I'll take note to avoid that generation, though I prefer the looks of that gen to the one before it. It's ugly and 7 lug, why Ford? Also it looks like the black between the windows on your truck is flaking just like mine. On a work truck it's whatever, but I'm trying to keep my truck looking nice and that kinda detracts from the looks.
I actually prefer that generation of F-150. Why? 2-valve motor. So much nicer, ignoring the spark plug thing.
I could probably tolerate that bodystyle, while I still think they're ugly, at least they kinda make sense, and the interiors are actually somewhat decent. However, Modular motor, no thanks. I still never understood that 7 lug 5/8 ton mess, they literally just added another leaf to the back and gave it 7 lug hubs. That's part of why I think Ford went completely insane around 1997-2000, and they never looked back.
There are two things that bug the crap out of me about my work truck, I'm missing one of the headlight bug shields (It's got the factory three piece bug shield) and more importantly, it's missing a center cap. I just don't have enough time to do anything about it really, maybe over this winter.
Oh, good grief...if anyone can handle listening to these three versions of "Deja Vu" at once, I'd be amazed. (I barely handled listening to it. (What does this have to do with cars? Well, 4chan's automotive autists (/o/) sang one of these versions, the original starred in Initial D, a car racing anime, and Deja Vu is a popular Initial D meme song, especially when combined with Russian trucks drifting in the snow.) Original: Autistic: Tsuko G.'s version: Speaking of anime/mange, I came across this interesting female-based racing manga called "Over-Rev". Here's a couple videos of the first three volumes in English. Vol. 1: Vol. 2: Vol. 3:
FTFY Yup its true that I'm the only one here who cares about it (I have wierd car tastes) maybe I have appreciation for Mitsubish's mundane car models. The V3000 was much more refined than the "Aussie tanks" that were its main competitors of the time. That specific Eurobeat track is pretty much considered normie (at least in the Initial D Hell Facebook group) at this point with how overused it is.
I finished @Ytrewq's intersection. As I described earlier, the roundabout is basically the same with the main changes being the over- and underpass. I think this is better than what they came up with in the most basic sense, but when real life factors like time and cost are taken into consideration, theirs is still the way to go.
Nice You shut your mouth it's just because it's a NZ only it doesnt live up to Aussie & Japanese standards.
On another note I saw a Nissan March Bolero today, pretty interesting car and honestly doesn't look too bad in person. Basically looked like this colour and all.
I went over to a local wrecking yard today (B&R Auto Wrecking) to help my grandpa find a driver's side tail light for his boss's '07 Chevrolet Silverado 2500, and some driver's side seat parts and a brake pedal for his personal '05 Jeep Liberty. After seeing what happens to cars after they die, I have to say that the whole experience was both mesmerizing and horrific at the same time. I've read all sorts of things about junkyards, heard a lot about them, and I've even seen what could be found in these yards (Wangan Midnight and Over-Rev both feature their main characters finding their cars in junkyards), but never have I actually been to a junkyard before, and especially not one of the size that I went to. There must have been a couple thousand cars all in a weird, junk-laced grid, mostly trucks and sedans, but I also saw.... -A Mazda RX7 (FB) sitting on rusty old wheels... -Two wrecked NA Miatas.... -An Audi that had been chopped up hardcore... -Quite a few Range Rovers that had been chopped up... -A LOT of cars that looked like they had been in deadly crashes... ...and a load of other things there. Seeing all of those cars at the junkyard also opened my eyes up to how car parts are re-used after cars go to die. Every single car I saw there had been stripped of their engines, wheels, and transmissions, and some of them were missing other vital parts, as well. That does get me thinking...I hear sounds of street racing (or at least, cars driving quickly) in my neighborhood quite frequently...could I have seen some former street racers' cars in that yard?
Pretty much so, the drift cars you see in Japan are pretty much it, hacked up cars that were destined to the junkyard, and people re-use them as drift missiles until they get to the point that using parts from 5 other different cars won't fix it, so they get sent off, it's pretty much cheaper doing it that way than spending tons of money on something that might get wrecked too easily while racing and etc. And then spend more money on repairing it rather than just simply replacing it with a similar part from a same car or such from the junkyard. The "stance" scene in Japan pretty much do the same thing as well, they buy cars from junkyards cheap, hack them up and do crazy stance shit with them and have fun with them for a week or so, remove all the parts they want to keep, then send what's left to the scrap. But yeah, seeing cars of their former selves, especially ones that do have potential, but are left to be crushed or be taken apart is a pretty sad sight. The few times some friends and I visited a couple junkyards, we've seen quite a few cars that did have enough potential to be roadworthy, like, we've found a late 80's Toyota pickup/Hilux that's body looked to be in good enough condition, just that it was sitting on cinder blocks, and parts of it's engine were missing, and it looked like it had potential, but underneath we saw that the frame was heavily rusted, so even going through that effort to save it would've been too expensive. There was also a first gen Lexus LS400 that I recognized having smacked a guardrail on a rainy day a week prior, apart from the front end and the hood being a bit smashed, everything else was still on the car, although the airbags had deployed, and it was a good guess the body would've been bent. Like I said, it's a sad sight, but on the other hand, it's something that does give, I guess "life" to cars being restored/repaired or etc. I have another friend up in Calgary that has an '86 Honda CR-X, not in the best of shape along with the usual rust, but he's gone through countless junkyards, finding parts off of other junked CR-X's and keeping his going.
If they all had their engine missing, is quite possible it's one of those yards that removes engines and keeps a seperate engine pile. Some do that. Area off to side somewhere with a pile of engines, pile of gearboxes and many cars mysteriously missing both
