Joe Handley

Not sure why they call it Unleaded15, I would have just used E15 as well, but it would be nice if they could put their fuel prices on their website and app though! Pricing wise, they were running around $1.69 for E85, $2.39 for 87, $2.36 for E15, $2.69 for 89, and $2.99 for 93 when I was there a few days ago, but according to GasBuddy, their price for 87 has gone up to $2.49 since then, so I'm going to assume that their E15 price is probably now around $2.46.

I did read something a while back about a couple teens in Tennessee that tried making DewShine with Methanol, which unlike Ethanol, is immediately poisonous....................needless to say, they didn't survive. I could see that happening here in northern, more urban areas, but you'd think that with Tennessee being a state that Moonshine (also Ethanol) would have been made in as well as transported through, they would have known better than to mistake it with Methanol

I've daily driven my Chrysler 200 without a problem on E85 for the better part of the last 4 years minor issues (cold starting in the winter, especially as the OEM battery has aged) and actually prefer how the car runs on E85 over gasoline (as well as the smell of the exhaust) and when there is a decent price spread, it's actually cheaper than running gasoline. There's a Thornton's not far from me and once we get it road worthy again (brakes and new radiator, to start), I'll be running my '98 Cherokee with the iron block and head 4.0l I-6 on their E15. I have experimented with using higher than 10% blends in that Jeep and while I did have starting issues in bitter cold weather, the battery really needs replacing in that too! I have gone as high as 25% (by accident, wasn't paying attention to the pump) and it ran fine at that percentage, it also tended to run cooler (which is handy with a 4.0l or an iffy radiator, especially both on a Cherokee!) with the higher alcohol content. From what I've seen from other people who have actually been willing to experiment on non-flex fuel vehicles, the amount of alcohol that can be safely burned depends on the fuel system and computer programming while fuel system materials tended to hold up fine, even with up to 60% on some non-flex fuel vehicles. Typically the biggest complaint I seem to read from them is that there aren't more blender pumps (that have blend options between E10-E85) that are available as well too low a number of E85 pumps for those of us who do use it.

http://abc7chicago.com/news/grandfather-survives-hit-and-run-while-mowing-lawn/1341757/ Happened less than two miles from home and on a residential street (25-30mph limit and arrow straight with only minor elevation changes) that has a grade school and high school at opposite ends of it as well as a middle school near it.

Wow, and not in a good way either..........

Ok, anybody else find it funny that the transport driver has an overlong load type red flag on the back of the Ford with a Continental Kit?!

No pics, but there was an early 00's Celica that I saw on my way home that had been blacked out that was burning so much oil that it looked like it was rolling coal. Although I'm not sure if the tail lights were tinted and the muffler and tail pipe were painted black, or if that was just soot from the exhaust covering both................

Same reasons I suggested the XJ Cherokee Kurt, small enough to fit just about anywhere, capable enough to act like a bigger truck, the 242 Transfercase has AWD, along with all the other typical 4wd functions, and can be flung around like a much more pavement oriented vehicle!

That actually looks better than the Chevelle and Bug do!

XJ Cherokee with the 4.0l I-6, AW4 4 speed auto, and NV/NP 242 full time transer case......preferably a '91 or later so that it won't be as hard to get the Chrysler vs ReNix engine electronics.......plus MOAR POWER!!!!!!!!!!

I saw that, and from what I've read on how it's going to be done.........it kinda sounds like they're at least partially ripping off the US Top Gear format to do it!?

Yeah, it's like every bad styling cliches done to one poor little Bug.

Is that Ian Roussel from Full Custom Garage staring at the back end of that Bug?

I think the model was built to a much higher standard than the 1/1!

I'm not your typical pet person, but there are occasionally things that do make me just THAT mad, this was one of them.

Sounds about right, especially if you have any sense of proportion!

Some of what you said reminds me of my Sister's Challenger, which is stock other than Z Rated all season tires that replaced the stock summer rubber. The top is low enough that it is difficult for Dad or myself to get into, the visibility kinda sucks,, the window line is high enough to not easily hang your arm out, and the sunroof takes away the head room. Sadly, her '06 Charger that she had wasn't much better, but didn't have the thickly bolstered seats or sunroof, which at least helped.

The problem here is that the top is so out of whack that if there was further work done to it, that could potentially be overshadowed by that chop, and there's no way any kind of top could fix that short of turning it into a convertable and replacing the windshield frame with something stock. That's why I suggested that if things were done differently in the chopping process, it would look better, I'd leave off that sun roof too, it does the car no favors.

Well, starting the chop by consuming less alcohol than my 200 has in the last 24 hours (at least a gallons worth) would be a big help, then keep on keeping the body mods in a tasteful manner after that, maybe while keeping the beer on ice until done would further help.

I'm still trying to figure out what happened there, but I think it's partially the sunroof's fault. Some of it is probably from the roof being open in those pics, some of it looks like the shape is to accomodate the mechanicals and roof section when open, and some might just be a really poorly thought out chop!

The more I think of it, that Chevelle wouldn't be as bad if there was a bit less chop, maybe rake the windsheild and back window towards each other with nearly or still full height glass, a '70 front clip with some custom touches, a noticeable loss of altitude in the suspension with maybe slightly shorter and wider tires on the right rims (even if he bumped up to 17" rims), then paint it a considerably less obnoxious color (maybe black, gunmetal, dark blue, dark green, ect.), it would look better!

As it has been said, beauty is in the eye of the beer holder, but the chop on that Chevelle must have involved enough alchohol that I could run my flex fuel car to and from work for at least a day or two!

I've seen enough Bentlys, Porsches, Lambos, and Ferraris running through Geneva and St. Charles that they don't call out to me any more. Now a couple times in the past month, I've seen what should be an early FWD, late 80's (possibly '89) Olds's 98 sedan in way to good a shape to be a local car as well as being driven by a young lady with a couple other young female passengers, all of which were young enough that I almost wonder if this car had belonged to a great grandmother or aunt that lived far enough south that is hasn't seen much salt in the last 25 plus years.

I did a little reading on that car, for what is was capable of, it was stil frighteningly stock at the same time! Most of the suspension mods were big front bar, more than doubled up the front spring rate, bumped the rear rate by 30%, Camaro rear disks with some cooling ducts for the OEM brakes up front, big sticky Gatorbacks on 16×8 rims, then they bumped the power by around 25% and then the ground effects and spoiler package. I kinda wonder if the covers for the lights makes a difference in the handling, but .90g from a G-Body from tricks that would work on most, if not all G-Bodies, is pretty dang impressive!

I don't know Nick, I stopped to fill up the 200 after work tonight and the way the precipitation was coming down and as cold as it is tonight, I wasn't sure if we weren't getting a little snow or just some rain.