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"Only In America" No 64829 - A Car Kebab for $50,000
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Apr 14, 2008, 01:00 PM
 
Spindle Art Work In Berwyn Illinois - eBay (item 150235374926 end time Apr-17-08 15:07:46 PDT)

Yours for $50,000 (plus $100,000 shipping!)

Anyone in Illinois seen this thing?

It'll be much easier if you just comply.
     
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Apr 14, 2008, 01:01 PM
 
Somebody doesn't like Fords.
     
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Apr 14, 2008, 01:06 PM
 
What is the white stuff dripping on the third one from bottom?
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Apr 14, 2008, 01:09 PM
 
That’s the dressing.
     
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Apr 14, 2008, 01:46 PM
 
i remember this being in Wayne's World, now only if i had 150k and a big back yard...
     
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Apr 14, 2008, 01:47 PM
 
Originally Posted by klb5090 View Post
i remember this being in Wayne's World, now only if i had 150k and a big back yard...
... and a lack of good taste.
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Apr 14, 2008, 01:59 PM
 
Originally Posted by cjrivera View Post
... and a lack of good taste.
well i have that, so no worry there
     
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Apr 14, 2008, 09:42 PM
 
oh, a kebab of cars, not a car (that looks like a) kebab. How disappointing
     
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Apr 14, 2008, 09:47 PM
 
Originally Posted by MM-o4 View Post
oh, a kebab of cars, not a car (that looks like a) kebab. How disappointing
Wouldn’t that have been a kebab car, rather than a car kebab?
     
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Apr 15, 2008, 03:28 AM
 
Originally Posted by Oisín View Post
Wouldn’t that have been a kebab car, rather than a car kebab?
semantics
     
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Apr 15, 2008, 03:37 AM
 
Bad place to sky-dive.
     
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Apr 15, 2008, 04:37 AM
 
Originally Posted by MM-o4 View Post
semantics
It's Oisin. He's nothing BUT semantics.

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Apr 15, 2008, 08:13 AM
 
Originally Posted by - - e r i k - - View Post
It's Oisin. He's nothing BUT semantics.
That’s not true.

There’s a fair bit of etymology and pedantry, as well.
     
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Apr 15, 2008, 09:14 AM
 
Where did he get the giant iMac G4 base?
     
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Apr 15, 2008, 09:18 AM
 
Originally Posted by lpkmckenna View Post
Where did he get the giant iMac G4 base?
Who said those cars were real size ?

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Apr 15, 2008, 09:25 AM
 
Originally Posted by Dakar the Fourth View Post
Somebody doesn't like Fords.
Ford Bug?
     
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Apr 15, 2008, 09:27 AM
 
Do I really need to justify that?
     
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Apr 15, 2008, 07:21 PM
 
Originally Posted by Dakar the Fourth View Post
Do I really need to justify that?
You can now commend me for not posting EXACTLY what Eug did, no matter how close I came.
     
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Apr 15, 2008, 07:24 PM
 
You two can go in the back and make out then.
     
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Apr 15, 2008, 07:44 PM
 
Top down:

VW Bug
Audi???
Japaness something
Capri maybe?
Ford Mustang
GM something
Ford
Ford
     
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Apr 15, 2008, 07:46 PM
 
I think the second down is a BMW.
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Apr 15, 2008, 07:49 PM
 
oops, I was way off
1. 1967 VW, red
2. 1976 BMW, silver License Plate reads "DAVE"
3. 1981 Ford Escort, blue
4. 1974 or 1973 Mercury Capri, green
5. 1978 Ford Mustang, white over blue
6. 1981 Pontiac Grand Prix, maroon or burgundy
7. 1980 or 1979 Ford LTD, light yellow
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Apr 15, 2008, 07:50 PM
 
The one that shocked me was getting the Capri right.
     
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Apr 15, 2008, 08:07 PM
 
I'm not sure, but I think this is it:

Berwyn, Illinois car Kabob - Google Maps
     
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Apr 15, 2008, 10:31 PM
 


It would seem all that white stuff is bird sh!t.
     
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Apr 16, 2008, 12:08 PM
 
Bottom one is a Mercury Marquis. The white Mustang is actually a Mustang II.

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Apr 16, 2008, 09:37 PM
 
Originally Posted by Eug View Post
It would seem all that white stuff is bird sh!t.
Bingo!

When I drove an ambulance in Chicago we would hang out in that parking lot all the time.

The weird thing is that I just posted a picture of this on my facebook page right before the auction was posted even though I have had the picture for years. I remember photoshopping my ambulance into the middle of it too.
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Apr 16, 2008, 11:06 PM
 
Originally Posted by SSharon View Post
Bingo!

When I drove an ambulance in Chicago we would hang out in that parking lot all the time.

The weird thing is that I just posted a picture of this on my facebook page right before the auction was posted even though I have had the picture for years. I remember photoshopping my ambulance into the middle of it too.

Are you justifying the fact that EMTs are "ambulance drivers"? Or did you actually just "drive" an ambulance and nothing else? Lord, ten years of fighting has done me no good.
     
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Originally Posted by KeriVit View Post
Are you justifying the fact that EMTs are "ambulance drivers"? Or did you actually just "drive" an ambulance and nothing else? Lord, ten years of fighting has done me no good.
It just made more sense to me to say driving since it was in a parking lot. "while I was EMTing" doesn't sound right to me.
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