Can we please stop hotlinking pics?

slantvaliant said:

I can't imagine any5slower than 4.5 volkswahons running on one engine. If those had check engine lights you wouldn't have to turn on the headlights. 

In reply to Brett_Murphy :

Wish the author had the first clue of what a combine was, let alone how they work.  Otherwise amusing.

Junkyard find

my neighbor was throwing this away today..

bigdaddylee82 said:

In reply to Brett_Murphy :

Wish the author had the first clue of what a combine was, let alone how they work.  Otherwise amusing.

 

Combine drag racing: It's a thing.

Mr_Asa said:

Junkyard find

 

General Patton says, buy it.

History on the quote: Allegedly, this was Patton's response when learning General Anthony McAuliffe answered the German surrender demand at Bastogne with "nuts".   

51,000 mile Satellite.

What were they thinking?

914Driver said:

That series of photos is actually kind of depressing.  It could have been a nice restoration but instead got turned into a 2010s image of what a 1970s teenager would have done to a $500 used car.

In reply to Brett_Murphy :

So is demo derby, that's not the point.  You can do a killer stoppie in a combine with the header on, but there's no way a front wheel drive, rear steer, harvester is going to have "twelve o'clocked hard on a wheelie."

914Driver said:

There's some sort of wingback Venn diagram joke here I can't quite be fussed to sort out...

Knurled. said:

That series of photos is actually kind of depressing.  It could have been a nice restoration but instead got turned into a 2010s image of what a 1970s teenager would have done to a $500 used car.

I take a lot of heat for bastardizing cars, doing unnatural things to them; my thinking is the guy (like me) paid for it, worked at it and can do whatever he wants with it.

Clearly I'm not a purist but understand their point of view.

914Driver said:

What were they thinking?

 

"Children should be hauled and not heard?"

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In reply to Ransom :

I made it for you, very poorly because I'm lazy

Knurled. said:

914Driver said:

That series of photos is actually kind of depressing.  It could have been a nice restoration but instead got turned into a 2010s image of what a 1970s teenager would have done to a $500 used car.

I'd say a car has to be pretty good in stock form for "restoration" to be better than "modified" in general. I don't think the Satellite qualifies. And while I'd've probably modified differently, I don't hate it, and it doesn't seem unlikely that it's immensely satisfying for someone who might've done that to a $500 used car as a teenager in the '70s but didn't have the $500. Though I do think there's not much I'd do now exactly like I would've done if I'd had a car and disposable income as a teenager in the '80s.

Knurled. said:

914Driver said:

That series of photos is actually kind of depressing.  It could have been a nice restoration but instead got turned into a 2010s image of what a 1970s teenager would have done to a $500 used car.

What are you seeing?  I see a polished car with mag wheels added.  Looking on a small phone, but...