French stuff

"Nauraushaun" (nauraushaun12) 03/27/2019 at 17:49 • Filed to: None

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I’m learning French as I’m going back to France. I’ve been on a French car kick, building in intensity for the last year or so. I’d never own one, they’re not my thing, I like 90s Japanese. But they’re damn cool.

Post French cars

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > Nauraushaun 03/27/2019 at 18:02

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Would love to own a 2CV someday, though they are going up a lot in price...

I would love a Peugeot 204 as well!

First-gen Twingos were always cool to me, but the urge to own one is growing!

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > Nauraushaun 03/27/2019 at 18:03

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CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > Nauraushaun 03/27/2019 at 18:03

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bon voyage!

Alfalfa > Nauraushaun 03/27/2019 at 18:06

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Chariotoflove > Nauraushaun 03/27/2019 at 18:06

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I took 6 years of French in school, and then didn’t use it forever. I finally went to France in my 30s and struggled to get it all back fast.

fintail > Nauraushaun 03/27/2019 at 18:07

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Nauraushaun > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars 03/27/2019 at 18:13

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Are they going up!? But they’re so basic! There’s one down the road from me. It’s seen some shit. I doubt it’s worth too much.

They might be a bit of fun I guess.

Nauraushaun > farscythe - makin da cawfee! 03/27/2019 at 18:13

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Yes yes. You know this little thing would be an absolute riot

Nauraushaun > Chariotoflove 03/27/2019 at 18:14

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I’m very very bad at it. I don’t expect I’ll ever learn. But pfft. I’m learning, and I’ll know more when I get there than I otherwise would have.

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > Nauraushaun 03/27/2019 at 18:14

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so much want :)

Nauraushaun > Alfalfa 03/27/2019 at 18:15

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Oh shit I forgot about these. I love them so. I like how some of them do a pretty good job at pretending to be a modern 90s car when they aren’t. The Z31 300ZX and Esprit do a similar trick.

Discerning > Nauraushaun 03/27/2019 at 18:19

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CaptDale - is secretly British > Alfalfa 03/27/2019 at 18:19

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The 310 GT is so goddamn good!

Nauraushaun > fintail 03/27/2019 at 18:31

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DID I SAY I WANTED SAD OLD FRENCH CARS? What is it?

Future next gen S2000 owner > Nauraushaun 03/27/2019 at 18:31

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Nauraushaun > Discerning 03/27/2019 at 18:31

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Oh GOD I forgot about Venturi. I adore those. Just that nice 90s soap bar vibe that I’m into.

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > Nauraushaun 03/27/2019 at 18:39

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Poor thing! Send it to me and I’ll save it, haha!

66P1800inpieces > Discerning 03/27/2019 at 18:50

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What is the model of the third one down?

kanadanmajava1 > Nauraushaun 03/27/2019 at 18:58

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Bugatti x2, Darracq and Talbot Lago

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > Nauraushaun 03/27/2019 at 19:03

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Discerning > 66P1800inpieces 03/27/2019 at 19:11

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Venturi atlantique

Sales were terrible, but I'd own one in a heartbeat for the right price

Nauraushaun > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 03/27/2019 at 19:12

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those

daMN

AMERICAN

HEADLIGHTS!

Nauraushaun > kanadanmajava1 03/27/2019 at 19:13

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Mmmf. That old school

Nauraushaun > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars 03/27/2019 at 19:13

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The owner has 3 other newer Citroens including 2 C4 Picassos. I’d never presume to take them from him

Nauraushaun > Future next gen S2000 owner 03/27/2019 at 19:14

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Ooh hello there

Svend > Nauraushaun 03/27/2019 at 19:31

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Sounds like my place.

Had a customer the other night wanting a wheelchair to get around the store, they weren’t near the front of the store as usual. They had been locked away, yep, locked away with few people knowing where they were.

Then to be told they were locked in the first aid room, that’s right, a locked first aid room.

Seems there really is no cure for stupidity.

Can’t talk about French cars without some Venturi cars, have an Atlantique.

Doh, someone else posted the Venturi as well.

See it's a nice car. 

Cé hé sin > Nauraushaun 03/27/2019 at 19:54

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It’s a sadly Americanised R enault 21.

Cé hé sin > Nauraushaun 03/27/2019 at 20:01

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French cars, you say?

I’ve got one.

f86sabre > Nauraushaun 03/27/2019 at 20:56

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Get out and negotiate vacation into your next job. 

bhtooefr > Nauraushaun 03/27/2019 at 20:59

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A replica of La Jamais Contente , the first car to ever hit 100 km/h, in 1899. It’s electric.

