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Old Mar 22, 2025 | 10:24 AM
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Originally Posted by FrankReynoldsCPA
I would be more worried about them putting the wrong fuel in. Minimum wage employees aren't famous for their intellect. I expect them to always make the dumbest choices.



I rode the bus until about halfway through middle school. I got banned from the bus for fighting, so after that I rode with my parents until I turned 16 and got my license.
Oh they do that and I would go full irate and tell them they earned the honor of calling me a tow to get the fuel drained so I don't blow an engine on the wrong octane!
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cool vehicle sightings today...

at lunch...




Old Mar 22, 2025 | 05:18 PM
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Originally Posted by bitkahuna
cool vehicle sightings today...

at lunch...




These don’t do it for me maybe it’s the white and black colors. Nice bright colour of dark blues would be better.
Old Mar 22, 2025 | 05:18 PM
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Originally Posted by bitkahuna
cool vehicle sightings today...

at lunch...



New McClarens can cost an insane amount of money. The cheapest one starts at $204,000, and the most expensive one starts at over TWO MILLION.
Old Mar 22, 2025 | 08:21 PM
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Originally Posted by Toys4RJill
These don’t do it for me maybe it’s the white and black colors. Nice bright colour of dark blues would be better.
why am i not surprised you only have negative things to write.

i don't care about color much. here's a blue one for you.



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New McClarens can cost an insane amount of money. The cheapest one starts at $204,000, and the most expensive one starts at over TWO MILLION.
this one is an artura and is 'only' about $250k. it's also a plug in hybrid.
Old Mar 22, 2025 | 08:37 PM
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Originally Posted by bitkahuna
why am i not surprised you only have negative things to write.

i don't care about color much. here's a blue one for you.




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so what is so cool about this car? I honestly don’t know much about supercars especially a McLaren. I absolutely have no clue



I get Ferrari

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Old Mar 22, 2025 | 08:49 PM
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Originally Posted by bitkahuna
why am i not surprised you only have negative things to write.

i don't care about color much. here's a blue one for you.





this one is an artura and is 'only' about $250k. it's also a plug in hybrid.
Only $250k? I should pick one up. Or not 🤣
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Didn't get a good pic, but I saw a red 87 Testarossa today.


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Originally Posted by FrankReynoldsCPA
Didn't get a good pic, but I saw a red 87 Testarossa today.

Good one @FrankReynoldsCPA .
Haven't seen one in the wild in decades.

That's a chunk of money sitting there, how much I don't know.
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It's after midnight on Saturday.
As always, sitting in my porch I can hear people revving engines and doing burnouts out on the main road about half a mile away.

Can't hear it in the house so that's ok.
Lots of motorcycles too, rolling thru the gears back and forth, I can hear it. 🏆

I like.it. 😀

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Old Mar 22, 2025 | 10:21 PM
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Originally Posted by Margate330
Those rims look good.
PROBABLY a pain in the you know what to clean but worth it. 💯
Thank you. My brother was the designer and manufacturer of those wheels. They weren’t bad to clean. We used a ceramic coating and I had low dust brake pads. It was a light once over with a brush, then a rinse.
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Thank you. My brother was the designer and manufacturer of those wheels. They weren’t bad to clean. We used a ceramic coating and I had low dust brake pads. It was a light once over with a brush, then a rinse.
That's so cool.
Are they forged or CNC'd from a solid block of aluminum?
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Originally Posted by Margate330
That's so cool.
Are they forged or CNC'd from a solid block of aluminum?
They are forged. He also made the 19s that are on my Civic noe. They weren’t bad also on my IS250 and IS350. Same bolt pattern but the hub bores needed to be opened and I believe two of the wheels needed to be narrowed a bit. I don’t recall if that meant changing the inner or outer hoop.
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Originally Posted by Margate330
It's after midnight on Saturday.
As always, sitting in my porch I can hear people revving engines and doing burnouts out on the main road about half a mile away.

Can't hear it in the house so that's ok.
Lots of motorcycles too, rolling thru the gears back and forth, I can hear it. 🏆

I like.it. 😀
Saturday night troublemakers I can hear the exhausts from cars from time to time. Doesn’t bother me
Old Mar 23, 2025 | 07:00 AM
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Mclarens have never done anything for me personally, I don't know why.

Originally Posted by bitkahuna
why am i not surprised you only have negative things to write.
This comment is pretty funny lol



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