Automotive Exceptionalism

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MRC

·Feb 16, 2025

Fallout Boy

Explain us foreigners: Dak Dak!

It's an Australianism for the VW flat-four motor cars, due to the sound of their uneven firing. What @VicarWhiskey may not know is what these things are worth now. There is a business near me that restores them starting from around £30k on top of the price of the base car. They also do early air-cooled Porsches and, regretably, build plastic 356 replicas on innocent Beetle chassis.

 

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Fallout Boy

·Feb 16, 2025

👍 the autralian tuk-tuk 😀

btw: this roof-rack is worth a fortune!

 

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Pastorbottle

·Feb 16, 2025

It's the horrid sound they make Dak Dak Dak Dak...........

 

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Fallout Boy

·Feb 16, 2025

Better than this:

sound of the police

 

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bsowers34

·Feb 17, 2025

I use these as background for my WRUW pictures a lot because they are on my office wall. Guess what brand I work for?

 

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abrod520

·Feb 17, 2025

bsowers34

I use these as background for my WRUW pictures a lot because they are on my office wall. Guess what brand I work for?

You're not in Sandy Springs by any chance? I was just there this past week...

 

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bsowers34

·Feb 17, 2025

abrod520

You're not in Sandy Springs by any chance? I was just there this past week...

No, I work in a dealership in Kentucky.

 

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Pastorbottle

·Feb 17, 2025

Fallout Boy

Better than this:

sound of the police

Better?............I duuno that one could be distinguished as being better than the other, both are an awful cacophony of audibly offensive mind numbing racquet, yes they are recognisably different. However it's like trying to compare the merits of vomit to diarrhea......both are nauseatingly unpleasant to encounter either 1st or 2nd hand!

 

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vbrad26

·Mar 25, 2025

Quick detour on my way to work this morning to check out a buddies new E88’s on his RSA. Pure perfection.

 

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993SuperCup

·7:49pm yesterday

 

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arturo7

·11:56pm yesterday

993SuperCup

That's a frkkin crime

 

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abrod520

·Today at 8:06am

Yeah, if the car was in bad shape, for a time it was probably cheaper and better to do some fun resto-modding than to spend the money to fully restore. We're seeing that with early Datsun Zs now for instance. But nowadays, for a lovely early Corvette, I am not a fan