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I had to walk a fine line between doing this instead of working, but not being so involved in doing it that it was obvious that wasn’t working.
1. Troll Concours.
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2. Give the money to Gawker so they could buy better lawyers and not lose lawsuits on merits.
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My version of that would actually involve an Aston Martin Cygnet, at least for starters.
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make my own top gear show, but without cameras, an audience and no star in a fake rallycross car.
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When I started, I wondered why the E-Type didn’t line up exactly, because I always thought they were probably around the same length. Then I looked at Wikipedia and discovered that the Weinermobile is 27 feet long.
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I notice that Chris Evans is conspicuously absent from your list of things that you wouldn’t include.
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So you would troll every AM car club in existence? This is probably a very noble use of the money.
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the whole cast and crew would be me and my friends. no yelling gingers
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This is brilliant.
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A Cygnet with “tasteful mods”, by which I mean Daytons and a ‘70s/Superflyish off-color British flag vinyl. Once I was done trolling every AM car club in existence I’d move on to the Scion car clubs, for a twisted upside-down version of the same thing. Then get a Chrysler TC to annoy Italian meets with. Then back to the Cygnet, and start trolling Jaguar meets for no conceivable reason.
“You’re a monster, Zorg”
“I know.”
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I elaborated a bit.
http://oppositelock.kinja.com/a-cygnet-with-…
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Counterpoint, buy gawker, divest all of it except Jalopnik and Oppositelock. Then use that money from the divestiture and then buy up the other online car news sites and create a car media empire.
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At a Scion meetup, nobody would have any clue what you had or why you were there. But they’d all deem your ride ‘dope’ and ‘hella’.
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I drove past the Oscar Mayer factory on Monday. They had like 8 Wienermobiles parked out front.
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That’s a lot of the fun of that phase of the idea. Going among the land of the bad taste with an atrocity further atrocitized... “And then they made me their chief”.
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2. Swimming pool full of orange jell-o
3. Go to concourse in cargo shorts
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This makes me happy.
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Sit that body on top of a DB5.
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The DB5 is 5' longer than a Cygnet, which means even accounting for the loss of extra tail length, there’s enough room to make the iQ platform sitting on a DB5 a four door. More or less a microvan.
Yeah, I know you probably meant the Oscar Meyer thing on a DB5. Not putting a Cygnet on a DB5. I was talking about just taking a Cygnet to Aston meets - it’s insult enough.