The Fail Thread

[go-fish]

This link is worth a look. Quality rice inside.

http://zilvia.net/f/off-topic-chat/321517-carlisle-2010-pictures-what-you-missed.html

[syclonetommy]

I love it,:) lots nice rides in there.


Tom Argue

[69Pony]

There's a reason why the state is known as Pennsytucky (sorry for the dig on Kentuckians)

Also, remember this is the generation that will covering our Social Security - I feel so confident!

[twosaturns]

There's a reason why the state is known as Pennsytucky (sorry for the dig on Kentuckians)


hey now, I resemble that comment!
the middle of the state is a bit like WVA, but the car shows draw idiots from all the surrounding states also.
there's rednecks and poor white trash everywhere.

[70fireturd]

WOW!!!! I never knew that was possible. So many fake buttons, cheap carbon fiber stickers, and duct taped body kits. I thought that was a car show not a gathering of brilliant scholars. Thank you for the the laugh, I needed that.

[WS6]

The OP's bimmer is bada$$

[novaderrik]

it's fun to make fun of other people that do the best with what they have on hand and what they know how to do.
i'm sure everyone on here has owned nothing but magazine cover quality rides..

[Vicinity]

it's fun to make fun of other people that do the best with what they have on hand and what they know how to do.
i'm sure everyone on here has owned nothing but magazine cover quality rides..

I'm 20, and I have never owned or built anything that bad. I know most of those people are my age, only reason I referenced that.

[go-fish]

it's fun to make fun of other people that do the best with what they have on hand and what they know how to do.
i'm sure everyone on here has owned nothing but magazine cover quality rides..

Somebody should tell them the best they have on hand isn't good enough and they should keep it stock until they have better. As far as what they know how to do? Shouldn't be getting their reference material from Fast N' Furious. I went to Automotive Technology at the local VoTech when I was a kid and read as many car magazine "How To's" as I could, even if it was on cars that I had little interest in.
C'mon, they can do better. What they're doing is called being lazy and living in a fantasy, cheap Hollywood movie inspired, fake rebellious car culture.

[novaderrik]

Somebody should tell them the best they have on hand isn't good enough and they should keep it stock until they have better. As far as what they know how to do? Shouldn't be getting their reference material from Fast N' Furious. I went to Automotive Technology at the local VoTech when I was a kid and read as many car magazine "How To's" as I could, even if it was on cars that I had little interest in.
C'mon, they can do better. What they're doing is called being lazy and living in a fantasy, cheap Hollywood movie inspired, fake rebellious car culture.


what they are doing is what they know and what they have been exposed to, and most importantly what they can afford.
i might not personally like what they are doing, but it's good to see that they are trying to do something. and it's not like they are wrecking the future collector car market by modifying Neons, Cavaliers, and Hondas.
i was born in october of 1974- i grew up in a family that had big American rwd cars that were made primarily out of steel and powered by big V8 engines. i remember running around in the back of the family's Impala wagon while we drove down the road and my dad somehow being able to smack us around from the driver's seat (without the car swerving at all) if we got a it unruly in the back seat of the 73 Monte Carlo.
i grew up with the big old American iron, so that's what i own and that's what i build.
but people born half a decade after me probably grew up with smaller front wheel drive cars with lots of plastic parts that were powered by 4 and 6 cylinder engines. it's what they know and what they are comfortable with, and they usually do the best they can with what they've got.
and getting inspiration from movies and tv is nothing new- when you see a well done replica of the General Lee, do you mock the owner for having the bad taste to paint a flag on the roof of an orange car, or do you instantly remember watching the Dukes of Hazzard when you were a kid? if you see a Tri five Chevy done up like the car in 2 lane blacktop do you think that it looks Cheesy? how about an old Mustang done up Bullitt style? does a yellow 32 Ford street rod make you think of American Graffiti, or do you just notice how utterly impractical it is as a real car?
the Fast and Furious movies are like that for the younger crowd. it's what was popular when they were coming of age.

[slownova73]

^^ well said sir!

[go-fish]

Derrik,
I think you grossly misunderstand me. I was not referring to any newer model car with a plastic bumper when I said they should "wait until they have something better". I was referring to putting fake switches and buttons in cars or the guy with 4 (fake) tv's in his dash and sun visors.

If you look at the OP's cars they are fantastic. He probably didn't shop at the Autozone sticker section for his performance upgrades. Like anything that is looked upon as quality, cars require an investment of time and money, spent well.

Take a book, for example, if you have a masterpiece the author has started with a vision and taken the time to mold it into the body of work it is. It takes him a great deal of time to arrange the words,the story line and proof read. It could take him several times.

If you have a lazy author, you never even hear about the book because it doesn't get published. He didn't take his time, maybe he did, it doesn't reflect it. The work is lazy. There are misspellings, the story is all jumbled up and it doesn't make a lick of sense. Nobody is interested in it and the worst criticism it draws is from other authors because they, more than anyone else, are ashamed that that person carries the same title as them, author.

Writing a book or building a car, any car, takes time, skill, and a monetary investment. The hardest being Monetary for these people apparently, it's mine too. The difference is I wait until I save up the money to buy that suspension system or the supercharger. The jokers in the thread at Carlisle want a suspension kit or boosted engine and go to the quickest and cheapest route just as long as they, in the end, have something, anything, done. As long as it looks .......half way decent (to them) they'll roll with it.

