Truck Nutz for a Smart?

"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura) 08/04/2017 at 10:51 • Filed to: None

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RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 08/04/2017 at 10:57

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Are they perhaps some kind of “curb feelers’ dorky cousin”?

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 08/04/2017 at 11:18

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No clue.

WilliamsSW > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 08/04/2017 at 11:24

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That’s what this looks like. Which makes me wonder who the heck is driving this thing - they need parking feelers on a car that ends 3 feet behind their head???

Textured Soy Protein > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 08/04/2017 at 11:25

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These look like some way to protect the bumper from getting crunched by some other car pulling up behind it while parallel parking.

OPPOsaurus WRX > WilliamsSW 08/04/2017 at 11:27

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right? you could probably just reach behind you and feel the gap between the car and wall

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Textured Soy Protein 08/04/2017 at 11:28

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But Brabus...

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 08/04/2017 at 11:28

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That may very well *actually* be a Brabus Smart (I have some doubts), but it definitely is *not* a Smart “S”. More perversely, the tennis balls are not actually tennis ball - tennis balls and are dog toy branded tennis balls, and the text on them has been carefully aligned to be upright. While on sawn broom handle (?) dowels jammed in the rear-warning holes.

To put it delicately, the owner may be a loon.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > WilliamsSW 08/04/2017 at 11:30

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There’s a deranged logic of sorts at work. “Well, I don’t have the backup sensors option, but I need to know when I’m done backing up, so I’ll put a tennis ball thing I bought from PetSmart on a dowel and stick it in the backup sensor hole! It’s the right place for it! I’m a genius!

WilliamsSW > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 08/04/2017 at 11:31

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Is this really one of these?

http://jalopnik.com/brabus-mods-the-2017-smart-fortwo-into-a-107-hp-screami-1773215388

WilliamsSW > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 08/04/2017 at 11:32

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“May” be a loon?

WilliamsSW > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 08/04/2017 at 11:33

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Sooooo much smarter than paying all that extra $$for the backup sensor option!

This set up is so goofy, I wouldn’t rule out the possibility that this car *does* have the backup sensor option.

razorbeamteam > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 08/04/2017 at 11:40

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That would be cool

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > WilliamsSW 08/04/2017 at 11:45

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I tried to make sense of which Smart body pieces went with what so I could see if it was a Brabus in real life. I tried. I *think* my final conclusion was that the cabrio of this gen would have that lower valence if a Brabus, but the hardtop version of this gen would only have that valence on a Brabus if it also had some other silly body kit things going on I didn’t see - and all Brabus versions newer than that have a non-standard valance because of exhaust differences. Maybe.

That was as far as I got with a couple GISes until I had a WHAT AM I DOING moment and decided to stop.

WilliamsSW > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 08/04/2017 at 11:51

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Yeah, I have to admit that I figured it would be difficult to figure one way or the other, so I didn’t bother. I presume fake until proven otherwise—

ttyymmnn > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 08/04/2017 at 11:52

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My guess is that they routinely back into a very small space to park, and need to know exactly when to stop without using the number. Most people would but a parking block on the floor, or hang a tennis ball from the ceiling. Not this guy.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > WilliamsSW 08/04/2017 at 11:58

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The “S” borrowed from a Corolla does tend to put weight toward “fake”. JUST A TAD

WilliamsSW > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 08/04/2017 at 12:00

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Ya think? I was thinking that ‘S’ looked eerily familiar, but couldn’t place it...

Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer > WilliamsSW 08/04/2017 at 12:03

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Not a 2017 though.

Mini Guy- Now has a 4Runner > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 08/04/2017 at 12:20

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Paging miss Mercedes

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 08/04/2017 at 14:02

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It’s all kind of bizarre. (Don’t tell Miss Mercedes this, but I think the Smart is kind of a bizarre car, not least because its price far outsizes its size...)

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > ttyymmnn 08/04/2017 at 14:03

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That is a very reasonable hypothesis. I couldn’t get to, why, exactly?

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Mini Guy- Now has a 4Runner 08/04/2017 at 14:03

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I know, right?