Cheap Bugatti owner takes Veyron to coin-operated car wash

[Liberal_in_LA]

Even nearly seven years after its introduction, the multimillion-dollar Bugatti Veyron is still the pinnacle of automotive engineering — enough so that seeing one of the fewer than 300 built taken to a California coin-operated car wash nearly sparked an intervention.

http://jalopnik.com/5825551/cheap-bugatti-owner-takes-veyron-to-coin+operated-car-wash

[Snotcicles]

1. I'm not cheap. I was just parking it there to keep it out of the sun. eom

[demmiblue]

2. This so super important.n/t

[Liberal_in_LA]

4. most important story of the day.

;-)

[nashville_brook]

3. wash it like you stole it, baby

[JVS]

5. That's the right place to wash that car.

You certainly don't take it to one of those carwashes with the spinning brushes.

[Liberal_in_LA]

6. yup

[AlabamaLibrul]

11. I wouldn't take a car with paint I cared about too much

to any place with dirty old brushes that have been on Gawd-knows-what.

Wash by hand at home, comes out cheaper and you can avoid the avoidable scratches.

[madinmaryland]

7. You post this, and yet I still CANNOT take my cats to a restaurants, while filthy children

are allowed in.

:grr:

[ellenfl]

8. seems reasonable to me. i'd hate for someone else to

mess up my fancy car . . . or even drive it unless they were fully bonded. nah, i'd rather baby it myself and not worry about how someone else is treating it. but then, i drive a 16yo camry . . .

ellen fl

[Gabi Hayes]

9. the only proper way to wash one of these:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NJmB1F2mdE

[Gabi Hayes]

10. then, the fun part:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-45s1zScPUY&NR=1

[LeftyMom]

12. Maybe it had a serious case of crap-on-windshield or something?

It's one thing to baby the paint, but if Rodan just crapped on your car you do what you have to do to get that stuff off before it does any damage.

edit: I'd just use the high pressure nozzle and not the soapy brush thing. For that car at least. My car? Who cares.

[flvegan]

13. Could be they did what I used to with my Grand National.

Take it to the coin place. Wet spray it. Get out the bucket, expensive soap and pristine sponge. Fill bucket with water. Bucket wash car. Hose off. Dry with chamois.

Some folks, live in apartments or condos that don't have car wash facilities. They wouldn't dream of using some gas station brush thing or the horrid scratch poles in one of these.

[LeftyMom]

16. When I was a kid we used to have to do that.

For precisely that reason- no car washing in the apartment building where we lived. I swear I spent half my childhood paste waxing that stupid Camaro*.

*not to disparage Camaros generally, but it was a '74 and I stand by my description

[DainBramaged]

14. He amy have driven through crap and like most of us who love cars

found the first possible place to wash it off, simple.


Mountains out of ant mounds, the story of my beloved DU.

[MorningGlow]

15. Beautiful piece of machinery

I never quite saw the attraction till I saw one in person (at a car museum). :wow:

[flvegan]

17. Now just a minute...Captain Slow going near as makes no difference

260 mph in one didn't jump out at you?

*faints*

[MorningGlow]

19. I respected the machine

but I didn't fall in lurve with it till I saw it in person.

If I had seen the Bugatti AND Captain Slow at the same time, in the flesh/metal, then yeah one o' these, big time:

I don't ask for much. Just a ride. :evilgrin:

[flvegan]

20. You know that May is getting his own show here in the US.

Oh yes.

Hammond is too, but he's not May.

[MorningGlow]

21. Are they importing his Man Lab?

I saw the first few eps online that aired in the UK several months ago (an abbreviated series/season, I guess you could call it). It's pretty good. Amusingly droll, just like our Cap'n.

[flvegan]

22. If I said yes, it might spoil the surprise.

[bluestate10]

18. Not a bad idea. Gross wash first then fine wash. I do that to my car. nt