My cars making friends

"CPT Speedbump" (cpt-speedbump)
04/22/2014 at 15:17 • Filed to: None

Earlier today, the Beetle found a friend in front of a Coffee shop while I grabbed some Subway

And a few weeks ago, the Z made friends with the most beat up Elise ever in front of Target. Honestly though, sad someone would treat a Elise as bad as whoever owns this one.

DISCUSSION (25)

$kaycog > CPT Speedbump
04/22/2014 at 15:19

The Elise owner doesn't deserve to own one. That's really sad.

McMike > CPT Speedbump
04/22/2014 at 15:19

Kinja'd!!!

Series 2 2+2.

MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > CPT Speedbump
04/22/2014 at 15:24

The best thing ever is when you find a rare or classic car to park yours next to.

The odds of that other car owner not smashing your car are sooooo much better

jkm7680 > CPT Speedbump
04/22/2014 at 15:45

Wow, you have very social Cars!

My Audi keeps going out of it's league with a Ferrari.

CPT Speedbump > $kaycog
04/22/2014 at 15:47

Indeed, can't see how bad it is from the photo really, but a few cracked body panels, lots of peeling clear coat, trash inside (like empty fast food cups and what not). One of my friends dads has a hangar at the Loveland airport, and he was saying he's scene this Lotus at the hangar beside it before, and it's been in bad shape for a while by the sounds of it D:

CPT Speedbump > $kaycog
04/22/2014 at 15:49

Something you can see in the photo, the left headlight's have the cover on them..the ones on the right are exposed. This was something new to my friend at the airport, so, it had the cover not to long ago by the sounds of it.

$kaycog > CPT Speedbump
04/22/2014 at 15:49

I hate it when that happens.

$kaycog > CPT Speedbump
04/22/2014 at 15:52

Elise deserves better than that.

CPT Speedbump > jkm7680
04/22/2014 at 15:55

Lol, they make up for my lack of social-ness ;) I hear soon one of the memebers of the car group I'm in might replace his 535 whp Evo 8 with a 370Z (because a 500 hp race car engine and clutch isn't that practical)..One member joined recently who already has a 370, so soon Zilla will meet 1, maybe 2 of her younger sisters :D

CPT Speedbump > $kaycog
04/22/2014 at 15:57

Indeed, I mean..even if he is DD'ing it (which would of course take some sort of bad ass to be able to do in Colorado), he should be able to take care of the thing.

jkm7680 > CPT Speedbump
04/22/2014 at 15:59

Haha, Nice.

that Evo 8 looks great. A Z would look even better though, Haha.

The Audi guys who I used to meet up with once every month or so all had nicer cars than me, Lol. It was my 2.0t A4 in the middle of a bunch of Apr tuned S4s, and all that good stuff. I've got no clue what happened to them though, I occasionally run into them at C&C.

$kaycog > CPT Speedbump
04/22/2014 at 16:01

I couldn't agree more.

CPT Speedbump > jkm7680
04/22/2014 at 16:05

Yeah, only issue I know of (other then the lack of streetabillity, and the hard starts on E85) is that it's front bumper is all chipped. The black one he has pictured with it is super clean, but it doesn't have over 400 hp, lol. And I have a ...middle ish car for my group I'd say. Are some Frontier's and Taco's that are cool, a few GTI's, a JCW Mini, Bunch of E36's (one of which is a fully race prepped car D: ) a few E30's, a Few Wrx's of verying bodies, generations, and conditions, the 2 Evo's, a Miata, a E90/2/3 4 door 3 series, M coupe... uhm.. Acrua Tl S.. Integgra, a few Civics, a GTR, a S2k, Focus SVT... It's a large group anyway, haha.

jkm7680 > CPT Speedbump
04/22/2014 at 16:11

That's a good sounding group!

Do you guys go on cruises, and that type of thing?

