No.23541
>>23540get a 10-20 year old secondhand off of craigslist
No.23542
>>23539If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
No.23576
>>23539I wish car models had longer shelf lives but supposedly doing that is what killed british auto industry.
No.23577
>>23576They did have longer shelf-lives, but planned obsolescence got implemented so that more cars and parts got sold to existing car owners. Ironic that something "planned" in a market economy is shit.
No.23578
Kinda related
https://t.me/TXDPR/131Into each life, a little rain must fall. We were very lucky. Of the garage complex of more than 120 garages in Petrovsky District, only one was damaged. And it belonged to Nikolai Vasilievich, Lyudmila's father and my father-in-law. Yes, his beloved VAZ 2101 sedan, the only car he ever owned, was completely destroyed, and the garage he bought for it was badly damaged by a 120mm shell from Ukrop artillery. It was a beautiful car in perfect condition…
But at least only material things were damaged. Nikolai and Lyudmila actually took shelter in this garage during heavy shelling in the summer of 2014. So while it's a heavy financial and personal blow, no one died, no blood was spilled, so thank God, after all.
*cries in mechanic* Fucking bastards!
No.23601
>>23539Bottom is based. If it does the job, and does it reasonably well, why improve it?
No.24805
>>24068>Is it like modding your car? or repairing it with new parts?Could be either. If you don't have a lot of money to spend you'll be looking at barn finds or other people's project cars they've given up on.
>And I'm assuming just like phones and PCs, the bastards who sold you, don't want you to mess with it and truly own y our device?The opposite. That's why people love vintage cars because they're so easy to work on.
No.25213
>>25193You try army-mil surplus online, they still have some old jeeps from storage being sold.
No.25322
>>25213That's very cool but there is something in me that doesn't trust a 60 years old car be used or new-old-stock
Still these have some nice prices, it may be worth going with one of those.
No.25586
>>25585los productos rusos nunca se ven en america, no es realment algo politico, importar los insumos desde sudamerica y las cosas desde EEUU es más simple y ya.
No.25728
>>25322Why an old Jeep though? Just the form or something else?
No.25734
>>25728Yeah I do like the looks, I like that they're raw, small and utilitarian and that you can pull down the windshield to make them look completely flat and letting you drive wide open like a motorcycle without needing the gear.
If cars grew in the forest the jeep will be a wild car, like a wolf or a boar and all other cars will be domestic breeds.
No.26089
>>26042>Hurr le bad TrabantI guess people need a reminder of memes every year… annoying porky algorithm.
No.26099
>>26042Why do people keep doing the Trabant dirty? It's probably one of the most based vehicles ever built. It's cute, it's easy to work on (comparatively), it's built like a tank. What more could you want in a car?
No.30976
>>26099 It needs to be a sleek and 'cool' looking and go 140mph for no reason.
No.30980
>>26099Made in Socialism = bad, anon, their merits does not matter, everything ever in socialism is bad and need to be remembered, and you claim anything they did was good you are wrong and brainwashed because everyone agrees with me.
Now do three hails to liberalism.
No.34448
>>20624 >Removed I WONDER WHY HMMMM!?
No.36111
>>35943Are we going to have judge dredd-style highway mansions soon?
No.36112
>>36111>111 Checkem
>Are we going to have judge dredd-style highway mansions soon? Hopefully not. That Hummer was more of a novelty than anything realistic or useful. Unless a Post Apocalypse occurs or a drastic change in motor-transport attitudes it's unlikely to happen.
No.36113
I'm doing a rust repair on my Camry 1999. I have light surface rusting of the hood top and rooftop and some more serious rusting in the engineside of the hood and rear wheel-wells. I'm looking for advice on what grinders, sanders, primers, fillers and other methods I should use to repair it, since I don't want to spend a couple thousand sending it to a body shop.
