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"Lets Just Drive" (lets-just-drive) 09/18/2013 at 22:04 • Filed to: None

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... call me a bro for my Mustang if I can't call you a Wanker for your RX8.

Fo Reels.

feather-throttle-not-hair > Lets Just Drive 09/18/2013 at 22:27

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Well I drive a 350z. Pretty sure that makes me a browanker.

Lets Just Drive > feather-throttle-not-hair 09/18/2013 at 22:30

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You wank bros?

Sweet.

What's yer number?

feather-throttle-not-hair > Lets Just Drive 09/18/2013 at 22:53

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Every time I'm with my buddy and we pass a horribly modified z (which, lets face it, is kind of often,) my friend looks at me, shakes his head and says "that's your community man"

Lets Just Drive > feather-throttle-not-hair 09/18/2013 at 23:00

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Haha!

There are upsides and downsides associated with being part of a large community - it's excellent when the community is diverse but it's also kind of a bummer when people associate you with a part of that community of which you're not.

Example; I attend car shows all the time and you'll see a lot of Mustangs in the shows. Thing is, they're virtually all classic and the ones that aren't are high dollar done up cars. The Bro club, of which there are a lot in the world of Mustang, isn't usually a part of these organized events, they're the ones out there smoking down public roads and usurping private parking lots for their gatherings.

I like it when people see I'm a Mustang Guy and associate me with the older, more mature crowd. I hate it when people see I'm a Mustang Guy and, because I have a newer Mustang, associate me with the Jo-Bro-nies that fuck over the image of the others.

Now, you join the Alfa club and it's nothing but the grown up, mature crowd. The downside there is, it's an Alfa and it's probably broken.

beardsbynelly - Rikerbeard > Lets Just Drive 09/18/2013 at 23:06

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in the very least you should ask how their Hair Salon is going.

Lets Just Drive > beardsbynelly - Rikerbeard 09/18/2013 at 23:08

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People who drive 6 cylinder Mustangs shouldn't throw numbers.

feather-throttle-not-hair > Lets Just Drive 09/19/2013 at 00:00

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Yeah, I can imagine. The problem with good cars is they're often successful leading to lots of morons getting their hands on them (along with everyone cool like you and I.) I'm all about the old dudes though, respect them years!

In any case, I get back at my friend, who owns an 06 GTO by feigning excitement and saying "look! Another GTO" every time I see a Pontiac Grand Prix coupe. His face lights up and his head goes on a swivel "where, where?" The expression he makes when he realizes it's just a Grand Prix is fucking priceless.

"Oh, sorry man. Yeah, late model Pontiac's all kind of look like giant suppositories to me. I can't tell the difference"

Lets Just Drive > feather-throttle-not-hair 09/19/2013 at 00:02

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Ha!

My buddy has the same year GTO. It's badass, and he knows it. Don't mean I'll say that, though. Instead, the best I'll do is call him "mate" and say things like, "Not a bad car... for Australia." Or something.

feather-throttle-not-hair > Lets Just Drive 09/19/2013 at 00:10

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Yeah totally. They're fuckin sweet cars. Here's my buddies (shitty photo but you can see his Aussie front end which is cool)

Lets Just Drive > feather-throttle-not-hair 09/19/2013 at 00:28

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Haha.

I've tried to convince my buddy to do a Holden conversion, but he's not having it.

He has about 500 horses at the crank right now, though, so there's really no need.

feather-throttle-not-hair > Lets Just Drive 09/19/2013 at 00:43

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Yeah, the gto isn't really about looks. The Holden front end takes it from about a 4 to about a 6.

I wish my buddies car was modded but I think he's keeping it mechanically stock for reliability reasons. His last car was a merkur xr4ti with waaaaaay too much boost and no power steering. That thing wanted you dead, and when you didn't die it would voice its displeasure by breaking and spewing fluids everywhere. The goat has been nice and reliable. Except when he had a blowout on the freeway last month. He and the car were fine thank goodness.

He really didn't need any more bad luck, the lifted 4runner in the background was also his, until the day he looked out the window to see it driving away. It was found totaled a few days later.

feather-throttle-not-hair > Lets Just Drive 09/19/2013 at 00:47

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This was his car btw if you're interested.
http://jalopnik.com/5661535/for-50…

Lets Just Drive > feather-throttle-not-hair 09/19/2013 at 00:52

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Stolen? I think car thieves shouldn't get time in jail, I think that they should have to spend one day in a locked room with the owner of the car and the owner gets to hurl obscenities at the thief while battering he or she about the head and shoulders with a freshly caught tuna.

I'm kidding, of course, but back in the old, wild West horse thieves were summarily hung. I'm for that, with cars.

As it is, I get my balls busted by my buddies pretty constantly for having the least "muscle" of the modern muscle cars we own. There's the GTO, a '12 SS, an F-body and a host of others but mine, the lowly 4.0L Cologne powered Mustang, catches all the heat for it's live rear axle, anemic truck engine and styling that says, "I pretend to go fast!"

But, as I've said countless times on Oppo, I have an inexplicable love affair with Mustangs. Maybe because my Mom owned one when I was shitting in diapers, maybe because my first car was a 1988 GT 5.0 HO, or maybe because I have something broken in my head that says, "Quality? Fuck that. What you want is a Mustang for some inexplicable reason. You're insane. Quit talking to yourself. Everyone is looking at you. I OWN A MUSTANG!"

And while our next car, since the wife and I are about to be parents, is probably going to be an ATS 2.0T (hopefully V) and while I'd really rather a CTS Sportwagon, I'm really trying to motivate my wife, get her to say, "Yeah. The Mustang works just fine for our family. Of course you can get 2015 Mustang, silly. It's a Mustang. Duh!"

Lets Just Drive > feather-throttle-not-hair 09/19/2013 at 00:53

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I remember the article. Nice!

feather-throttle-not-hair > Lets Just Drive 09/19/2013 at 01:06

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True love is true love man, can't be ashamed of that! We don't love cars because it's logical we love them because they're awesome. Actually gto guy is totally obsessed with fox body mustangs despite having never owned one (jalopnik handle: foxbody)

My neighbor has an ats, I really like the way they look and they got great reviews. It's funny, as a kid/teenager I always hated Cadillac, now I respect them more than just about any other car company. They're good at making sneaky fun cars.

The one saving grace with the whole stolen truck was that while the front end was crunched, the windshield had obviously been cracked by the drivers head when he/she/it hit the tree. I bet it fucking hurt.

Lets Just Drive > feather-throttle-not-hair 09/19/2013 at 01:12

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Are you kidding? I loathed the whole brand, for ages. I mean, since I stepped foot on this planet, Cadillac had produced utter crap. Big, luxo-crap. The Escalade is a ballers car, if you ask me, and just a tarted up truck chassis anyway. The STS was a disaster, unless you happened to be of dark skin and in the flesh trade. And so the story went, until the CTS and then the CTS-V. That's where GM made a believer out of me, and now I'd gladly own an ATS or CTS and never complain a day. And having driven both, love 'em.

Where I lose ground is when I get pulled into arguments or debates about "the best" car in a given demographic because the Mustang isn't a winning contender. It's primitive and outdated. It's a rental car. It's a hairdressers car. Blah Blah Blah. But I don't really fight back because, while I love Mustangs in general, I'm very realistic, very humble about the quality of the car. Still, a part of me wants to go on a rage rampage when people bad-mouth the Mustang - like if someone ragged on my wife, y'know?