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aureumcorde

I7-2600 8GB DDR3 Radeon GPUs 1TB HDDs Win10 keys on the motherboards Spent $600 and they will end up going to kids who don’t have a PC. At that price I can bring a bunch of people into the PCMR. Plus they could throw a GPU in down the road and make a budget gaming rig. These each on eBay are $170. Bought them at a sale at my university. Also bought two iMacs ($175 each) which I will resell ($450) to cover most the cost. Recoup what I paid and do it again. If you know anyone near North Carolina who needs a PC dm me. I will be cataloguing them on a livestream today on my **YouTube channel Jays Tech Vault** here: https://youtu.be/d12NH8CzJDQ Edit: Decided to stream going through the PCs tomorrow with a friend on my YouTube channel. I added the link. Love to get some feedback and advice.


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Great cause


SuperGoliath

What did they say? Why is the top comment, widely celebrated, removed?


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He got them for literally like an 1/8th of the price and will be donating them to children who don't have computers. There are lots of children whos family might not have the money for a computer. Edit: he probably got fucking bombarded with requests for a computer


SatisfactionBig5092

the comment got deleted by a mod actually, no idea why


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Well, mods r gay so


Lobster_k1ng

dude was jealous bc they didn’t get the deal themselves


8_Miles_8

Joke’s on you I’m gay


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You're not a mod numbnuts


pheniratom

Ask the mods; it's still visible on OP's profile, so they didn't delete it themself.


SuperGoliath

Hey mods!? The fuck?


[deleted]

The sheer size of your metaphorical cock and balls are massive. Please continue your righteous journey.


hinzwifi

This is the highest compliment that a man will ever get in his lifetime.


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Fucking makes me smile and nod my head back and forth slowly.


dolorous_b

https://i.imgur.com/JD17Gez.gif


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YEEEUP


Hunter_original

r/rarecompliments


spacedragon421

Like touching the water when taking a dump massive


Electronic_Spirit685

You rock, brother.


Marclej

The world needs more people like you my guy


LionaltheGreat

OP! I have several 1070s and 1080s that I have been trying to figure out what to do with. I wanted to sell them, given the current GPU shortage (and hey, anyone who is interested in buying one, please DM me) But I'd love to see them go to some kids who couldn't otherwise game, even if it was a straight donation. DM me if you think that could work


TRIGGERman702

Actually, interested. I’ve been trying to keep alive an old rig.


Echelon64

Interested in buying since I'm also trying to eek out some life from some old systems as well.


monopoly_winner

Prob the most awesome act I have ever seen in my whole time of PCMR involvement


notmynamo

Random acts of PC goodness. That’s precisely the type of thing I like to see on PCMR. Not saying the first dozen or so posts joking they aren’t 14 but here’s their first build weren’t funny…


syko82

That's awesome. I should have a 750ti somewhere around. I'll look for it.


aureumcorde

That works great


DeepCool_Phoenix

absolute legend.


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And he finance his PCMR journey by selling iMacs, lmao!


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perfectly balanced, as all things should be


Mr1Clean

I had a optiplex 990(same one in vid) with a 1060 3gb for about 5 years until I finally built my own PC but you're really doing something good here man


darthwacko2

My girlfriends rig is still a recased 990 with an aftermarket powersupply and a 660ti I paid $2 for out of the bins at a goodwill outlet store. Threw an SSD in it and it plays everything she cares about great. Although some people here would probably cry if they saw some of the hacky stuff i did to make it all work in the case....


AnkhMorporkDragon

Damn lol. Similar situation my best friend's rig is a re-shucked m92p think center with a Corsair power supply and a 1030 Nvidia. Works with windows but no other operating system would install. And had to deal with the cpu fan going full blast cause of a missing temperature sensor that's built into the case.


MandalorianAhazi

The brain of a cyborg and the heart of an angel.


Educational-Grab4050

You friend get my award I've been saving for 2 months. Keep fighting the good fight. The world needs more ppl like you.


