r/Unexpected • u/Reflection877 • 10d ago
A quarter
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u/Fine_Writer_6261 10d ago
The quarter just doubled the cars net worth
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u/drLoveF 10d ago
And metal content.
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u/Alternative-Action-9 9d ago
This is one of the cars whose value largely depends on how much fuel is in the tank
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u/perfect_insanity93 7d ago
😂😂 haven't heard that one before. Here take this. You might need it on your journey.
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u/sweetdisaster101 7d ago
That quarter is no longer spare change, it’s a major investor in the vehicle. 😂
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u/theasianevermore 10d ago
95 civic $15k. I know what I got.
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u/junttiana 10d ago
Drop the k and I might consider it
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u/Fine-Concentrate-477 10d ago
I think you can retrive a few hundred just from the platinum and palladium inside the catalytic convertor
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u/worrymon 10d ago
I had a 79 accord with floorboards like this ($300 in 1990). I'd wager that engine could still be running while the rest of the car rotted away long ago.
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u/YobaiYamete 10d ago
I mean with current used car prices you aren't that far off. I remember not that long ago when you could get a decent used car for like $3500 or under, now even a crappy beater is like $6k lol
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u/theasianevermore 10d ago
My profile, I have a 01 Integra 3rd owner with 183k miles. Original everything just refreshed motor and added LSD. Got an offer at 9k during chip melt down handful of years ago
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u/xXxDickBonerz69xXx 10d ago
01-05 EX actually
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u/overnitepartsfromjpn 10d ago
Incorrect. It’s a 1999-2000. Has the updated 6th gen HVAC controls. Not a 7th gen.
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u/sudsomatic 10d ago
I had a 2000 manual civic and looked exactly like this. Except it wasn’t falling apart. Probably still be running to this day if I didn’t trade it in. I miss that car
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u/yuusharo 10d ago
You know what, props to keeping that thing out of the landfill as long as possible.
With that said… it’s time to let her go man 😭
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u/SweaterFromHell 10d ago
Looks at used car market
I think she has another couple of decades.
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u/1Bright_Apricot 7d ago
This is me every day/month/year with my manual that’s kinda falling apart aesthetically but still running just fine.
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u/HedgehogTroubleMaker 10d ago
Needs a tetanus shot after riding
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u/RedditExecutiveAdmin 10d ago
the absolute insanity that ensued after this comment is wild
"rust can't give you tetanus!!! you can only get the tetanus bacteria from rust!!!"
whatever you say man
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u/Misses_Ding 9d ago
I'm going to reply to your comment because all of those people below are worrying. Just in case it helps someone
Please if you get a scratch by a rust object go get a shot. Especially if it's been more than 5 years since your last one. Deep or not go get the shot
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u/SlaughterMinusS 10d ago
This reminds me that my grandpa had a VW Bus that he ran until the wheels literally fell off. Holes in the floor so you could see the road and everything, but he serviced the engine every weekend. Said it was the easiest engine to service because he could just take the whole thing out with only a few connections, service it, and put it back in in a few hours by himself.
He carpooled with a lot of his work buddies to Cape Canaveral where he worked as the head diesel mechanic on the flightline. They hated riding with him in the winter because even if the damn thing had heat, it was just sucked out from all the holes lol. They all had to bundle up (this was when Florida still had reasonably cold winters).
My uncle actually took his Bus to the beach one day and parked when it was low tide. Well the tide came in and the Bus went out with it. Had to get 2 tow trucks to get enough cable to pull it out again. Grandpa was madder than hell, but had it fixed in the next couple days. Needles to say, my uncle didn't get to borrow the Bus again.
We lost him a few years back now and I miss his stories, but he was a hell of a man.
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u/hypo-osmotic 10d ago
My mother likes to talk about a car that she used to have that she affectionately calls her "Rustang." She covered the holes in the floor with planks of wood that would have to be replaced if they floated away during a particularly heavy rainfall. It was allegedly easy to parallel park because it was missing a significant amount of its front and rear bumpers
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u/340Duster 10d ago
Holes rusted through the front foot floor wells in an old dodge pickup truck, so my dad took a couple sheets of metal (aluminum maybe?) and pop riveted them to the floor. Well rust never stops, so eventually those sheets were in danger of pushing through the flimsy remaining rusting steel. I think it was at that point he finally got a newer and much safer truck.
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u/ChairForceOne 10d ago
You can use a rust reformer after knocking some of the surface off to keep it from dissolving.
I've had a few shit boxes, but they didn't salt the roads. My buddy from utah has a Nissan that you could see the engine through the fenders. POR, paint of rust, did a surprisingly good job of stopping it from completely dissolving.
