Joe Handley

That could look neat with a roof rack and a couple mini surfboards on the said racks.

I think the both got many, many girls..........IIRC, Luke may have been related to a number of the kids at the Hazzard Co. Orphanage

Eh, so long as it's hanging from the spool, or at least within reach of the seat, I'm happy!

Well, done right, you can still taste the dog

Seeing as I was born in Ames, IA.........could be an Iowa thing

Could be, it's one of the few Chicago things I've never picked up on in the 35 of my 37 years I've lived here.

We're not there yet, plenty of rain once again, kinda crappy and cool out now too. Come August, we just might be posting here instead.

That's terrible G, my Mom lost her oldest Sister that way 18 years ago when she was 60, and on Christmas Day no less. Luckily she was with the rest of their family for the holiday at their youngest sister's place and they were able get EMS there, but it was too late and she was taken off life support the next day.

That's why I said "should" Harry, no place does it, even though we're supposed to. If I know the customer and they have that written on their card, I don't bother asking for their I.D., but if I don't know them, I will and most of thd time it's appreciated. I have heard of people getting mad if they don't sign and get asked for I.D........... Not sure how the self swiper thing works if card companies want the cashier to check signatures and such then the stores don't have the cashiers check.......or put them at self checkouts where there is on cashier for 4 registers.

I'd like to get my 200 washed, but is seems like if I have the weather, I don't have the time and/or money, and if I have the time or money I don't have the weather and/or money or time............if that latter part actually makes sense.

Technically, if you guys don't sign, the store should refuse to accept the card as per the credit card company's rules. Even if you write C.I.D., See I.D., Ask for I.D., ect on the card, the cashier is supposed to refuse the card for one that is signed or another form of payment.........like cash or check, if checks are still taken at said establishments. I've signed my C.C. then added See I.D. next to the signature, but have yet to be asked for my license when the cashier is the one to swipe it.

But being TV, that will be followed by a video of the now once again straight car and pristine camper will be tearing away from that landing site.

Same here, I will pay cash or write a check whenever I can before using my Credit Card, and now that I'm getting some decent hours once again, that will change!

Sometimes I just wonder if I'm going to see something like this in Downtown Geneva driving to or from work one day, especially on Rt. 38/Roosevelt Rd./State St./Lincoln Highway.

Ever bought around Road America? IIRC, it was nearly as bad as here!

Ah, not in Illinois then!

Got a couple new shots of the Challenger tonight!

That does sound like a line Mel Brooks would write into one of his movies too!

Where did you find ethanol free here in Illinois? Oh, that's still not too bad, 93 octane with 10% ethanol around here is closer to $4.50/gal, probably would be even worse if it was E0. I paid $2.99 for E85 yesterday, seeing that price variation makes me wish my Sister could run the stuff in that new Challenger of her's too instead of just gas.

I'm all for renewable fuels, that's part of why when I bought my 200 a couple years back that I made sure it had the Pentastar in it, as it was designed from the get go to run gas or E85.........plus that 283hp on pump regular is hard to argue against too I do wish it had been built with a compression ratio more along the lines of 12:1 or 13:1 vs the stock (and somewhat surprising for a motor that can still burn regular) 10:1 compression, that would have required the use of premium gasoline, making it a hard sell, but you could get better mileage with one of those CR's as well as even more power. I do see Brazil's sugar ethanol mentioned from time to time as an example of why or why not to use ethanol........the nots are usually pushed by oil industry backed groups. There is one major advantage that our corn ethanol has over their sugar ethanol though, with sugar ethanol, you lose all of the sugar to the distillation process, where with corn, you still get the oil, the fuel, and distiller's grains, the latter of which are then used for an animal feed that is supposed to be better for the critters since the starches that are used to make the ethanol can supposedly cause digestive problems in livestock. It would be nice to see more biodiesel too, and since used frier grease can be used, that could become an additional source of income for restaurant owners as well! I'm still not sure on CNG though, if you're going to be using it in a multi-fuel engine, I'd almost rather see it in vehicles from full sized trucks, vans, SUV's, and on to larger, usually diesel powered trucks and equipment since there is more room to put the separate fuel systems vs cars like the upcoming dual fuel Impala.....which if GM wanted to, they could probably build it to run E85 as well as CNG and gas, as could be done with any of the full sized otherwise gas fueled passenger trucks since flex fuel vehicles use one fuel system for those two fuels. While I don't know how it is with CNG, the only real downside I've run into by burning E85 in my 200 is that there aren't a huge number of stations that sell the stuff, especially at the magic $.80 or greater spread. IIRC, there's less than 3500 stations to buy it from nationwide vs 180k stations that sell at least gasoline, and most are here in the Midwest. It appears that one of my neighbors has a mid-late 90's C1500 Chevy that is CNG, next we're both out of our houses at the same time, I'll have to stop by and ask him where he has to go to feed it.

Theoretically, it would be possible in either situation since the affected vehicles were drive by wire, although I read of a man who ended up in jail on 2-3 counts of vehicular manslaughter after his mid-late 90's Camry took off up an exit ramp when he went to stop and rammed the car ahead of it so hard it killed two of the three in the car and the third died a few years later from the complications of her injuries. He insisted he was doing everything in his power to stop the car (don't think he thought of neutral though), but it kept going until the crash. After the more recent issues happened, his case was looked at a second time, with with the blessing of the victim's familys too, and there had apparently been issues with the early electronic cruise control systems from them causing this to happen a d he was let out of jail, I just can't remember if he was retried with the newer evidence or if the judge found that there was enough to make his conviction questionable in some way.

I stopped at a 7-11 on the way home from and followed a Yukon Denali XL (tarted up Suburban) into their lot, and the soccermom driving that great pearl white whale swung it into the spot next to the handicap spot.........and had 1 foot of the entire driverside over the line and in the handicap spot, then ran it to get a bag of ice with it sitting there! She ended up running back to get something else in as I left, and the only reason it was almost fully in the regular spot by the is that she remembered what ever it was before getting too far out of it!

I think it might have been something like that Harry, and I think Al Gore voted to spend the money on it.........

A Polar Lights Mystery Machine model with the glow in the dark stickers for the next time my Sister babysits her friend's little boy who happens to be infatuated with Scooby Doo, and will sit where ever it's playing and watch it.

You guys ever hear about some town here in Illinois that has all the gas stations collude on raising the prices, and then the mayor disovered what they were up to he started asking why and was told something to the effect of, "Because we can." ? Apparently he was so pissed by that that he got in touch with the local media sources and through them told everybody in town what was going on and buy gas in neighboring cities! Apparently these station owners were not amused, but it forced them to lower their prices!