VintageRobot

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by VintageRobot 10mo ago
> As someone building a particularly stupid car in a genre almost but not entirely unlike the OP (a turbo LS1-swapped Rover P5), I have no idea why people do this stuff to a nice car like a Rover P5. It isn't my car though. > Sta
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by VintageRobot 10mo ago
> The friend who saw conspiracies everywhere built a following. Then an audience. Then a 7-figure income stream. That person is almost certainly a grifter. If I was dishonest enough to do it, I would to. It isn't that difficult if y
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by VintageRobot 10mo ago
> A lot of this goes away when you stop spending so much time on social media, which is a very poor reflection of "reality." It mainly "too much time of political social media". You can always tell. What you find is t
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by VintageRobot 10mo ago
There is a large number of people that appreciate being told the truth. That model actually works better over the long term. Grifting (which is what is often seen on social media platforms by many of the personalities) can give you large re
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by VintageRobot 10mo ago
You can't, unless you a Saudi billionaire. These things are completely custom, are hugely expensive (why they have sponsors all over them) and often they will have work lined up for literally years. You also wouldn't want one. The
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by VintageRobot 10mo ago
It isn't that simple. I've been learning to work on my own car over the last few years. I'm not even doing anything crazy just fixing up an older vehicle and modernising some parts of it (mainly interior). I had to fix the wi