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  1. Another note: Chrysler also bows to "He Who Writes the Check." Large fleets can get just about anything they want. It could be as simple as the check writer at AZDPS liked the look of the drilled wheels better than the big flat blade spoke wheels and specified the AWD wheels on their purchase order. The older AZDPS Chargers have the older spoke wheels (like Jonathan's example of the swap from the older generation kit), but not the new Chargers. AZDPS may have had experiences with the flat-spoke wheels they didn't enjoy. I don't know, but I'll ask around. Back to my mention of the ventilated hub caps, we had serious brake fade problems and Chrysler rushed the ventilated caps to us as a fix. They later incorporated them into police-spec production.
  2. In Steve's defense - and his employer's - AZ DPS runs a bunch of new Chargers and they all have those drilled wheels with the baby 'baby' center caps. I sincerely doubt Arizona purchased all All-Wheel-Drive Chargers for freeway use; they have a huge fleet of Tahoes, Durangos, and F150 pickups for any off-roading. Chrysler has always been notorious for using unpublished or unadvertised combinations for their law enforcement fleets. The agency I worked for in 1977 had the ventilated hubcaps that Chrysler denied existed but later introduced in 1978. A period-correct replica would have been called unauthentic at the time. Just one little example.
  3. Brother! that was a reach!
  4. Writing is another lost art.
  5. Purpose used to be mine, but lately (years) hasn't seemed compelling; and now you tell me they've replaced my 'procrastinator' dictionary picture with Bill's?
  6. Mine arrived yesterday! WOW! Lots o' deuces! GREAT issue.
  7. 'Smelt better, you have,' said Mrs. Yoda to him, after a Jedi Jamboree.
  8. Several . . . okay, many . . . years ago I built a phantom NASCAR racer. It was based on a _____(Your Name Here)______ Lumina. I painted it red, white, and blue. It's sponsor was the NNL Championship Series (fictional). I called it "The Nameless National Lumina." I had a lot of fun with it, but I was surprised at how many modelers asked, "What's it mean?" 🙄
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