Martin Karne on 18/4/2011 at 05:27
Quote Posted by SD
If the US is anything like the UK, even footage of the incident might be spectacularly worthless.
So if you want to know why insurance premiums are so high, and why car crime is epidemic, it's because the police are a bunch of lazy twats.
Yeah but a one man army justice can be awesome.
gunsmoke on 25/4/2011 at 21:29
As much as I drink, (and I even live in Ohio), even I don't drive after I swill. I notice most people with DUIs around here are either young as fuck and don't get it yet, or like 50 year old multiple offenders who don't( and won't) learn. I even work at a goddamn bar on the weekends with a free tab and I know enough to not fuck with it cause I have to go home @ swerve o'clock. I think the dumbest shit I ever did was smoke weed in the car when I was a kid, but that is practically encouraged around here.
I am also proud to say @ 35 years old, I have a perfect driving record. Never even had a speeding ticket, and I have a street-legal quarter-mile car with a blower sticking outta the hood I drive around. I get challenged by these Hondas all the time, but fuck that. My car can hit low 10s and pull wheelies. I ain't trying to kill someone to prove I can beat a 4 cylinder with an exhaust mod to the next light.
dethy: I assume rear bumper? Only pickups can be legally driven without a rear bumper. Or is it just the bullshit plastic piece over the actual bumper?
june gloom on 25/4/2011 at 23:00
It's just the plastic cover. My dad's having a guy come over tonight (in about 15 minutes actually) to take a look at it- hopefully the ominous dark clouds hold off until he's done.
We had another guy look at it last week; some of the brackets that hold the thing on were torn right the fuck off. It'd cost about $10-15 to repair those. The bumper itself is bent in one corner (we bent it mostly back, it's fine so long as nobody hits it again), the cover's corresponding corner is hugely cracked (could potentially be repaired- it'd look ugly but hell my car's already ugly) but the car's drivable and street-legal.
gunsmoke on 25/4/2011 at 23:58
Isn't it a Tempo? If so, I see those things in my parts romps through the local junk yards rather frequently. You could probably replace the entire fucking bumper for $50. Assuming, of course, you know how to turn a wrench and are willing to have some dirty fingernails.
I gotta take my new truck in tomorrow for a new rotor, and just got my LOL-tastic work car (the DoomAccord) back from a $1500 transmission replacement. HEHE I fixed a fucking car that the goddamn driver's door doesn't open on. I like it stuck though. People trip out when they see me fly out of the passenger side, and I like messing with minds. Sweet car though. I have had it since it was new 8 years ago, and it gets great mileage and can haul loot like a pickup truck. Oh, and my dog loves it.
june gloom on 26/4/2011 at 02:56
Nah, it's a '97 Sentra.
Sucks, but it starts, gets me where I need to go, and I don't have to take it in too often.
gunsmoke on 26/4/2011 at 02:59
I actually HAD one of those. A black one. How funny. Great car to get to work. Not so great to fuck in and hide dead hookers in the trunk.
Queue on 26/4/2011 at 13:46
Yeah, I learned that about Nissans the hard way. I had an 87 hatchback, and it never occurred to me that that fucking huge window would be such a problem. Luckily, there was a newspaper collection center nearby, so I collected a bunch of papers and laid them out like I was just another looney who liked to drive around with a shit load of newspapers (along with all sorts of other hoarder-like goodies) in the car....I mean it was an '87 Nissan, and it was Lansing, so it wasn't an unusual site.
After that night, I made sure to carry a pup-tent, some fishing gear, and various camping tools (like the all important shovel). Easily arranged, and no one would think twice about the lumpiness found under the tent.
