"Pixel" (Improbcat)
12/09/2015 at 16:16 • Filed to: None
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"Pixel" (Improbcat)
12/09/2015 at 16:16 • Filed to: None | 10
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If I had stupid money, I’d have a bespoke Rolls Royce Phantom made. With raw plastic bumpers, 1-off steel wheels, no chrome trim, cloth seats, no a/c or radio. It’s be like a poverty-spec base-model Rolls Royce, and it would confuse the hell out of everyone
EDIT: Like this, but with a rolls:
MGS315
> Pixel
12/09/2015 at 16:19 |
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I like it. Make sure you have plenty of plastic blanking plates over the buttons too.
RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> Pixel
12/09/2015 at 16:21 |
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Well, hey - if you find one that has bad trim and needs a new interior, that would be crazy easy to do. Glass your own bumpers, filler the trim holes, hire out to your favorite local upholsterer, find a pattern match steelie, done.Not even that expensive.
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Pixel
> RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
12/09/2015 at 16:27 |
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Oh no, I’m talking about a brand-new Phantom.
TheAnswerIsAlwaysCitroën
> Pixel
12/09/2015 at 16:27 |
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Sometimes I browse the web for 70’s or 80’s Rolls and Bentleys, dreaming about running one as a daily driver - keeping it going without too much care about originality or looks, for reasons similar to yours. Then I come to my senses and remember what James May said about buying old Bentleys.
Klaus Schmoll
> Pixel
12/09/2015 at 16:32 |
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Make sure to get all of these blanks where buttons for optional extras should have been. It adds to the full effect!
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RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> Pixel
12/09/2015 at 16:32 |
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I just went looking for what the new Phantoms go for, salvage. Still too much, but sort of affordable, and if you’re going to be doing some bodywork and bumper replacement anyway...
Bluecold
> Pixel
12/09/2015 at 16:33 |
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Define ‘stupid money’?
If I had stupid amounts of money. I mean ‘Mark Zuckerberg’ amounts of money I’d buy my own aircraft carrier. Contrary to most peoples thoughts, nobody can have too much money, they can only think too small.
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Pixel
> TheAnswerIsAlwaysCitroën
12/09/2015 at 16:35 |
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Years ago I answered an ad for a 1952 Rolls for $500, and found out it has been sold minutes before. The car was basically a rolling shell with doors, hood, fenders & the rolls grille. My plan had been to chop & section it, lower it to the ground, stuff a junkyard Cadillac 500ci drivetrain in it along with whatever seats I could scrounge up, and install only the lights/glass/etc. needed to make it legal. I figured I could get it on the road for under $2000 and have a car that would make me both god and the devil to car guys depending how stuck up they were.
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Pixel
> Bluecold
12/09/2015 at 16:37 |
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“Stupid money” is “enough money to actually follow through on whatever stupid idea pops into your head without having to concern yourself with the cost.”
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TheAnswerIsAlwaysCitroën
> Pixel
12/09/2015 at 16:42 |
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If you find one like it, by all means put a big engine and a new interior in it, but I have to admit that I would be a bit sad to see a ‘52 Rolls chopped and lowered. It rarely makes a car look better IMHO, and it is hard to reverse.
V12 Jake- Hittin' Switches
> Pixel
12/09/2015 at 17:01 |
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But why ? If you want a shitty poverty model car, get a fucking daewoo or something.
Herr Quattro - Has a 4-Motion
> Pixel
12/09/2015 at 17:03 |
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I will always want to order a brand new Phantom in race car spec. From the factory.
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Pixel
> V12 Jake- Hittin' Switches
12/09/2015 at 17:08 |
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Because a poverty-spec Rolls Royce runs completely contrary to everything RR stands for, and I’d be paying extra money to have them bespoke make a less-luxurious car.
And I my sense of humor finds that really entertaining. Plus I can just imagine the looks of confusion on people’s faces when I pull up somewhere and explain I bought “the base model”.
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Pixel
> Herr Quattro - Has a 4-Motion
12/09/2015 at 17:11 |
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Nothing inside but a cage and 4 leather upholstered racing seats. I like it.
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Herr Quattro - Has a 4-Motion
> Pixel
12/09/2015 at 17:14 |
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haha. Leather.
Nah I’m talking carbon fiber. Beautiful unpainted carbon fiber.
No sound deadening, etc.
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RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> Pixel
12/09/2015 at 17:41 |
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The Lincoln I got from Jarod Rose is a different kind of base model weirdness. It’s a base model for that year, but it has electric windows, electric seat, L I N C O LN hood letters, and some other not-base options, which makes the difference between it (a Capri) and a Premiere need a microscope to find. Other than the fact that it doesn’t have a hood ornament (optional) or the badge for a Premiere. Does it have a badge saying it’s a Capri? No. So, it’s a mid-trimmed mid-trim model engineered out of a base model, with slightly different seats and no badge as to what it is, anywhere. Because why would you buy a luxury car in a higher trim level and bother bragging to people that it’s a high trim... wait what. Not surprisingly it was the last year of the Capri model/trim level, because how the fuck do you sell a 20 foot “base model” Lincoln?