General cars and vehicles thread.

[Oedipus Wreckx-n-Effect]

21 minutes ago, Meplat said:

 

Also, some ag equipment is intended to have fluid filled tires.  I've got a little gizmo that lets me fill my lawn tractor tires with water from a garden hose. Gives it a bit more ground pressure.

If you look at many larger tractor valve stems, you'll see the part that carries the actual Schrader valve can be demounted, allowing the tube/tire to be more easily filled with fluid. (usually a propylene glycol based compound now)

Yep. I've helped my dad fill the tractor tires with water. 

[Donward]

1 hour ago, Oedipus Wreckx-n-Effect said:

https://pueblo.craigslist.org/cto/d/1975-chevy-vega/6445592839.html

 

 

1400 bucks. Hmm....

LS swap perhaps?

My dad had a Blue Chevy Vega back in the late 1970s. Back when Ford was producing the Pinto and AMC had the Pacer and Gremlin and Chevrolet said "We need to get  in on THAT action!" 

 

The story goes that he killed while taking it on the back roads hunting but it was just an excuse for buying a POS car.

[Oedipus Wreckx-n-Effect]

1 minute ago, Donward said:

My dad had a Blue Chevy Vega back in the late 1970s. Back when Ford was producing the Pinto and AMC had the Pacer and Gremlin and Chevrolet said "We need to get  in on THAT action!" 

Bingo. They are total piles but S10 parts bolt right on, and they are light as hell for a domestic car that has Engine space for a small block. 

 

Those that didn't disintegrate in a few years were usually smashed into the wall of a drag strip due to how quick they could be pushed.

[Donward]

5 minutes ago, Oedipus Wreckx-n-Effect said:

Bingo. They are total piles but S10 parts bolt right on, and they are light as hell for a domestic car that has Engine space for a small block. 

 

Those that didn't disintegrate in a few years were usually smashed into the wall of a drag strip due to how quick they could be pushed.

Back in the early 1990s we knew some guys who did exactly this with Pintos.

I think they'd drop in a 302 and do some work on the front end (Mustang II parts?) as I recall.

 

[Meplat]

4 hours ago, Donward said:

Back in the early 1990s we knew some guys who did exactly this with Pintos.

I think they'd drop in a 302 and do some work on the front end (Mustang II parts?) as I recall.

 

Probably , M2 bitsa  were common retros.

 

My take on the Vega was constantly having to jump-start the one , one of my uncles had, while still under some absurd mandated extended warranty.

This had to be 80/81, when I was 11/12, and old enough to know wheat from chaff.  The Vega was long dead, but he was still, somehow, fucking GM on that warranty.

 

After owning some later GM's I say "Godspeed Sir.".

[Donward]

18 minutes ago, Meplat said:

Probably , M2 bitsa  were common retros.

 

My take on the Vega was constantly having to jump-start the one , one of my uncles had, while still under some absurd mandated extended warranty.

This had to be 80/81, when I was 11/12, and old enough to know wheat from chaff.  The Vega was long dead, but he was still, somehow, fucking GM on that warranty.

 

After owning some later GM's I say "Godspeed Sir.".

I only have a vague recollection of the Vega and that it was bought for the use of commuting during one of the 1970s gas shortages/lines. The trick my dad had was that he also bought a huge station wagon with a gigantic gas tank whose only purpose was to drive to the filling station, fill up, whereupon he'd drain that tank to run the Vega (with a much smaller tank) and our Gran Torino.

 

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As for "fuck GM", rather than buying a Honda, my dad decided to buy a new 1984 Chevy Chevette hatchback which somehow made it to 85,000 miles before dying of the complications of a blown transmission, broken head bolt, broken oil filter screw thing, cooling problems, and a ton of superficial things like the shift knob breaking, hatchback lift breaking, glovebox, door handles, mirror adjustor, heater core failing. 

 

It was blue. And the first three months he had it, the back quarter panel got smashed in the parking lot of Longacres race track. Whereupon he took the insurance money and gambled it at the track and hired a gypsy to bondo the damage but not paint it.

 

My dad...

[LoooSeR]

   3 Russians bought Bugatti Chiron. Those cars can't be shipped to Russia as they lack ERA-GLONASS system, so those 3 will drive their Chirons only in Europe. 1 is already delivered, second one will be made in 2018 and 3rd - 2019. Each car price was around 240 millions rubles (about 3.5 mil. euros).

 

[Xlucine]

Lada's also lack GLOSNASS, and work in russia - why not just drive them without GPS?

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20 minutes ago, Xlucine said:

Lada's also lack GLOSNASS, and work in russia - why not just drive them without GPS?

IIRC new ones are getting those systems.

[LoooSeR]

Nissan concept electric car

 

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Kia Telluride concept

 

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Volga could have been resurected with this car (if car itself was also good).

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17 hours ago, LoooSeR said:

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If it's electric, why does it have that huge goofy looking grille?

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Gaz 24

Looks like an old Falcon.  

I like it.

 

 

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Lambo doing sort of remotely practical car? 

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All-Wheel Drive Niva St-Tropez for Frenchies.

 

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   Niva St-Tropez is a variant of the car VAZ-2121 Niva, modified by the French company Poch SA (the official importer of products of the Togliatti car factory in France). In 1984, the firm Poch SA announced a competition for a new design for Niva cars, supplied to France. The winner of the competition was Patrick Giraud's project, with the installation of large plastic panels around the hull. This model was offered to the public in 1987, but due to the high cost (66 thousand francs against 56 thousand in the base model), St-Tropez did not attract interest from customers, and remained in several prototypes

 

 

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Special transport (in the form of a cart towed by a Line Drive Tractor), used to agitate recruits into the US Army; New York; 1917

 

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British sports car Marcos Mantis

 

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   Marcos Mantis was created in 1968 by the British automotive firm Marcos Engineering (located in Kenilworth, Warwickshire county). The car was manufactured from 1968 to 1971, only 32 cars of this type were produced.

 

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Alfa Romeo P33 Roadster

 

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   This concept car was created in 1968 by the Pininfarina car design studio on the basis of the Alfa Romeo Type 33. The car received a new lightings, miniature doors, a wing. The presentation of the car was held at the Turin Motor Show in 1968

 

 

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[Xoon]

On 17.1.2018 at 2:23 AM, Meplat said:

If it's electric, why does it have that huge goofy looking grille?

The obvious answer:
Cooling, a electric car requires the same amount of cooling as a gasoline car.

 

The actual answer:
"It looks cool" 

 

Car designers love grills, to the point that they have a lot of fake grills in modern cars.

[Ulric]

Well, after a 48 hour turn around, I picked up my 4runner 3vze heads from the machine shop. They're been flattened, had the valve seats recut, new exhaust valves, and thoroughly cleaned!

[Ulric]

naturally, the Celica's radiator has developed a small leak. New radiator will be here tomorrow.

[LoooSeR]

KamAZ Arktika

 

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GAZ-3344-20 Aleut snow / swamp / all terrain vehicle