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    Yugo-Based Whalemobile Could Be Yours For Just 500 Bucks!

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    Image of TheronLolzor TheronLolzor
    07/25/09

    In reply to Yugo-Based Whalemobile Could Be Yours For Just 500 Bucks!
    I want the car! To bad the number is disconnected and no replys from email! Seriously. If anyone knows where Exactly the car is. I will buy it! Or any other one that looks like it.
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    urbanturban666 approved this comment TheronLolzor was starred TheronLolzor was unstarred
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    07/25/09

    In reply to Yugo-Based Whalemobile Could Be Yours For Just 500 Bucks!
    Being 1/4 Kentuckian I must remind everyone that Louisville is properly pronounced "Luh'vull" although other pronunciations are accepted as well.
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    07/25/09

    @discontinuuity: Nibbles is eating my image links. Better just go here:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisville,_Kentucky#Pronunciation
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    Image of SeanKHotay SeanKHotay
    07/25/09

    In reply to Yugo-Based Whalemobile Could Be Yours For Just 500 Bucks!
    First a shark for meth or crack, now a whale for child support.

    What's going to be foisted on the street's buying public next week? A killer whale for a US Presidential bid? You betcha!
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    Image of SeanKHotay SeanKHotay
    07/25/09

    In reply to Yugo-Based Whalemobile Could Be Yours For Just 500 Bucks!
    "A lever inside the cockpit controls the whale tail, and allows some up and down motion"

    There's no Lemons rules against movable aerodynamic devices ?
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    07/25/09

    @SeanKHotay: No, you might even win a prize!
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    Image of Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
    07/25/09


    @discontinuuity:Dangerous, Banned Technology is a very competitive category. A leafblower supercharger, using its own separate engine won at Stafford.

    Most of the Aero mods seem to be counterproductive, and any movement is a product of their flimsiness. Besides, with a top speed of less than 80 mph, you can't produce all that much downforce, no matter what you tried to do. Check the rear spoiler/diffuser on the #27 SAAB.
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    Image of Number_Six Number_Six
    07/25/09

    In reply to Yugo-Based Whalemobile Could Be Yours For Just 500 Bucks!
    Whales strike me as being of much more serious disposition than the face possessed by this Balkan masterpiece.
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    07/25/09

    In reply to Yugo-Based Whalemobile Could Be Yours For Just 500 Bucks!
    Best line in the ad: "otherwise perfect 1986 Yugo Cabrio." Yeah, because those were rare and wondrous gems that had no faults or defects or drawbacks or limitations or shortcomings or issues or serious issues. In fact, I think they should use a rating system like that in clinical trials-- AE = adverse event and SAE = serious adverse event (which is also the euphemism for 'death').
    This is SAE on top of an AE.

    On second thought, I like the idea that the whale needs tires. Is he still running the originals?
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    Image of Alf, in pog form Alf, in pog form
    07/25/09

    @Novaload Misses Murilee: There's nothing more dangerous than a whale car that's running on worn blubber - hitting a wet road could krill you.
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    something_unique_and_descriptive promoted this comment Edited by Alf, in pog form at 07/25/09 10:23 AM Alf, in pog form was starred Alf, in pog form was unstarred
    Image of joneez wants the clunkers he paid for joneez wants the clunkers he paid for
    07/25/09

    @Novaload Misses Murilee: Yea. Fine Italian engine and electrics in a car produced as cheaply as possible by drunk 'Slavs. What could go wrong there?

    Disclaimer: I used to own its illigitimate cousin the X-1/9 and loved it for all its faults.
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    Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet promoted this comment joneez wants the clunkers he paid for was starred joneez wants the clunkers he paid for was unstarred
    Image of diskreet diskreet
    07/25/09

    In reply to Yugo-Based Whalemobile Could Be Yours For Just 500 Bucks!
    Am I the only one who absolutely adores this car! If I have a cheap way of getting it up to PA, I'd buy it right now.
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    urbanturban666 promoted this comment diskreet was starred diskreet was unstarred
    Image of Alf, in pog form Alf, in pog form
    07/25/09

    @diskreet: You could probably sneak it home by using back roads - just stay as close to the sea as you possibly can to minimize suspicion.
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    Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet promoted this comment Alf, in pog form was starred Alf, in pog form was unstarred
    Image of Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
    07/25/09

    @Alf, in pog form: Better be careful when you get close to fishing villages. It's a little like making your truck look like an elk in Montana.
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    Image of skaycog skaycog
    07/25/09

    In reply to Yugo-Based Whalemobile Could Be Yours For Just 500 Bucks!

    Unbelievable what people will build.
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    Image of Syrax Syrax
    07/25/09

    @skaycog 0.0: Hey, I want my candy! :)
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    Image of skaycog skaycog
    07/25/09

    @Syrax: Come here, little boy.
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    Image of skaycog skaycog
    07/25/09


    @Syrax: Come closer, little boy!
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    Image of Syrax Syrax
    07/25/09

    @skaycog 0.0: TWIX!!
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    Image of skaycog skaycog
    07/25/09


    @Syrax: Is Twixted close enough?
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    Image of Syrax Syrax
    07/25/09

    @skaycog 0.0: Even better!
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    Image of Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
    07/25/09

    In reply to Yugo-Based Whalemobile Could Be Yours For Just 500 Bucks!
    I'd be fascinated to know the full, chemically assisted, train of thought to led to this massive leap of intuition and creativity. When life gives you Yugos, make a whale!

    I've never known that there were Yugo convertibles, and the thought of putting a top on seems sort of wrong, in any circumstance. But the fellow deserves a lot of credit for having the inspiration, effort and follow through to pull this off.

    But why build Fudgie the Whale, when you could have had Cookie Puss?
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    Image of tonyola tonyola
    07/25/09

    @Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet: Yep, Yugo offered a convertible on the US market beginning in 1988 (the ad states 1986, possibly an error). However, by 1988, sales of Yugos were plummeting because of the ever-spreading bad reputation. I've never seen a Yugo convertible outside of an auto show that I attended in late '88.

    I've never heard of Cookie Puss until now, so I did a bit of online checking and...yikes! I'm glad my parents never subjected me to this when I was a small child. This is the sort of thing that would have scarred me for life - well, more scarred than I already am. Those demonic eyes....
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    Image of Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
    07/25/09


    @tonyola: Thanks. That verts not so bad. Except for all the Yugo-ey bits.

    See also:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VG31w1bub48
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    Image of Alf, in pog form Alf, in pog form
    07/25/09

    In reply to Yugo-Based Whalemobile Could Be Yours For Just 500 Bucks!

    Buy the whale car at your own peril. The highway is a harsh mistress.
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    Andy Wallwhore promoted this comment Alf, in pog form was starred Alf, in pog form was unstarred
    Image of Novaload Novaload
    07/25/09

    @Alf, in pog form: Yes, this is an important principle in life--yin/yang, matter/anti-matter, life/death, crazy/crazy--oh, wait.
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    Image of ClaudePraeconinus ClaudePraeconinus
    07/25/09

    In reply to Yugo-Based Whalemobile Could Be Yours For Just 500 Bucks!
    I would drive that to school every day, proudly.

    People would ask me, "Chris, why do you ride to school in a giant whale?"

    And I'll tell them, "It's no whale, it's your mother!" Then I would run away and avoid the rest of the conversation. Thus becoming the whale kid at school.

    I'd also probably win best ride in the yearbook.
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    Murilee Martin promoted this comment skitter approved this comment ClaudePraeconinus was starred ClaudePraeconinus was unstarred
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