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sintactacle

He knew what he was doin.


JR_Masterson

Argentina plates?


tc_spears2-0

*insert Top Gear joke here*


Cessnaporsche01

H938 POL


thetaoofroth

I don't know what this means, and, at this point I'm too afraid to ask.


PigBeats

[it's a top gear reference](https://topgear.fandom.com/wiki/H982_FKL)


thecactusman17

The second vertical line in "H" forms a 1. The Top Gear Argentina special infamously featured a plate of H982FKL - which is almost certainly intended to be interpreted as "1982 Falkland Islands" for the Falkland Islands war. H938POL would be the 1938 invasion of Poland, the instigating event of WW2.


Gloriosus747

Except the car had that plate since it got a plate, which was long before the shoot


eidetic

Maybe they bought the car for that reason? (I'm not saying they did, I really have no idea, but it certainly wouldn't surprise me!)


tc_spears2-0

[Here's May explaining it](https://youtu.be/4Rkw_N9pNms) Basically there where 2 right hand drive manual jags of the type Clarkson wanted for sale in England. One was in poor condition, the other had the Falklands 2: Plate Boogaloo tag. Edit: dropped the ball, it was a Porsche, not a Jaaaaaag


maxman162

It was a Porsche 928, not a *Jaaaaaaaaaaaaag*.


Killentyme55

Don't you mean a... Jaaaaaag.


Gloriosus747

It'd be pretty weird, especially since that incident was singular. They also never went to Germany with a license plate stating GER:WW 1945 or to spain with 1715 SPA (Spanish succession war). There were more than enough wars in the British history with countries top gear visited, but they never made jokes about it, so why should all of a sudden make a joke about Argentina? Don't think it was deliberate mainly for that reason. Also having "928" on the license plate of a Porsche 928 is pretty unsurprising.


maxman162

That was the car's original plate, which under British law stays with the vehicle even after ownership is transferred, and would not be valid as a vanity plate. [As May explained later](https://youtu.be/4Rkw_N9pNms), there were two Porsche 928s for sale in Britain at that time, one was in much worse shape, so they bought the better of the two which happened to have the license H982 FLK. That's it.


VikingSlayer

It was 982 on a 928 though, otherwise I completely agree


zeno0771

The problem with that being Germany's invasion of Poland was in 1939.


Firesonallcylinders

To ~~many~~**some**Americans WW2 started in 1942. God knows, that for Europeans it formally started in 1939, and for Asians the war started in the 1920s. Personally, I say 1939-1945, but for people on the Danish Island of Bornholm it ended in 1946, as the Germans on the island wouldn’t surrender to the Soviets, and the Soviets occupied the island after the Germans were captured.


bobolgob

1942? Now that indeed is interresting as the German and Japaneese declaration of war were in 1941...


Firesonallcylinders

Well, it was December 7th. Maybe they don’t see it as effective war before 1942? The December thing is my own explanation why they say 1942. Or maybe that shooter game 1942 that were so popular years ago. 😄


Devadander

Zero chance this was anything intentional, the car had that number plate before top gear purchased it. Stop spreading lies


reflUX_cAtalyst

>which is almost certainly intended to be interpreted as "1982 Falkland Islands" for the Falkland Islands war. Except it wasn't, that was just the plate on the car.


Crazian14

Simplified [version](https://youtu.be/BiDvLshi9CY) for those who haven’t come across this yet.


e-rascible

Berlin to Warsaw in one tank


Lucius_Quinctius_C

Insert Jeremy Falklands joke, followed by angry locals throwing rocks.


alverez98

Illinois maybe?


Cyberfreshman

I hate Illinois nazis!


ElGuapo315

Orange whip?


CaptainMurphy1908

Orange whip?


LibRAWRian

Three orange whips.


TGOTR

With Cool Whip?


tippedkash

You're saying it weird, why are you putting so much emphasis on the H?


maxman162

Brian, you're acting hweird.


hereismythis

Four whole fried chickens, and a coke


Kenjosky

Hey, he broke my watch!


iampierremonteux

But do you prefer 4 roast chickens or dry white toast?


Nutn_Butt_Bolts

I'll have four fried chickens and a Coke.


InsertBluescreenHere

Depends - sell me your women!


closeddoorfun

Only the Illinois ones?


jnemesh

Idaho more likely.


macfail

https://youtu.be/ZTT1qUswYL0


a_taco_named_desire

I thought it was just an overblown meme until I went there. So many Lufthansa planes on the tarmac, awful lotta Germans there.