With the group that I used to drive with, they'd drive around occasionally. Too fast for me though, I need a clean record :P

CPT Speedbump > jkm7680
04/22/2014 at 19:22

Mustang, Camaro's, Calibur SRT4, a 9th gen Corrolla (he's a wierd one), a few Tiburons, 240sx's, Datsun 510's :D , a NSX. Not all of them show up to most of are things (in fact most don't, I'v yet to see some of the cars listed in person..I want to see the 510's, and their owner (a few members are female....and its a Fort Collins group...college town...rich college kids..rich college kid cars...college girls... nuff said (y) ) and yeah, they have..random bi-weekly weekly? meets, that usually end with a cruise (usually a high speed cruise) up and down one of the local canyons (yay Rocky Mountains ;) ) but sometimes more tame stuff, its the group I went to that Cars and Coffee with too.

jkm7680 > CPT Speedbump
04/22/2014 at 20:03

Oooh, Sounds nice. I presume that the roads around the Rocky Mountains are fun to drive on. We've got the George Washington Parkway, but the speed is very strictly enforced, and it is laden with potholes. I need to find a new cruise group, I always got to Cars and Coffee with a buddy, he drives like a Grandma though :)

CPT Speedbump > jkm7680
04/22/2014 at 20:19

They are, lol, though last year we had that Big Thompson flood that messed some of the fun raods up :( And Colorado is pothole laden in alot of places :P Where they seem to usually go cruising has some cops..because its popular for cruisers/ canyon carvers, last time I was up there with them there were a few nice cars, our line of 25 cars, alot of bikes, did pass a cop at one point because one of the bikes had gone down. A few weeks ago they had a cruise and they ended up not being able to finish it b/c the canyon had closed, 2 motorcyclist's hit each other head on and both died.

jkm7680 > CPT Speedbump
04/22/2014 at 20:23

That's sad. Probably Cruisers?

Whenever I want to exercise my Car for real, I take it over to Maryland. The roads are slightly better, and Radar Detectors are legal there. The only concern in that case is for Cops who aren't running radar, but see you speeding. Just a couple weeks ago, I spotted one in the bushes on the Parkway. I jammed the brakes :) Luckily, the Police Car was empty for some reason.

CPT Speedbump > jkm7680
04/22/2014 at 20:31

I'd imagine, Ducati took a turn to hard, ended up in the other lane. The last time I went up was sketch as fuck (pardon my French). Was still slush for a 30 foot run (where the Canyon walls didn't allow sun, and was like..a week or so after snow? and the first really warm day out) and at the top of the road are a bunch of super tight hair pins (as tight as a 2 way road can be) and they were coverreeedd in gravel. So, wet gravely tires, high speed cruising, alot of sliding, and poo'ing of pants. That's when I learned about the Z's weakness for understeer :D though it was like ..understteerrrr into the turn, over steerrrr out of the turn, lol

jkm7680 > CPT Speedbump
04/22/2014 at 20:37

Haha, Gravel is my sworn road-enemy. The thing about my A4 is that it's Waayyyyy higher off the ground than it should be. Like I'm fairly sure that the wheel gap is over four inches. I need to get it lower, but not Stance-Bro low. Just lower. I do almost shit myself when the road gets flood-y and pools up.

CPT Speedbump > jkm7680
04/22/2014 at 20:48

Iuno how I didn't die..I'm on Potenza's in the front sure..but they're from 2006... only 18,xxx miles..but... 8 year old tires... (can see why I'm just getting new wheels and tires now :P ) and I need to get some low too :) not stance low indeed, but coilover race car handling low, via coil overs :P

jkm7680 > CPT Speedbump
04/22/2014 at 20:56

Yeah, I'll be getting some sort of Low-But not-too low coilovers at some point. That's all if I decide to keep my Audi though. I do have some Ecs tuning Goodies that arrived in the mail last week, I just haven't gotten around to applying them yet :)

CPT Speedbump > jkm7680
04/22/2014 at 20:58

Well get on it!! Im definatly thinking Work Wheels now.. Not sure how the Matte Bronze Emosion Ultimate's look on a Silverstone Z... might end up going Matte Black, and learning how to maintain Matte Black wheels..just.. tring to figure out tire sizes now I think....maybe.. lol

jkm7680 > CPT Speedbump
04/22/2014 at 21:05

Sounds good! Whatever I do, The wheels will be black. Brake Dust...Argghhhhhh

It's all caked on after I left it sit for a couple weeks during the winter.

CPT Speedbump > jkm7680
04/23/2014 at 04:34

Which is one thing I'd have to learn to not do if I go Matte black :P lol