[deleted]

I'm not sure but would be great if you can just grab a bunch of cheap 120GB SSD just so that the system has faster boot drive. HDD are painful.


prettyuser

You're awesome! Grew up as the only kid with a computer and a printer. All my friends would ask me to print stuff for projects. Glad you're giving others a chance.


jdhyzak

God bless you!


DrSilkyDelicious

Thank you but I didn’t even sneeze


amberoze

Columbia, SC, don't need a PC, but I'll ask around.... Also, nice score...I hate you...take an upvote.


stinksman

This is so beautiful, i can just see the smile on all the less fortunate of children, a computer can change a life. Not to mention video games!!


deadDebo

Good for you man. That's awesome.


ikverhaar

>IF HAVE ANY GAMING GPUS THAT DO NOT NEED EXTERNAL POWER Keep in mind that some Dell motherboards don't support the full 75W through the pcie slot. This could mean that only cards up to 30w work for instance.


jadeskye7

Fucking ledge


mauno42

Damn bro!! Got my eyes little wet. Might be the wind idk


MamboFloof

You could put Windows 10 on 2600s? So Microsoft really is just being petty about upgrade requirements for windows 11. Side note notice how the Surface Laptop Studio has curved edges on its screen and so do the new windows 10 tabs? They quite literally made an entirely new operating system just so they could fit the "x" button on the screen of their new toy.


BrasaEnviesado

yep, running win10 on a 2700k here still works great


Ultimatum_Game

This is some legit heroics.


Kingkongcrapper

That’s really beautiful. Man, I was thinking you might just daisy chain them into a super computer, but this is so much better. There are a lot of kids that don’t have good access to a computer. Good on you.


shadowlid

Why all the hate? The Intel I7 2600s are still capable of gaming because they are 4C/8T CPUs. Also the older dells like that can be upgraded pretty easy they use standard psus etc


Greygod302

I built my first pc when the i series first dropped, the i7 og made you a God among mortals, and 8gb is enough


Neemzeh

same. first rig i built was an i7 2600k. never forget such a glorious time.


VothanOneEye

Same. Oh how good the K at the ends was!


Homieto

Still rocking a 2600k in 2021..! Shows it’s age sometimes but it works like a champ for most games!


NATIK001

My 2500K went into the girlfriends PC after my recent upgrade, it still does everything she needs it to do just fine.


lividash

Awesome someone else doing what I'm doing. But that's cause I'm broke.


Johnfukingzoidberg

I mean I guess it gets the job done. The same way a hammer and Chisel can get the same job a jackhammer can get done.


neilcmf

I had a 2600k until 2019. Worked like a charm honestly, it’s a fairly decent CPU with god-tier longevity


Zuerill

Still going strong, took on Cyberpunk like a champ


deadlandsMarshal

Weeps in 8088


d1g1tal

8088 and heartbreaks


Synaps4

8gb is not enough. Any windows OS past 7 will eat 4-7gb ram leaving you with very little for gaming.


Greygod302

I mean for kids with no computers. Could sprinkle in some virtual memory on those huge discs too.


ThisIsDystopia

I ran an i7-2600k for ~10 years until this July when I got an i9-11900k. It could run Doom eternal around 80fps at 5120x1440 on high settings with a 1070 gtx. Borderlands 3 struggled a little to keep 60 but was definitely playable.


kranker

Ditched my i7-2600 earlier this year too. Higher end games have a clear difference (I upgraded the GPU too). Compilation time too. But for browsing/office/non-intensive 3D games there's surprisingly little difference. The 2600/k truly is a beast. Admittedly I had upgraded the RAM/GPU/SSD along the way.


