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Planes, Trains, and Automobiles.....If it has an engine then this is the forum for it.
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I at a car show and will post pics. Post any cool cars you happen to see. I'll open with this Delorean at the show today
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Dodge's Auto Repair Shop
by Dodge- 1 follower
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Thought maybe this would be a good place to start an auto repair Topic. There are forums all over the web about how to work on cars. From changing the oil, to replacing the engine. Now we have an XDBX Automotive Repair Topic. So here is a Topic for posting questions, tid bits, or common fixes for automotive problems. Personally I specialize in Chrysler, and BMW.
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Car Rental in US
by BryannosaurusRex- 6 replies
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Question to my friends across the pond. We’re off to NY/NJ next month - flying in and out of Newark. Any rental companies to avoid? Majority of them we have over here, but 2 that keep coming up on the searches are Alamo and Dollar. Are they any good?
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I need this engine
by JustHatched- 0 replies
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https://www.motortrend.com/news/chevrolet-performance-1000-hp-zz632-crate-engine/ Chevys new 632ci 1000hp big block, roughly $30000 for one. Maybe a gofundme will help.
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My new (to me) S10 1 2
by JustHatched- 3 followers
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Bought this a couple weeks ago. Its a 1991 S10. The guy whom built it passed over a year ago, his daughter has since had it and it pretty much has sat since then. We've been negotiating on this thing for awhile. I know it has a 383 V8, Comp roller cam, Edelbrock Airgap intake, 2 Edelbrock Performer Carbs, 700R4 trans with trans brake, and Ford 9 inch rear. It's a work in progress.
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This thread will be for car and truck videos that don't really need a topic of their own. First up is this Willys Jeep video from Petrolicious.
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Hello! As the title suggest we are looking to get a secondary car once my oldest gets her licens. I do not know much about those type of cars, but we are looking a something in the size of a Blista or Club. I figured I ask in here to see if we can get some ideas and advice. Looking to spend about £$ 10k. Priority is: Safety Reliabilty Price 5 seater As much as I am fighting the idea of a fun fast sporty car with 200+hp and 4wd, we will not go that way (this time).
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Winter projects?
by JustHatched- 11 replies
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SO what's your auto winter project? I have a few I am wanting to get taken care of Currently have our HHR apart-ish, since the shop is closed we no longer need a panel (2 seat) HHR, so I did install a back seat in it, right now I am working out the dents from hitting a dear a few years ago and it getting hit by a garage truck. Nothing major but those dents and a few other dings are in process of being pulled out and filled, only those areas are being painted. Plus new brakes, shocks, timing chain and windshield and it should be good for several years. Hoping to have this done mid Decembr. After that gotta get back on Project Dakota, it's just got a l…
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Electric Vehicle Apocalypse
by Smurf- 1 follower
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These soy bean vehicles are coming but what does the future look like, I often think your more likely to get injured or murdered at a Gass Station🚉 while waiting for one of those bad boys to charge up, especially truck drivers than it happening via a road fatality accident. What are the pro's and Con's and are you ready to mount a 250 watt solar panel to the roof of your vehicle to get that extra sweet 35BHP You've been dreaming about?
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I spend most of my time in a 2010 Chevy HHR. It is the delivery vehicle for our flower shop The family vehicle is a 2003 GMC Yukon XL (seats 7 which is what we need) Getting ready to restore a 2002 GMC Yukon (5 seater) for when a couple of the kids are out on their own we can part ways with the 7 seater. And mine is a 1991 Chevy S10
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Mirror mirror on the floor...