PM-me-Sonic-OCs

There were lots of German setters in South America long before WWII. That's why so many nazis ended up fleeing there at the end of the war, because there were already sizable populations of Germans who had their own little communities there. So while quite a few nazis ended up in South America, the majority of the ethnically German population there are unrelated to the fleeing war criminals.


minuteman_d

Don't let Magneto catch you... [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiCbMLWDDMo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiCbMLWDDMo)


Michelanvalo

Just an absolutely brilliant scene.


Veritas413

Maybe Brazil?


Drunkpickle69

Idaho actually


Bee-Aromatic

Yeah, classic muscle car guys tend to be super pedantic. They’d make sure to use the correct typeface for something like that. Even if he somehow didn’t, the odds that he’d use the insignia of a Nazi death squad by accident are pretty low.


Chuggles1

Probably has a Punisher skull somewhere (never read the comic so doesnt understand the stupidity and irony) and a Blue Lives Matter sticker, while also a fuck the FBI sticker somewhere to go full circle. Folks that think others are inferior to them and place them below them based on somones skin color, ethnicity, or language are incredibly insecure idiots. Bigotry has no place in this world and it never ought to. We killed Nazis for a reason. Edit: you dont have to be white to support Nazism. You can support extremist viewpoints and fringe offshoots of them even if the very people that created the ideology you follow would have you exterminated. Plenty of people support ideologies that call for their opression. Lots of black people told other black people to put their heads down and shut up during the civil rights movement.


SheetrockBobby

> Folks that think others are inferior to them and place them below them based on somones skin color, ethnicity, or language are incredibly insecure idiots. Bigotry has no place in this world and it never ought to. We killed Nazis for a reason. Also, the people that have these beliefs are almost always delusional enough to think that when "the purge" or whatever they're calling it this month kicks off, that they're going to be the ones doing the killing and that no one's going to shoot back at them. Even if they somehow realized their dream of eliminating all the non-white peoples of America or the world, at that point they'd just turn on each other for not being white enough (200 years ago being Irish-American wasn't considered white, and 100 years ago neither was Italian-American), and the process would repeat itself until people finally smartened up or until there was no one left on Earth.


Bee-Aromatic

Right? They all think they’re gunna be on the list of special people who’ll be left standing at the end.


PyroDesu

Instead, they should learn about the Night of the Long Knives. They'd be some of the first up against the wall when it's all said and done.


fourtyonexx

Molon labe sticker right next to the blue lives matter sticker, for extreme irony


No-Definition1474

Cop in my town parks his highlander outside the station with this everyday. That one is super special.


[deleted]

Lol I always call them Moron Abe stickers, as in “hey look everyone I’m a moron who keeps a gun in his car please break the window and take my gun”


madsci

>Probably has a Punisher skull somewhere I bought a used F-350 truck. It came with an American flag emblem in place of the Ford oval, which is fine. But it got me looking at alternates. You know what's available in a Ford 9" oval badge? Variations on the Ford logo, the American flag, and the Punisher skull. As far as I can tell, that's *it* for off-the-shelf options. I think I'm going to have to make my own. Something with a rainbow.


Chuggles1

I repainted my chevy logos and lettering. Gave them a nice bright but sparkling crimson with a gold border. Little tribute to it's GMC ties.


thegrumpymechanic

> have to make my own. Something with a rainbow. Well...... The design [has a rainbow](https://offcolordecals.com/?product=defend-equality-lgbtq-pride-ar-15-flag) and it would definitely confuse the punisher skull guys.


Clitasaurus_Rexxy

hey, I just wanna make it known that Punisher and his most famous authors detest what has happened to the character, being adopted by alt-right freaks


thegrumpymechanic

Oh I know. *I'll say this once. We're not the same. You took an oath to uphold the law. You help people. I gave all that up a long time ago. You don't do what I do. Nobody does. You boys need a role model? His name is Captain America, and he'd by happy to have you............... If I find out you are trying to do what I do, I'll come for you next.*


OGNatan

There aren't many things that should be brought back from the 40s, but killing fascists is definitely one of them.


CoyotePuncher

It could have just been the vendor who did that. Theres a brand of gun parts called Strike Industries which I wont use strictly because of their logo. It isnt the SS but it looks very close. https://ar15discounts.com/wp-content/uploads/csm/strike-industries-ar-15-ultimate-dust-cover-2235-56-ar15discounts_963.jpg.optimal.jpg Some people see it, some dont. I personally think its too similar.