Electric superchargers on the late model Impala, really??? They don't have the dedication to their hobby to save a few thousand dollars for a real supercharger kit? Laziness!!! If I chose to fix up an Impala I would rather drive it around in stock form while letting my supercharger fund grow than throw away a single dime toward a plastic, electric, faux supercharger that puts out no boost. It's cheap, it's tacky, and alot of that crap in the pictures is dangerous and worst of all you are defending it.

Yeah, OK, I can see your point about emulating a movie. I would love to have a to have a Two Lane '55. Why would I want anything fake on it though. Let's just say it had wheelie bars on it in the film. There's no way in hell I would fabricate some wheelie bars out of PVC pipe. The difference is....... They would!!! Making do with what you got is one thing but taking the fast and cheap way out always results in lazy work that gets you laughed at, in our hobby (ALL cars, new or classic), in literature, in business, in anything.

I have seen many cars of that genre very tastefully done. I want some of the cars from that genre. The abortions from the Zilvia thread get made fun of by the people that own and build the cars that are done right. I showed the thread to a friend of mine who is full blown into Honda and Acura performance. He laughed his azz off. You know, he doesn't have the money for an NSX but his cars always have been tasteful and nothing like the Carlisle pics.

Bottom line Derrik, if you use shop vac hose as a cold air intake it isn't "making do" it called being fuggin' stupid and lazy!

[wmhjr]

I agree with the last post. I've got nothing against imports. I've got "kind of" friends who have some really well thought out rides. WRXs and the like aren't my cup of tea (or bottle of beer) but no problem. It doesn't take a tycoon or mechanical genius to just not be sloppy or to not just plaster fake lights or switches all over a car. So, I've got nothing against the guys who put ground effects kits on their car with a little care even if the car only makes 120hp. But I'll laugh all day long at the epilectic fit inducing light shows stuck all over a beat to death and poorly maintained ricer.

The thread is even made more funny because of the narrative. Great find.

[shmoov69]

An example. I really like piano music. I really try to play the panio, but don't know how. I'm really giving it my all and doing my best at trying to do good. But no matter how hard I try.....I STILL SUCK!!

[wmhjr]

An example. I really like piano music. I really try to play the panio, but don't know how. I'm really giving it my all and doing my best at trying to do good. But no matter how hard I try.....I STILL SUCK!!

Try this analogy. I wouldn't make fun of you for trying but not being able to play. I would make fun of you if you also put blinking LED lights on all the keys with double sided tape, stuck fake organ tubes on top of the piano and sat on a throne while playing.

[Jim Nilsen]

You guys are going to give me a mental comlpex about what I have done lately,LOL.

I put 2 switches on my center dash that were not functional at first, now they operate my wideband data logger. Lucky I got that done before you guys laughed.

I have some LED's that are going in a predetermined place no one seems to have thought of yet, you won't see them until they are on at night but I sure hope you aren't going to laugh at them? I am hoping that FAIL doesn't come to mind when others see it because the reason they are going on the car is all of the FAIL I grew up with in the 60's when cars got t-boned and hit in the rear from the side. So we will see?

The thought of having a rear seat in my car has come to the BIG FAIL. Finding room to get back there to install it keeps it from happening evertime I get that cramp trying to measure it all up,LOL

[Takid455]

https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2010/05/EpicFail-1.jpg

[TonyL]

I got a good laugh at it. Now, there's nothing wrong with "doing the best you can with what you have" But there IS something wrong with being proud of this.

https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2010/05/carlisle2010032-1.jpg

this guys KNOWS it's a pile of crap. and showed up at a car show with it.

For the record. My car *is* a scuffed and puffed pile of crap that I cobbled together in a few weekends.

[TonyL]

I mean THE SPOILER IS ON UPSIDE DOWN.

This car is the ultimate "in real life" Troll ever.

Nicely done guy.
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2010/05/carlisle2010034-1.jpg

[shmoov69]

Try this analogy. I wouldn't make fun of you for trying but not being able to play. I would make fun of you if you also put blinking LED lights on all the keys with double sided tape, stuck fake organ tubes on top of the piano and sat on a throne while playing.


That would be a sweeeet piano with pipes and all! Lol!

Tony, don't you know that FWD cars need UPforce, not DOWNforce!! Lol

[crustysack]

That stuff is awesome and the writers comments are a riot- I will try and get a picture of the dodge neon in my neighborhood with the complete whiteout paint job (even the weather stripping is painted) with the full 3" PVC roll cage .I laugh my ass off every time he drives by

[novaderrik]

Bottom line Derrik, if you use shop vac hose as a cold air intake it isn't "making do" it called being fuggin' stupid and lazy!

you'd probably love the ram air system i have on my 74 Monte Carlo- it's made out of dryer vent that goes from under the front bumper to my home made dual snorkel air cleaner. it aint pretty, but it works. my fuel economy numbers and the amount of bugs i find splattered on the air cleaner element tell me that it works. and for me and for that particular car, it's good enough.

https://static1.pt-content.com/images/noimg.gif

i'm trying to think of something cleaner that i can cobble together for next to nothing and using junkyard parts, but in the meantime it works.
my car also has real Ansen slots on it just like the race cars of the early 70's- big in the back, little in the front- but is painfully slow. but the Flowmaster mufflers make nice noises while it goes slow and people always want me to attempt a burnout when i go out cruising.

https://static1.pt-content.com/images/noimg.gif

it is the 70's domestic equivalent of rice, but dammit, it's my rice and it is built with the best parts i got for next to nothing and it is as good as i can make it without throwing money at it.

[69lsxamx]

I liked the skyline and lotus other than the stupid sticker on the lotus. I would never buy one though. All the rest are Stupid At least they are screwing up worthless cars