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Joe Handley

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  1. Best thing that kept me from drinking when I turned 21 was spending the previous 4 years was mopping booze up off the floor at the Osco I used to work at when customers would drop their purchases on the floor. Warm or cold, most beer and wine smelled awful enough that it helped kill what little interest I in the stuff.
  2. I think the mainly provided darkness and wiring loom smoke!
  3. The Posie's XKE at least was rewired with a kit from Painless, isn't Lucas wiring more like Spanish Inquisition..........or something equally painful?!
  4. How tall are these guys then?!
  5. Lol, I did get a laugh outta that one, no worse than what Jag did to the XJ's in the early 90's IMHO. Or the stock 2+2 E-Type...........
  6. And yes, that's real! http://thequirkyglobe.blogspot.com/2011/04/gull-winged-rolls-royce-goes-on-sale-at.html?m=1
  7. Honestly, Jags 2,3, and Posie's all look pretty slick to me, the Draguar is just a pile that's probably getting more "love" now than it has since new.
  8. True, but those were stock, production street cars on roads where those speeds are legal, may not be here, but legal there.
  9. Honestly Pete, you're kinda displaying your ignorance here. Those aren't some hand me down 100hp Honda Civics from their grandmothers, the white one is a Subaru WRX STi, high HP, AWD, built to corner and do it fairly well on all surfaces, including dirt........the wing is actually more neccessary there than say the Go Wing on a vintage Mopar E-Body (which always seem to be angled for lift when I see one.......)
  10. Tell that to the families of people killed in the early Audi TT's over in Europe, where high speed roadways are more common. http://www.nytimes.com/2000/02/20/automobiles/audi-offers-tt-fix-after-5-deaths.html
  11. OH, I see a Blue XJ in that pic!
  12. If those are factory WRX's, the one on the white car should actually help hold the back of the car down...........and with it being AWD, turbo, ect, that probably is useful.
  13. Not yet, I'll put one on order for myself when I get to work tomorrow. Quick edit; just sent one of my bosses a text asking her to order one under my name!
  14. Would you ever consider a modern color? I've always though that the Moss Green Pearl my Jeep is painted or the Crystal Black my Parent's Town and Country is painted (also on Sam Hanna's SRT Challenger in NCIS:LA) would look fantastic on a vintage car. Here's my Traxxas E-Revo with a stock replacement body painted in rattle can MOPAR Touch Up Moss Green Pearl.......might even trick a few people into thinking it's a vintage color, my Parents had a '70 Charger R/T (440 6-Pack, 4-Speed, Super Track Pack, plain body color steelies, white top and interior, ect) that was painted a similar green that they bought new way back when.
  15. It's made right here in Illinois, with it's siblings the Chrysler 200 and Jeep Cherokee being built in Michigan and Ohio respectively, but the platform is a modified Alfa-Romeo Giulietta.
  16. Why? A semi is going to do way more road damage in 5 years than a motorcycle ever will.
  17. Thanks Toylvr, the more I think about it, the trucklette thing may have been a Cushman....it's been a few years since I saw it last.
  18. I'm thinking that when EV sales hit that level, increase the licensing fees on them in a way that would compensate for the loss in gas taxes with a sliding scale based on what you drive. Leave taxes for diesel and gas/flex fuel vehicles as is or something reasonable, raise it a lower amount on more combustion motivated hybrids (Toyota, Honda, Ford, some GM) than you would on cars like the Volt and ELR (mostly electric with an onboard generator), and higher still on pure electrics like the Leaf and Teslas.
  19. Must have thought it was a drive through licquor store..........
  20. Did Crosley do little gas powered work carts for places like convention centers, or was it Bantam? When doing stuff for either selling things via my store during or helping tear down the rock crawler club's portable course after the I Hobby show when it was at The Donald E. Stephens Center in Rosemont, I saw the different Union Foremen race around the convention center (and had to dodge a few of them) to keep an eye on things, and I think they were Crosleys!
  21. Nope, just thrown in jail since it is illegal to mail a live person.
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