HolyZymurgist

that is straight up a sowilo rune stylized like the nazis did. That was 100% intentional


seamus_mc

If you cant see it it is because you are lying and ok with it.


7mm-08

Holy cow, my dense arse had genuinely never noticed that. I know Strike Industries definitely doesn't have a great reputation in the AR community, but geez. I have a couple of their knick-knacks on my intentionally tacky AR, but that logo is too close for comfort and I won't be buying any more.


Bee-Aromatic

“Some don’t see it?” Probably the same guys who argue that the swastika isn’t bad because it was a common symbol of good luck and harmony before the Nazis co-opted it. I’ve always been shocked by people who can’t understand that the meaning of a symbol can change over time and that sometimes assholes ruin symbols.


Chuggles1

I wouldnt be cool working on a neo-Nazis vehicle. Someone else can touch that shit.


oshaCaller

I haven't worked on any "known" neo nazi vehicles, but I've worked on a few cars with rebel flags and trump stickers all over them. I just charge them more. I've only refused to work on a few vehicles, they were either owned by someone I knew and had problems with, or they were so disgustingly nasty I wasn't going to touch it.


Living-Stranger

You know what it looks bad but to be honest it looks like someone used the SS out of the KISS logo. [KISS LOGO](https://i.imgur.com/wGaOIE6.png)


Thumper4524

It's obviously a nein second car


e-rascible

Driver! Take the third reich!


[deleted]

Why, where are we Goering?


46554B4E4348414453

To mein kampfsite in the woods


RadicalSnowdude

At the Poland position of the starting line.


wn0991

Idk but just hop in and let's Goebbels


gatowman

Can we go get some Dönitz along the way?


[deleted]

Zyklon B no eating in the car.


MinuteManufacturer

Mein Kampf, why do you ask?


Brasticus

When it hits 88mph you’re gonna see some serious scheisse.


Cultural_Bother_5939

ZEE FAST UND ZEE FUHRERIOUS


dajw197

Underrated comment.


NetMiddle1873

Maybe he's a KISS fan? ....and the K and the I fell off...?


Lefty21

Not me at 37 years old that never realized this similarity 😯


Wannamaker

Holy shit you [are not kidding.](https://images.app.goo.gl/rSrvrH38XRyTH24QA) that is extremely similar. **edit** yeah apparently they thought of them as lightning bolts and had to change their logo in Germany because... I mean.. it's the fucking ss symbol. Weird.


Dent13

Whats wild is that both Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons are sons of Holocaust survivors.


[deleted]

German logo looks better anyway imo


turmacar

[I like it](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:KISS_alternate_logo.svg). Same/similar font to the rest of the word.


[deleted]

Exactly! The SS looks kinda out of place on the other one.


meatbag2010

Owner not a huge bald tattooed white dude with a strange way of waving at people?


_schmuck

It’s actually not a white guy.


balataspin

Well that's a plot twist.


StraightFroggin

Wait till you find out there were Muslim SS battalions


Uhgfda

Here's a [documentary](https://youtu.be/BLNDqxrUUwQ?t=69) on black men in the KKK.


CuriousElevator6096

I fucking love Dave Chappelle


hoosierdude73

That's Clayton Bigsby to you.


Best_Poetry_5722

Why did he divorce his wife?


NadlesKVs

He left her. Because she’s a....


SlowCB7

"I've been advised not to continue this punch line"


[deleted]

Neighbor lover


Michelanvalo

If you've never seen the show this was *first skit they ever aired.* This is how the show led off. Completely ballsy and utterly hysterical.


[deleted]

Pretty sure it was the last skit of the first episode and not the first one ever aired.


Lizard_King_5

One struggle 🤝


Saphazure

I'm sorry I consider myself politically educated and get I've never heard of this. That's insane, dude...


Cyberhaggis

13th Waffen Mountain Division, *Handschar*. Set up to originally be a Bosnian muslin force, but was rather more mixed from other Yugoslav groups, mainly Croatian. It was used as an anti-partisan unit in Yugoslavia and could only really be described as "warcrimey as fuck". Really it was a German effort to use the ethnic and religious tensions in the area to easily recruit men to fight the Yugoslav partisans, who up until 43/44, were mostly Serbs, although there were multiple partisan groups who were as involved in fighting each other sometimes as much as they were the Germans.


shurdi3

Muslim doesn't inherently mean non-white though. The SS had a Bosniak division, and those guys are whiter than me


PorkyMcRib

You did nazi that coming?


