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Joe Handley

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  1. I still miss my '85 Lebaron GTS because of that, they a decent sized turbo and fairly aggressive factory cam in those motors through '86 or '87. Even with the 3 speed auto, that car could scare the daylights out of people who didn't know what it was capable of One advantage of that power in the Mustang though, don't have to worry about torque steer in a RWD chassis.
  2. Oh, ain't this the truth!
  3. Dang that's pricey, think I'll stick with my sub $2.00 Frozen Cokes from 7-11!
  4. This is how Harry, although it comes with the new car purchase, my Jeep would cost 3x that much there.
  5. Depends on who's doing the oil change, the dealer we've bought out last 3 Mopars at has a separate station to change the oil on 3 cars at a time, but is staffed with employees that are more.........."youthful" ......than I. I only pay $11 before tax for an oil change, but I'm sure these guys are making minimum wage or close to it. When I had my 200 in for it's last change, they accidentally put the wrong oil in it and I ended up with a free engine flush too...........too bad it was my now 26k mile 200 and not my 160k+ '98 Cherokee............
  6. I think the prototype's entire front end looked better!
  7. For me on the Vette, I like most of the convertable and the coupe, but the rear bumper on both and the roof on the coupe kill it for me.
  8. I'm not surprised that this could be an issue with them, seems like a tricky roof to work one into. Personally, if I was going to screw up my car's rigidity, CG, and water tightness, I'd rather be cruising in a full on convertable (make it a hideaway hardtop please ) than just having some hole cut in the roof that will take away from headroom as well.
  9. Technically, it has round headlights, they're just projectors now.
  10. I know the feeling Harry, when my Sister was looking for her Challenger Riverfront had an all black inside and out, V-6/9-Speed/AWD 2015 200S on the lot and all I could think was I wish I could afford to bring it home and park it next to my 2012 200 Touring and XJ......not like we have the room for that too though.
  11. My 200 has TPMS on it and that set up works nicely! Once I select the screen on the cluster it will give me an estimate of each tire's pressure and will automatically self adjust after a tire rotation, just got to drive at a consistant speed for little while so the onboard computer can figure out where the tires are now. What I despise is the stability control on tje car, it's sometimes to easy to set off and there is some thought that it might be causing slick road stability issues with the cars in conjuntio with the toe it on slick, winter roads. You can thank Ford for both of those too, if they just built the first decades worth of Explorers so the didn't roll do easily and reccomend tire pressure lower that Firestone felt safe for the tires, we wouldn't "need" those
  12. My experience has been that Prius owners aren't so bad, now the rest of the Toyota appliances and the people who operate them.............
  13. Only government induced trouble I might see is that GM can't get away with stuff as easily as they once could, be it intended or through incompetence. If Barro is trying to fix GM, I wish her luck, she will likely need it. If it won't be the old guard getting in her way (wonder if the was given the job to be a sacrifical lamb as much as a CEO), regulators, advocats, and lawyers, causing problems, then there's the possible sales losses from this.......even though they are actually trying to fix the things that are going wrong with the vehicles.................
  14. Had a lady yell at me today for selling her a Jada Toys R/C Lambo that was missing the controller then telling her I couldn't take it back because she didn't buy it from us, as we don't carry the qny Jada products, let alone that car. Then buy the Maisto R/C Lambo I had shown her when she was in a couple weeks back because she needed the birthday gift today.
  15. Wow, she found a nice one, and surprisingly low miles for it's age too!
  16. I'm wondering how quickly one of the Maisto diecasts were stripped for a build.
  17. That this has to be done! https://m.yahoo.com/w/legobpengine/frontpage/celebrity/blogs/celeb-news/louis-c-k---judd-apatow-ask-tmz-to-remove-gruesome-tracy-morgan-crash-video-163451789.html;_ylt=AnyaX8dNurBb6YmVOpLASgyxK2RH?.b=/&.intl=US&.lang=en
  18. My Mom was in a place like that for a couple weeks last month and Dad was there every day, nearly all day with her. My Kid Sister and I went out for at least 30min to visit her on nearly every day (work got in the way twice, third time was when Lil' Sis decided to find a Challenger and I met her at the dealer) even though the drive took anywhere from 30min to 60+ minutes depending on where you were going from and the time of day. There were a number of people I never saw visitors for, including Mom's room mate, and one of the few I saw more than once was complaining about the long drive, yet lives closer than we do......how you can complain about something like that when your parent is basically in a nursing home, I just don't know.................
  19. Lol, could have used that many, many times over my time in retail!
  20. It sure looks like it could use a little TLC there, or add a scoop where the hole is patched over and it could be used as a wanna be Two Lane Blacktop/American Graffiti style Tri-5 cruiser and/or movie car.
  21. I agree with Harry, looks good on it!
  22. I'll have to look again Charlie, but I think some of the tire manufacturers are still making all season tires in our sizes, but while I'm using a P-Metric All Terrain on my XJ, you might still be able to find a P-Metric truck tire that is more car like in a similar size. I know Goodyear had more pavement biased light truck tire that was about the size you need a nukber of years ago........the Goodyear dealer goofed up and put them on my truck by accident and didn't realize it until I pointed out to them the tires were wrong in all but manufacturer and size!
  23. There are foam safe CA's, those are also supposed to be good for folks that are allergic to the stuff.
  24. Well, compared to the Charger my sister just traded off, it's about 7:8.......park it next to a Smart car, that becomes more like 2:1
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