Best of Oppositelock: October 9, 2013

"DasWauto" (DasWauto) 10/10/2013 at 21:30 • Filed to: Best of Oppositelock

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Gathered here are the Oppositelock posts that people put a good deal of effort into writing on Wednesday. It includes a trip to the Jalopnik Film Festival, a little history of the SN95 Mustang, affordable racing and more.

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“The first rule of the Jalopnik Film Festival is: You do not talk about the Jalopnik Film Festival. The second rule of the Jalopnik Film Festival is: You do not talk about the Jalopnik Film Festival!” – Matt Hardigree. I was unfortunately unable to make it to the first half of the opening night party at Classic Car Club Manhattan, but I feel as though that must have been part of an opening address that Mr. Hardigree (or one of the other senior writers) had given to kick off the party. I say that because three weeks after having been part of this awesome event I'm still wondering why I haven’t seen anyone talking about it on this thing called the internets? To help fill that void I figured that I should share my Jalopnik Film Festival (JFF) experience.

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As a part-time professional car-buying consultant I have gotten several inquires from a number of you wanting to know the details of this fun job. The other day I opened the floor to any questions you had. I tried my best to address all the big ones in this post.

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While America is still at odds with the shutdown, grab a glass of lemonade, a big ol' slice of American apple pie and let's remember why America is awesome through the SN95 Ford Mustang.

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Growing up wrenching on rusted out hulks of forgotten German/Italian/French steel, playing in a band, trying to be a good student in high school and college and dealing with all of my personal life issues certainly had something to do with the skill set I possess, and my station in life, but never moved the needle much in my views on life, and how I interact with it. Last night I was ensconced in reading the news online, seeing more coverage of the NYC biker rage incident, which could have easily been me cutting a few of those jerks off (I did), and I decided to tune out and pick up an old bound friend instead.

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We will probably never see a 24 hour Formula 1 race, but what if you wanted the closest thing to it and didn't want to mortgage the house to get some seat time? Well, thanks to Johan Schwartz (and his wife!), if you're an average Joe and live on the east coast, you're in luck. (If you don't know who he is or only know about his 51 mile drift, it would behoove you to check out his sweet video resume)

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There are so many posts that decry cars being made without a MT. Then people post and defend robotized manuals. We've seen good posts about why car companies don't create a MT option if the demand isn't there. We understand the business behind the decisions. What I don't understand is why everyone argues about which transmission is better. I'd like to state that I think the truth is clear, and it's seldom discussed: THERE IS NO WINNER

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I love my car, it’s my first car and it will be my last car; I will be buried in my car, and I won’t get crushed because I plan on installing a roll cage first. But, I never drive it, it’s a garage potato. It sits at one side of the garage with protective elements all over it and a battery tender always attached so it’s ready to go the moment I decide not to drive it.

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I have seen quite a lot of "X as cars" so I decided to jump on in the trend. This won't be a half-assed pick a player/pick a car, post a picture, write one sentence then done. Nope, I actually thought about this for a while and will give a pretty good explanation for my choice. I plan to do this in parts, so this instalment will feature RB's and WR's.

The Best of the Rest

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As always, If I've missed something and you would like me to include it, let me know.

Fun Discussions

There were several posts that asked questions and sparked some good discussion on Wednesday. Take a peek and chime in on some of them listed below:

What are your favorite stock wheels?

What do you think is the most perfectly designed car?

Automated Features On Cars: Does Anyone Actually Want/Use Them?

One Car Garage - Maserati

Whats your favorite Hot Hatch!?

Craigslist Hunt: $75,000 Ferrari Fighter

What are the rarest cars within about 5 miles of where you live?

Is the Risi Competitzione Ferrari 458 actually the prettiest car in ALMS/GT?

How Important is Exhaust Tone?

What classic Muscle car would you like to see return to a makers line up?

Lincoln Makes Great Cars - Deal With It

Just the #tips

Former Stig Explains What He Thinks About Audi

A guide to country roads for urban drivers

TUSCC (Tusk!) class changes coming to light...

A 2' long nitro powered toy car tethered to a pole races around a circle track at 200mph

Jay leno's garage- mclaren F1 engine

SL63 Pulling away from a Bike at 186Mph

Brazilian Nutjob in a 996 Porsche GT3

Watch This Squid Get Smoked By An Audi In Germany

Great Googly Moogly... "Pure" GT3 Content

Every F1 car livery ever in one place

The Tucker Torpedo is being brought to life after 64 years

2014 Ram Configurator is On-line

LamboMaps? See the Lamborghini Museum and crawl around its exotica

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Honourable Mentions

These posts have already been shared with Jalopnik directly but deserve to be mentioned again because they were first posted in Oppositelock:

Save thousands by letting a State Trooper deliver your baby

This Is Why You Don't Paint Your Corvette While High On Drugs

Want to participate on Oppositelock? Check out the !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! as well the !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! to help you get started.

Tom McParland > DasWauto 10/10/2013 at 21:37

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Hey thanks for getting my Q&A in there I got a lot of requests for that so I'm glad folks can catch it if they missed it. :)

DasWauto > Tom McParland 10/10/2013 at 21:43

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No problem. There is some great insight into what you do, as well as general car buying in there and it's definitely worth reading.

Velocity- Peuguette Connoisseur > DasWauto 10/10/2013 at 22:08

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Awesome, my post was mentioned! Not bad for my first day...

His Stigness > DasWauto 10/11/2013 at 20:58

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The link to my piece is to a comment thread lol.

Somethingwittyer likes noisy > DasWauto 10/12/2013 at 15:20

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Is it ok if I can shamelessly promote my Formula D post here?

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DasWauto > Somethingwittyer likes noisy 10/12/2013 at 16:49

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Yeah, that's fine. It'll probably be in the next one anyway. This post covers Wednesday.

Bullitt Ride > DasWauto 10/12/2013 at 17:43

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After writing a 2500 word post full of E30 and Porsche pics I was hoping I'd make the top pics.

Thanks.

DasWauto > Bullitt Ride 10/12/2013 at 19:19

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No problem. Sweet cars, awesome trip, great post.

Random sidenote, check out what I ran into on Kijiji today: http://ontario.kijiji.ca/c-cars-vehicle…

Fox!PullTheE-Brake > DasWauto 10/13/2013 at 00:06

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First ever post, and in landed in the best of Oppo! Thanks everyone!

Bullitt Ride > DasWauto 10/13/2013 at 11:47

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Awesome. That's super rare!

DasWauto > Bullitt Ride 10/13/2013 at 15:43

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Second one I've ever seen in North America. The first was on 7 between Guelph and Rockwood while I was sitting at a red light only a few weeks ago. Nearly snapped my neck on the double take.

Bullitt Ride > DasWauto 10/13/2013 at 20:43

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Not too far from where I live then ;)

I saw a red one a couple years ago at an auto-x event in Vaughan.

isocuda > DasWauto 10/29/2013 at 13:26

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My girlfriend just pointed out my article was featured, I'm surprised and grateful. Thanks guys!