by BryannosaurusRex- 1 follower
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I was working in an empty garage/workshop/petrol station yesterday that’s due to be demolished. Sadly no old cars awaiting to be rescued, however I did find this mirror. It’s got a Chrysler symbol on it. What do we reckon? 1960’s? 1970’s? The garage owner was a Cadillac fan, so I’m guessing it’s from a US car. @JustHatched. @zztop911
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1972 VW Microbus Deluxe 1 2
by BryannosaurusRex- 3 followers
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Seeing as I've mentioned it a couple of times I thought I'd make a thread about it. I'm a regular on a UK based VW owners forum and I was tempted to just put a link up to my thread on there, but you guys deserve better . It's a 1972 Microbus deluxe in pastel white over elm green. It was built in Germany and shipped to USA where it spent it's life in sunny California. It was imported by the previous owner in November 2008. Completely rust free with a repair to the front panel and some dodgy repaint. One of the first things he did was get it rust proofed with underseal to the chassis and waxoil all the bodywork cavities. He also took out the 2 rear bench seats and s…
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Greg the Corsa - Progress Thread
by Aslad- 20 replies
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Hello - for those of you that don't know me, my name is Aslad, I'm 19 and from the UK 🙂 I recently compiled all my many, many photos of Greg the Corsa (my car) and thought I'd introduce our American friends to the life of young drivers in the UK, where astronomical car insurance makes driving anything with an engine above 1.4l very expensive. Hell, my 1.2 litre, 85 horsepower hatchback still cost £1200 to insure in the first year of driving with a black box - to put that into perspective, the car is probably worth about £2500.. £3000 at a stretch. Anyways, since I have all these photos now I thought I'd share my 'progress' on it since I first bought it back in June 2…
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Kids vs Silverado engine
by JustHatched- 1 follower
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@dead_x_12 is about to turn 16 and have his license to drive. He aquired a 1998 Chevy Silverado a bit back and it needs a new engine. SO he and @WasHatched started getting the old engine apart tonight. I'll post pics as they get the work done. I am only advising them, they are doing the work Was is the one under the truck
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Project Dakota
by JustHatched- 4 followers
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@WasHatched recently bought a 1991 Dodge Dakota. It is pretty much rust free other than some surface rust on the hood and only 1 baseball size dent in the right fender. This will be what he will be driving when he turns 16 next year. It has a 318ci V8, auto trans. The paint is peeling on it pretty bad though (pics to come). This thread will be to post pics of the progress of a total restoration of this truck. All is being done with money he has earned himself.
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Just a Mustang
by Sinister- 0 replies
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and its owner out doing Mustang things. It caught fire after impact. All involved parties are OK.
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FIA World Rally Championship (WRC) 2019 season
by Protocawl- 16 replies
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There's been basically no talk about WRC within XDBX, but are there any other rally fans here who follow the action every year or at least this year? If no, then you probably should (especially if you're following the boring and quite predictable F1 this year ). Here's why... After many years since the early '00s of not really actively following WRC, I caught up with it again in 2017, just after the over-dominant Volkswagen factory team had pulled out of the competition after absolutely dominating 4 years in a row in the motorsport and each year has been more and more exciting since, with 2019 being regarded as one of the most epic seasons of all time. …
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Looks like they finally decided on a new host for Top Gear, Chris Evans: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-33158464 Anyone heard any news (not rumours) on what will Clarkson, Hammond & May be doing?
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Fuel prices.
by Burgermauger- 3 followers
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Hi all, here in Canada they have introduced a new carbon tax and our fuel prices jumped considerably. Where I live it’s $1.20/litre, in Vancouver it’s $1.79/litre. I know here in Canada it’s metric and I believe in UK and Europe it’s in litres as well. But the US is imperial. Please post the price per litre or price per gallon where your from.
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Real life Bravado Banshee!
by Torrid- 2 followers
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Lego Bugatti
by JustHatched- 1 follower
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This is an interesting piece. You Lego guys in the crew now have a new challenge to meet/beat https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/30/lego-built-a-life-size-drivable-bugatti-from-over-a-million-technic-pieces/
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Identify the car (EU version) 1 2
by Pb76- 1 follower
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Can you identify a car from a tail-light, a close up of a fender or a photo taken from a weird angle? start with an easy one..... Make and model please
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Identify the Car (NA Version)
by JustHatched- 1 follower
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Can you identify a car from just a small image of a piece of it?
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I need this lawn mower
by JustHatched- 2 followers
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Your commute....
by Pb76- 1 follower
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How far do you travel to get to your place of work? Is it a fun journey, or mind numbing tedium?
