Last Call- Rainbow Car-nection Edition
You may have many colorful matchbox, Hotwheels, or Dinky, but do you have enough to do your own art installation in the form of a giant toy car rasta hat? See if you can name all the cars starting with the white one in the center!
Image source: [David T. Waller via thisiscolossal]
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I think the white one in the middle is named Phil.
Unrelated content, but this is Last Call, after all. Last night, I had a prophetic dream. In this dream, I was leaving NAIAS with my little brother when I walked past a peculiar vehicle that caught my eye. 'Twas a 70 Pontiac Tempest 4-door hardtop. All candy apple red – exterior and interior – with gold Daytons and gold trim. The "Pontiac" letters on the decklid had been replaced with "Hoonerati." As I walked past, Amber yelled my name (the real one, not this jolly pirate nickname) from the shotgun seat- I know it was her because she introduced herself. I turned around and saw four dour guys and one smiling Amber filling this vision of a vehicle. I don't know who was who, but y'all need to lighten up!
That's it. Prophetic, eh? Yes, I'm strange. Deal.
Well if one of them was me – fattish, dark hair, beard, very nice eyebrows – I have had an awful week filled with pain so I have an excuse for being grumpy.
I have a recurring dream involving driving a houseboat over a series of spillways.
Yep.
I can't stop having dreams about being a super-agent sniper type. Pathetic.
You're all missing the point! Who's gonna build the Hoonerati?
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When my son was 3 or 4 we poured all the HotWheels he'd collected out onto the floor and sorted them by color.
Red to violet- a foot wide and about 5 feet long. Took HOURS to get that sorted but we had a good time.
I think once he sees this- he'll wanna do it again.
The wrestling match with my 4.0 continues. Victory of the night: Figuring out how to get at the intake/exhaust manifold bolts underneath the manifolds.
After a bunch of digging on JeepForum (seriously, your answer is there, just gotta figure out the right way to ask google), found the suggestion to use a 6" extension and a Swivel Socket. Well, I have a 5" extension, a u-joint and not enough patience to go back out and find a ☠£∞☠☢‰☭© swivel socket. Only problem, the u-joint has what one might call "erectile disfunction", which seriously hampers hitting a target you can't see with the end of a 5" rod.
Well, being the overeducated redneck that I am, I realized that if I just jammed the hinges on the u-joint a bit, I'd have the functional equivalent, and the u-joint would give me the extra length I needed. Some twine and a bit of pfaffing about and:
<img src="http://i.imgur.com/IguC9.jpg">
There's the u-joint with twine bunging up the hinges and the first bolt from the underside of the manifolds! I might be able pull this off after all.
I've done similar with u-joints, but usually I just wrap the joint with a few turns of electrical tape. Holds it in position well enough to get it on the bolt head, and maintains a level of flexibility. Best of luck on the rest of the bolts.
Electrical tape is a good idea. Thanks. I may switch to that for the rest of them.
As a professional mechanic, I approve of this comment.
I don't know where I picked this tip up, but it's worked for 25+ years.
The first thing I do to a U-joint socket adapter thingy is tape it. Now I use gaffer's tape, so it gets less funky.
Also, I'd like to note that it is heartening that I am far and away not the first person to think of this.
Impact socket swivels have a nice 360 deg. smooth motion. Even the cheap ones should work with hand tools.
I may get a set eventually (they do look nice, and I'm not about to pretend I'm not a tool geek), but I'd rather spend time in the garage and not shuttling to the hardware store this weekend.
You really don't even need to get a set of the impact swivel sockets, of course more tools is never a bad idea. All you really need is just the swivel, like this one:
<img src="http://s.shld.net/is/image/Sears/00923766000-1"width=500>
I've learned that impact sockets work real well with hand tools. You can never overtorque them, even if you're as ham-handed as I am. I've actually broken cheap pawn store sockets using a breaker bar, and thrashed the hell out of my knuckles and said really bad words right afterwards. I'm a big fan of sturdy impact sockets.
