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A Day in the Yard: Creme de la Creme

Rice in the Junkyard
Posted February 8 2007 12:09 PM by presidential 
Filed under: Miscellaneous

Jetta rice

I was leafing through my SD memory card for my camera last night and I realized that there were some shots I didn't use from my last trip to the junkyard.  These were mostly comedy shots and "what on Earth were you thinking" shots.  The first car that caught my attention was a late '80's VW Jetta.



Steve LaValle, look out.  You've got some stiff competition with these hyper-realistic flip-flop flames.  The purple/green effect of the "flames" looked outstanding against the flat red paint, let me tell you.






Super Street banner Eclipse DSM


However gross the Jetta was, a true junkyard gem was parked next to it.  This is one of those cars that when you see it, several things happen:








  1. You laugh uncontrollably.
  2. You stop what you're doing and just stare.
  3. You attempt to psycho-analyze exactly what was going through the owner's head when he/she decided to do this to a car under the guise that "it looks so effin' cool."
  4. You take tons of pictures and post them to where all of your buddies can see them.








Eclipse DSM ricer 1
Eclipse DSM ricer 3









Being a smartass, I decided to do all four choices and here we are.  As evidenced by the "Super Street" window banner, this was obviously a car that was featured in a magazine.  Look at the style, look at the craftsmanship, look at the...OMG, look at the shaped styrofoam that is epoxied onto the side of the car and held together with A/C tape!  Oh, and look over there at the acres of unsanded Bondo.  Oooh oooh, don't forget the almost molded in fender vents...almost thought this little DSM was a M6 BMW for a second.

Eclipse DSM ricer 4


Finally, scope out the 13" baby Dayton wire wheels.  Can't forget about those...every performance car needs a set of reverse-offset wire wheels that stick out of the fenders.  Trust me, the junkyard is the best place for this thing.

I think I've punished everyone here long enough.  Hope you all had a good laugh or two.

~Craig

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