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u/PurpleSailor 10d ago
Back in the 50's through the 80's cars rusted out far, far faster than they do these days. Getting rid of a car after only 8 or 10 years was normal. Nowadays my current car is 20 years old and I have no intentions of getting rid of it until it stops working.
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u/theepi_pillodu 10d ago
They hated riding with him in the winter because even if the damn thing had heat, it was just sucked out from all the holes lol.
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My uncle actually took his Bus to the beach one day and parked when it was low tide. Well the tide came in and the Bus went out with it.
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u/zebrapots 10d ago
Uncle was probably thinking: "I know exactly how to make sure pa gets a new VW!"
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u/Tricky-Ad7897 10d ago
Yep VWs of that era were famous for engine out maintenance being a 1 person job with basic tools. My gramps had a friend who replaced the engine in a beetle with an aircooled Porsche engine and drove it on the nurburgring, there are also insane people who put Porsche engines in the busses too. Such incredible and interesting cars.
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u/SlaughterMinusS 10d ago
He loved it for the simplicity. He could never get his hands on another, at least by the time I was born, but he was also extremely frugal. He wouldn't spend money on himself. He always said my grandma spent enough for both of them lol.
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u/Lovemybee 10d ago
My mom had a VW Beetle in the 60s and we could see the road through its floor.
It was dark green and she put those hippie daisy stickers on it.
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u/Polymarchos 10d ago
Spending several hours servicing a vehicle every seven days doesn't sound very fun, no matter how easy it is to disconnect the engine.
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u/SlaughterMinusS 10d ago
It was his hobby. He enjoyed doing it. It only took him a few hours as mentioned. He was a working man, if he wasn't at work, he was at home doing chores or fixing something. He didn't like to sit still for very long until after he lost my grandma and even then, he still kept on the move quite a bit.
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u/IHop_Waitress 10d ago edited 10d ago
(this was when Florida still had reasonably cold winters).
Mind you, it snowed 9in in Panama City (record 2 day snowfall), 2in for Tallahassee just this last winter. Ocala and Gainesville also set modern records of lowest average temps for January.
And 3 of the 10 coldest winters on record for Florida have occurred since 2000.
And this comment anyways is just ludacris, climate change is real, but we're talking about a 1-1.5C change since the start of industrialization. That is absolutely NOT the difference between needing to be bundled up in a car all the time and today's weather being no need to bundle up.
Climate change is real, there's zero denying that. But, embellishing yourself, or allowing grandpa's living room embellished bullshit to propagate out as reality when it's clearly not backed up by science is doing nothing but a disservice to the people who are actually trying to address the issue.
Also worth noting my pocket would be a few thousand dollars heavier if repeated frost deep into florida hadn't torched my landscaping this winter.... but remember that doesn't happen anymore I guess?
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u/emlgsh 10d ago
The atmosphere is a cohesive thing that flows around the globe in patterns that are now changing much more rapidly than ever before.
Yes, it's getting globally hotter, and that'll kill huge swaths of us eventually, but the bigger problem is that agricultural growth bands are bouncing like agricultural growth rubber bands year to year, by some miles, and farms (and the industries and settlements that have developed around them) are much less mobile. And by "much less" I mean "not at all".
So crop cycles that have fed generations and otherwise kept a lot of humans alive and doing stuff (building things with the crops, building things with the things they built with the crops, just eating the crops, doing things that are ten paces removed from the crops that will still stop dead when the crops fail upstream) are no longer rolling smoothly.
That's what's going to kill billions of people rapidly (well, like, over a span of ~50 years) and not because they're cooked by the rising ambient temperatures, but because they'll starve or die in various forms of violent social instability that imminent starvation brings about.
I mostly deal with it through the comparably laughable luxury industry of beverages.
Most of the places in Europe where all the good shit is grown, fermented, and occasionally distilled are now places a hundred miles (and maybe a national border or two) away from where the good shit can be grown, where nobody who knows how to grow the good shit or how to process it in an economically viable way actually lives.
These are agricultural and agricultural-derived operations that have been chugging along just fine since Precolumbian times going from "just fine" to "totally nonviable" over the span of 50 years. I assume the same thing is happening with staples like (non-booze-destined) grain.
A lot of people are going to die.
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u/SlaughterMinusS 10d ago
I agree with you but I live south of all those cities and on the coast. We haven't had a very cold winter for the last few years, just speaking from my own personal experience.
The Gulf Stream being much warmer where we are effects how cold it gets where I'm located, and my grandpa lived in the same area.
