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Joe Handley

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  1. And that is why my 200 and my Sister's Challenger had the lifetime extended warranties purchased for them when we got them from the dealer.
  2. You know, it's nice to see good, solid, welds that have been cleaned up instead of some rusty, booger welded garbage that I'm afraid to fart in the vicinity of.........
  3. I'm amazed to find that every time I access Fox News from my phone and the Ghostery app for my Firefox browser picks up 3-4 times as many attempts to track me as any other site I've visited.
  4. What, does the NSA think people have something to hide in Florida Harry?
  5. Not really, I can see that when it comes to the commodities used to produce the kits (oil, paper, etc) as well as some of the licensing costs, but some of the money that goes into the purchase price at the consumer end also pays people like my self and my co-workers at said store, provides funds that restocks our shelves so you have things to buy when you come into the store (believe me, not having that and trying to run a nearly special order only business will kill it!), pays the bills (ie, keeps a roof over the inventory and the lights turned on so we can see it), etc. Then you have the same things at the manufacturing plants, no matter where in the world they are, then you have to ship the stuff from the factory, to who ever warehouses then ships the products out to stores like I work at.
  6. Did they tell.the owners to leave the 5 pounds of junk off their key chain and not drive drunk until the part is replaced too?
  7. Actually guys, I was kinda surprised to hear they found that much open road without law enforcement. My sister hasn't been able.to really stretch her Challenger's legs around here because if there are cops watching traffic the, the roads are clogged up with slow drivers!
  8. I've talked to a couple Tesla owners, they love the things! Also have a friend who's driven one that belongs to a friend's sister and her husband......apparently 0-100mph comes up very quick, 100-120 however, takes some time.
  9. No kidding, my sister looked into getting a job in the library at the high school we went to and would have lost a couple dollars an hour from what she had been making at her current job at the time!
  10. Actually, that may have hurt it when it was just a old musclecar, now that it's an uber rare collectable, that now would help add to the car's value since it makes it more rare than others.
  11. E98 is how they make denatured alcohol, basically they're adding some sort of denaturant to the pure ethanol so that it is unfit for human consumpsion. E98 is usually 2% gasoline to poison it enough to discourage people from breaking into tank cars, road transport tankers, storage tanks, ect and enjoying themselves a little corn liquor for free. I think it can be bought for automotive use too, but will require even more tuning and parts swapping (usually even bigger pump and injectors, maybe bigger fuel line to and from the tank) than E85 will due to the extra alcohol content if it's not a factory flex fuel car, and likely still need the bigger pump and injectors plus the additional tuning on a factory flex fueler.
  12. I lose about 3-4 mpg, but tend to buy it when it's prices anywhere from $.80 a gallon less than premium (remember the octane thing) to $1.50 a gallon less than regular. $.80 a gallon less is the break even point for the Avenger/200, right now it's around $1.10 a gallon less at my preferred station. One big problem is that some stations or sellers to the station overcharge on the stuff, even when denatured (non-drinkable) ethanol is a good bit cheaper at the Chicago Board of Trade (which last I heard is also at a $1.10 less for e98 vs refined gasoline). I sometimes will by from Thorntons and Woodmans, but often they're running lousy spreads compared to Speedway.
  13. Cheaper, cleaner, better power (the computer in my 200 bumps cam and ignition timing on it's own), prices aren't tied to what happens in the middle east.........
  14. That is a drool worthy successor to the E Type..........with the return of the Stingray name to the Corvette, I wonder if a rewrite of Deadman's Curve coming.............
  15. 98 Octane?! Lucky buggers! The only way to get better than 93 here is to buy race gas (100 octane for $6.99/gallon by me) or E85 (up to 105 octane for $2.76/gallonat my preferred station)!
  16. I wouldn't, that's the only way I could get insurance, from both a financial standpoint as well as a not being told to get lost by insurers.
  17. Jesse Combs one of the drivers? COOL!
  18. Saw this and thought it was interesting. http://mynorthwest.com/11/2535777/Hey-leftlane-campers-June-is-Lane-Awareness-Month
  19. Bob has a point, wonder how many of those who were involved in this made it through the Bankrupcy/Bailout and still work there or got a nice fat retirement before all this went down...........
  20. Well, those are storied Marques, while the Cuda is just another old Plymouth
  21. Maybe they'll wait to release it in '15 due to quality issues like 30 years ago. ?!
  22. Honestly, I'd rather wait to see if Dynacorn comes out with a reproduction tub and build a SRT 392 powered clone of that, at least then I could drive it.
  23. Hey now Harry, with the way they've been going, that could really be next!
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