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Anybody else in the bunker enjoy cars and motorsport? Discuss anything motoring related here.
To start I'll say I've spent the last few days doing the brakes on my own car, including new calipers. Fucking hard work on an old POS, nothing comes apart easily.
176 posts and 69 image replies omitted.>>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.
>>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.
>>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.
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.
There are many North Korean cars you can find at
https://nkrecognition.proboards.com/ (if you register) and some on imcdb
>>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.
>>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)
>>41216Forgot to mention that their role was replaced by the LCAC hovercraft. See
>>>/AKM/3080 for Naval subjects
>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 >>41888Oh yeah and also, even if you're not gonna do the work yourself, you should probably try to buy the parts yourself if you're dealing with one of these mechanics trying to rip you off. They always over charge when they buy parts. Motherfuckers were quoting me like $400 for parts to replace the fuse box, then I went on ebay and found people selling new OEM ones for like 100. I ended up asking on /r/askamechanic and they told me I didn't even need the fuse box replaced, it could simply be rewired. I asked the mechanic if he could do that instead and he was like "oh I didn't know you'd want the functionally equivalent replacement that costs a fifth as much in a place in the car where you'll never even see it." Fucking cracker scammers.
/r/askamechanic is an amazing sub. I can't recommend enough taking your car problems there first for a free diagnosis.
Replacing the panel on my door was kind of hard because of the lack of documentation online but I eventually figured it out (mostly, except for some infuriating wiring for the power mirror.) A random tip I learned that everyone should know: FUCKING GET THESE! THESE WORK MIRACLES! You look up how to get a stuck bolt off and all the recs are about heating it with a MAP torch spraying WD40. Lemme tell you it's all in the wrench. Regular renches were just stripping these things and not budging them an inch. Toss on one of these and it just pops off, no stripping at all. Use it before you round your bolts.
>>41893>saw the damaged panels in a locsl junkyard. Well don't buy damaged lol. The one I bought was pretty much mint condition and in the same OEM color.\
>idk if i can handle the work tho. Id have to go off service manual alone and its hot as hell out rnYoutube and forums is what saved my ass. The heniz manual was so vague it was useless for the specific thing I needed to do.
>>42076>Why not go for itIn addition to the reasons I listed, there's a 15-year import rule in my cunt so I can't buy new, the trucks I'm finding are all manual transmission which I don't know how to drive and apparently they don't go very fast–I wouldn't want to strain the engine just trying to drive at highway speeds.
Still, I'm probably going to do it. I'm so tired of the shitty fuel efficiency of my van and the trucks are stupidly cheap. The one in picrel only has ~50k km on it and is going for $10k
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