Joe Handley

I've dealt with more than a few at the hobby shop I work at and have to agree with Bill. I've known a few that I would trust and way too many that I wouldn't let near anything I've owned...........r/c or licensed for highway use!

I'm just happy when another one doesn't end up on one of my tires..............again!

I try not to go into Chicago for anything more than the yearly Manufacturer's Auto Show or the occasional trip to the Museum of Science and Industry, now my Sister regularly goes for to Blackhawks games........although she's getting tired of every game she goes to being during a snow storm

Same here, it is odd to look at, but in hilly areas I can see that set up being of use as it will have the ability to smoothly apply torque climbing hills without having to shift every truck length and can use the regenerative braking much like a locomotive uses it's dynamic braking to slow if not stop without using mechanical brakes and if it has a big enough battery, the rig could be run around on electricity if it truck running around trailerless. Something else too is if that Turbine is anything like Chrysler's Turbine engines, it should be possible to run that on anything but leaded gas! So if they're someplace where gasoline, alcohol, or kerosene if priced better than diesel without it significantly affecting the rigs performance in a bad way or reducing the cost per mile, the truck can be fueled by that cheaper fuel. They may consider starting with a more conventional looking rig, but doing what ever they can to improve the truck and trailer combo's aero numbers, which would improve even a standard truck's mileage.

Now that think of it, Of the 3 cars I've owned that were built in Sterling Heights, MI combined are probably shorter than that limo!

That car would be the only car in my driveway...............couldn't fit anything else in it! That has to be longer that my Parent's '06 Town and Country van and my Sister's '06 Charger combined let alone my 200 and Cherokee!

My sister and I took a drive in my Jeep out to the Dekalb HyVee to get groceries and the drive there was down Rt. 64 which wasn't bad, but we drove part of the way home via Rt. 38 and only made it half way before finding a road we could take back to 64. It was so rough and beat up that I wasn't sure of were going to open the egg carton once we got back home to find scrambled eggs and there were sections I had to slow down to 15-20mph below the limit and we were still getting bounced around. There were even a couple Taurus' stock off the road inexplicably on some of the rougher straigh stretches of road.

I can see some of them getting tickets, but it's not like the plate isn't solidly visible on and secured to the vehicles or can be hidden easily.

Congrats John!

Thanks, I may need to get their smaller set for the other R/C XJ I've got now!

Put some of Proline Racing's 4.75" tall licensed TSL Swampers on my XJ bodied Wheely King!

To show off! I'd have to see it in person, but if they mods are solidly done and that paint is as well done as it looks, it could be a calling car for the guy if he wants to start a business of building and painting Mini Trucks and/or Low Riders. While some of you guys are dumping on the tilt cab, it is a clever idea that has reversed of.something that I haven't seen since the monster truck days of the 80's!

Jr. as in Dale Jr. or as in Junior Johnson? Dale Jr., you might be right, but looking at some of the sport's old timers, I'd expect some of the old moonshine runners turned stock car racers to give the rally drivers a run for their money. Remember, they were transporting hundreds of pounds of illegal booze in those kinds of conditions while being chased by law enforcement in cars that, while modified, were still basically something you could buy off the dealer lot new or used 50+ years ago. I still have to give it the guys that the modern short course and desert vehicles too, outside of the snow, they run in difficult conditions that would likely trap if not also total a rally car, then run in a huge pack of guys in the same size trucks bumping and banging or out in the desert where you have to watch out for changed courses or fans that aren't smart enough to not park there trucks on the edge of then course.

Why not? It's only a 30 year old Ranger.

I'll bet those numbers are for the AWD too, that can suck mileage down in regular conditions, or help it with nasty head and cross winds

My thoughts...... How heavy is the Caddy vs the Lincoln? If the two areclose in weight, the V-6 could be working harder to move the bulk. The Gasoline mileage on my V-6 200 is only 1 city/2 highway less than the comparably equipped 4 cylinder car and I'm positive it has to do with power to weight. The 4 cyl/6-speed cars are probably less than 200 lighter than the V-6/6-speed cars but the V-6 makes 113hp and around 90lb/ft more and doesn't have to work hard to move the weight at all. Then it gets worse if you compare my fairly stripped down V-6 Touring (next model past Rental Drone) to a fully loaded 4cyl Limited, all those goodies could easily make up the weight difference.

I's say go for $20 if it's the old style with the stamped metal shelves that use up bent section of the shelf to locate the bottles or the new ones that use a U shaped wire that plugs into the openings of the up bent ends of Cor-Plast. If it uses a metal shelf with moving wire loops to try and corral the paints, don't buy it at all. The first two work great for keeping the bottles where they belong while the third is a waste of perfectly good resources! I think we still have all three in use at work, I can shoot pics for reference if you want.

Seriously, I can get better than that out of my 200 on the highway while burning E85?!

That reminds me of what a couple I knew through work told me about their son (who spent a bunch of money at the store in R/C stuff) when the Army reassigned him from Iraq to Alaska.........in late November! He left Iraq and it's 110º+ temps, came back here for an unseasonably mild November for a couple weeks, then shipped him to Alaska. Apparently when he got there, he's looking out the windows then walks up to the door thinking "This isn't so bad."...............then he walked out that door and walked into.........well, what we've had here this winter! Then I was talking to another customer who's been in Iraq a few times with the National Guard and has gotten so used to the desert heat that he considers 80º temps almost cold and has been all but frozen solid this winter! Last time he was in he had to be wearing multiple layers of sweatshirts and a fairly heavy coat.

What made the car so special outside of graphics?

I'd love to see that done to the original car, leave the clones Barris built for the series alone, but make that Futura THEE Futura Concept Car again!

My folks had a 440 6 Pack, 4-Speed, Super Track Pack '70 Charger that they special ordered back in late '69 and Dad made sure to get it with those wheels and the Dodge versions of those caps. Being a one time street racer, he didn't want the car to look as special as it actually was, from both the "don't want to tip off the suckers" standpoint and the "don't want to draw the attention of the police" standpoint.

Tamiya in their WW2 product line, either 1/32 or 1/48. They're definately Ford sedans, just not licensed through Ford.........who apparently hasn't sic'd their lawyers on them yet..............

At one time I was working at two different HTU franchises that the couple have been working for were involved in and had opened at one store then was going to close at the other do to staffing issues there but needed to top off my Jeep on the way. I stopped at one of the Thorntons between the two locations between the stores to fill it and after I started pumping I noticed a woman in an Explorer get out of the truck on her phone, leaving her door open, walking back to start filling it, then we both notice the garbage can by here looked to have smoke coming out of it?!, so she gets back in her vehicle while it's still filling and on her phone and starts staring at me at the next island over then at the smoldering can and back several times. About then the pump at the Jeep clicks off so I put the nozzle back on the pump, pull a 1/2 drank gallon of water out of the Jeep walk over and pour it in the can with my non-dominant hand, put the now empty gallon back in the Jeep and go to pay and tell them that they had a can fire. They thanked me for putting it out and said that it has happened before..........who puts burning materials in a garbage can at a gas pump? Seriously!

Don't know about the rest of you guys, but the first thing crossed my mind when I saw that blue one was.............