Joe Handley

I'd consider buying this kit for myself, probably won't build it directly into "The General", but it has some other Hollywood car possibilities, such as the Charger destroyed by that Terrentino movie, the pre General Lee, General Lee (basically the Geneal Lee painted black), the same car driven by George Clooney as a bad guy in Air Wolf, then there's the Moonshine still equipped orange Charger from the Alternative Fuel Race episode of Knight Rider, the blue Charger from the Smallville that Tom Wopat was on, and finally John Schneider's General as well as the borrowed beater Charger as Traveler from his movie Collier and Company, Hot Pursuit........and those are all without even changing the rims!

You know what that would go nicely with that Econoline kit Mike?

Same here, wouldn't mind one of the GT Turbo models. I've also heard the 3.8l V-6 minivan motor is a viable swap into those too. Should scoot when you consider that stock 2dr JK's with that motor were mid-high 15 second rigs.

Dang, want that too! Let me know if and when you want me to order that kit Mike, I may have to order one for myself too while I'm at it

Wow, and I thought the sedans were horrible looking!

My store has been insanely busy today, and the customers have all been patient and understanding of that! Considering I really wasn't sure if we were still going to be here when I was told the store was changing hands back in February, it's very, very good to see

What is it anymore with people thinking it's ok to walk around a store eating food they brought in, and then parking what ever they drove up in along the front sidewalk in front of the store in what would be the fire lane, especially on the handicap ramp area?! I'm not talking about a candy bar, energy bar, ect, I'm talking about fast food of some sort!

And you know they'd have that set up to blast "Dixie" too.

I need a like button for Tom's post.

Bill, I hate to tell you this, but any form of energy used for transportation will be dangerous, gasoline, diesel, ethanol, and natural gas all tend to be somewhat explosive and flammable in the right conditions and if something goes wrong with it's containment or transportation through the fuel system, a vehicle can catch fire burn down, plus with Natural Gas, if something happens to the fuel tanks, you now have the possibility of a projectile bursting out of the vehicle. Now for the distance driven, if it takes 30 minutes to charge 3 times a day, that will give you a chance to get out and work your legs to reduce the chances of blood clots, gives you time to get some food, take a bathroom break, if it's hectic driving (like driving back into the suburbs from a major city....like Chicago, during rush hour traffic), you get a chance to stop and just chill out before rejoining the insanity.........that alone can be worth it! When it comes to your Jeep, I just don't see the 4dr JK having any more practicality than a H2. Jeep kinda lost their way in the Daimler years between ditching the XJ for the Libertys and Nitro, then putting an IFS stup under the Grand Cherokee before going to another Mercedes 4 wheel independent platform with airbags for the current model, also bringing out the much larger and heavier 4dr JK with a severly overworked minivan motor trying to do a V-8's or turbodiesel's job......kind of amazed that the Pentastar does so well in that thing too, as well as bringing out the Caliber based Compass and Patriot (which are also related to my 200) and calling them "Jeeps". Sadly, the only current Jeep I have any interest in is the Trailhawk model of the new KL Cherokee (which shares it's Alfa-Romeo based platform with the Dart and New 200.) It's much more capable straight off the lot than the Compass, Patriot, and probably even the Liberty without being as ugly. It's also smaller, lighter (even though it's still portly), and more efficent than the Grand or the 4dr JK while having a real roof, unlike the JK. As far as making an electic Jeep that can go off road, that will come as the tech develops. Just look at R/C trucks like the Axial SCX10 in that way, electric powered off road trail trucks that, when built with waterproof electronics, are capable of going pretty much anywhere you point them. I've got one with a '92 XJ Cherokee body on it has actually been wheeled harder and more often than my 1/1 '98 XJ has yet keeps on keeping on. I'm now working on a Traxxas Telluride as a 4 wheel independent trail rig to go with my SCX10, that will be getting grippier tires, narrower offset wheels (stockers sit too far out, getting in the way and looking kinda goofy too), higher turn brushed motor, shorter gearing (there are ring and pinions available that give a healthy improvement in final drive), as well as at least putting heavier oil in the diffs to try and create an aggressive limited slip until I can find a decent spool (the SCX10 diffs are locked from the factory). When it comes to power generation, as a nation, we need to start pushing for more solar, wind, hydroelectric, and even nuke power. Like I said before, no more of this "all our eggs in one basket" nonsense of the last 100+ years when it comes to energy, no penalizing people for trying to do so (there have been attempts to write laws punishing homeowners for adding solar panels, although I do believe that hybrids and electrics need to cost more to register at the state level). Pollution wise, the benifits are that when running on electricity, the per vehicle pollution is often lower and being produced in less densly populated areas, reducing the pollution in urban and suburban centers. Start adding in solar and wind generated electricity, thst reduced that pollution even moreso. Things will become more cost efficent, eventually. Remember, gas, oil, and coal have had a 100 year or more head start and have been chosen as "winners" more than once, the rest need to have a chance to be developed and there needs to be fewer hurdles put in their way from opposing market forces for that to happen.

