I bought my first new car in 2003, a 3 Series. My friends looked on in horror as I almost immediately ripped the dash out, tore the trunk apart, removed the seats, and built a full-on Windows PC into the car, with a 7" touchscreen screwed into the dash, power and video/USB cables fed to it through the modified center HVAC vent. I didn't want to rip out the carpet as well, so I made a carbon fiber cover for the cable run over the drive tunnel. I even bought an interface board out of Russia that adapted the car's serial bus connector (I borrowed the unused CD changer harness) to USB for programming the steering wheel controls to navigate the head unit software. Nowadays, all this stuff is pretty common on any car that you buy, but at the time, hard drive based infotainment systems in cars were homebrew or nothing, and there was a thriving community for head unit software, navigation apps, etc.
Anyway, besides my music collection, I immediately loaded up the hard drive (spinning disc at the time, yet it never skipped a beat!) with every episode of South Park that had been created to date and updated with new seasons as they came out. That's another advantage of homebrew automotive media systems: no video or GPS control lockout while in motion. My commute is about 45 minutes each way, and for several years I used to "watch" South Park, every episode through in order, at least once per year during my drive time. It helped keep me out of trouble that LCD screens had poor viewing angles back then... Of the first, say, 15 seasons or so, there's not an episode I haven't seen at least a half dozen times.
Suffice it to say, Courics isn't the only South Park junky in these parts.
I bought my first new car in 2003, a 3 Series. My friends looked on in horror as I almost immediately ripped the dash out, tore the trunk apart, removed the seats, and built a full-on Windows PC into the car, with a 7" touchscreen screwed into the dash, power and video/USB cables fed to it through the modified center HVAC vent. I didn't want to rip out the carpet as well, so I made a carbon fiber cover for the cable run over the drive tunnel. I even bought an interface board out of Russia that adapted the car's serial bus connector (I borrowed the unused CD changer harness) to USB for programming the steering wheel controls to navigate the head unit software. Nowadays, all this stuff is pretty common on any car that you buy, but at the time, hard drive based infotainment systems in cars were homebrew or nothing, and there was a thriving community for head unit software, navigation apps, etc.
Anyway, besides my music collection, I immediately loaded up the hard drive (spinning disc at the time, yet it never skipped a beat!) with every episode of South Park that had been created to date and updated with new seasons as they came out. That's another advantage of homebrew automotive media systems: no video or GPS control lockout while in motion. My commute is about 45 minutes each way, and for several years I used to "watch" South Park, every episode through in order, at least once per year during my drive time. It helped keep me out of trouble that LCD screens had poor viewing angles back then... Of the first, say, 15 seasons or so, there's not an episode I haven't seen at least a half dozen times.
Suffice it to say, Courics isn't the only South Park junky in these parts.
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Anyway, besides my music collection, I immediately loaded up the hard drive (spinning disc at the time, yet it never skipped a beat!) with every episode of South Park that had been created to date and updated with new seasons as they came out. That's another advantage of homebrew automotive media systems: no video or GPS control lockout while in motion. My commute is about 45 minutes each way, and for several years I used to "watch" South Park, every episode through in order, at least once per year during my drive time. It helped keep me out of trouble that LCD screens had poor viewing angles back then... Of the first, say, 15 seasons or so, there's not an episode I haven't seen at least a half dozen times.
Suffice it to say, Courics isn't the only South Park junky in these parts.