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MARCH MOPAR MADNESS SALE

Reader Raffioli is selling a beautiful Holley-equipped Chrysler slant-six engine – attached to an actual Chrysler Valiant! The whole deal is going extra cheap because a hippie used to live in it. Bid NOW!

Posted by Tim B. on 03/27/2005 at 10:53 AM
  1. It looks like ebay pulled the plug.  ;(

    Posted by Bruce Rheinstein on 2005 03 27 at 12:40 PM • permalink


  2. new link invalid as well…

    Posted by guinsPen on 2005 03 27 at 01:51 PM • permalink

  3. guinsPen

    Try “copy-‘n-paste”, it worked for me.

    Posted by Spiny Norman on 2005 03 27 at 02:04 PM • permalink

  4. The link works if you cut and paste it.  I’m not sure why anyone would want an old Mopar slant six, and I can’t imagine wanting the car.

    Posted by Bruce Rheinstein on 2005 03 27 at 02:05 PM • permalink

  5. Damn.  I’da been more interested if he hadn’t lost the hippie…

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 03 27 at 02:11 PM • permalink

  6. Bruce,

    I had a girlfriend a few years ago that had an Valiant. She loved the silly old thing: parts for it were cheap and the car was so simple even she could work on it.

    Posted by Spiny Norman on 2005 03 27 at 02:12 PM • permalink

  7. ...either “an old” or “a”... I can’t decide!

    Preview is my friend.

    Posted by Spiny Norman on 2005 03 27 at 02:13 PM • permalink

  8. Every link from this site has “http://timblair.net/ee/index.php?URL=”  attached in front of it, and some sites don’t accept that reference.

    In general, Copy Link Location, paste into browser, erase that header part, and go there.

    I wonder what will happen to the link segment above.

    Posted by rhhardin on 2005 03 27 at 02:34 PM • permalink

  9. Every link from this site has “http://timblair.net/ee/index.php?URL=â€? attached in front of it…

    Out of curiosity, is there a compelling reason to design the site that way? I don’t see any advantage it offers that couldn’t be had by logging.

    Posted by Otter on 2005 03 27 at 05:29 PM • permalink

  10. Well, now, that’s a pity. Decent price, I’ve got a battery, and I could even drive it home except for the water crossing :-) Got a pickup truck that could use a motor.

    Regards,
    Ric
    [in Texas, USA]

    Posted by Ric Locke on 2005 03 27 at 05:51 PM • permalink

  11. The link redirector is just broken. It strips of everything after the first & which of course screws everything up.

    Obviously it simply takes the URL parameter of the GET request and doesn’t bother checking to see if maybe the target URL actually contains parameters itself. It doesn’t seem to bother actually escaping special characters such as &, =, and ; that mean something in the query path of the URL when generating the link in the first place.

    I suggest that part of the code was written by an idiot who doesn’t understand the simple workings of HTTP and didn’t bother reading up on it before hacking up some crappy code. That doen’t bode well for the rest of the code especially from a security perspective. And they have the balls to charge money for this garbage?

    Posted by sam on 2005 03 27 at 07:26 PM • permalink

  12. You’re right. That’s really slack programming. All parameters (that is stuff like page or item reference on eBay etc) are stripped, so presumably you can only point to a fixed HTML page. Which excludes almost all modern web links.

    Posted by Henry boy on 2005 03 27 at 08:15 PM • permalink

  13. Hey Bruce, maybe Wog Blog could bid for what are affectionately known as Wog Chariots.
    Stevo

    Posted by Stevo on 2005 03 27 at 10:51 PM • permalink

  14. I’m also pissed about the redirect thing. I have to go into to any entry that has these sort of urls and handcode the settings with things like

    &amp

    to make it recognize the “&” symbols… I’m surprised that Expression Engine does this, and I can’t seem to find a satisfactory fix on their support forums.

    Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2005 03 27 at 11:50 PM • permalink

  15. Motherfucker!

    I meant the “% 26” without the space. Goddammit preview is my friend.

    Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2005 03 27 at 11:50 PM • permalink

  16. <sarcasm> Careful that language could get you banned <sarcasm off>

    “By registering at this site you agree not to post any messages that are obscene, vulgar, slanderous, hateful, threatening, or that violate any laws.  We will permanently ban all users who do so.”

    Posted by alan on 2005 03 28 at 12:05 AM • permalink

  17. Umm, as Administrator, can’t you go back and edit your posts? :)

    Oh, and just so you know, the server time seems to be off. For example, my computer is telling me it’s 14 minutes after the hour as I post this.

    Posted by david on 2005 03 28 at 12:14 AM • permalink

  18. “Wog chariots”

    Oh man, Chrysler must have loved that moniker.  Does it apply to all Valiants, or just station wagons?

    Posted by Bruce Rheinstein on 2005 03 28 at 12:36 AM • permalink

  19. alan, do you have some sort of problem?

    Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2005 03 28 at 01:03 AM • permalink

  20. that raffioli! wow! he tried to shove it to ‘the man’ (ebay) by subverting the dominant capitalist paradigm but like, it backfired and now the fa$ci$t$ have forced him to like put the wagon out on the street with a 4 $ale on it. now he’$ part of the ‘running pig dog capitalist $y$tem’! that$ heavy.

    Posted by Lucky Nutsacks on 2005 03 28 at 01:29 AM • permalink

  21. Bruce
    I think it applied to all Valiants back in the 70s, the term was more derisory than affectionate. Migrants tended to flock to the Valiant, rather than the eqivalent Ford or (GM) Holden car. Funny thing is, I think the Valiant was a better car.  They tend to be more collectable.  I’ve had some involvement with Valiants but never owned one.  My neighbour sold his AP6 at Christmas, the car had been in his family since new, I think from about 1965.  My late grandfather also went and bought a metallic purple Charger 770 in about 1975 with his young grandson’s strong advice (me). The family thought he was crazy, I thought he was cool.
    Stevo

    Posted by Stevo on 2005 03 28 at 01:38 AM • permalink

  22. Any old Chrysler motor is a safe bet (I say that as a devout Chevy man myself).

    One of my highschool buddies, in the mid-eighties, had a parent provided 1972 Plymouth Satellite with the 318 cube engine.

    He truly beat the hell of that car, in the form of drag racing, Batman turns, curb jumping and “spinning shittys” on frozen lake surfaces.

    Due to lack of funds, he let the oil level run down until that poor motor squeeled in protest. His fix involved turning up the tinny AM radio to mask the pleads for lubrication until the arrival of his next meager paycheck.

    Another friend had a 1973 Cuda, with the 440 6-pack (6 barrel carb.) It wasnt super fast off the line but once you passed twenty miles an hour…oh jebus, hang on.

    It could pass anything but a gas station.

    Good times.

    Posted by Thomas on 2005 03 28 at 02:24 AM • permalink

  23. wow what a chick magnet - buy that & margo’s yours for sure

    Posted by KK on 2005 03 28 at 02:33 AM • permalink

  24. Nah, KK, you’d only pull Margo if the wagon had i) a poorly hand painted Leunig cartoon on the bonnet, ii) No Thappy John emblazoned across the tail gate, and iii) a bucket of urine to demonstrate your commitment to a flush-only-for-turds policy.

    Posted by Hanyu on 2005 03 28 at 02:41 AM • permalink

  25. Hanyu - bwhahahahahahhahahaha!

    That’s humour!

    Posted by James Waterton on 2005 03 28 at 06:16 AM • permalink

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