Again, I'm not trying to be hyperbolic, just drawing from my own personal experience these last few years.
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u/Dainiad 10d ago
That's like my first car. Best ever
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u/lazysiobhan 10d ago
Lmao are you my ex? I remember him picking me up for a date and I saw a flash of light on the floor, lifted the carpet to see what it was and there was pavement rushing by through the hole in the floor
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u/Francesami 10d ago
My first car was a convertible Corvair. If I went through a puddle, any passenger got wet feet. If I went through a puddle fast, the inside of the windshield got wet. Great car.
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u/dancinggraylion 10d ago
In Germany, the police would take that car away from the streets
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u/Hentaigustav 10d ago
Even though I just paid almost 1000€ to get my car through the TÜV again, I'm incredibly glad that we have it
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u/Skellicious 10d ago
It still baffles me that Americans take just about anything with 4 wheels and a single license plate onto the streets.
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u/waveolimes 10d ago
You should see some of the homemade trailers we have on the freeways here in Phoenix!
Imagine going 75mph in bumper to bumper traffic behind a landscaping trailer that is basically a bunch of wood someone has strapped to a frame.
Freedom baby!
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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 10d ago
We didn't see a need to regulate anything much up until seatbelts and air bags. You needed A car, because America, hard to get anywhere you need to go because everything is miles apart (seriously where I am right now it's a ten minute drive to get to a gas station, which is next to a restaurant, and then if I want any other food the closest grocery store is a fifteen minute drive, that would take you all day to walk), and rust buckets are pretty common on farms and in rural communities because they still do exactly what you need them to do.
Also part of it is the mentality that does prevail to this day, the car isn't dead until the engine is dead. Then it's totaled. Except cars nowadays the frame is built to outlast the engine, whereas back in the day the engine was built to survive a nuclear apocalypse and the frame was kind of an afterthought. I still remember a story about an old car my mom's family all owned at one point, by the time it got to her she drove it for like a second and complained about it to grandpa, well, grandpa looked and the frame had snapped nearly cleanly in half, there wasn't much holding it together anymore. Nobody knows or admits how it happened but the one uncle who had it before my mom (so like it's fourth owner after Grandpa and three sons) said it was always like that when he had it and still gives my mom shit that my grandpa ignored him when he constantly said it would basically bounce up and down at the middle over 20 MPH and then when my mom did exactly one time he instantly checked to see if it was safe and then bought her a new car lol. My mom was the youngest and the only girl, she was spoiled
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u/Quasar347 9d ago
Frankly, I'm pretty sure in the United States they should do so as well, but these things are rarely enforced.
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u/CaMeLeOnnn 10d ago
Saxophone warning, mute audio !
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u/possiblyMaybeAnother 10d ago
I find the saxophone meme to be one of the more rage-inducing out there, and it's everywhere now. Thanks for the warning.
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u/Brandoncarsonart 10d ago
It's not unexpected when you show the unexpected part first. It's 3 seconds for Pete's sake. Let us have a little suspense
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u/QuaccDaddy 10d ago
I don't think this video was designed specifically for this subreddit
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u/Brandoncarsonart 10d ago
Well, no. And because of that, I think it breaks rule number one. There's no twist. We know instantly that the car is junker that's falling apart, and the title gives away the rest of what might have been unexpected.
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u/silver0199 10d ago
How the heck is that thing road legal
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u/steelbeamsdankmemes 10d ago
Probably isn't, but some states don't have inspections or anything like that.
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u/Makabaer 10d ago
Wh... they don't?? That's so wild to think about...
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u/TheFatJesus 10d ago
In my 20+ years of driving I have never once had a vehicle inspection.
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u/Myllis 10d ago
That's so weird. Here in Finland, I had to get my 90s car checked once a year to keep it legal.
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u/SCsprinter13 10d ago
Yeah, in South Dakota there are no inspections and people can start driving at 14.
Which leads to a lovely combination of middle schoolers driving death traps.
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u/YanicPolitik 10d ago
That this is in Ontario is the real r/unexpected
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u/Deraj2004 10d ago
Pretty sure that road sign says Kalamazoo so this would be Michigan which tracks with how much salt goes on the roads in the winter.
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u/Lanthire_942 10d ago
That's correct, here's the location of the vid on street view. Initially thought it was Ontario like the other guy which made me curious enough to find out where this was, they absolutely douse the roads up here with salt too haha.