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214Rate the Last Film you Watched 2: Electric Boogaloo
Subservience (2024) dir S.K. Dale Yet another mediocre sci-fi / thriller about AI and human-like robots. Michele Morrone plays Nick, a happily married father of 2 young children, struggling to raise them and do his construction site job since his wife (Madeline Zima) is seriously ill in hospital waiting for a heart transplant. So he buys Alice (Megan Fox), an almost completely life-like home-help / childcare / cook / cleaner robot. There are other similar robots working in many places such as hospitals, bars and construction sites (adding an additional plot element). Without spoilers (although IMHO there really isn't much to spoil) it's hard to say much more. But “stuff happens”, somewhat predictably if you consider the situation of wife in hospital, very hot nanny / maid robot at home etc etc. What is interesting is Alice starts to deviate from what she has been programmed to do, there's tensions with respect to a former colleague of Nick's, and these both lead to a reasonable action style tense ending with fights, shoot-outs and car chases. But overall it can only be described as OK. If you want action then watch an action film with more action than this. If you want drama then watch a drama film with more a more meaningful plot and better acting than this. There's some holes in the plot for me. Other than the robots it looks like present day. There is no other indication that this has to be either somewhat in the future or set in an alternative higher-tech reality. Nick's wife needs a new heart; if they have the technology to make such like-like robots (i.e. one that looks exactly like Megan Fox) then surely they would have mastered artificial organs for humans. Some of the other robots are too lifelike. I can understand Alice's appearance since she is designed to live in a home, although you might want to make such robots a bit less physically tempting a straight male owner. But there's no reason an entire synthetic construction site crew need to actually look like the humans' they replaced. And also no reason for them not be working constantly (the scene we encountered these is when they have been locked away for the night). There's one truly ridiculous aspect for me, for which I have knocked off another point for stupid prudishness. It has couple of mild s*x scenes. In one you can clearly see the actors are naked but without any full-frontal nudity. At one point the woman's breasts are briefly shown, but she has no n*pples! They must have been digitally removed. Why!? It's got enough to make it a 15 certificate, showing a couple of n*pples is surely not going to change that! There is one interesting plot element, but I have to put that with a spoiler warning. 4 / 10- 1
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0Two sides of the drain
You have 3 lives. You have Insurgent pick ups. You have unlimited RPG, Snipers and a Rifle. Your enemies are all on the other side of the drain. Only way across is over the shallow drain. They wont know your location unless you camp. Whats your plan? https://socialclub.rockstargames.com/job/gtav/qCWGzo3sN0CFzweIMI0IXg- 1
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Thrills in the hills
Build intended as a random transform race, but with the modes shortcomings i changed it into a classic race. Locked to the Sport Classic. A lap is about 1:30, too tight for contact. https://socialclub.rockstargames.com/job/gtav/ojxLKVukw0Oyt8ho-V1ZWA- 1
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The Dominator GT The Castigator (SUV) The Yosemite 1500 The Uranus LozSpeed (Sport Classic)- 1
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Rate the Last Film you Watched 2: Electric Boogaloo
Emilia Perez (2024) dir Jaques Audiard A multi award-nominated musical about a Mexican drug baron who always felt they were a woman born in a man's body. She fakes her own death and has gender reassignment, plus a lot of other plastic surgery, to start a new, better, life in a new identify. She is assisted in all this by her lawyer, Rita and tries to re-establish some sort of relationship with her wife Jessi and kids. Emilia is played by Karla Sofia Gascon (a trans woman) and has been nominated for best leading actress in the Oscars and Baftas. But I would say it is Zoe Saldana, as Rita, who is the main character. Both she and Selana Gomez, as Jessi, have picked up (supporting actress) nominations, as has the director, makeup artists, composers, producers, writers and others in technical roles. It could win all of those. I don't think it will, but I haven't seen that many films released last year yet. It seems to be one that you either love or hate. I suspect a lot of the hate is coming from people who are anti-trans and can't see past that aspect of the film. I liked it, the music and cinematography in particular. The acting was good, but I'm not sure if it was award-winningly good. I also think the script could have been better. It's just over 2 hours long but because it has so many musical scenes that, as is usually case in musicals, don't advance the plot the way spoken dialogue would, it felt to me like it ought to have been longer to fill in some missing details. The musical numbers were good though, sort of similar to a Baz Lurhman film, in that the actors singing them do not necessarily have a great singing voice but also with some scenes that just burst into a massive dancing and singing show that then goes back to dialogue afterwards. And a lot of it is not musical at all. There were a couple of cheesy scenes; one in-particular in a Thai gender reassignment clinic that Rita is checking out before finding the right one, did not make much sense to me. Maybe they were trying to say “this is the popular image of a s*x-change clinic, but in reality it's something far more serious”? Another slightly weak plot element is that Jessi does not recognise her former husband after the surgery. Of course that surgery has made some massive physical changes, that was the point, but even so, would you not pick up on some characteristics of a person you have been married to for years and had kids with? I can forgive that though, put it down to artistic license, in the same way I forgive William Shakespeare frequently making his characters unrecognisable to their friends and family just by doing their hair different and wearing a hat! 8 / 10- 3
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