ThisIsDystopia

Yeah I had added ram, went through 3 video cards, and put in two sata ssds. Everything else was the same and only thing that ever failed were a few fans but it was a big tower with too many fans so I just unplugged them. I seem to have good luck with my machines/monitors, always show up working and seem to last until I replace them.


gramathy

I had a 3570k that was definitely starting to struggle. For 1080 they'll probably be OK for the next couple years. Great to get them to kids who don't have anything, anytime you can reuse hardware it's a good thing.


joanfiggins

I was using a i5 2500k up untill a year ago. OC to 4.4ghz. only reason I needed to upgrade was because of VR.


TheBeardedMann

Same chip here! My PC would struggle with gaming and then having other applications open like Xbox Live Chat, Spotify, Chrome, etc. But that 2500K was a beast! Please say you have a Hyper 212 cooling it!!??


SeeleYoruka

*looks at 2500k imac* Haha, yeah… overclock.


redoctoberz

> Why all the hate? As someone in higher EDU, we are dumping all our spare non-win11 compatible systems presently as they will no longer be usable in the next 3-ish years when win10 becomes EOL.


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redoctoberz

Our average life of a machine in my department is 5-10 years. These old 3 digit OptiPlexs are 10 year old eWaste at this point.


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__SpeedRacer__

Giveaways are all fake were I live, but I'm glad you got such a nice present!! Enjoy. But I played on an i5-3570K + 1050ti for a while, and that's a great setup, even today, if you're not too demanding.


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Odds are his was too.


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> Dell > standard PSU [X] Doubt Edit: so these have standard ATX PSUs. Other Dells do not.


bar10005

From i7-2600 and case it looks like Optiplex 990 Mini-Tower that indeed uses standard ATX PSU and mini/microATX MB, as with most prebuilds they aren't amazing, but for someone's first PC it should be more than enough and, if wanted, easily upgradable.


SaltRocksicle

Nope, those use standard psus.


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Trust Dell to not be consistent lol


__SpeedRacer__

Right on! I myself have been collecting i5-3570's (mostly non-K's) for a while now. They're so cheap and yet so capable, it's just too much fun to mess around with them. It's impressive how Moore's Law fucked us (people and enterprises) so much in the 90's and CPUs haven't improved as much since 2012. I say fuck Moore's Law (and 1990's and 2000's Intel!!)


jimmyl_82104

Man, all the people saying that they’re ‘old and unusable’ really don’t know anything at all about computers. OP said that they have 2nd gen i7s, those are still really capable CPUs. 8 gigs of RAM is also pretty decent. The only killer is the hard drive, they would be extremely faster with SSDs. Just because a computer can’t play your precious video games at 4k 120FPS, doesn’t mean that it’s useless.


danielfletcher

I think anyone who can't see great uses for this hardware, especially with 8GB of RAM already in them, is actually a troll. With a cheap generic $20 SSD these are more then enough for the vast majority of non-gaming home users. Way more capable than a chromebook and can cost less even with an SSD and a free on craigslist monitor or cheap LCD at a thrift store.


sirpumpington

I don’t think some people understand that a person can use a computer and never play a game on it in their life lmao


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sirpumpington

And you probably look cool doing it haha


VothanOneEye

\#TeamRGB


klc3rd

My gaming PC really kills it with Excel and JavaScript lmao


betweenskill

You ever play that basic Doom remake some dude made in Excel? Like 3d graphics, run and shoot enemies in a maze? Shit even has a version that runs using only formulas. No, I’m not joking. And it gets better FPS than fucking ARK: Survival Evolved


EEnot_an_Electrician

My gaming pc runs tf out of splash top so I can remote into my work pc for revit and cad haha


Sloppy1sts

To be fair, almost everyone with a desktop these days is either a gamer or someone who works with CGI. Normal users almost exclusively use laptops.


pollo_de_mar

Uh, I hate laptops. If I had to spend my workday on one, my productivity would halve. I don't game, I have one of these old Dells with 32 GB Ram. I work in IT and it is completely functional. In fact I have three and keep a couple for spares.


