and 1991 Peugeot 405 Mi16s

      @Sam-Blockhan It's just near some pine trees and not necessarily under them.

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