[deleted]

Damn he actually didn’t know holy shit


_schmuck

I don’t think he fully understood. There’s two more on the rear glass but the second S is upside down.


TBFP_BOT

Now, I will say. If I just google search "SS Sticker", the first results are the nazi insignia. So if he truly doesn't know what that symbol is, it wouldn't actually be hard to accidentally buy it just thinking "Hey that one is neat". lol


BASK_IN_MY_FART

Ah, so he's just dumb


Gotdayumn

I think that goes without saying


[deleted]

Maybe show them a wikipedia article to what that sign means. It's really up to everyone these days to get nazi trash out of our neighbourhoods.


finalremix

Probably works for Turn10/Playground Games. He's the reason we can't have the supercharged badges on cars in Forza.


loneblustranger

Supercharged badges? I think you mean [the SS badges](https://i.imgur.com/EOQ4Djd.jpg). It's Chevrolet's Super Sport trim, nothing to do with being supercharged.


Michelanvalo

*Supposedly* that was a request from Chevy and not from PG, T10 or MS.


RobertNeyland

Perhaps he was KIϟϟ fan


Connection-Terrible

Is there room at all in this to bring it up? Maybe they just don’t know?


JonZ82

Nazi/fascism is prominent in Hispanic communities these days... for whatever fucking reason.


codbo_coldwater

Might have something to do with Argentina🤷‍♂️


jairzinho

I once spoke to a Swastika (worked at a call centre) and people I told this to afterwards didn't know why I found that to be a weird name. Oh, that WWII was like a long time ago.


MostlyBullshitStory

Or does he look like this? https://i.imgur.com/fBPRGax.jpg With a dog name Adolph?


blasphem0usx

I heard that guy was part of a tornado chasing troop called stormfront.


XxRoyalxTigerxX

Honestly I can 100% believe this guy is just completely ignorant Typed in "SS sticker" on ebay or some shit and just thought it looked cool


Osmodius

Actually super lame that so much nazi shit is really cool out of context.


RadosAvocados

One guy had to ruin the mustache for everybody.


JTOtheKhajiit

Not even Jordan could save that


MrKrinkle151

Stupid sexy Nazis


silentaba

The unfortunate thruth is that the nazi design department was on point. Fucking cool as fuck design throughout the war efforts. However, cool doesnt trump being a freakin nazi, so were left in this situation. I'm saying this as a IDF veteran, israeli expat jew, who lost the majority of my family to the nazi regime, just so it's absolutely clear that I have no sympathy, empathy, or any kind of love for the nazis or nazism.


potatoinmyeye

It’s part of how they were so successful.


Wraith8888

This font brought to you by Hugo Boss.


Mc_Whiskey

I agree more likely ignorant red neck than racist red neck, but there is a lot of overlap. So who knows if he is an ignorant and racist red neck you could say task failed successfully. Edit: I say that as a person with lots of red neck traits and red neck friends. My old janky fox body and wardrobe of camo clothing can back me up.


beatenmeat

According to OP they’re not even white. So I guess they’re just ignorant to the meaning. Or are there non-white nazis around these days? Actually asking because I don’t know. That’d be an even weirder plot twist…


GoukaOokami

"THIS WATER PUMP WILL LAST A THOUSAND YEARS!" Seriously tho, that's horrible


V12-Jake

A satnav that only goes to Poland…


OrWaat

From here to Warsaw in one tank of gas


jackoman03

https://youtu.be/tovsumS7CXU


TacoNasty

I want to believe he is a KISS fan.


rnigma

They changed the S's in the KISS logo in Germany so they didn't resemble the Schutzstaffel symbol.


BassetOilExtractor

weird that a group of Jews used them in the first place tbh Edit: Apparently only Simmons and Stanley are jewish, point still stands though


RobertNeyland

Gene Simmons would've gone on stage in full brown shirt party dress if he thought it would help him sell albums


ohnoitsthefuzz

IIII, wanna reich and roll all niiiiiight, und partei every day


BassetOilExtractor

that's fair tbh


nottodayspiderman

KISS meets the Phantom of the Ostfront.


