Author Topic: Build your own... ricer? (Read 4586 times)

rampy · « **on:** September 04, 2003, 11:19:47 am »

Taking Wood Working too far... the wood trimmed/replacement body paneled honda crx did the trading spaces guy Frank get ahold of this?

oy vey!

rampy

tmasman · « **Reply #1 on:** September 04, 2003, 11:30:27 am »

Holy monkey manure Batman!

Snarbald · « **Reply #2 on:** September 04, 2003, 11:39:19 am »

Dmn, if was going to do something like that , I like to think I'd use something better than plywood.

nighthawk2099 · « **Reply #3 on:** September 04, 2003, 11:54:52 am »

I could see using the wood for Fiberglass molds, but BODY PARTS !!!!

....

The really sad part is that 4 people have bidded on it...

Brax · « **Reply #4 on:** September 04, 2003, 12:37:58 pm »

I hope he's not thinking that's a performance mod. He just managed to add another couple hundred pounds to that thing! Car guys! Sheesh! Weight reduction is FREE horsepower!

_Iz- · « **Reply #5 on:** September 04, 2003, 01:53:40 pm »

very, very scary...

bionicbadger · « **Reply #6 on:** September 04, 2003, 03:23:37 pm »

Hahahahaha! That's great. Just shows how silly some people can get.

Apollo · « **Reply #7 on:** September 04, 2003, 04:58:16 pm »

Damn that's ugly!

SNAAAKE · « **Reply #8 on:** September 04, 2003, 06:14:09 pm »

gayest car EVER !
Batman is better...
I would still laminate the wood pieces...err

~

Salellron · « **Reply #9 on:** September 04, 2003, 09:29:09 pm »

OMG...all you need to do is add a few stickers and that baby got at least 50 more hp...at least!

Sal

Odonadon · « **Reply #10 on:** September 04, 2003, 10:54:33 pm »

Quote from: Brax on September 04, 2003, 12:37:58 pm

I hope he's not thinking that's a performance mod. He just managed to add another couple hundred pounds to that thing! Car guys! Sheesh! Weight reduction is FREE horsepower!

Come on, man - I've seen Fast & The Furious 2. That thing could EASILY take a Nitroused '73 Challenger. No question.

Odonadon

1UP · « **Reply #11 on:** September 05, 2003, 01:34:50 am »

That CAN'T be street legal...

Maybe he's selling it on ebay because he's realized that he just shot the resale value to hell. And where better to auction off crap than the home of the giant Cheeto!^TM

spidermonkey · « **Reply #12 on:** September 05, 2003, 02:45:36 am »

I just don't know what to say except that somebody really needs to take his power tools away from him ! I got some nice dining room chairs for him just in case he wants to upgrade his current bucket seats.

Hell, if it needs new wheel bearings I could probably widdle up a pair out of a nice piece of red oak. I'd love to meet the stooges who are actually bidding on that wooden nightmare. I would hand the lucky winner a paper bag to put over his head so that his friends don't recognize him.

aj6500 · « **Reply #13 on:** September 05, 2003, 08:30:15 am »

I'm guessing the "few imports mags" featured it in the "Believe it or not, There are bigger losers than us" pages. Let's see, $5000 to rebuild this...

$200 for basic tune-up parts for a 200k mile engine, $300 at walmart for the "Great sound system", $75 for plywood and stain, $70 for tires, adds up to about $645.

I wonder where the other $4355 of the rebuild went?

On the other hand I'm sure it does "grab attention from everyone". Probably causes wrecks from people laughing at him.

tmasman · « **Reply #14 on:** September 05, 2003, 08:40:41 am »

Quote from: aj6500 on September 05, 2003, 08:30:15 am

I wonder where the other $4355 of the rebuild went?.

You missed a few:
$20 for the steering wheel cover
$25 Fancy matching seat covers
$25 matching floor mats
$6 Shiney blue tape (on the dash)
$1 fancy air freshener
$30 "profesional" car cleaning (That counts as part of a rebuild... right?

)

Well shoot... That still leaves $4238...

OH!!! I know!
The custom "mirrored" ice blue window tint must have cost a fortune!

Sheesh...

ErikRuud · « **Reply #15 on:** September 05, 2003, 02:43:47 pm »

I passed this link ont some of my slot car buddies.

