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It’s a boot but also a car

Created to continue the legacy and stylings of classic Art Deco Sports cars, Delahaye USA is a custom kit car brand based in the Southern United States. They make a variety of oddball kits, but their two big sellers are the Pacific (designed after the 1936 Bugatti Atlantic) and the “Bugnotti” (which is a homologation of various prewar designs with a lot of inspiration from the Auburn Boattail Speedster.) They sell you a fiberglass shell and have contacts that will provide other fabrication bits like metalwork or electrics. Both cars can take a variety of engines, including the Dodge Viper V10 and the BMW V12. Each car can be anywhere from approx. $65,000 to $200,000 depending on options and assembly. I want five of them.

The Gaylord Gladiator was a luxury car passion project intended to compete with Rolls-Royce and Cadillac. There are two currently in existence, a 1955 concept car (the one with the huge headlights) and a 1957 production convertible (the one with the quad headlights). They were assembled in the Gaylord-Zepplin factory and had power seats, windows, and chain-driven hard tops that retracted into the trunk area. The car had 305 hp and a 0-60 time of around 8 seconds. The seats were fully leather, the dashboard was made with rare tropical woods, the gauge needles were solid metal and designed to look like swords, and the spare tire slid out from under the trunk/hardtop storage area using some sort of power mechanism. The car costed $17,500 new, which is over $200,000 in today’s economy.

edit: it was called Gaylord because the guys who created it were the Gaylord brothers

IMPORTANT EDIT: I have been informed by the son of a man who restored this car and knew one of the Gaylord brothers that apparently the electric hard top convertible system was very unreliable and didn’t work well

I don’t have many jewelry repair tools, is it just ruined? It’s not an expensive ring, it’s costume jewelry really. I do not know what metal it’s made out of.

edit: autocorrect was being dumb and screwed up what I was saying

Please give advice

This was my great grandfathers, it is currently inoperable. I was gonna post this on the version of this sub for antique stuff but there’s more people here and I like attention

(15 M, 5’ 5”) 165lbs to 147lbs because I started eating vegetables and working out. I don’t do anything insane I just go on long walks about 4 times a week and I’ve stopped eating as much chips and candy in between meals. The goal is 137, so there’s still a bit to do, but this is good progress!

I saw it at a Cars and Coffee a few weeks ago and thought it was cool

Its weird how much this has endured in cartoons. Like Lorre died in 1964 and is now relatively obscure to the general public but to this day he is still parodied by various shows and is a reoccurring character in Spongebob of all things. Other examples are Corpse Bride, Looney Tunes, and The Simpsons

Despite being almost unanimously hated by critics, I quite enjoyed this film. It was directed by Dan Aykroyd starring him, Chevy Chase, and John Candy. Genere-wise, it’s a weird horror/comedy that’s filled with grotesque set design and makeup, and while the humor is mostly thoroughly mediocre, the film is so campy and absurd and I absolutely love it. Candy shines in the two roles he has, which are a sad cop who wants to leave the “family business” (kidnapping annd torturing criminals) and a drag role as a mute woman named Eldona who loves Chevy Chases character. Other characters include Aykroyd as an ancient Judge with a prosthetic penis for a nose, Chevy Chase as an arrogant banker, Tupac as himself, and Dan Aykroyd as an enormous morbidly obese baby-man.

The plot is virtually nonexistent, there is no sense in trying to explain it all, basically a bunch of yuppies get put in a hybrid of “House of 1000 Corpses”, Looney Tunes, and hell. There is cartoon physics mixed with brutal torture machines, geysers of fire/brimstone, and dark gross-out humor; it is very fun if you just want to turn off your brain and laugh for a while. Overall it was a solid 6/10, it was very campy and gross and fun but would have benefited from a more coherent tone and plot. I will say that I laughed my ass off during the hotdog scene, it was just so nasty and screwed up. Just good fun all around.

My hands/forearms are proportionally very small compared to the rest of me, it looks wonky.

I’ve lost 13 pounds and I’ve started taking better care of myself!

I’m trying to improve my appearance and style my hair but I have no idea how to even begin. what sort of low/medium-maintenance styles could I do? For context, I’m a teenage boy with a big forehead, I’m bisexual and rather flamboyant, and I like more retro hairstyles.