Just had a random thought

"Alfalfa" (alfalfa-romeo) 01/08/2017 at 18:27 • Filed to: None

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Watching Cars for the millionth time, because my 3 year old is obsessed. It occurred to me that this movie is old enough that our younger members may have done the same as kids.

Amoore100 > Alfalfa 01/08/2017 at 18:30

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Yep. Was 6 when it first came out. Salty that it had no Volvos.

TheHondaBro > Alfalfa 01/08/2017 at 18:34

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People like to shit on that movie, but it was a pretty great movie.

Also Cars is 11 years old.

extraspecialbitter > Alfalfa 01/08/2017 at 18:36

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I did that with Mighty Ducks and its sequel, Heavyweights.

aberson Bresident of the FullyAssed Committe > Alfalfa 01/08/2017 at 18:36

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i saw it when it came out

The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock > Alfalfa 01/08/2017 at 18:36

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Yup. I was 11 when it came out, I always wanted to watch it. It also got me into cars.

Alfalfa > TheHondaBro 01/08/2017 at 18:41

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I mean, it’s certainly not as great as most Pixar movies, but it’s still a lot of fun. Well, granted you’re not listening to it on a nearly endless loop.

sm70- why not Duesenberg? > Alfalfa 01/08/2017 at 18:43

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Yup. I was 8 when it came out. Favorite movie as a kid.

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > Alfalfa 01/08/2017 at 18:48

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I when F&F came out I was too young to watch it.

Ps. I watched it anyway because big brothers are awesome.

Wacko > Alfalfa 01/08/2017 at 18:48

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Is it wrong that I watched it when it came out. I was 26 and had no kids.

My bird IS the word > Alfalfa 01/08/2017 at 18:49

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I guarantee that if that movie would have come out wen I was five I would have been obsessed. As it was carpool was my favorite movie.

Alfalfa > Wacko 01/08/2017 at 18:53

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Pixar movies know no age boundaries. I bought a copy of finding Dory for my wife for Christmas. Yes, my wife. Not my child. It was one of the things on her list.

deekster_caddy > Amoore100 01/08/2017 at 18:55

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Cars 2 - Finn McMissile was based on a P1800

Amoore100 > deekster_caddy 01/08/2017 at 18:57

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Looks more like a Daimler to me.

Under_Score > Alfalfa 01/08/2017 at 19:01

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This provides the perfect opportunity to share a story about this movie.

When I was younger, I had a very close friend. He was interested in cars, monster trucks, and all that. I was interested in cars as well, and since he lived in my neighborhood, we would go to each others’ houses a lot and play with our cars. Cars came out when we were friends, and he loved that movie. In fact, he had a shirt for it that said “The Fastest Ride in Radiator Springs: Lightning McQueen”. For my birthday in 2006, he got me the exact same shirt. It was a red shirt in youth Medium; red was my favorite color back then. Though I wasn’t as into the movie as he was, I loved that shirt, and I wore it all the time; he did as well.

Unfortunately, after that school year ended in May 2007, my friend’s dad got transferred and he moved away. He was one of my best friends at a time in my life a close friend was needed. That fall, he came by and visited me while his family was up here doing something, but I never saw him again; my mom used to keep in touch with his mom, but I think they last called each other in 2009 or so. He had a common name, and I do, too, so my attempts to find him on social media have been impossible.

I still have the shirt in remembrance of him.

TheHondaBro > Under_Score 01/08/2017 at 19:08

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I’m not crying you’re crying.

BlueMazda2 - Blesses the rains down in Africa, Purveyor of BMW Individual Arctic Metallic, Merci Twingo > Alfalfa 01/08/2017 at 19:12

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I was 8 when it came out, and I can confirm that I was obsessed. I still have all of the diecast cars from the first year or so of the movie’s diecast line.

Spridget > Alfalfa 01/08/2017 at 19:14

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Yep, saw it as a kid. This and Herbie The Love Bug got me interested in cars.

