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JD001 · 11-21-2022, 01:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Dadhawk

But a tasty snack....

Confused... Easily done... It sold as a 'Moon pie' but the small print describes them a 'sandwich'..

JD001 · 11-21-2022, 01:02 PM

Today I will learn that Americans can't play football..

JD001 · 11-21-2022, 01:12 PM

Today I am realising that my wish to procure fancy wheels (Apex VR..) is fast becoming a dream.. Crazy prices in the UK, just can't justify circa £5k on a car that's coming up to it's 9th birthday..

There must be a sweet spot in a car's life when such things make more sense..

Anyway, as a consolation prize, I will book it in for a chassis massage, change the bushes for a full set of poly thingys..

Tcoat · 11-21-2022, 01:37 PM

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Originally Posted by JD001

Today I am realising that my wish to procure fancy wheels (Apex VR..) is fast becoming a dream.. Crazy prices in the UK, just can't justify circa £5k on a car that's coming up to it's 9th birthday..

There must be a sweet spot in a car's life when such things make more sense..

Anyway, as a consolation prize, I will book it in for a chassis massage, change the bushes for a full set of poly thingys..

Around here the older and more beat up a car is the more expensive the wheels on it are! Twenty year old base Civic 4 door with about $3,000 wheels on it usually sits in the work parking lot.
Mind you the wheels are probably stolen so no real investments was made.

Dadhawk · 11-21-2022, 01:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Tcoat

Mind you the wheels are probably stolen so no real investments was made.

They were easier to steal when they were hub caps. Less a financial decision and more of a "oh those are cool" spur of the moment decision too.

My buddies and I in high school basically treated them like trading cards.

Tcoat · 11-21-2022, 02:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Dadhawk

They were easier to steal when they were hub caps. Less a financial decision and more of a "oh those are cool" spur of the moment decision too.

My buddies and I in high school basically treated them like trading cards.

Ya I really shouldn't talk. The hubcaps on my 58 Nomad were spoked Moons and easily cost more than I paid for the car when I bought it.

I STILL have the damaged SS cap form my 64 Impala and it was the first legal car I ever owned. You want to trade?

humfrz · 11-22-2022, 01:45 AM

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Originally Posted by Tcoat

Ya I really shouldn't talk. The hubcaps on my 58 Nomad were spoked Moons and easily cost more than I paid for the car when I bought it.

I STILL have the damaged SS cap form my 64 Impala and it was the first legal car I ever owned. You want to trade?

OK, so, just how many illegal (stolen?) cars did you own?

Captain Snooze · 11-22-2022, 06:23 AM

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Originally Posted by JD001

Today I am realising that my wish to procure fancy wheels (Apex VR..) is fast becoming a dream..

Rationality is over rated.

Tcoat · 11-22-2022, 06:46 AM

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Originally Posted by humfrz

OK, so, just how many illegal (stolen?) cars did you own?

Well the couple my dad gave me he said he paid for but who knows. I meant ones with actual safety checks, plates for that car and insurance. There were a bunch that were missing at least one and sometimes all three of those things.
As you are aware it was much easier to get away with such things before the cops carried computers around in the cars with them!

JD001 · 11-22-2022, 07:50 AM

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Originally Posted by Captain Snooze

Rationality is over rated.

A pipedream at its best.. Apex VS-5RS, nice wheels! And frustratingly offered in some great colours!!

Just wish it was underrated!!

JD001 · 11-22-2022, 07:52 AM

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Originally Posted by Tcoat

Well the couple my dad gave me he said he paid for but who knows. I meant ones with actual safety checks, plates for that car and insurance. There were a bunch that were missing at least one and sometimes all three of those things.
As you are aware it was much easier to get away with such things before the cops carried computers around in the cars with them!

You have vastness of Canada!! How can you ever get caught.. CCTV cameras on every corner in Blighty!!

Dadhawk · 11-22-2022, 08:52 AM

TIL that Elizabeth Olsen (Wanda/Red Witch from the Marvel Universe) is the younger sister (by 3 years) of Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen (Full House baby twins turned Fashion Moguls).

It is pretty obvious if you look at their (adult) photos, but for some reason I never put it together. Maybe it's because Elizabeth can actually act.

humfrz · 11-22-2022, 12:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Tcoat

Well the couple my dad gave me he said he paid for but who knows. I meant ones with actual safety checks, plates for that car and insurance. There were a bunch that were missing at least one and sometimes all three of those things.
As you are aware it was much easier to get away with such things before the cops carried computers around in the cars with them!

Safety checks - insurance? Never heard of things like that, back in the day, on the farm. Plates were optional as long as you stayed in the county and off of state highways and carried a bag of chicken feed in the trunk (to declare it a "farm vehicle".

humfrz · 11-22-2022, 12:35 PM

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Originally Posted by JD001

You have vastness of Canada!! How can you ever get caught.. CCTV cameras on every corner in Blighty!!

.......and, back then, even ol Tcoat's old clunkers could outrun them -

11-22-2022, 08:52 AM	#3680
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