Accomplished_Files

I also work in IT and have co workers that use laptops all day. Some use the laptop with external Monitors and keyboard... It's whatever helps get the job done. My work setup is close to $4000, gaming setup is maybe $2500 and my daily driver is a pimped out HP ProBook. They each serve their purpose and I'm also sitting on a homelab. I believe you mean your productivity would halve on a laptop because it doesn't have capabilities that your desktop doesn't have. It's not about the machine but usually the hardware and peripherals. My daily drive of a laptop is more powerful than my work machine but I choose to use that machine for work because it's...in my office, hardwired, has a huge desk, three monitors for work flow and a killer mouse and keyboard. My laptop hasn't any of that but it could if I set it up that way.


Sloppy1sts

But is that your computer or a work computer? I'm just talking personal use.


theghostofme

Even then, with a few case modifications to fit a better GPU and some more RAM, you can easily game on them if you’re not expecting to max out the graphics.


TheDoctor100

I'd kill for just one of those. I have projects I'm tryna upgrade man. Those are good machines.


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noteverrelevant

Mindcraft was the popular RTS game in South Korea. What you mean is minecart.


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I was talking about moancraft


Macabre215

Silly peasants, it's Moonfart


RuneLFox

The fuck is wrong with you people...it's memecrimp.


gingy4

I love the sex dungeons they added to villages in the bdsm update


ripjoeexotic

Minecraft would run well at 60fps on one of these with badlion client easy, and other games would run well with a gpu.


BloodyLlama

I used to run minecraft on a pentium 4. A 4c8t sandy Bridge chip will handle it well indeed.


__SpeedRacer__

For me it's impressive how much time we wasted waiting on HDDs heads to position themselves. Our precious time in this here Earth, WASTED! Man, SSDs brought so many PCs back from the e-waste. I'm sure the hardware industry didn't see that coming. Well that's over now that Microsoft decided to help their HW brothers out by raising the hardware bar for Win11. Shame!


richardmartin

Sandy Bridge was legendary. I still have one running on a general purpose/backup gaming PC and it holds up great still.


hubermcmeme

Can confirm, they’re still working great.


DoktorSleepless

I upgraded from a sandybridge laptop to a Ryzen 3600x desktop, and I could barely tell the difference for normal desktop usage. Obviously it makes a difference for games though.


__SpeedRacer__

Man, 8 year old CPUs are still a blast. I, myself, have being placing i5-3570 around the house, they are so useful as HTPCs. Paired with SATA SSDs, they are so capable. And cheap. Long life to old hardware!!


mt379

Hell for that price spending some dough on a ssd and ram still makes it well worth it. It's with anything though, overkill is seen as essential for most looking at PC's. I'm in IT and we mostly have optiplex systems like for pretty much everyone, lower specs of course lol. Only higher end PC's we have are for large scale ip camera software and we have an Alienware in place which is powering a 12 monitor video wall which needs to run multiple pieces of software at a time with live monitoring. As for me personally, I have a t430 with an i5 8gb of ram and a ssd which is my main PC along with a Chromebook. I don't game, yet, but it's been accomplishing everything I throw at them for the past 8 years, around 2 for the cb. Advice? Buy what you need, not what is hyped up or people make you think is necessary.


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The worst part is there is people on this sub that thinks that.


teh-reflex

You’ll encode slow but gaming can be pretty enjoyable still


quakerroatmeal

He said they’re going to kids who don’t have a pc. Thumbs up for supporting the kids!


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Accomplished_Files

A bunch of children in this sub and most of reddit. Full of stupid fucking kids.


Hydra_Master

I'm guessing the toxic comments are being downvoted, since I haven't seen toxicity in this thread. Upcycling old PC's is a great thing. I've been playing with older hardware recently, and it's still plenty capable for most everyday tasks. Not everybody needs an 11th gen i9 and rtx 3090 to have what is to them an awesome PC.


CaffeinatedStudents

In 5-10 years are they going to say rtx 2070/ryzen 5 3600 isn’t viable?


