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05-28-2007, 05:01 PM
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| All Sketched Up!!!   Join Date: May 2006 Location: Always watching...
Posts: 1,226
 | The sillyness of our beloved junkers... Well nearly every message board has had one...A thread where members post their proud pictures of their custom shiny rides, their fast sleek sports cars, lifted rugged and equipped off road machines...show quality vehicles of every shape and size... So here I thought let's turn this around and delve into the other side of the equation. Many of us, probably most of us drive cheap or run down old junkers and are proud of it...We develop a more special relationship with the ride that barely gets us there but does so enthusiastically every time... A fancy, shiny custom car takes only money to feign pride...Pride in a junker..Well that takes a special kind of person indeed so post em up peeps...Show off your shame and joy...Gives us a glimpse of something silly about your beloved barely roadworthy beast..And let's see who has the biggest POS out there, list everything wrong with it... Here is mine: 1999 Jeep Wrangler.. 102,000 miles Problems: Cracked exhaust manifold Fowled valves Low compression Bad fuel mileage from above problems, about 15mpg Floor rusting out Dashboard connection corroded causing intermittent failure of instruments (fixed with a Fonzareli smack every time) Paint peeled off both mirror mounts and tailgate door hinges Soft top falling apart literally at the seems Rims corroded and starting to pit Paint fading badly with plentiful blemishes and dings Right off road light shorted out Tis a bout it.. Here is my baby, I've named her Uma after Uma Thurman...I was being a total goof ball at Deal's Gap as I was coordinating a woman's motorcycle rally that I couldn't ride in because I crashed my bike a few days earlier..So I decided to do a little corner carving in the Mighty Uma!  Photo courtesy of Killboy.com |
| "Kinfewrench! Convenient and safe for elves! In stores now..." Current WIP: Aracuda Class Spec Ops Cutter Background plate for my current WIP by Imperious Designs..Please check out his beautiful piece in it's original splendor: A Child's Question | |
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05-28-2007, 05:43 PM
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| You hassle, you die.  Realname: F. Schnackenpfefferhausen Join Date: May 2006 Age: 21
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 | *edit* Forget it, it didn't quite realise this was about pieces of crap still alowed to endanger other people ... |
 HALT! HAMMERZEIT! Last edited by Darkness; 05-28-2007 at 05:54 PM. | |
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05-28-2007, 05:49 PM
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| All Sketched Up!!! Join Date: May 2006 Location: Always watching...
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| **Sigh**...Neither a junker or a silly pic.....It at least needs a dent or something to qualify for the thread parameters..And you in it having a pic nic on the hood or something...  |
| "Kinfewrench! Convenient and safe for elves! In stores now..." Current WIP: Aracuda Class Spec Ops Cutter Background plate for my current WIP by Imperious Designs..Please check out his beautiful piece in it's original splendor: A Child's Question | |
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05-28-2007, 06:17 PM
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| All Sketched Up!!! Join Date: May 2006 Location: Always watching...
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I didn't mean to offend you Darkness but the thread isn't about average cars. You have a nice ride their. A BMW is something I have always wanted to have. But it's not a junker. It looks good and runs good. That was just off the mark of the topic. No need to get snippy. | |
| "Kinfewrench! Convenient and safe for elves! In stores now..." Current WIP: Aracuda Class Spec Ops Cutter Background plate for my current WIP by Imperious Designs..Please check out his beautiful piece in it's original splendor: A Child's Question | ||
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05-28-2007, 06:34 PM
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| SFM Guru  Realname: Adrian Join Date: May 2006 Location: So Cal Age: 29
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| I had a better pic but can't find it. oh well. I'd hardly call her a junker, but here you go... 1994 Jeep Wrangler problems: driverside interior door handle broken driverside soft window has been slashed (took it to Knott's Berry Farm... dumb@$$ mistake) tires worn/ looking to fund replacement soon electrical harness and wiring system need overhaul 4th gear starting to give me problems (already replaced 5th) paint peeling on hood front left turn signal burnt out awesomeness: don't lose any power when I hit a hill - watch everyone else on the freeway just slow down! goes up, down, sideways, anywhere - off-roading/ camping is really fun gets better mileage (19-21mpg) than it's supposed to everyone pays attention - this isn't an ego trip, but it's really nice when you can automatically make eye contact with other drivers NO BLIND SPOTS WHATSOEVER turns on a dime when people hit you it's ALL their problem - a ford F150 turned left in front of me and hit me head-on: his whole front end was smashed but it only tweaked the top corner of my bumper. you had to look hard to find the damage! way efficient air conditioning  easy access easy cleaning (drainage holes in the deck) fun, bouncy ride (Indiana Jones and the Jeep Wrangler of Doom) |
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05-28-2007, 06:42 PM
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| All Sketched Up!!! Join Date: May 2006 Location: Always watching...
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| Oh no my friend...you do indeed have a Junker! And she's a beauty! Gota love Junker Jeeps...I wish I still had a picture of it , but my friend used to have a 1982 Chevy Chevette, we just called "The Vette" that had holes rusted all the way through the hood and quarter panels. The bumper was tied on with rope and the left headlight was actually from a Ford F-150 that we had safety wired to the front frame to hold it on....But it purred like a kitten when it actually ran...Pure unadulterated Junkerness! |
| "Kinfewrench! Convenient and safe for elves! In stores now..." Current WIP: Aracuda Class Spec Ops Cutter Background plate for my current WIP by Imperious Designs..Please check out his beautiful piece in it's original splendor: A Child's Question | |
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05-29-2007, 12:53 AM
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| Administrator   Realname: Brian Join Date: May 2006 Location: Los Angeles, CA Age: 30
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| * When they broke open molecules, they found they were only stuffed with atoms, But when they broke open atoms, they found them stuffed with explosions. | ||
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05-29-2007, 01:02 AM
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| This time you see   Join Date: May 2006 Location: (Northern) England
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 | ^haha, you concerned for your safety Bri?  |
| Here comes the water, It comes to wash away the sins of you and I. This time you see- like holy water, it only burns you faster than you'll ever dry. | |
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05-29-2007, 01:07 AM
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| Administrator Realname: Brian Join Date: May 2006 Location: Los Angeles, CA Age: 30
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| Heheh nah. There's a Jeep up the street that looks similar to that one. Can't really tell from this angle, though. I'm gonna laugh if Traq lives up the street from me. |
| * When they broke open molecules, they found they were only stuffed with atoms, But when they broke open atoms, they found them stuffed with explosions. | |
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