MaverickSawyer
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Toyota light pickup, late 1980s/ early 1990s
Mazda pickup, similar years
Honda Civic, again, similar years
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Toyota light pickup, late 1980s/ early 1990s
Mazda pickup, similar years
Honda Civic, again, similar years
Urwumpe
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Volkswagen is no cheap car brand, if you can get a good used one though, feel proud - those last a while.
No, as true Wolfsburg citizen, I of course have to make sure you don't buy from Toyota :rofl: ... what about an Indian car? Not sure, how urban you live, but a Tata Sumo has some appeal, looks like the small Indian brother of the old Mercedes G class. Also it looks like something that requires no special tools for repairing. WD40 and duct tape might be enough.
Athena
Smitty Werbenjagermanjensen
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Well, my place is pretty "urban", its actually one of the worst places in the world that you would want to drive in.
This was taken around at around 1 in the morning, and most of the time the national highway is almost always clogged with traffic, thanks to inadequate public transportation facilities and citizens who, for most of the time, don't follow traffic regulations.
I'd really like a car that's pretty fuel efficient, even if idling (idk if that made any sense), as sometimes you have to wait for an hour or two for the traffic to go away, and I usually can't bear turning the AC off.
My dad had a Toyota Corolla a few years ago (don't know what model though), and it has done its job pretty well but I'm looking to see if there's any newer cars that can do better while at the same price.
Thunder Chicken
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Indeed. If I had to sit in traffic for an hour every day, I'd try to forget the car and go out and walk, but that probably isn't a great option in the heat of the Philippines.
MaverickSawyer
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Agreed. Moped is the way to go with traffic like that.
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There are four sources of light in the painting: the moon is accurately depicted and reflects off the calm water. There is a fire near the shepherds at left, where the family is headed. At the centre of the composition, Joseph holds a torch that illuminates Mary and the infant, who are riding an ass. The heavily treed landscape behind them is almost black, its outline forming a diagonal across the sky and completely containing the foreground figures. The diagonal is echoed in the night sky by the intricate band of the Milky Way, and detailed configurations of stars are seen, including Ursa Major at far left. Elsheimer is thought to be the first painter to accurately depict constellations.[3] Another readily identifiable constellation is Leo, above the Holy Family, with its brightest star, Regulus, in the centre of the picture.[1] It has been proposed that Elsheimer reworked the painting in 1610, after the publication of Galileo's Sidereus Nuncius, which showed the Milky Way as composed of individual stars and showed the moon's surface in unprecedented detail.[4] This hypothesis has been contested by Elsheimer scholar Keith Andrews.[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Flight_into_Egypt_(Elsheimer)
Andy44
owner: Oil Creek Astronautix
Which is kind of sad. Used to be the Beetle was a great economy car. Now it's an effeminate look-alike of its former self suitable for nostalgic hippie wannabes, and has the engine in the wrong place.
Thunder Chicken
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The Thunder Chicken Wagon is back on the road! My air conditioner now also works. :huh: I had thought that the magnetic clutch was failing, but it now seems that the alternator wasn't able to send enough juice to the coil for it to engage. Two fixes for the price of one!
I washed the car and took it on a nice evening drive with the windows down and the radio on, just because. I like it when disorder becomes orderly again.
I washed the car and took it on a nice evening drive with the windows down and the radio on, just because. I like it when disorder becomes orderly again.
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The only reason for buying a beetle today is that you think the Golf is too practical and not expensive enough.
I once owned a kit-car based on a '62 beetle but I never made it street legal. The engine was ruined so I decided just to have fun with it. A VW Transporter engine was a bit too much oumph, but it did some nice wheelies. :lol:
This guy went a bit further:
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ISProgram
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Um, wow, okay.
Well, in a severe case of Writer's Block with regards to writing material for my fictional space agency, so why not. Even though the Aquarius B1 + A-II launch vehicle project is on hold for a while, I've decided today to include a geostationary satellite which can be carried by the latter. So I began some work on it:
I'm affectionately calling it Rigel, based upon the the Mitsubishi DS2000 platform used for a few satellites as of now.
boogabooga
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Thunder Chicken
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Damn, that's a hard game. Easy to hit the barge, but explodes easily. Probably realistic.
ISProgram
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Space is hard.
Continuing from a post not too long ago, more progress on that geosat model I'm doing. Been working on the antenna payload, results are a bit mixed. Did a fit test. Here's how it looks from the front (the nubs peeking out are hardpoints which house the explosive bolts that hold the antennas snug to the body when not deployed:
And here's how it looks from the back, note the propulsion element, as well as the antenna struts. Couldn't find any useful references images for the struts unfortunately:
First model that's gotten to this level of completion in a long while, hopefully it'll look good when it's finished. Ok, this is a half-lie, first geosat model to get this far in a long while.
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