A good friend just had a 1912 fire truck transported 200km to a show - the truck is fully operable, but because it's completely irreplaceable (if it gets crashed into, it's a big problem) and parts cannot be sourced, they simply weren't going to take the risk of driving it
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Not the first ones, apparently...
Considering I can knock the one we have at work on its ass in a little over three hours of driving, this won't last long.
It's just a boring show. Dare I say, its just far too American.
heh, drove right past my work at Pender and Seymour =) Neat video. A few of those red-lights were pretty ballsy - busy, fairly blind intersections. Yikes...
Dare I say, I like 'em all? All are interesting in their own way, each has its purpose. I just dislike extremely boring doesn't-do-anything-special cars - think Chevy Sonic for instance.
Saudi Arabia (along with much of the middle east) is a weiiiird place. It seriously feels like humans have gone back a thousand years, except with serious money.
Heh, funny - both of my younger sisters, my sister's boyfriend and my girlfriend all own '99-01 Proteges, all with the 1.6L and automatics. I was able to get them _CHEAP_ as retired fleet cars from my employer, and they were all in pretty good shape. Excellent wheels-on-the-cheap cars. We've changed a coil pack ($40)…
Or just bought an entire car. If half the houses on the street have a "for sale" sign on them, I'm sure there are plenty of running <$500 cars around, too.
Aside from the obvious 10k-over-sticker-idiocy, I'm entirely not surprised. The only difference between this particular car and virtually every other performance-related car at any dealership is that this one was being hooned while on camera.
I'm seriously amazed that they ran the RX-8 for as long as they did. People virtually stopped buying them altogether after 2007 or so — when you could already get a 2005 used for absolutely peanuts - for a reason. Great car, killed by a _terrible_ engine. The RX-8 had this amazing capability at not only being merely…
I usually sell them when they get to the 150,000km or so mark, and buy something used with 80,000km. I can (typically) rely on them not being heaps of shit that way, and hit two great points — at 80,000km, it's out of warranty, which makes it cheap to buy. At 150,000km, it's not worn out, and assuming I bought it for…
You couldn't reuse them even if you wanted to. They use an explosive to inflate them - which is epoxied into the casing and can of course, only be used once.
Aww, poor thing.
Sounds like the high bidder paid about $83,500 too much...
The Cougar Ace incident still pisses me off...
my personal favorite has always been really thick zipties on the driveshaft(s). Leave the ends un-cut - so when they spin, the ends smack the bottom of the car/truck, making a hellish "ohh shit, what the hell is wrong with my car?!" sound which increases with speed...
my personal favorite has always been really thick zipties on the driveshaft(s). Leave the ends un-cut - so when they spin, the ends smack the bottom of the car/truck, making a hellish "ohh shit, what the hell is wrong with my car?!" sound which increases with speed...
I've done it before - it was well deserved, and consisted of "all four of your tire valve cores are now mine".