Joe Handley

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!

I kinda have to agree with Harry here, I wouldn't be surprised if there were a number of smaller cars and trucks that would tolerate kind of wreck (although I am amazed the one car got that far off the ground in the wreck, must have been running nearly triple digit speeds!), especially not knowing how much speed that semi was carrying into the scene of the accident.

Honestly, I would have rather seen that Riv over the S&H Torino, even without the show licensing......then again, I'd still rather have a Tucker in kit form over the Torino too.

Good that you guys are getting some help there, that has to be horrible.

Nice Charger! X2!!!! That Revell kit would make an excellent starting point for a '70 Charger if Revell wanted to tool one up, maybe even make the door scoops separate pieces and tool up a 6-Pack intake for it so it's easier to build anything from a lowly /6 to a rampaging elephant car using existing parts.....hint, hint, hint

Ah, that's right........wonder how different the movie car was from the stock and tv cars under the sheetmetal..........besides the Chevy LS motor.......

Rachel Maddow covered that for a while on her MSNBC show.

How about the option parts to build all three, stock, TV, and Movie!

Honestly, that hill isn't bad. Check out some of the videos from when Jeep puts on a ride experience at an auto show, the hill climb makes that look like a speed bump.

A couple months back I put a R/C truck on Layaway and payed that off today! First new R/C I've been able to afford in a few years, last "new" one was actually mostly built from spare, used, or repurposed parts that I stuck together on a whim. Here's the new one with another "repurposed parts" truck that some of you are already familiar with.

Political Correctness doesn't have much to do with this outside of those who are thought to be the deviants in question aren't as likely to be drug into the streets and beat by some wanna-be posse for just being suspected any more.........Now it's all done via social media instead and to hurt reputations instead of causing physical injuries that could lead to jail time.

Lol, that reaction would havs been worth the price of a year's membership!

Wish we had a Like button for Agent G's post!

You'd be more likely to find them in places like Toy Stores. One of the reasons I hated running register at Toy's "R" Us was that we had to ask everybody their phone numbers to start the transaction. The answers ranged from ok and getting "a number" (never sure if they were real), to not today, to "NO! YOU'RE JUST GOING TO SELL IT TO BILL CLINTON!!!!" (yes, that one actually happened to a kid I worked there with!), but my concern was the if there was a lone guy in line behind and could hear the parent giving the number, they could use that to track their next victim via phone book.

Got infront of somebody who put HID's on his stripper Nissan Versa and was pretty much blinded for a couple miles, then when I did move into a turnlane and the car went past, it also had blacked out tail lights!

Was it referring to the material the belts were made from, or a device attached to the reel or latch? Def Leapard's drummer lost his arm nearly 30 years ago in a nasty wreck because of a seatbelt and I seem to remember hearing about how if you have your seatbelt around your gut instead of over your hips when you wreck, that can cause a number of internal injuries since there are no bones in thar area to support you in a violent wreck (like an Explorer rolling over).

Sooooo happy I wasn't drinking anything when I read that

Palm of hand, no, into tips of fingers............yes. Don't get me started on soldering either, I tend to hold pens and pencils near the tip with my left hand. Let me tell you, it's difficult to bowl even 24hrs after trying to hold a very hot 25 wattt soldering iron like that..........didn't know my bowling ability could get any worse until then either

I still think Revell should consider trying to tie their rumored Hurst/Olds to the Motive TV series, since the female lead drives one in the show.