"Dusty Ventures" (dustyventures)
12/24/2013 at 10:54 • Filed to: None
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"Dusty Ventures" (dustyventures)
12/24/2013 at 10:54 • Filed to: None | 0
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A couple weeks ago Wagon Attack 3, a tribute/goodbye to a beloved beater car, was the !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! video. Now !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! has added a behind the scenes piece, documenting the adventure, achievements, difficulties, and emotions involved in this visually impressive standoff. It's definitely a better love story than Twilight
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Diesel
> Dusty Ventures
12/24/2013 at 11:21 |
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I hated the ending.
Bad Kev
> Diesel
12/24/2013 at 11:35 |
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Yeah it getting crushed was such a let down..
I think the most fitting way to kill a car is to go on an epic adventure like this and push the car so hard that you eventually have some sort of catastrophic failure (rod through the block, transmission parts flying, or just wreck the thing while taking an awesome corner too fast) and then just mount the car upside down on the ceiling of your man-cave or garage. That'd be cool.
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Diesel
> Bad Kev
12/24/2013 at 11:37 |
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I've always killed my cars. Then repaired them and killed them again. Once they seize up and throw pistons through the block though, and it's time to let them rest. I do like the idea of parking them somewhere they loved to go. But, that's just crazy. We can't all leave our cars on top of mountain passes and next to beaches.
No Prius Needed
> Diesel
12/24/2013 at 11:48 |
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Its better than being sold to someone who will stance it and add a Yakima rack to the top.
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Diesel
> No Prius Needed
12/24/2013 at 11:49 |
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Who the hell would stance that ? This is a sick, cruel world.
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No Prius Needed
> Diesel
12/24/2013 at 11:51 |
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It is a very cruel world sadly.
Desu-San-Desu
> Dusty Ventures
12/24/2013 at 12:15 |
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The ending pissed me off so much. The car still had some life in it, if not for him than for some other worthy Jalop at least. Unless the chassis had become rusted through, I can't see why he couldn't have at least given it to someone or sold it cheap to another gearhead instead of crushing it so unceremoniously.
Also, why did he leave the fucking roof rack on!? I'm looking for a roof rack, unable to afford one, and he just goes and crushes one right in front of me! Grr...
tromoly
> Dusty Ventures
12/24/2013 at 12:17 |
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They didn't take the Yakima rack off??? Idiots...... How it's set up would go for about $300, could have bought another beater to thrash for that amount.
duurtlang
> Desu-San-Desu
12/24/2013 at 14:11 |
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They were in Iceland. Shipping that car to the US would cost more than the car was worth, and I doubt that rusty POS would pass Icelandic inspections.
Dropfox2
> Desu-San-Desu
12/24/2013 at 14:20 |
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I was looking for an Ef wagon for so long earlier this year never found one so I too am pissed that another glorious machine has perished from the earth.
KirkyV
> Desu-San-Desu
12/24/2013 at 15:16 |
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It almost certainly wouldn't have gotten through its yearly safety inspection, and without that, it wouldn't be allowed on public roads. He couldn't have sold it if he wanted to, and I imagine he did want to.
When it eventually gets too expensive to keep getting it through MOTs, I imagine my car will die the same way. It's incredibly sad, but that's just the way it is.
TheRallyStache
> Dusty Ventures
12/24/2013 at 15:26 |
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:'(
Stef Schrader
> Desu-San-Desu
12/24/2013 at 15:39 |
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Seriously. They should've given the Wagovan a worthy home.
I know a team that ran one for LeMons. That there looks like a primo parts car.
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Desu-San-Desu
> KirkyV
12/24/2013 at 17:50 |
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Then send it to S.C.! We don't have inspections here.
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KirkyV
> Desu-San-Desu
12/24/2013 at 18:07 |
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It costs quite a bit of money to ship a car halfway across the world. You end up with the same problem as you would if you were trying to get it though an inspection: past a certain point, the objective value of the car just isn't high enough to justify how much you'd have to pay to keep it going.
Hell, in the case of my car specifically, even if it cost me nothing to ship, I'd have to wait another twelve years before it could be driven in the US.
webmonkees
> Dusty Ventures
12/25/2013 at 14:35 |
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Anybody wistful/etc , here you go. $2400, With chalkboard paint, kayak.
oddomatik
> webmonkees
12/26/2013 at 17:11 |
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That's a 2WD. Ain't gonna cut it...