I have to agree with Clovis, there will be more coming down the pike, so long as there are no well funded roadblocks thrown out to impede them. I'd love to see shopping malls start putting up solar panels and wind turbines, low energy use lighting and construction materials, EV charging stations, maybe rooftop plant life too. You wouldn't even need to build a new mall for it if you have one that might work well as a starting point. There's a dying, 20 some year old mall near me that has massive glass panels in the roof that allows for fantasic amounts of light during the day, has the room to put up panels, turbines, EV charging stations, ect, and could use a massive updating as far as interior appearances goes. The place is darn near empty, so any revitalizing wouldn't interfer with shoppers and this would be the perfect to experiment with since it is dying even though it's in medium to high income, a high traffic flow area that has a number of homes, hotels, a fairly large resort/golf course, car dealerships, and a municiple airport all within a few miles of it. When it comes to a dominating energy supply, there shouldn't be just one, not after how the last decade plus has been when oil has been the primary power source for the world for the last century. I doubt the internal combustion engine will be going away, but I do feel we should have more hybrids, especially with drivetrains like the Volt/ELR use, more pure electrics like the Leaf and Tesla, plus continued and expanded production of multi fuel capable vehicles like those that can burn gasoline as well as Ethanol, Natural Gas, or all three. For example, all the upcoming Nat Gas Impala should need to be a tri-fuel vehicle is the right injectors, fuel pump, and programming to allow for E85 use along side gasoline in the same fuel system, plus the natural gas. No reason cars like the Volt/ELR can't burn both gas or alcohol plus run on electricity, natural gas might make things overly complicated to try and make it tri-fuel as well as electric since it would need it's own fuel system instead being able to share the single fuel system like gas and E85 can. If I were to get a Volt or Tesla via sweepstakes, I would probably go Tesla, it works perfectly fine for my driving environment right now, plus I would still have my Flex Fuel Chrysler 200 for long distance hauls incase there is no easy way to charge the Tesla and my old Cherokee for winter use.

Nah, that's too kind, especially when they involve little kids.

This! Plus I wouldn't mind seeing this turned into some sort of regular wagon And of course, once again........

Not sure anymore Jim, just not sure.....

I've caught bits and pieces of that movie.........it's becoming frighteningly prophetic?!

One was probably a real ERTL product, while the other was probably one of Racing Chumps "replicas"

Kinda makes you want to cram some sort of large, round fruit or sports equipment in one of those overgrown tailpipes, doesn't it.

They'll do it to cyclists, Prius' (any hybrid or electric really), "ricers"........even though they're the diesel truck equivalent, ect.

This isn't related to that Racing Chumpions/RC2 diecast General Lee by chance, is it?

Wasted power and fuel (still nearly $4/gal here for it too!), not to mention a road hazard. When the whole, "rolling coal as a political statement" stuff came out a couple weeks back, one of the commentors on the article I had read mentioned that there was a fatal wreck caused by that. Turns out a truck had filled an intersection with so much smoke that the smoke screan obscured other motorists vision that there was some sort of bad crash that ended up killing one of the people in the involved vehicles. Also remember seeing a post on another forum a fee years back where one of the guys there saw a couple of these clowns in some sort of jacked up D-Max truck in a turn lane pump black smoke into the minivan next to them with the windows down! To make matters worse, it wasn't just Mom or Dad, it was both of them AND the kids?!?!?! The other forum member was one of those who stopped to help this family and said that the van was filled with that garbage and the whole family was covered in diesel soot too. IIRC, the guy wanted to go find those guys and knock them around a bit for what they did to that family.

A friend of mine was pulled over because of one of these idiots a few years back. He was out running errands one saturday in his tweaked 6.0l PowerStroke SuperDuty and saw some knucklehead in a GMC K30 CUCV (think of it as basically "The Fall Guy" truck in camo) driving around doing just that. An hour or so later he gets pulled over for no obvious to him reason and the officer tells him that there had been a number of complaints coming in to dispatch about a diesel truck dumping black smoke everywhere. He had a low opinion of "coal rollers" before, and needless to say, even less when he found out why he was stopped, and not only told the officer this opinion, but also told him about that CUCV he saw earlier in the day figuring that it was probably the reason for all the calls the cops were getting. He wasn't mad at the officer that stopped him, but I probably wouldn't want to have been the CUCV driver if he had the opportunity to talk to that dipstick after getting stopped!

Uhg, those idiots.......

Those Enkei's and the simple debadging really look good on that car!

Don't see those skirts nearly as embarrassing as those weird looking rear window louvers!

I imagine that has to be like the XJ Cherokees or any of the vans we've owned, might as well have been trying to drive a cardboard box! Surprisingly, I did accidentally discover the XJ's with the Selec-Trac transfer cases were much more driveable and got better mileage when in full time 4wd (AWD) over using the 2wd (RWD) choice when you were fighting heavy cross winds!