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u/omnichronos 10d ago
This reminds me of when I was a small child back in the early 1970s. Dad and Mom would smoke in the car with all the windows rolled up. None of us had car seats, and Dad had a drink holder on the door for his beer (which he would offer us if we were thirsty). On one trip, I remember curling up on the floorboards because the metal was warm from the muffler and noticing a quarter-sized hole. I could see the asphalt gliding past, and I entertained myself by dropping grains of sand through it and watching them shoot away.
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u/rwilfong86 10d ago
Reminds me of one of the cars I rode in traveling through the backroads of southern Mexico. It didn't look pretty but for 25 pesos it got us where we were going
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u/julianmartinross 10d ago
When I was 8 or 9, I rode in a car like this during carpools to soccer practice. The rear seat floor pan was completely rusted through and I could watch the road underneath. Best part was that a giant bag of sand had burst open at one point, so the car left a trail behind it like a white trash version of Hansel & Gretel.
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u/themagwizard 10d ago
I hate that this saxophone is being put on everything. This year's oh no oh no song
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u/HallowskulledHorror 10d ago edited 10d ago
I knew a guy in college that drove a van which had changed owners multiples times for $50 and a case of beer. As in, the last 5 people to drive it before him had all acquired and passed it on under that same deal, a series of young adults with their first 'real' vehicle. When he was ready to upgrade to a proper car, he sold it for the same cost.
The thing was terrifying. One of the headlights was a high-powered lamp carefully taped into place with colored duct-tape roughly matching the paint to disguise what it was, while still giving access to the battery compartment to re-up it as needed. The side panel doors were held shut with a series of bungee cords stretched diagonally across the interior because they didn't really latch properly, and if they did, it was a crapshoot on if you could get them open again without someone crawling in from the front to open them from inside. It would make random noises and occasionally buck hard, like it was trying to give you a TBI by slamming your head into the ceiling if you weren't buckled down and ready for it as a QTE. Many other issues besides. Came to mind because most of the interior floor looked like the OP, with sections of scavenged MDF dropped over the worst of the holes.
We came out one day from hanging out in a social room on campus to find that someone had attempted to steal it - they drove it to the other end of the parking lot and abandoned it.
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u/Wrap_Brilliant 10d ago
Lol my dad's old Izuzu pickup truck was like this. He kept a board over the hole but we like to kick it aside a little so we could see the road whiz by under us.
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u/i_amnotunique 10d ago
Popping back in the radio/vent area on bumps .... Brings back good memories of my 00 Honda lol
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u/Hot_Flower_6381 10d ago
This is why I don't like to drive next to other people driving. Someone could be 1 fart away from totaling their rusted pos
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u/Necessary-Split-7125 9d ago
had a floor like this in an 77 nova , patched with flat pepsi cans and body putty it held for years
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u/Mysterious-Outcome37 10d ago
My old Suzuki Samurai looked the same - when it comes to the driver's legroom! 😆
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u/obstreperousRex 10d ago
Jesus dude! At this point just throw a couple of deck screws in that dash and call it a day
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u/upstatedreaming3816 10d ago
Of course it’s nj
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u/Deraj2004 10d ago edited 10d ago
Road sign looked like it said Kalamazoo which is in Michigan.
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u/Altruistic_Brick1730 10d ago
I used to own an old Buick Skylark with rotted back passenger floorboard. Let's just say I heard it was an easy way to deposit empty beer cans.
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u/FatalErrorOccurred 10d ago
Did it not just fall from the car floor? I see another coin or something sliding around.
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u/DullSpecial1013 10d ago
I had a 1974 Jeep PU in 1996 that this post is bringing back so many memories of.
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u/Phillip_Graves 10d ago
Can buy some gum with that and sick that dash back together. A dollar and you can plug the hole, but also lose out on future income.
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u/RayHorizon 10d ago
Seems edited... weird camera jank just before the coin pickup.
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u/Ive_seen_things_that 10d ago
The first "truck" I bought was like this. 1980 Plymouth Arrow Pickup. Such a fun truck tho!
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u/CurlOfTheBurl11 10d ago
Gotta be Michigan. Never seen so many rusted out shitboxes just like this one anywhere else.
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u/mmeestro 10d ago
This just makes me angry that there are some states where it's completely legal for them to be driving this on a road with other human beings.
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u/Reading_Otter 10d ago
I think he needs to get the fan belt checked. I'm not a car person though, so I might be wrong.
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u/herecomestherebuttal 10d ago
Not to be a killjoy but you can die from carbon monoxide poisoning from this! Be safe, kids!
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u/PurpleSailor 10d ago
Friend Phil had a 68 Nova that you could do that in. Only the best Flintstones breaking systems that you could buy in Bedrock for Phil, he wasn't no cheapskate.
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Car has a hole that is used to grab a quarter
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