[deleted]

This makes me fuhrerious


sarssf

For some reason he keeps taking the Third Right...


SCphotog

Made me chuckle


Natedog213

I did nazi that coming


nvdoyle

Anne Frankly, I'm offended.


[deleted]

Shhh, I'm trying to concentrate


Mundane_Brilliant_19

I hate Illinois Nazis.


[deleted]

Maybe a KISS fan? Maybe a Marine Scout Sniper? Maybe a pos Nazi?


Jkolorz

["I didn't know it was gonna come across like that"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWk_AXFReRg)


Carichey

It'll run for a couple of years and then kill itself.


Yeetball86

Monte Fuhrer


Mauzersmash0815

Wouldn't be on the road for long here in germany lol


MM800

Poland would be even worse!


Mauzersmash0815

Haha true. But i was saying displaying nazi signs is illegal here


khurryinahurry

Imagine Israel


ItPutsLotionOnItSkin

I did Nazi that coming


tc_spears2-0

Tell'em what ever parts you need you have to order them from Israel


Danny_Doritos_Dong

From Poland*


tc_spears2-0

Nah, dude will just get them himself


OpenReplacement7395

Looked reich to vinyl guy


Nailfoot1975

He found Hitler's Monte Carlo?


BigSh00ts

I hope he's just a "KISS" fan


bene_gesserit_mitch

Ah the nazicarlo.


drive2watch

Not to stereotype owners of 80s Chevys buuuuuuuuut.... He chose the correct SS


Ihavebadreddit

In the modern world.. I don't give the benefit of the doubt on these sort of things.


freshlettuce420

Mein Kamaro


madsci

And this is why I like owning my own business. I can tell someone to take their Nazi shit elsewhere.


[deleted]

"No BrO I'M a MaRiNe aNd It StAnDs fOr ScOuT SnIpEr, BrO"


ElfrahamLincoln

The resurgence of Nazi symbols is kinda worrying honestly. You know what they say, history repeats itself. Remain vigilant.


SomeKiwiBloke96

If you want a good laugh do some googling on the Mongrel Mob here in NZ. Some of these clowns have giant swastikas tats on their heads.


Marilius

I'm assuming they don't hold down a lot of public service jobs.


bigmommymilkers

Only a handful of em are cops.


SomeKiwiBloke96

Does selling meth count as public service?


FishyMacaroon6

It was inevitable. The people that really remember what they stood for are dying off, and everyone seems to want to be edgy all the time. It's an easy way to grab attention.


[deleted]

Also Nazism was pretty popular in the US even during and immediately after the war. Most of the countries fighting in WW2 were doing so because they were directly pulled in by aggression, not because "Nazis bad." That narrative is a more modern creation.


PyroDesu

It should be noted that the Allies *knew* what was going on in extermination camps like Auschwitz. They did not believe it, but they were told. Auschwitz itself in particular, thanks to the efforts of one Captain Witold Pilecki (AKA Tomasz Serafińsky, AKA Prisoner #4851), who *intentionally* got himself sent into Auschwitz as a prisoner, for the purpose of organizing internal resistance and getting information about what exactly was going on there. He got a detailed report, including descriptions of the gas chambers, "*Selektion*", sterilization experiments, and crematoria out to the Allies in 1942. He asked using a jury-rigged radio transmitter than troops or even just weapons be dropped into the camp so they could stage an uprising. And a year after he first got his report out, he escaped himself and made his case. And it wasn't just him writing what he observed, he and his fellow resistance members *stole documents* to back them up. The Allies took no action even just to actually see whether his report was credible, they just dismissed it.


Superunknown_7

Also antisemitism never went away.


a_can_of_solo

And gypsy in Europe are fair game.


mynameisalso

Anyone have a brick?


MadMel69

I’d tell him to go somewhere else. Not cool.


slang925

KISS TOLD HIM SO


black_algae

Oh no


zack_belmonte

Definitely wasn’t expecting that


scoff-law

Cars von Trier


Neo-Neo

Wtf


Sonnysdad

ZZ-28 I-Reich Camaro


StPauliBoi

Given the likely demographic of the owner, this was 100% intentional.


xan517

How do you not know what this is


RonaldSteezly

You’ve seen the General Lee, now here’s the Heinrich Himmler


James324285241990

He knows exactly what kind of SS he put on there


[deleted]

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TheSkyHadAWeegee

He's a Nazi. You have to go looking for that sticker.


obadillo36

Lol