Phatboyphil > Alfalfa 01/08/2017 at 19:17

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I thought half of oppos where kids. Kids who robbed a gas station and bought the cheapest car off CL with the money.

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > Alfalfa 01/08/2017 at 19:30

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It’s better than watching the spinoff Planes fire and rescue 4 times in a row in the back seat of a RX350. Never again.

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > Under_Score 01/08/2017 at 19:32

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That was heavy.

Alfalfa > Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap 01/08/2017 at 19:34

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Oh yikes, the Planes movies are terrible. Who thought it was a good idea to put Dane Cook in a kids movie, anyway?

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > Alfalfa 01/08/2017 at 19:37

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No clue. For sure a low point for him. Bet he doesn’t want to talk about it.

deekster_caddy > Alfalfa 01/08/2017 at 20:21

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For car guys it’s better than most other animated films we have to watch with the little ones... I think they did a great job with them and set the bar very high, even for Pixar. It’s unusual how they dig in and explain a bit about how the interstate highways killed off a lot of the small towns in that part of the US - it’s a bit like a route 66 homage and really hits home for a lot of people who left those areas in the mid/southwest/dustbowl parts of the country as travelers were taken away by the interstate routes and at the same time the massive increase in air travel.

TheTurbochargedSquirrel > Alfalfa 01/08/2017 at 20:25

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I’m looking forward to showing my future kids all the greats from my childhood. I also can’t wait for the Incredibles 2.

gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap 01/08/2017 at 20:35

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you’d have to do some stuff you didn’t expect too, if your brother stole millions from you.

wafflesnfalafel > Alfalfa 01/08/2017 at 20:38

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Turn right to go left... (I love that Doc Hudson actually sounds like a big straight six.)

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > gmporschenut also a fan of hondas 01/08/2017 at 20:39

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Wait really? I was unaware.

gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap 01/08/2017 at 20:50

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http://people.com/crime/dane-cooks-half-brother-ordered-to-pay-him-12-million/

at his peak in the late 2000s when he was selling out arenas, they were skimming off crazy amounts.

Under_Score > TheHondaBro 01/08/2017 at 21:42

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If my story didn’t make you feel sad enough, I looked through and found it.

19JRC99 > Alfalfa 01/09/2017 at 15:42

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I was almost 7 when it came out. I’ve seen it dozens of times.

19JRC99 > Amoore100 01/09/2017 at 15:43

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Wow. Weird to see someone my age (or a year younger- August 1999 for me.)

19JRC99 > Under_Score 01/09/2017 at 15:45

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I had a buddy around the same time who I cannot for the life of me find a Facebook/Twitter/Whatever for. His name was a little different, but not crazy. Last saw him in 2008 or 2007 or somewhere in there.

Amoore100 > 19JRC99 01/09/2017 at 15:48

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Yep, Aug 1999. Been here at least two and a half years, maybe three. Can’t remember now.

19JRC99 > Amoore100 01/09/2017 at 15:51

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What day in August? 6th for me. I’ve been on Jalopnik for a year or two, only been on Oppo a few months.

Amoore100 > Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap 01/09/2017 at 15:52

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That sounds like actual hell. A shitty movie in the back of a cramped Toyota. I watched WALL-E many times in the back of an Odyssey. Now that was the lap of luxury.

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > Amoore100 01/09/2017 at 15:55

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I’m still reasonably sane so I think it turned out ok.

Amoore100 > 19JRC99 01/09/2017 at 15:56

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3rd.  Where you at? California here.

19JRC99 > Amoore100 01/09/2017 at 16:39

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Michigan. Freaking hate it.

Amoore100 > 19JRC99 01/09/2017 at 17:09

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California ain’t that great. Unless you enjoy hills. That are brown.

19JRC99 > Amoore100 01/09/2017 at 17:22

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It’s not necessarily that I like Cali (Actually, I hate it.). I just hate the cold.