What to do with the civic...

[GrilledCheese33]

awesome, can't wait for the vids!

[PantherRacer]

Patiently waiting for the vids to come out

[GrilledCheese33]

BUMP, still patiently awaiting videos!

[skylinedreams]

need videos i can't take this anticipation

[GrilledCheese33]

i know how you feel

[PantherRacer]

We Want Vids!!!!!

[HijackTheLeft]

I know I know.... Trust me, nobody is more anxiously waiting this than I am. I'm hoping to do it Sunday.

It's just extremely hard finding the right place. I'm thinking it will probably have to be a bunch of different places... play around in this parking lot for a few minutes, then move on before the cops get called.

Not to mention that everyone that I try to talk about it to thinks I'm a retard. But even if I have to set the camera up on a tripod and do it myself, it will get done.

[GrilledCheese33]

awesome, i can't wait

[eds13]

what to do with the civic.......... I know!! What you do is get a full tank of gas. then take about 5 gallons of gas, pour it all over the interior. then get a match, strike it and enjoy! lol seriously i think the best thing is keep it for a daily driver or sell it for parts for the 240!

[GrilledCheese33]

If you read the whole thing you would know he got divorced and it robbed his credit and he has to turn it in at the dealer, thats his only option with the civic, so hes gonna have some fun with it

[Ni2s4s0aSnX]

burn it, crush, hit it with a hammer, drive it off a cliff, something like that

[PantherRacer]

see post above yours lolol

[VSJA1725]

lol i need to see these videos man, god u killing me hea!!

[GrilledCheese33]

Today is the big day!

[HijackTheLeft]

mannn... I know this makes me seem like one of those people who promise big things just for attention and dont deliver, but I couldn't do it yesterday.

My family threw me a surprise birthday party and ruined any chance of me being able to go out and do anything. I work 2-11 all week, so it will have to be either this weekend or sometime next week.

I have never been so pissed off about having a birthday party.

The camera's charged. I have gas in the civic. I have the cd i want playing in the stereo. I even have the intro to the video done. I made sure to show off my 240.

[GrilledCheese33]

man that sucks, but i understand, just try and pull it off asap, god the anticipation!!!!

[skylinedreams]

man that sucks, but i understand, just try and pull it off asap, god the anticipation!!!!

agreed hurry the hell up i need something to laugh at for a change.

[KaTdaToplesS13]

jeeze... it's still a car, besides if there weren't hondas then there'd be ALOT more riced out 240's... better to have the civics riced than the 240's right ? O_o

[HijackTheLeft]

It is done. I have one whole minute of $hitty video. We destroyed the lunch trays. I even used sheets of metal around the trays, but they got holes in them too. Next time, and I do mean next time, I will have to invest in thicker metal. I just need to get the video off my camcorder and onto my computer.

Well now all I need is a good free program that doesnt require firewire. Any suggestions???

[HijackTheLeft]

Alright, I got the video uploaded and compressed. Somewhere, somehow, I lost audio. Some people may be glad, but others, like myself, will long for the musical sounds of steel scraping and tires screaming in agony. Well, I compressed the video down from 28mb to something like 4.4mb with no real loss in quality, thanks to a free trial of Ashampoo Movie Shrink and Burn2.

First, a recount of the afternoon's events... We drove around Richmond searching for the perfect place, and we found a mostly abandoned mall. Cloverleaf, for those familiar with the area. So we drove around to the side parking lot which is about 90% hidden from view from the road. Well, the only problem is there's a Pontiac Sunfire driving around back there. So we stopped and got the lunch trays, steel sheets, and contact cement out of the trunk. We adhered the trays to the steel sheets and folded the ends of the sheets up over the trays so they dont slide out. (Basically useless unless you can do all 4 sides like that) But anyway, so we're standing on the lunch trays to "apply pressure" and the sunfire drives right by us and its a mother and daughter doing home drivers ed classes, and theyre looking at us like we're crazy just because we're two guys in the middle of an abandoned mall parking lot randomly standing on lunch trays having a conversation. Go figure.

Well, we decided that we probably shouldnt do it there, because they didn't seem to be leaving anytime soon, so we drove around to the back, which is totally hidden and even bigger and more open. The perfect spot. We gave it one test run with the trays under the tires and it worked like a charm. The only problem was that the trays were already ruined. We made them last a little longer and managed to capture 1 minute of video before the trays were just obliterated. They're not even shredded, they're just melted from the heat from the metal sheets.

After we destroyed our working materials, we decided to just have fun in the parking lot, so we practiced drifting, donuts, etc. which we didnt get on tape cuz we both wanted to be in the car. So oh well. i will definately try to get out there and do this again with some stronger metal and make a more presentable video.

What we've all been waiting for...http://www.geocities.com/hijacktheleft/Cap0001.wmv

btw, i decided to not use the intro i had because the video is so short. maybe on the next one.

-------------------------------------EDIT - I compressed the video using standard windows media format instead of Xvid, because it was too much of a hassle for a lot of people. A little lower quality, but more convenient.
Modified by HijackTheLeft at 1:30 PM 6/13/2005

[skylinedreams]

link doesn't seem to work...

[GrilledCheese33]

the link won't work? I downloaded the xvid thingy too.....................

[HijackTheLeft]

yeah... apparently theres some sort of bandwith problem because it "exceeded its allocated data transfer." I guess thats what it means. Oh well. IM me and I'll transfer it to you. Or I can email it to you. Or tell me where I can host a little 4.4mb file where thats not gonna happen.

I have a feeling some people will be disappointed though. it's not as cool as I had hoped. Just a couple idiots doing especially slippery donuts.

btw, my AIM sn is the same as this one.

[skylinedreams]

Could you email it to me? my sn is [email protected]

[purge]

email is [email protected]

[HijackTheLeft]

It's sent!

[PantherRacer]

[email protected]

I doubt a hotmail account would take that or I'd put up mine lol.CAN'T WAIIIIIIIIIIT

[PantherRacer]

lollercakes! those trays flew right off! LOL

too bad bout the sound though...GREAT VIDEO!

[gepeto]

[email protected] Can't wait to see it

[GrilledCheese33]

[email protected], can't wait

-Darren