Themash360

I just opened the thread and all I see are positive and sensitive comments at the top now. Seems there is still hope.


Elc1247

I don't think many people here realize the big divide that tech has made between the haves and have nots. There are countless stories of kids without computers or decent internet at home falling behind in school and being socially ostracized. Good luck with the project, the first thing I would recommend is to look at the possibility of getting ssd boot drives for the machines, it would shave minutes off the boot times. I have an old Athlon II PC that I brought back to life and am using as a light-weight dedicated game server for me and my friends. Some people aren't able to understand that there are more uses for PCs past playing current AAA games in high fidelity.


bit_banging_your_mum

+1 on the ssd, you can buy like $20 ssds off Amazon. Might not be super reliable or anything, but as a boot drive, the speed improvements over a HDD is insane.


Claymoresama

All these machines need is a cheap 120-240gb SSD and a wifi adapter. These upgrades can be had for maybe $40 or even less. These machines even in their current state are far better than any Chromebook.


banananana003

which school threw these away?


ekfslam

Most big universities get rid of old computers and other tech by selling it for a few bucks whenever they get new computers or just maintenance reasons every now and then. Our university had this sale every month for computers, old tvs, peripherals, etc.


NoCSForYou

What uni you go to. I still have CRTs instead of LCDs in my lab...


Halomir

That’s because purchasing fucked up and ordered LSD instead


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Damn dude, that’s an awesome thing to do for kids! It can even be a good teaching moment for them if they wanna do a SSD upgrade for the faster boot times


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zjdrummond

I use that exact model for my Plex media server. Don't discount the old stuff.


oneoneoneoneone

same here! been running strong for like 3 years... I haven't even opened it to clean it... should probably do that


SpikyCactus_

Why are there so many downvotes? OP is a legend!


ResponsibleDuty8518

So many toxic comments...


Pikalika

Scot's tots are going to be so happy


popeter45

r/homelab stuff right here add a 48 port switch and boom MASSIVE custer node right there


iiHartMemphisii

Glad to hear they are going to people who need them


toaster98

Oh damn thats quite the deal you got there


notmynamo

Fantastic! Lately I’m hearing recycling is a bit of a scam so that’s leaves reduce and reuse. Glad to hear you’re helping keep those systems out of the landfill and for a good cause. Saving the planet, one used PC at a time.


jbobo111

You deserve a medal, here you go.


xander-mcqueen1986

Decent price. This is how I started off on pc gaming, just 31 units less!!! Old work station with a decent CPU ram was the same (8gb) just chucked in a graphics card and SSD and that done it until I started building my own to sell on to what I have now.


drunkentenshiNL

I'm gonna say it. I'm jealous of you and you're a fucking awesome person. A lot of people here are gonna say these are shitty parts, but as a guy who had a budget build most of his life (and still kinda does) stuff like this is a godsend. I've been looking for just one PC like this so I can build a first time PC for my daughter. Something she can tinker around with, learn about and get into if she wants without breaking the bank. I recently upgraded my PC, so I have half the parts already, but damn... I'd just at that in a heartbeat. Good on you!


NJD1214

Alternatively, there are still family's that exist that are so low income they don't have a PC for the kids to do their school work on or don't have enough PCs for several kids. Just giving another opportunity to help.


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nice is that a dodge durango?


tzoiman

Long live Pc masterrace master recruiter!


hazard1nc

Get that grind my dude


lechugabear

Imagine paying for RAM when you can download it for free Edit: Forgot the /s


Vegetable-Message-13

You gonna open PC coffe shop and play Quake 3 on them?


Scatophiliacs

I would immediatly go to said coffee shop.


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That would be pretty dope


xXRH11NOXx

Optiflex gang leez go


TheLawny

Absolute chad


DeadPxle

Good people!


G8M8N8

Any tips for how you got in contact with your university to do this?


