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PCF Car Pr0n - Cool cars you have / had / want! (1 Viewer)

Found a pic of me with my first car in 1995. A 1974 Mercury Cougar. I called it “4th of July” since it was red and made lots of loud noises. It was also the car that I was brought home from the hospital in after I was born.
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My neighbor owns a small restoration shop and happens to be the brother in law to Def Leppard’s guitarist Vivian. He built a storage building abutting my property to store Vivian’s cars ( he lives a few miles away on the coast) . He did some work on these 2 cars for some CEO in California. Made the ford soft top electric and redid the interior, all the added controls look like they are vintage and part of the factory set up. The Chevy is gorgeous, when he drove it by my wife, who could give two shits about cars called me and told me I needed to see it. We happened to be coming home from dinner when they were about to load them on a tractor trailer to drive to cali. The CEO just sold his house in Kittery Maine and had him do the work and ship all his cars here back, there was a few other cars already loaded up.
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chipinla said:
Is that the UX? I’ve been considering trading in my 2014 CT for one.
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RX350. My dad has had several which I've always enjoyed but the last body style I was not a fan of, too much form over function internally and weirdly hard to see out of. The newer body gets back to just a nice comfy big tall 'station wagon'.
 
chipinla said:
I sure hope the new Hyundai N Vision 74 comes with a Flux Capacitor and Mr. Fusion or I’ll be super disappointed.
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I saw a concept of this at Goodwood FOS (motorshow in the UK) last summer, super cool! I wonder how close it'll be if it goes into production!

I've been watching a lot of reviews lately on the Ionic 5 N. It's a very strong contender for my next car when the Tesla goes back next year. It's effectively just as quick as my M3P, but has simulated gear's for a more immersive drive for when you want to have fun, looks like a blast to drive :cool
 
A rather wealthy tennis friend just scored one of the new Audi R8 GTs -- only 333 made worldwide, of which 150 were sent to the US. Only 602 hp, 7 selectable traction control levels, etc. The poor guy has to sell one of his Ferraris to make room for the new Audi in his 16-car condominium...unless he just decides to add another 8 or 16 car condo.

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pltrgyst said:
A rather wealthy tennis friend just scored one of the new Audi R8 GTs -- only 333 made worldwide, of which 150 were sent to the US. Only 602 hp, 7 selectable traction control levels, etc. The poor guy has to sell one of his Ferraris to make room for the new Audi in his 16-car condominium...unless he just decides to add another 8 or 16 car condo.

https://media.audiusa.com/en-us/releases/556

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I used to park next to one of these in my apartment building 15 years ago. You used to be able to buy the GT wing separately to install on any other R8.

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7 years ago I almost bought this gray R8 with manual and a lot of mods. It had 2.5 inches of ground clearance. Deal fell apart last minute.
 
It isn't rare or exotic, but it is an absolute blast to drive. 5 liter, naturally aspirated Coyote V8 with a 6speed manual just purrs in your ear. And personally I'm a big fan of the white on white badging, euro tail lights and tuxedo interior. Beyond the aesthetic, it definitely helps when you live in the summertime equivalent of Satan's armpit....aka Phoenix AZ.
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And I'm a big fan of variety...so when you run out of road, it's always fun to have one of these to go wheeling with

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For those of you that are into jeeps, it's a 2012 Wrangler Unlimited with a MOPAR JK-8 conversion kit. This used to be the only way to get a Wrangler truck prior to the Gladiators becoming a thing...unless you went waaay back and got an old school 80's Scrambler. (That's where they got the name for the kit...scramblers were CJ-8s, so these became JK-8s or "Jakes")
 
Greykin said:
It isn't rare or exotic, but it is an absolute blast to drive. 5 liter, naturally aspirated Coyote V8 with a 6speed manual just purrs in your ear. And personally I'm a big fan of the white on white badging, euro tail lights and tuxedo interior. Beyond the aesthetic, it definitely helps when you live in the summertime equivalent of Satan's armpit....aka Phoenix AZ.
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And I'm a big fan of variety...so when you run out of road, it's always fun to have one of these to go wheeling with

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For those of you that are into jeeps, it's a 2012 Wrangler Unlimited with a MOPAR JK-8 conversion kit. This used to be the only way to get a Wrangler truck prior to the Gladiators becoming a thing...unless you went waaay back and got an old school 80's Scrambler. (That's where they got the name for the kit...scramblers were CJ-8s, so these became JK-8s or "Jakes")
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Do black on black cars just catch on fire down there in the summer?
 
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Ok I'm really curious. It's 82-88 degrees here and I have my AC on. What do you do in 110-120 degree heat? Like what temp is it able to get to even with the AC on?
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It's actually very similar to a bitterly cold east coast winter in so far as how you deal with it. Primarily, stay indoors...and when you have to go out you scurry from house to car, and then car to destination building.

Everything out here has refrigerated A/C cranking constantly in the summer...and it can still easily be in the 90's at 10 or 11pm at night. My electricity bill is roughly 5X in the summer over what I spend October-March and the only difference in consumption is my 2 A/C units aren't running 22hrs a day. How cool you keep your house depends wholly on how good your A/C units are, how much you want to fight with your wife, and whether you want to pay a huge electricity bill that month or just simply be galactically ass-raped by the electric company.

I have absolutely no idea how anybody survived out here in the old west days pre-air conditioning. All that said, to a degree you also just get used to the heat. There have been a lot of times when I think, "Oh, it's actually kinda nice today" and I'll look at the thermometer and it's 98. Which sounds silly, but 98 is waaaaay more comfortable than 115+.

*Edit for clarification: November through March are absolutely gorgeous out here. April-May and Sept-Oct are probably close what non-desert dwellers would consider "summer weather". June, July & August are disgusting

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