Let's talk about cars
Dec 17th 2017, 12:56 pm
#6646
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Dec 17th 2017, 4:25 pm
#6647
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Re: Let's talk about cars
In our neck of the woods in addition to the lift a pair of exhaust pipes behind the cab pointing up making a load roar and emitting a large cloud of black smoke under acceleration is popular. One chap actually has one large exhaust pipe in the middle behind the cab that would not look out of place on a small boat.
Dec 18th 2017, 6:25 pm
#6649
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Re: Let's talk about cars
Ugh. Everything lefties don't agree with is immediately compared to a penis or penis compensation. What the hell is with you guys and this obsession.
Perhaps this might cheer you up, comrade. We just bought an old Ural motorcycle sidecar.
So excited.
Perhaps this might cheer you up, comrade. We just bought an old Ural motorcycle sidecar.
So excited.
Dec 18th 2017, 6:30 pm
#6650
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Re: Let's talk about cars
That being said, if you were personally insulted by that statement, then perhaps you have your own issues to work out but I'm staying out of that one.
Glad you're excited for it. Not my thing really, but enjoy.
Dec 18th 2017, 6:41 pm
#6651
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Dec 21st 2017, 12:53 pm
#6654
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Re: Let's talk about cars
I sold a very heavy trailer mounted 300KW generator with a large Detroit 6/92 engine.
The buyer put the shipping on Uship and the chap towing it pulled in with a Ford F250 with a huge amount of lift, large tyres and a Ford 7.3 bored to 7.5 with various modifications to increase horsepower.
His license plate read as "zero mpg" which I thought was quite appropriate.
The buyer put the shipping on Uship and the chap towing it pulled in with a Ford F250 with a huge amount of lift, large tyres and a Ford 7.3 bored to 7.5 with various modifications to increase horsepower.
His license plate read as "zero mpg" which I thought was quite appropriate.
Dec 21st 2017, 6:14 pm
#6656
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Dec 21st 2017, 6:36 pm
#6657
Peace onion
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Re: Let's talk about cars
Zundapps and ancient BMWs are too valuable and rare to be used on film sets, so they use Urals and Dneprs to stand in (they're essentially the same bikes, with the Urals being made in Irbit, Siberia - out of range of German bombers - and Dneprs were made in Ukraine).
The bike Tom Hanks is propped up against at the end of Saving Private Ryan is a 1968 Ural. And bike in The Last Crusade is a 1988 Dnepr.
They're so much fun to drive. Might not be for everybody, but you can be parked with 100 Harleys, and everyone will crowd around your bike and want to talk about it.
There's a thing called UDF; Ural Delay Factor. You have to build in extra time when you go to the post office or grocery store to answer people's questions.
The bike Tom Hanks is propped up against at the end of Saving Private Ryan is a 1968 Ural. And bike in The Last Crusade is a 1988 Dnepr.
They're so much fun to drive. Might not be for everybody, but you can be parked with 100 Harleys, and everyone will crowd around your bike and want to talk about it.
There's a thing called UDF; Ural Delay Factor. You have to build in extra time when you go to the post office or grocery store to answer people's questions.
Jan 2nd 2018, 1:57 pm
#6659
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Re: Let's talk about cars
Happy New Year everyone.
Nice late Christmas present in the form of a cracked windscreen for me when I returned from England
Looks like a very small stone chip is at the root of it, and the very cold temperatures here in CO made it crack.
Time to use that Geico glass protection thing...
Nice late Christmas present in the form of a cracked windscreen for me when I returned from England
Looks like a very small stone chip is at the root of it, and the very cold temperatures here in CO made it crack.
Time to use that Geico glass protection thing...
Jan 2nd 2018, 5:05 pm
#6660
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Re: Let's talk about cars
Happy New Year everyone.
Nice late Christmas present in the form of a cracked windscreen for me when I returned from England
Looks like a very small stone chip is at the root of it, and the very cold temperatures here in CO made it crack.
Time to use that Geico glass protection thing...
Nice late Christmas present in the form of a cracked windscreen for me when I returned from England
Looks like a very small stone chip is at the root of it, and the very cold temperatures here in CO made it crack.
Time to use that Geico glass protection thing...
Cheap assed Plasic windows, well untill I went to price a new one at $300 !
