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Caption This for 6/3/16

Posted June 02, 2016 4:45 PM by LakeGrl
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06/02/2016 5:02 PM

Dam Chinese imports on the road now-a-days

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06/02/2016 5:32 PM

When did Chevy come out with a truck version of the Cavalier?

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06/02/2016 5:37 PM

I asked for a convertible, not an invertible

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06/02/2016 5:52 PM

Some people really DO have too much time on their hands.
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06/02/2016 5:55 PM

Floyd was over half way through building his mail order car kit when he realized he was reading the print upside down

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06/02/2016 6:31 PM

When I said lets flip to see how gets the parking spot, I was referring to a coin.
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06/02/2016 10:24 PM

Then, all of a sudden, it went belly up, right there in the parking lot.

Never saw anything like it before or since.
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06/02/2016 10:55 PM

Chevy for Down Under driven in the Northern hemisphere . . .

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06/03/2016 10:57 AM

Dang, beat me to the Australia joke, GA for that.

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06/03/2016 12:41 AM

"If you think Roll Bars look too 'Red Neck' or cause too much wind resistance, we have The solution for you!"

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06/03/2016 1:30 AM

WHAT?? it was raining and I couldn't close the roof!

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06/03/2016 5:02 AM

Redneck Air Brakes.

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06/03/2016 5:26 AM

When I said I wanted to buy and flip a truck, this is not what I meant, sweetheart!!

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06/03/2016 5:39 AM

No way will this catch on. The government has declared that he has to pay road tax at the same rate as an eight wheeler.
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06/03/2016 6:22 AM

Now I am glad I did not enter the building with the notice "Roof top parking"

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06/03/2016 10:59 AM

This is cow tipping taken to a whole new level.
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06/03/2016 12:04 PM

That's not a Chevy, it's a 051F droF.

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06/03/2016 3:13 PM

You meant: It's a , but Good Answer anyway.

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06/03/2016 12:28 PM

Tony Stark 1.0

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06/03/2016 3:42 PM

OK,Joe,back to the drawing board on that new brake design...too much nose dive under hard braking.

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06/03/2016 4:49 PM

The space was marked "compacted"...

Oops, my bad.
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06/03/2016 10:47 PM

I wanted a low-rider not inverse rider......

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06/04/2016 2:06 PM

This makes it easy to rotate the tires.
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06/04/2016 2:34 PM

He told the garage that he couldn't get the engine to turn over. They said no problem, come back in an hour.

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06/05/2016 4:18 AM

The big boss at Ford said he wanted to turn the current idea of a small truck on it's head. The engineers did the rest.

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06/05/2016 7:56 PM

Chuckie chopped and channeled the chit! outta his Cheby.. Now no one! has a low rider lower than Chuckie..

"How low is it?"

Chuckie's low rider is Sooooo low that it's roof is lower than the running boards.

"Daaaaaaamn.. That's low.."

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06/06/2016 11:44 AM

''Whaaaaat...?

You think this was a challenge to build?...

You should have seeeeen all the bureaucratic paperwork I had to wrestle with to get it classified as street-legal...''

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