Joe Handley

My Kid Sister's driving, especially during Chicago rush hour traffic. We were going to the C2E2 convention at McCormack Place with her boyfriend and one of their co-workers today and her driving was driving me nuts more than usual. She's the type that doesn't stop until the last second and when it's time to get that Charger going, she's pretty hard on the gas too. The co-worker of her and her BF had to get out and puke and when we finally got there, I couldn't figure out why my legs were sore after I got out of her car............then on the way home, I figured out why......I kept trying to bury the imaginary passenger side brake pedal in the back of the engine block.....usually with both feet! We're taking my 200 on Sunday and I will be driving there and back. How that Charger still has a front bumper, I'l never know............

I got to talk to somebody who does that today, a figure of me that would be about the right size to fit in my scale XJ R/C truck (1/10~1/8, the scale is a bit fuzzy) would be around $99-$150 to have one made.

Well, maybe at the 200th anniversary............who knows, they might have almost won the World Series by then too!

Hahaha!

Did Palmer's engineers teach some if these companies how to design some of their copies?

ROFL Harry!

While it looks incredable, anybody else wondering why there are parts of the engine bay and the pedal assemble that weren't brought up to par with the rest of the work? Lots of rusty bolts, dirty parts, and stuff that a little prep work and a few cans of Duplicolor or Krylon could fix and make look better.

Yup, Vette and Viper both are still pushrod motors, they're even variable valve motors too. Not sure how the Vette's works, but the Viper has some sort of 2 piece cam and special cam phaser that can change the timing of the intake vs exhaust portion of the cam separately like a DOHC can.

That's why Dad had this problem with his Plymouth, he had his car keys, house keys, keys to garage he ran, and keys to the apartment house his parents had all on one ring, he went through a few switches in that car too. What finally broke me of that was buying my 200 and having the switch in the dash instead of the column, the keys kept hitting my right leg and I didn't want them scratching the dash either.

This has been a problem for decades, Dad saw cars with the problem back in the 60's, inclucuding his own '62 Plymouth Fury and the '57 Chevy owned by a customer at the gas station he ran at the time. I even had my first boss warn me nearly 20 years ago to be careful about putting too much stuff on my key ring back when I first started druving because she had seen it before as well. Only way to truely prevent this from happening is to not have keychains that have a bunch of weight on the, especially un-needed weight like heavy and/or keychains and/or tons of keys on one ring.

I noticed that article didn't mention that the cars having that issue also had owners who had key rings that were loaded with a bunch of things that added a bunch of weight to them.

GM should have put a lawyer or who ever handles the legal stuff in the owner's manual on telling people not to hang 20lbs of stuff on their keychains. Dad saw that as an issue 60 years ago from multiple vehicles when the owners had too many keys of other nonsense on their chains.

So long as those wait until I put new wipers on my 200!

More importantly, what is the count of the non-shiney pages in that catalog now?

Thanks, that's what I thought Mark!

Dad is wondering if there's any video from the Taco Bell or the mall to see exactly what happened.

I did find it kinda funny that their internal affairs was going to be who was investigating this. It's just too bad that HTU closed, the above mentioned friend and I could have been there to see that!

Kinda digging that Gremlin in front of it

If CJ parking brakes are like the XJ's, they're pretty much useless without a wheel chock of some sort anyways

Not sure about the phone (good possibility though), I almost wonder if the cop took the corner too fast and either got it sideways then bounced it over the curb when it grabbed which allowed it to get high enough to get on the rock with momentum taking over from there or misjudged where the driveway is (the island more of a reverse L than an I there before you get to the drive), bounced it over the curb, with the previously mentioned altitude and momentum thing taking place. I forwarded this to a friend that I worked with there and now works for a different HTU and is a local fireman and paramedic shortly after posting this here. He texted back a couple sarcastic responses, followed by "Is that our Taco Bell?" When he recognized the building and saw the address in the article

Your Ranger, Explorer, and screen name look familiar Mark. Are you also on RC Crawler? I go by the screen name BJoe over there.

http://naperville.patch.com/groups/police-and-fire/p/naperville-police-investigating-how-officer-got-car-stuck-on-boulder Used to work one day a week at the HobbyTown that was in that same strip mall and would walk to that Taco Bell to get lunch when I worked a 7-8 hour day. I saw this on the local news and thought that the place looked familiar..........now I know why!

That's what I'm thinking too, Leno has had a couple on his YouTube channel in the last year or so.

Nice van, I learned to drive on one from that model year that had the regular bench seats in the back and normal side windows!

HA!!!!