One of them came up with a name for it.

A Balsa Rosa

AgniTheSane · « **Reply #16 on:** September 05, 2003, 08:08:31 pm »

Quote from: SNAAAKE on September 04, 2003, 06:14:09 pm

gayest car EVER !
~ ~

Dude--you need to meet a few more gay men if you think that is a gay car.

We may not know monster trucks--but we know style.

Keith

1UP · « **Reply #17 on:** September 06, 2003, 05:52:38 pm »

Quote from: AgniTheSane on September 05, 2003, 08:08:31 pm

Quote from: SNAAAKE on September 04, 2003, 06:14:09 pm
gayest car EVER !
~ ~

Dude--you need to meet a few more gay men if you think that is a gay car.

We may not know monster trucks--but we know style.

Keith

OT, but straight guys have an alternate use of "gay" that I won't get into because it might offend, but it doesn't always literally mean "gay" to us, especially when used to refer to a person's actions or an inanimate object.

Basically like how folks in the 50's used to say "that's queer" meaning "that's odd". Now we say "that's gay". It's not nice, but it's something that goes back to grade school and we usually don't use it in mixed company...

BTW, y'all co-opted that term anyway! It didn't always mean what it means now. Remember the Flintstones? "We'll have a gay old time", don't think they were talking about Barney and Fred, uh...never mind...

nighthawk2099 · « **Reply #18 on:** September 06, 2003, 10:54:08 pm »

If I remember correctly, the word 'gay' means happy or festive....

but... I ain't no English major, so I tain't spectulate fer'sure...

rampy · « **Reply #19 on:** September 06, 2003, 11:12:04 pm »

There's actually an interesting article in this months paper edition of wired on that...

Apparently atheists, etc.. want to coin the term/meme "brights" to denote their ... uh grouping...

They used the gay rights movement's coinage of "gay" as an example meme that they would of course like to mimick...

There's a bit more to the story/article... but that was the gist.

I assume we are just bantering about, word usage/meanign context here..

rampy

Birdtales · « **Reply #20 on:** September 06, 2003, 11:16:49 pm »

So now we'll have a Gay Rights movement and a Bright's Rights movement?

Sasquatch! · « **Reply #21 on:** September 07, 2003, 10:33:53 am »

Quote from: Birdtales on September 06, 2003, 11:16:49 pm

So now we'll have a Gay Rights movement and a Bright's Rights movement?

I'm a member of the Church of the Apathetic Agnostic; our motto is "we don't know and we don't care".

Dartful Dodger · « **Reply #22 on:** September 08, 2003, 01:04:21 pm »

Quote from: Sasquatch! on September 07, 2003, 10:33:53 am

"we don't know and we don't care".

I like that. My new motto is:
"Don't ask, don't care."

From offending car enthusiasts to offending male enthusiast.

This is the gayest thread ever.

Spaced Invader · « **Reply #23 on:** September 14, 2003, 04:32:11 am »

Quote from: rampy on September 04, 2003, 11:19:47 am

Taking Wood Working too far... the wood trimmed/replacement body paneled honda crx did the trading spaces guy Frank get ahold of this?

oy vey!

rampy

AAAAAAH!

Lilwolf · « **Reply #24 on:** September 14, 2003, 08:35:01 am »

1) I'm glad to see there are some gay members (is that PC now? I remember someone explaining to me that "queer" was in because of the "queer nation" quote... ). I would have taken arcade games to be one or two steps below "truck rally" on the list of places gay men don't go... Another stereotype...

because

2) I never use it as the term odd (pretty degrating). but as great taste... (that DID NOT sound right!).

To use this car to have anything to do with "gay" is down right offensive.. Heck... I would hold it offensive to everyone who lives in Dever! Heck, now I'm hoping there isn't anything that could associate myself with this person... If he has glasses I might get some contacts.

NOW... if they did the same thing to a real car... and made it look classy. He did a decent job... but was trying to look like a ---smurfy--- car look closer to a shittier car..

Imagine if he did the whole car... Like a PT cruiser... to make it look more authentic. Might be cool. (I liked the PT cruisers for the first few years before they started looking like bugs).

Have the trim panels in different colored wood. It would look nice.


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