Automotive enthusiasts?

@ACApenetrator50  
I imagine you have tons of diesels laying around. A trucker’s paradise

My step dad actually just finished restoring an old International pickup truck.

@MagpulPony  
I new international made some small street vehicles but never a pickup truck

@RainbowDash69  
I kinda do. Need em for my farm. Can’t run a tractor without them. I also just have a bunch of barrels of diesel sitting behind my barn for when it’s time for a refuel.

@ACApenetrator50  
I believe it’s a 1948 International KB2.

@MagpulPony  
Nice. Good to see a well done restoration. The 40s had lots of style

@MagpulPony  
Looks cool either way

I managed to get my 9400 back to my barn yesterday and finally got it on a lift today and I’m impressed that there’s not a whole lot of frame damage at all. Just some rusting that I can fix and that’s it. The engine however, is completely seized and locked up. I already have a new engine that came from a Peterbilt that will be transplanted into the old international and hopefully after some deep cleaning, painting, and upgrades to the donor engine, she’ll be road worthy again.

@The magic 🅱oi  
Another blow to GM because their new vehicles are shit

@The magic 🅱oi  
You say that like he doesn’t have a case.
 
One of my family had similar problems with a Jeep Compass.

@ACApenetrator50  
*Chrysler
 
@kleptomage  
Oh he has a case. “Florida man sues Chrysler” just sounds funny to me. The transmission was basically grenading on him regularly

Finally a Lamborghini I can afford.
 

@kleptomage  
Oh yikes. What year is your Jeep? My sis really wants a Jeep compass. Thinking of just leasing because resale tanks so much
 
 
@kleptomage  
Yeah I saw that too. Overpriced Go Kart I’m sure lol. Does it have a nice exhaust like a lambo?! Probably electric

@RainbowDash69  
It was a brand new 2019 Compass, right from the factory to the rental company. Your sister would be better off with a Mazda.
 
The Lamborghini go kart is only $1,500. It’s electric with a range of about 15 miles. Not that I would buy such a thing, of course.

@kleptomage
 
@RainbowDash69
 
It’s just a “go kart” that you strap to a hoverboard. You could get the same thing from wal*Mart for way less

This was on my street today:  

 
A Chinese Passat. I live near Wolfsburg, so we occasionally get US-spec or Chinese VWs in the area. But those are new cars with WOB-plates, and this one is from Bavaria…

@CalypsoFantasy  
I remember when cool and interesting cars would be on my street. Now I literally own the nicest car on the street, and likely the immediate area. Everything’s either trash or rice.

@kleptomage  
CX-5 is popular around here. The perfect size. and they’re good to buy used, I assume. Never heard anything bad about it
 
 
@CalypsoFantasy  
I assume Chinese import or just tourist? Cant tell where the liscense plate is from

@RainbowDash69  
German plate. ER = Erlangen.

Well I had an interesting experience with a Karen at the gas station earlier today. Turns out she also an environmentalist who got offended by the fact that my truck just blew a bit of smoke while I was trying to pull up to the diesel pump.

 
New Grand Wagoneer has that trendy dumb LED light bar. Looks cheesy. Wood door panels are soon I hope
 
@ACApenetrator50  
You probably get that a lot depending on where you live

@RainbowDash69
 
Eh, I could go either way with the light bar. It’s the giant wheels that I wouldn’t want. Faux Wood Door Paneling can show up at my door any day, though.
 
Does anyone here use Fuelly? Here’s my 05 Explorer. I’m hypermiling it, though I haven’t done much to modify the car yet. The current tank’s looking like it’ll be 21 MPG or so, which is 6 MPG higher than the stock EPA figure. I have explanations for why my figure’s so high, but I don’t have time to explain at the moment. One part is that I’m using Opti-lube XL this tank, and I’ll use it next tank, too. That’s a Diesel Lubricity Fuel Additive, not a Gas Additive. It only accounts for maybe 1 - 2 MPG, though, at 4 oz per 22.5 gallon tank.

@BarryFromMars
 

 
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