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Jalopnik 
02/20/09
You dig? I will attract a morbidly obese CEO? No. The car will. I don't want to know what kind of men will buy these ten cars...I want to know what kind of men I will pick up if I am behind the wheel of one.
Write the equivalent of the other article. I have a feeling that if I drive an italian import, I will attract an impoverished young man seeking a job as a houseboy, personally.
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Or an Amerigasm Edition.
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02/18/09
Anyway... what sort of guys are attracted by a well-kept Volvo 240? Inquiring minds and all that.
02/18/09
Attracts
Also, I object to the Miata, however great it drives. Even if you were to slap a Bocephus sticker on it, Jerry still drove a 442.
02/18/09
As far as a girl having a great car knowledge or being able to drive a stick, she really dosen't need to know those things. It's just more to teach her.
Also, I would say that I would date about any girl with a Caterham. What can I say?
02/18/09
02/18/09
Fresh code, proper spelling, be happy.
02/18/09
By the way, I damn well know the difference between an ratchet and a spanner, yet my SRS light keeps blinking. (emergency braking behind some dipshit in Hartford - with no contact). I don't think either one would help as much as a little piece of electrical tape over the warning light. Also, my low oil warning light is on; oil fill is always full to the line... I can't wait until all cars are fully electric.
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If my high school years (as well as the boyfriends of girls I had crushes on) were any indication, those who drove jacked-up trucks weren't rednecks, because I'm not in New Hampshire, but merely fat stoner kids who listened to heavy metal and hung out with goths but didn't believe in putting on eyeliner and leaving notebooks of their Emily-Dickinson-inspired poetry around.
One guy I knew ended up selling his YJ Wrangler after it died on him for the umpteenth time. What did he buy to replace it? A bright red New Beetle. At least he still listens to Killswitch Engage and speeds a lot.
Also, Japanese rice rockets are so overplayed that not even Asian guys drive them anymore. They've moved onto BMWs and Benzos (or in this Asian guy's case, old Japanese motorcycles - true "rice rockets").
02/18/09
Attracts:
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Illusive Automobile Journalist
1/2 man, 1/2 dragon, 1/2 machine...making it an improper fraction. So that's three halves of a creature, one-half mythical creature. It's surprisingly graceful and very rare.
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Dodge Durango anyone?
02/18/09
Not that I think about this kind of thing often at all.
02/18/09
Badass is an acceptable answer as my car is white.
I will click the little heart thing next to your name because you know who Adora Belle Dearhart is. My first Jalopnik friend!
02/18/09
of course since it doesn't seem to matter which car I'm in, maybe I'm the one attracting the wrong ones.. nah, it's gotta be the guys fault.. :)
02/18/09
"I sometimes drive a Lambo, sometimes a Ferrari..."
Will you adopt me? I'm very low maintenance.
02/18/09
lol.. There's a few women out here who enjoy fun cars. The local president of our region of the Lambo Club has a Murci roadster and it's hers, she traded in her Gallardo for it like a year ago.
I've met a few girls who wrench on their own cars at some of the import events and my girlfriend Kim and I restored a 1974 Lambo together we co-own..
We are in Chicago area and many of us get together for drives all summer. Some pics from one of our drives last year here: [www.nsxprime.com] I'm a computer network and systems admin..
Thanks shenanigans, there's a couple pics of the BMW powered replica at the link too
02/18/09
Is your Lambo in this group of photos? What an amazing collection!
02/18/09
lol, there's some video out there from that day too
here:
and here: [vimeo.com]
No, the Lambo is not in that group of pics, I'm heading out of the office, will post from home later
Chelle
02/18/09
... and my girlfriend Kim and I ...
There it is... you just knew it was too good to be true.
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Has to be.
02/18/09
a "reverse troll"? no idea what that means.. but here's some online shots of our Lambo.. on the registry Kim and I restored it and still own it. [lamborghiniregistry.com]
I did some mechanical, the bodywork, paint, and interior, Kim did mechanical, electrical and some fabrication. I'm pretty well known in obscure collector car circles..
we're both just big fans of interesting cars
02/19/09
"Reverse-troll" would be to post something super awesome that everyone freaks out over, but is similarly false.
(Basically, I'm saying you're too good to be true.)
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@Syrax:
no, that's the BMW V12 powered replica 250GTO I made. It is RHD and has a dry sump M70 and 850csi 6-speed, though this winter it has been evolving some..
02/19/09
Seriously though, love your cars & maybe I will see them this summer. I live close enough to Chicago that a day trip to drool on exotics could be arranged.
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middle management man is my kind of guy. if he looks like the photo you posted i don't care if he knows how to pump his own gas or not. guys like that are the reason i get lunch in birmingham.
honest working man is always handy, sometimes handsome too. the interiors of their vans or trucks can be really dirty, though.
thanks for confirming my suspicions that a fast little two seater would attract the right kind of guy. guys who race are extremely sexy, imo.