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Joe Handley

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  1. 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.
  2. True, but those were stock, production street cars on roads where those speeds are legal, may not be here, but legal there.
  3. 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.......)
  4. 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
  5. OH, I see a Blue XJ in that pic!
  6. 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.
  7. 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!
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. Why? A semi is going to do way more road damage in 5 years than a motorcycle ever will.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. Must have thought it was a drive through licquor store..........
  14. 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!
  15. Nope, just thrown in jail since it is illegal to mail a live person.
  16. Outside of a zoo, not a clue.
  17. I think the extra well padded leather seats make it even worse, I have less head room, less leg room, and it's hard for me to get in and out of that than it was for me in her '06 Charger SE, and my 200 feels huge in comparison. I did find the Charger wasn't as easy to get into as the 200 either and finally came the conclusion that even though they had the same basic roof line, the Charger's was longer, flatter, and lower than that of the 200/Sebring/Avenger........then the Challenger feels slightly chopped from there?!
  18. Could be a vinyl top-less expose on the Plymouth Superbird
  19. I can't believe you have so much room in that Challenger darquewanderer, my Sister's '14 R/T Classic has less room overall than my smaller Chrysler 200 has and when I sat in a sunroof equipped Dart at this year's autoshow, it had about the same room as her Challenger!
  20. Depending on the alcohol, that could have been fairly pleasureable That said, I'm surprised they didn't see if there was a zoo to donate the critters too.
  21. Having spent almost all of my working life on camera in one store or another, how do these people (cops included), not think the camera would spot them?!
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