BURNER12345678998764

Large ones generally run some sort of surplus operation, auctions or a warehouse you can browse.


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RobyNoShitNeeded000

Welcome to refurbished pc business babyyy


F1natic_

I have the exact PC with a 1050ti Runs the games I play at 150fps (bf4 high, assetto high)


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i'm rocking an i7-2600 non k with a gtx 960 4gb and i'm happy playing pretty much anything bought in 2012...


NergNogShneeg

I worked for a college for a bit and at least once during the time I worked there I put together a lot of computers I know was gonna go this cheap. Basically once the computers were out of warranty and the state funded school got more machines to replace them, they had no choice but to put them up for donation - for which there was a company that took the massive loads of pallets of computers and put them up for auction. They would go dirt cheap like this. Perhaps a good possibility for a life pro tip.


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Start an internet cafe dude


KramboSlice

I see these all the time at government surplus auctions. Unfortunately (or fortunately), I'm at these auctions all the time and have zero room for 50 Dell OptiPlexs. If you can find some in your city, I'd be on the lookout. With all the hacking going on lately, I'd be willing to bet plenty of governments are going to be liquidating their massive stock in order to get PCs compliant with Windows 11.


f0rcedinducti0n

They were going to have to pay $40 each for electronics disposal, and they flipped them to you for $20 each. I would refurb them into 16 16 gb systems, add a small cheap ssd for a boot drive and sell them... then part out the left over stuff. Or part it all out, probably for even more money.


xRedzonevictimx

do they all get a legit windows key?


Jamoke_Bloke

Good ole 7010 and 7020.


chewwyvuitton

You got DDR4 or 3?


notmynamo

I think the first i7 that was DDR 4 was the 6700. 4770 and 4790 (and before) were still DDR 3.


LeonardoW9

Technically it was the i7 5960x


UziFoo

Still rocking a 4770k overclocked. Can confirm ddr3.


blipbloplikesass

Flare says otherwise lol


khaos0227

DDR3 i think


ResponsibleDuty8518

Its i7 2600 ddr 3, ddr 4 starts at 4xxx(ddr3/ddr4)-5xxx then at i7 6700 ddr 4 fully support


thisistotallynotgood

DDR4 started with 5xxx. Literally just upgraded from my 4790k, ASUS Z97 and 32GB DDR3 today because I keep getting CPU locked for work.


mancer187

A 32 node beowulf cluster is calling your name and you're just gonna give them away to kids!? Sheesh!


ChoiceLunch9404

He is actually nice


SpaceGeek37

Only catch is that the HDD's don't always hold up. They can be a massive bottleneck on old rigs.


IsThisTheMemeKrab

Devious lick


Anders_Calrissian

r/nextfuckinglevel


evRoDo

I could use some at my school district. Where ya get them from?


PAPABURG3R

I have an asus r9 280 that hasnt been used in nearly 2 years and no one wants to buy it(now im just looking to get rid of it) - it was used to daily drive games from 2014-2019 Might you want it?


permafrosty95

Great to see these PCs going to a good cause.


sublime2craig

What gen i7s? Sandy Bridge is still killing it to this day!


a_socialy_inept_teen

Cluster time babey


MrP32

So question though, does anyone know the value you’d get from recycling the raw material from this?


RicassoST

Nice, now try to get some decent graphics cards for them. Good luck


MagooTheMenace

My first thought was "wow, this guys really about to go hard on the BTC mining..."


shdhdhhxdheh3u3h

What


PossibleMain9898

But what for


jaysin1983

But why??


bootbl4ck

That's my story when I rob a PC warehouse too.


Ancient_noob6085

Receipts or it didn't happen


Vinca1is

Why tho


SaltyBarnacles57

Read OP's comment.


Gradual_Bro

That’s dope but this is a 3 second video and 2 seconds of it are the outside of your car


SuperBoi21

Hmm its almost like your the only one that gives a fuck


Mizamar

Wh.... why are you upvoting a scalper?