Joe Handley

Could that possibly be a tie in to the TV Series "Motive", by chance? The female detective on the show has one as her daily driver and lets her son drag race it at a nearby strip.......where she proudly watches him do a burn out then take down an early SN95 body Mustang with it

It's old info, but this is an interesting read. http://www.extension.iastate.edu/agdm/articles/hof/hofjuly07.html

There is coal liquifaction, turning coal into a liquid fuel that can be burned in diesel engines, but instead of using dino juice, it's turning compressed dinos into liquid fuel.

Haven't left for work yet, I'll get back to you around 6 or so tonight

I usually try to wait until I'm at a stop light, still ticketable, butbat least the car is sitting still!

Supposedly OBD3 was supposed to include such capabilities as far back as the mid-late 90's, but was primarily for emissions control purposes, but could be used for the rest. IIRC, Detroit and the ACLU had both been fighting that at the time too. I seem to even remeber some talk of states looking into cell phone tower pings to deturmine traffice flow and speeds, and then even for writing tickets based on how fast your phone is traveling through a given area.in comparison to the posted limits and the only way to get around that is to have a cell phone you can pull the battery out of. Of course now we're given the option, to some extent, by insurance companies, under the guise of "cheaper insurance rates"...............please tell me I'm not the only one who thinks that reasoning is bull.........

Didn't need to worry about speed traps tonight after work, plenty of sunday drivers got out of the house tonight and were clogging up traffic flow., especially when you got one who might be doing speedlimit in the passing lane while the one in the passed lane was running close enough to the other car that you can pass either one of them.........got a dirty look the latter tonight......

Where was that at, it looked vaugly familiar?

I try not to add things up, especially where my R/C stuff is involved, I just don't want to know the numbers........... In the last year, my spending had been nearly non existant due to lack of un-spoken for funds. My store had been seeing declining sales and all of our hours declined in kind until the store changed hands in March, some of the "legacy" employees left on their own, a few were not asked to stay, and I was one of 3 that was asked to stay on. Since then the new owners heavily changed how things were done and our sales are better than I've seen in a long time.........and sometimes only during Christmas.... So far things have gone well enough that not only are my hours better than they have been in a long time, but we have hired one of the guys who lost his job when a particular, long standing hobby shop closed it's doors a couple months back.

It has been a while, mine might have moved!

Been there too Pete, I one time had somebody bring back an R/C Battery charger that wasn't working when plugged in, the guy returning it claimed to be an electrical engineer, had tested it and found it wasn't working. So I plugged it in and found that it worked perfectly fine. He insisted he knew what he was doing and it was defective, I go back and try to charge a battery, and of course, it works perfectly fine doing that too. He was pissed, especially after I asked him if he might have plugged it into a light switch outlet by accident, and insisted it was broken, didn't work, and wanted his money back or a different one. I think I exchanged it for a different, more expensive one and out it back on the shelf since it worked fine. I also had an issue with a customer who is an automotive mechanic that bought a Reciever Pack that happened to have the wrong plug. When he noticed it, instead of calling us and saying what happened, he started to cut and chop wiring then splice it together with stuff from Home Depot.......then decided to return it.....no go there.

Lol, been there, people like that were the reason I hated working at the service desk at Toys "R" Us and made janitorial a more desirable job there!

That would be aggrevating!

They are a bit of a gimick, like fins, 500lbs, massive engines in small cars, etc, all stuff a car doesn't need to get you to and from the self checkout at the grocery store, but gives the car some individuality. One thing I do like us that they can work as DRL's when bright enough or when the weather is a bit grey, then since most cars use their own LED layout, they're easier to tell which is which and coming at you at night. Audi's are pretty blinding, but usually a dead giveaway, Kia's are kinda bizzare and very telling, the lights on my 200 make it easier to tell if it is one at night than during the day, the new Cherokee's make the thing as easy to spot at night as the headlight and turn signal layout on my XJ does for those, and so on. I'm not as big of a fan of the LED strip vs light tube though, most of the time the light strips tend to leave dark spots between the bulbs while the tube will give off more of a softer, neon tube or flourecent bulb appearance.

It wasn't so bad since most of where I drove before realizing my mistake is Rt. 64 between West Chicago and St. Charles and now is very well lit as well as very familiar to me. I didn't catch it until turning onto Southbound Rt. 59 when Dad noticed the difference in light was what he thought it was and said something about it.

What irked me today...........ME! Dad and I ran over to a local Culver's to get dinner to go tonight and they handed us the drinks, had us pull up a little ways, and wait for the food to get finished. When I did that I turned the 200 off and turned off the headlights, but left the turn signals, tail lights, and eyebrows lit. The kid brings us the food and I start the car up and we leave...........and about half way home I pull off of a well lit 4 lane highway onto another 4 lane, but not so well lit and Dad asks me if my lights were on, sure enough, I was running without headlights. The brows and all the other lights were on, but don't do much at 9pm for night driving.............

Geez, that reminds me of my Traxxas Stampede on a 3s LiPo, IF it goes in a straight line, the front tires are off the ground, otherwise, it crashes!

One that's been bugging me are the people that make left turns on red, even though we aren't allowed to do that here.

Sad part is, that dummy may be close to being in his 30's!!!!

I'm kinda surprised it's even meat sometimes.

Cool looking for the most part, but the gold paint and the drive compartment materials just scream tacky..............and I consider most US made $1m+ motorhomes to be fairly tacky looking!

Um, I kinda have to question the quality of work in that kitchen if it only took 50 hours. Seems way too fast unless all he had to do was remove the old and bolt in the new without painting, flooring, dealing with wall paper, ect.

When it comes to just paint and bodywork, it can take a lot of work to make it look right before the first coat of paint goes on, no matter if it's lexan, styrene, or sheet metal. I don't even want to think about what time and effort had been put into those Chevy Lowriders on Leno's Garsge last night before the final coats of primer went down to make them look that good, let alone what it took to make the final product look just that fantastic!

I decided to trim my beard today while getting ready for work since was starting to get a bit too long and I had the time.........ended up screwing it up and had to shave the whole dang thing off and will have to restart from scratch! Luckily, with how I grow facial hair, it should be pretty close to what I wanted by August 1st