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Cars, Engines, and God's Body

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Lancia Flaminia Super Sport 2.8-Litre 3C 'Double Bubble' Coupé 1965. - source Moto Vitelloni - Wheels n' wings.

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Alberta never dies

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Who? What?

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Studebaker Avanti R2 1963. - source Amazing Classic Cars.

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The worst flatlands motel ever

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S12 I found by the James River, frozen in mud up to the oilpan.

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Wild horses in the foothills and hibernation creature

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Dogs love it when the skies yawn. They yawn too.

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But I'm going to tell you the truth. I've realized my poetry is mostly about me. And every poem has a name. This one is "How many times do u have to forgive me." And I hope that is something you find out for yourself. Because I don't think you are willing to accept that men suffer so deeply.

Autumn in the Pain House - John Doe

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This is a Cisitalia 202, a sports car designed by a little motorsports company in the 50's with a body commissioned from Vignale, a Turin coachbuilder. Its Fiat engine barely displaces more than a single liter and despite this, it would prove to be a capable and influential road racing car for privateers looking to dethrone their Alfa Romeo driving neighbors, as it marked a distinct shift in aerodynamic sensibility coming together with design in a road car.

The days of small companies making combustion cars are gone. Units like the 202 have been lobbied off of public roads by auto megacorps for decades. In a twisted, globalized authoritarian market, you can't make a company like Cisitalia make road cars anymore. The only hope you have is to submit to the reality of public equity, steal EV tech from Tesla, and build a blob that satisfies a niche within a niche. Slop for the open road.

That's part of the reason this little coupe has sold for hundreds of thousands of dollars at auction. Rich people also like rare things and a one of 170 sports coupe from a dead manufacturer with a body designed beat to shape by a dead coachwork house certainly fits the bill.

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I lived a life of dishonesty to myself as a youth, now as a man I bear the truth and it does me about just as awful.

May, 6, 2024

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Last Christmas I asked for an unraped lover and I haven't had a romantic altercation since