No.36181
Repost: There's nothing stopping you from using and loving cars today while understanding that in the future (the far future, if you're American), cars will be less common. It's not like communism is gonna take your car away. a robust public transportation system will just make driving unnecessary, thereby reducing traffic overall and letting you have a better driving-for-pleasure experience. imagine 3am traffic at 3pm. I don't think EVs will take over everything, and the internal combustion engine isn't going away. There are carbon neutral fuels you can burn in them even today. It's an expensive hobby. I have two cars, both sports cars. I'm every bit the leftist as anyone else. What I am not is a lifestylist who thinks he has to live in poverty and be a complete cuck. Have fun and enjoy yourself. Don't let anyone tell you that you have to drive a cuckmobile or a bike in order to be a good leftist. Also EVs are garbage all around. They're not fun. They're not fast for circuits, and they're not built with you in mind. Get yourself a little sports car. Work on it, love it, and make it your own. You'll only get good memories from it. When you finally reach a point where you know it's your special machine, and take it out on the road, you'll feel something special. You'll feel your work and dedication come through the steering wheel, the engine roaring, as if it too shares your enthusiasm. I can't describe it, but it feels like the blood vessels inside my face want to come out and directly control the car. It may be that I have a ridiculous smile on, but I feel at peace. I feel like, whatever is going on in the world. Things are going to be okay. It's just me and my machine. It's a hell of a thing to have a car you modified yourself, especially if you go deep into aerodynamics with it. My other car is bone stock, but it's also a hell of a car. I do all the work on it, and I know that it is a healthy car. The paint is perfect, and it has all the stuff it needs to last hundreds of thousands of miles. It's like taking care of a plant. It requires patience, and someday I may give it away or sell it, but for now, it's in my care, and it rewards me with safe and comfortable trips, wherever I need to go. Do not feel like you have to dislike cars. Cars are not your enemies. They simply need to be kept out of some places. When that happens, your little vehicle will recede into its garage, to be taken out rarely, but that will make those times so much more special.
No.36182
There are many North Korean cars you can find at
https://nkrecognition.proboards.com/ (if you register) and some on imcdb
No.36800
>>36799>I think being a car enthusiast made me hate capitalism.Ironic
Monopolization of all the major brands is a real pain for me too. Older cars had such classy designs, like the 80s Stingray. Modern versions are just ass. Its one of my gripes about Bayverse Bumblebee, the 2000s/2010s Camaro design is way too chunky, and the older one we see in the movie's start was way cooler.
No.37028
>>10702I wish the MTX Tatra V8 made it to mass-production.
No.39681
Gonna wash my car for the first time today :)
No.41155
>>25734>>25728>>25322>>25213>>25193FYI Army Jeeps are fucking death traps, the number of roll overs and deaths in those things is immense.
No.41160
>>18737LADA NIVA 4x4 is still in production (since 1977). I'm saving up to buy one.
No.41173
>>25193>you can't even disassemble them and put them into a crate.do you foresee having to do this often with your car?
No.41216
>>35943For context about the LARC LX, pic related, it weighed 97 tons and could carry 100 tons of cargo. Each wheel had its own engine. The soldiers on the photograph are adult men for a sense of scale. It was primarily a beach lander and they were retired from service in 2001. Truly some WH40K shit, especially considering its open-top design; a single 152mm shell, surface-surface missile or air-surface missile and you've got 200 men or a couple armored vehicles down.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LARC-LX?useskin=vector https://imgur.com/a/dQDfc3o (museum photos)
No.41230
>>41216Forgot to mention that their role was replaced by the LCAC hovercraft. See
>>>/AKM/3080 for Naval subjects
No.41307
>Why didn’t the Soviets un-suppress suppressed [electric car] technology?Path dependency and opportunity cost, the world had already developed more expertise in gasoline cars by the time the USSR ventured seriously into civilian automotives. The cost of developing a "lost" technology from nothing again is greater than adopting an already working solution. Further more, developing a new technology means the initial products are typically inferior and it takes even more investment and time before new tech becomes superior to old tech. The USSR had limited resources so it went with the low-risk known solution.
Even then the USSR did experiment and pioneer many Hydrogen-Cell and Electric vehicles, but they were limited, primarily because they were still being developed to be more effective and mass-producible when the USSR fell. Besides Public Transport was much more available there.
>>6035 No.41514
>>18737>[4] whos-left-in-the-old-folks-home-now-that-the-lada-rivas-gone NTA but a weird error erased the link
http://jalopnik.com/5903819/whos-left-in-the-old-folks-home-now-that-the-lada-rivas-gone Unique IPs: 25