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Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

Big Man

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I fixed a couple Mazda Miatas bought for cheap and quickly flipped them for cash.
Nice reproduction of early British but could not fit
This what they felt like


And i thought the 61 Vette was bad even after takin the seat rails off
Big Man :
Any decision?


I rode with one of my good friends on a 200+ mile trip one time. He drove a Toyota. My knees hit the dash, so I couldn't scrunch down in the seat, which caused my head to not quite fit in the car. After about 20 miles of riding with my head turned sideways, I had to have some relief. Fortunately, he had a sun roof in the car and opened it up. My head stuck out to about mid forehead. By the time we got to where we were going, my hair had flapped so much in the wind that it actually hurt. I'm sure it was quite the sight to see us driving down the highway. :)
 
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The more I look at these pictures, the more I am completely flabbergasted that, after all the work whoever did this went through, they just left the crappy plastic Lumina wheel covers on it. Seems like that much effort would at least justify a set of rims of some kind, even terrible looking ones.
 
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Big Man

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The more I look at these pictures, the more I am completely flabbergasted that, after all the work whoever did this went through, they just left the crappy plastic Lumina wheel covers on it. Seems like that much effort would at least justify a set of rims of some kind, even terrible looking ones.



Looks like if someone went through that much work they'd have picked something besides a Lumina. [huh]
 

LizzieMaine

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It's a metatextual criticism on the inherent meaninglessness of design over substance. There is no practical reason for that car -- or any car, ever -- to have fins, therefore to place them on a mundane, pointless car like a Lumina is, in fact, a meaningful critique of the marketing-over-engineering principles which governed postwar auto design. Fins are "cool," therefore this car is "cool." BUY IT.

A brilliant piece of work, really.
 
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It's a metatextual criticism on the inherent meaninglessness of design over substance. There is no practical reason for that car -- or any car, ever -- to have fins, therefore to place them on a mundane, pointless car like a Lumina is, in fact, a meaningful critique of the marketing-over-engineering principles which governed postwar auto design. Fins are "cool," therefore this car is "cool." BUY IT.

A brilliant piece of work, really.

Okay, I want a show of hands (mine will be the first up), but who else had to Google "metatextual?"

Metatextuality is a form of intertextual discourse in which one text makes critical commentary on another text. This concept is related to Gérard Genette's concept of transtextuality in which a text changes or expands on the content of another text.
 

HeyMoe

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It's a metatextual criticism on the inherent meaninglessness of design over substance. There is no practical reason for that car -- or any car, ever -- to have fins, therefore to place them on a mundane, pointless car like a Lumina is, in fact, a meaningful critique of the marketing-over-engineering principles which governed postwar auto design. Fins are "cool," therefore this car is "cool." BUY IT.

A brilliant piece of work, really.

Yeah.

What Lizzie said.
 

ingineer

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My neighbor's hipster 20 yo just bought this to my surprise.
1964 Ford Fairlane w/ the 260 block. Very low mileage
it came with a box of new parts, performance distributor, door seals gaskets etc.
 

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