It’s called a Velocar, so it’s a car, right?

...oops, went too far. Apparently a Velocar isn’t always a car. And, according to the UCI, it’s not a bicycle, either, and it still isn’t, nearly 85 years later (April 1 will be the 85th anniversary of that decision). Fuck the UCI.

Let’s get back to actual cars.

What happens after World War II, you’re rebuilding from the war, you need some trucks, and the Americans left a bunch of GMC 270 straight-6s lying around? You convert them to diesels. And then, for shits and grins, you race one at Le Mans.

So, if converting an American truck engine to a diesel is a good idea, how about making a 2-stroke opposed piston 4-cylinder (that is, with 8 pistons and 2 crankshafts), putting François Lacour and Pierre Veyron in it?

I find this thing desperately pretty, tbh. I mean, with a supercharged 848 cc flat-twin, it was never going to win Le Mans (and it needed the supercharging equivalence formula to even meet the 1000 cc minimum to compete), and it didn’t even finish, but fuck, it just looks that good.

Nauraushaun > bhtooefr 03/27/2019 at 21:16

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I love that tail.

I also love how significant electric cars were in the early history of the car itself.

Nauraushaun > f86sabre 03/27/2019 at 21:17

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I don’t think it’s really that easy. It would just have to be unpaid leave, but it’s a big burden for a company to take on. Puts a huge hole in training, and they’re hiring because they need someone. Someone who disappears isn’t solving that problem.

I am trying, but I expect to be around ‘til July.

Nauraushaun > Cé hé sin 03/27/2019 at 21:17

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Thankfully it’s so hard to place these things, I’d go with it.

Not like the Veyron/Chiron. French made, maybe, but they’re completely German cars.

Nauraushaun > Cé hé sin 03/27/2019 at 21:18

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Americanised always means worse :(

Nauraushaun > Svend 03/27/2019 at 21:18

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Oh man. That’s silly. That’s DUMB.

Nice, very nice it is.

Svend > Nauraushaun 03/27/2019 at 21:36

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Ye’, especially as it took more than five minutes to find a manager with a card to the key safe upstairs on the other side of the building, to then come back and open the ruddy door.

Here’s another one for you.

A day shift colleague always walks down the corridor at work totally engrossed in his mobile phone and walks into stuff. The other night I was coming to work and there is the idiot walking through the car park, down the centre of the roadway, again engrossed in his mobile phone, I continue down (slowed up a little though) and he literally walks right up to the car, stopping one foot short of the now stopped car. Looks up, then goes back to looking down as he turns to go around the car.

Here’s the thing, he’s deaf, not totally, but sufficiently that he has two hearing aids and is registered as deaf, so you’d think he’d be more aware of his surroundings.

Not only that, but the lazy, useless a-hole (he’s warehouse staff and still from time to time puts chilled food in the freezer or leaves it out, leading to waste, or puts frozen food in the fridge or leaves it out leading to waste, he’s done the job for years). He’s asked a manager for an application form to be a night supervisor. 

fintail > Nauraushaun 03/27/2019 at 22:01

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You didn’t say you didn’t want sad old French cars ;)

Renault 21, sold in Murka as the Renault or Eagle Medallion, weird conspirators in the mid-late 80s.

Nauraushaun > fintail 03/27/2019 at 22:42

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Oh god. Eagle. Noooo

Nauraushaun > Svend 03/27/2019 at 22:45

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Holy fuck. I just can’t stand that stuff. I worked in a supermarket for 7 years and did some management. That sort of shit is just the fucking basics. The frozen stuff goes in the freezer, the cold stuff goes in the fridge.

And you watch where the fuck you’re walking.

NPCs man. NPCs

pip bip - choose Corrour > Nauraushaun 03/28/2019 at 03:39

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https://www.carsales.com.au/cars/citroen/bx/

if work is getting you down, it’s time to go

Nauraushaun > pip bip - choose Corrour 03/28/2019 at 05:58

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Gods that’s 80s. Especially so for a 90s car.

It’s time, indeed

duurtlang > Nauraushaun 03/28/2019 at 13:36

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To be fair, the BX was introduced in the early 80s.

Nauraushaun > duurtlang 03/28/2019 at 16:59

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Oh right you are! I read that the 16V was introduced ‘87. But it was obviously based on the car from ‘82 - squarely in the 80s.