I just bought a set of impact deep sockets last weekend. I needed to pull the wheels off the wagon. Naturally, there wasn't a lug nut wrench in the car. No problem, I got out my toolbox and stuck a deep socket with a 3/8 to 1/2 adapter onto my long breaker bar. And some airwrench jockey had overtorqued them. As I started to put my back into it, I could see the handle flex and feel that adapter getting ready to shear. So I stopped, went down to Sears and got a 1/2" set of impact deep sockets, and a backup adapter. Even their starter set of Craftsman 'lite' sockets should take all the abuse I can heap on them with hand tools. Indeed, pulling the wheels was no drama. Next, to get that lug nut wrench to leave in the car. It's been at least a decade since my last flat tire, but I'd hate to be stranded for lack of a wrench.
Excellent job my Hoonimas receiving fellow Hoon…..As an aside Jay, one Bud Light induced evening, well, the Skye probably has something to do with it, thejeepjunkie and this olelongrooffan did the same with a bunch of our 1/25 scale models. However, with reference to the Rasta Hat, the white one it the center is definitely a Renault Clio badged with markings from the "Albertville '92" Olympics….similar colored tint to it also…. but his name is Phileap'
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That wouldn't be Plastruct Pro-Weld there would it? Good stuff.
Oh my God, it's full of cars.
Superb. +++
In the 70's and 80's carparks were that colourful…
Sadly "we" now prefer black, grey, silver and white…
The picture of a colourful 80's carpark I want to show is gigantic…
So the link is here: http://img847.imageshack.us/img847/9180/fiatrecla…
I was looking at the US Honda website last night and I noticed that there were only five colors available for the Accord coupe – white, black, metallic grey, silver, and one non-neutral color – red. There were two choices for the interior – black and (how fitting) beige. It's sad that the days when cars were offered in 20+ exterior and a dozen interior colors are long gone.
<img src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6116/6223108402_9e03e4a018_z.jpg">
So, did we quit buying the rainbow because the manufacturers quit offering (most likely as a cost cutting measure), or did the manufacturers quit offering because we quit buying (those other 19 colors only make up 8% of sales, lets just drop 'em)?
Without contact lenses in I read the last group of colors as Feminist Colors. They looked like colors broads would have liked.
Does this look feminine to you?
<img src="http://files.conceptcarz.com/img/Cadillac/68-Cadillac-DeVille-DV-09_PVGP-001.jpg" width=600>
Every time I see one of these on the road the driver is, at minimum, a 45 year old woman. I am biased in saying yes.
<img src="http://images.autoconx.com/Photos/625/505866625_1_B.jpg" width="500/">
However, I will say that in my opinion this was the best color the sky was offered in. So it is a tough call. Therefore, I abstain.
<img src="http://imganuncios.mitula.net/2009_saturn_sky_turbo_convertible_limited_ruby_red_93585607366017868.jpg" width="500/">
Yes. I knew a doctor's wife who had one of those. But redder with a white interior.
I think I did the same thing, just seeing "FIREMIST" and reading it "FEMINIST"
I did too.
At this stage it seems more pertinent to ask who didn't (guilty as well).
Old parking lots are fun! I see an SD1, a Renault 4 (2! I guess that's nothing unusual), and… an Impala, maybe? Taking up two spaces near the bottom, 5th row from the right.
Here's a fake one from Lucky Number Slevin:
<img src="http://www.imcdb.org/i324674.jpg">
Seems like they went to a lot of trouble to put that together (it's one shot from a flashback), but it has nothing to do with anything else in the movie.
I'm guessing you mean the big American car, one of the few I don't recognise… Caadillac Eldorado???
But there are a lot more than 2 Renault 4's in that pictore!
Concerning the picture you posted: Look at all those pretty colors!!! And those European roadsters look so small.
Interestingly there aren't very many 4-door sedans and no wagons in that image – I guess nostalgia ain't what it used to be.
Roy G. Biv has quite an extensive toy car collection.