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The Star Wars Car
An anonymous reader writes "You think you're a Star Wars fan because you own a lightsaber? Behold, the Star Wars car. Some of the comments on the forum suggests that it's modelled after a A-Wing. One of the coolest "mods" I've seen in a long time, very original and time demanding it seems."
WTF is a lightsaver?
because you own a lightsaver
Ohh, lightsavers! I love those little sweet round things that melt in my mou... oh you meant _lightsaber_?
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because you own a lightsaver?
Yes, that swim-suited beauty lives in my top draw and leaps into action whenever she hears the cries of a light bulb in difficulty.
"Sighting: X-Wing... no wait, Civic Del Sol (56k don't bother)"
pictures are already frozen in carbonite
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
I see it has no back seat. Obviously the guy was smart enough to realise that he wouldn't be needing one.
Beep beep.
The owner of that garbage has still yet to see what a vagina looks like.
My favorite quote from the thread: "This guy has yet to see what a vagina looks like."
He needs to slap a big Type-R sticker on it. Then it would really be a chick magnet.
Cool paint adds 10 horsepower.
Rear spoilers add 30 hp.
Type R sticker == stick-on NOS
Hope this helps...
You underestimate the power of a thousand nerds clicking in unison. In the short time your reply took, you were beaten by 8 other people.
Can't wait to see what he does to his car after he sees a vagina.
The chicks.
...oh.
Ladies, move along, these are not the geeks you are looking for...
But, can it make the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs?
Who mediates your information?
Umm, yeah. ;)
I recall seeing a landspeeder on Ebay once... And a Moose once bit my sister...
What I don't understand about the rear spoiler is that the damn car is front wheel drive. Spoilers on the rear are there to produce more down-force to increase traction on rear wheel drive cars, they do absolutly nothing for front wheel drives. Well.... other then making the owner look like a totall moron (assuming he even needs any help with that).
Babe magnet, NOT this car is!
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
Sad-Fuckers-R-Us
Otherwise known as a switch. Proven to prolong the life of any light.
A rear spoiler does nothing for a regular car. At high speeds, a car, which is shaped like a plane wing (more or less) develops an upward force which can cause instability, particularly on wide banking turns. The spoiler will have the same effect whether the car is front or rear wheel drive, which in most cases is no effect, and in some cases where the car is going real fast in a straight line, a negative effect (particularly on front wheel drive cars) due to increased drag.
The rear spoiler is, in effect, a third nipple. Kind of neat to have, ugly to look at, functionally useless, and if it sticks out more than a little, should be removed by a qualified person as soon as possible.
10. Millenium Ford Falcon
9. Chewberetta
8. Car Car Binks
7. Chrysler Coruscant
6. An SUV called the "Natalie Sportman"
5. Tucker Photon Torpedo (oops, forgot, this is not Star Trek. Sorry)
4. Obi-Wan Cherokee
3. Darth Dodge Maulrauder
2. Tattoiyota
1. Cadillac EwoQ
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
Oh crap, I can hear the TSA changing my rating to "yellow" as I speak for this joke ...
"And a voice was screaming: 'Holy Jesus! What are these goddamn animals?'" - HST
OK, so those in the know will recognize a Star Wars symbol, but to the rest of the world I suspect the white, black, and red symbol looks like some kind of White Supremicist sign. I wonder if this guy gets a lot of dirty looks and thinks they're just from Star Trek fans.
I've found that my posts don't format quite right w/o a sig.
heh, looks a little on the dark side for my tastes.
You keep using that word "cool". I do not think it means what you think it means.
Apologies to Rob Reiner for the paraphrasing.
A very small red X-wing. In a box. I see lots of these on the Internet though - they are very popular on overstreched websites.
"It's not your information. It's information about you" - John Ford, Vice President, Equifax
Use a Delorean!
Then it will be a time machine too!
I thought guys expended money, time, and energy on cars in order to help them get laid.
Experimentally proven. The Lombard, IL police probably still wont bother attemtping to stop brown rustbucket cutlass supremes in their area.
Here are a few other things they don't understand:
The Honda Civic is not a fast car, even with ground effects
Girls think that the big wing on your trunk is compensation for a small penis (please see your email for assistance)
Whereas flashy colors assists the mating ritual for peacocks, it detracts from the efforts of humans
No, Mugen is not interested in sponsoring your tricked out Neon
We all know that the NOS meter on your dash is fake
You are no longer part of an underground movement (please see your local Blockbuster or EB for evidence)
perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5, (41*2), sqrt(7056), (unpack(c,H)-2), oct(115), 10)'
George Lucas, "All right, were the hell is R2D2s head!?"
If you could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people
I see it has no back seat. Obviously the guy was smart enough to realise that he wouldn't be needing one.
Apparently he's married (see other posts), but I'd also like to point out that there's more than one answer to "why no back seat?" besides "no woman will have me".
For example, "I don't live with my parents, so we can use an actual BED" comes to mind.
There are only 10 types of people: those who understand decimal, those who don't, and, uh, 8 other types I forget.
Obviously the only additional force the spoiler would add to any stationary car would be the downward force from the weight of the spoiler.
You must not have seen the spoilers we have around here, or else you'd have mentioned the tidal effects caused by the sheer mass.
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Is it just me, or does anyone else see a problem with putting potentially hard objects over the airbags (check the passenger side out, maybe the driver side too, forget) which will be flung towards your face at high speed in the event of a crash.
Kinda reminds me of my old car which had a big sticker on the visor which warned that you "should not place any objects between yourself and the airbag". Duh. I wonder how many people had their plans for putting a big sharp spike on their steering wheel airbag covered foiled due to that sticker.
"My old pontiac Fiero GT could easily out-do that... brought my top end to 165.7... (with) stock 6 cyl engine."
Oh yeah? Well I have a stock 95 Neon R/T, and it easily does 190 mph in my high school's parking lot no less!
You kids and your bullshit make-believe stories from weak cars, when will you ever learn.
burn Karma burn
my karma will be here long after I'm gone
Hi, I'm an American. Do it our way or I'll make fun of you on /. and get modded up. I've also got some wacky funny takes on the metric system and airline peanuts.