$2000 spinners, $3000 speakers and an after-market, poorly-installed spoiler on your 20-year-old, POS, badly-dented, probably-not-road-legal station wagon
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There are quite a few vehicles around here like that. Not sure why, but it's always some shitbox equipped with those things...which are *always* worth more than the car is It's not helped by stores like Pep Boys...which have an entire section devoted to that crap
Seriously though, if I was going to tweak a car, I'd concern myself with the mechanical bits first...and worry about the cosmetic stuff later. Call it a 'sleeper' if you will. First car I had was like that. My Tercel...had been worked on by a previous owner. Someone had fitted larger rear brakes (from a Corolla), lowered it slightly, and tuned the engine a bit. Other than that, the car was completely stock. Stock-looking enough, that a few Cavalier drivers wondered what engine I was running...when I'd pull away from them
But, it doesn't surprise me. Nothing says "slow car" by a rash of cosmetic "improvements." These include those stupid wings on front-wheel-drive cars, body kits, graphics, rims, etc. Oh, and throw a large stereo in there too.Aerodynamics are for people who can't build engines. --Enzo Ferrari
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Or it's sitting up at least 3 feet high off the ground, therefore requiring a ladder to get into or out of the vehicle.
Boner points for if they've got the front driver's seat missing and they're driving from the back.Human Resources - the adult version of "I'm telling Mom." - Agent Anthony "Tony" DiNozzo (NCIS)
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What, you mean spoilers don't make a car go faster?
http://oddee.com/item_96677.aspx
Funniest pimped out car i've ever seen was back in Asbury Park, NJ. Back then i was delivering pizza, and someone pimped out... wait for it... their budget was definitely low... a Chevette. -=snickers=- Complete with a soup can exhaust... that sounded like one long fart when they accelerated. Oh, and my stock four door Sidekick could outrun them.Seph
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Please send that memo to all the local schmucks around here who think that having a vehicle like that makes them "Teh Sexy!"
Any time I'm in traffic next to some idiot with a rice burner with a fart can muffler or a boom boom system and they try to give me that "Hey baby, look at me, I'm so cool, I'm the perfect man!" Look, I either shake my head at them or just roll my eyes at them.
Or when guys think that having a big bad loud pickup truck decked in Confederate Flag decals is sexy......don't even get me started.You really need to see a neurologist. - Wagegoth
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Quoth Javarod View PostWhat, you mean spoilers don't make a car go faster?
http://oddee.com/item_96677.aspx
Funniest pimped out car i've ever seen was back in Asbury Park, NJ. Back then i was delivering pizza, and someone pimped out... wait for it... their budget was definitely low... a Chevette. -=snickers=- Complete with a soup can exhaust... that sounded like one long fart when they accelerated. Oh, and my stock four door Sidekick could outrun them.
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Quoth mattm04 View PostI love the ones with the cardboard spoiler taped to the car.
The mental picture I've got of that is pretty damn funny . . . and that spoiler was probably flapping in the breeze until it finally blew off.Human Resources - the adult version of "I'm telling Mom." - Agent Anthony "Tony" DiNozzo (NCIS)
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Quoth infinitemonkies View Post$2000 spinners, $3000 speakers and an after-market, poorly-installed spoiler on your 20-year-old, POS, badly-dented, probably-not-road-legal station wagon
OK, where is that icon...
(Thanks NorthernZel)
I grew up in northern Illinois. Think salt.
So, you buy a 10 year old Chevy Nova for $300.00 that is being held together by the paint. So what is the first thing you do to fix it up?
You drop $500.00 on Kreger rims (don't upgrade the tires) and $200.00 on a stereo. 1980 prices.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Quoth siead_lietrathua View PostNow see, i love the stupid kids in their "funky" cars. They are always looking for a race, and beating them out in my PT cruiser because they have no concept of how to take care of their engine, priceless.Last edited by csquared; 06-11-2009, 01:55 AM.
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Quoth DGoddessChardonnay View Post
Boner points for if they've got the front driver's seat missing and they're driving from the back.
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Quoth Nashida View PostI thought these were just penis replacements. Can't get credit for something that ain't there, I say.Human Resources - the adult version of "I'm telling Mom." - Agent Anthony "Tony" DiNozzo (NCIS)
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Quoth blas87 View PostOr when guys think that having a big bad loud pickup truck decked in Confederate Flag decals is sexy......don't even get me started.
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Quoth Nashida View PostI thought these were just penis replacements. Can't get credit for something that ain't there, I say.
Just for the bonus cliche points, he redlines the engine before dropping it in gear to do a huge tire squeal. Extra jackass points: This was at 8am on a sunday morning.
I'm not sure what the model name was, but I'm pretty sure the english translation is "compensator"Aliterate : A person who is capable of reading but unwilling to do so.
"A man who does not read has no advantage over a man who cannot" - Mark Twain
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