Joe Handley

Looks like GM Performance Parts got ahold if it and went the ProTouring route with it then added a new all aluminum 427 cast from the repaired tooling for the original motors back before the economy took a dump. http://chevroletperformance.pth.nam.gmgssm.com/Racing/projectx.jsp I don't have any issues with it but but found a thread on H.A.M.B. where there were a bunch of whiners bawling like spoiled 2 year olds because they didn't like it........or in some cases, haven't liked what's been done to it since the 90's. What was it I said now in the 2015 Mustang thread on how we were at the doorway of 2014.....................

The one that doesn't just irk me so much as flat out pisses me off if the fishing line some of the fishers leave laying about. Most of the time it it just gets wrapped around the axles shafts and or steering joints. If you're ever around here and see a pissed off fat hairy guy with glasses bent over a 1/10 scale R/C truck (usually a snot green metallic and flat black Jeep Cherokee) mumbling some not so nice things about fishermen while cutting the line from one if not both axles with an X-Acto knife or box cutter...............it'll be me.

Ther's a couple places I like to run my scale and crawler R/C trucks that is like that. It's not other crawlers though, it's usually fishermen or picnicers that leave junk laying around. Stupidest part is that one spot has garbage cans literally right along the path to it and the other not only had cans near by, but is also just a feet from the parking lot so it would be easy to just carry the garbage (in a bag of course) back to your car and throw out at home.

Lee, your story sounds a whole lot like those of a friend's who used to work for a GM dealership........minus the whole car vs plumbing thing.

The ones I have aren't that old, but it looks like they're gone again. Have you tried the True Ten/Cup Racer wheels? Been meaning to try them on mine, but haven't yet. Forgot to mention earlier, I also used the M-05's front uprights and steering knuckles. Car now has a smaller turning radius and feels like it corners better.

Is it me, or do those spokes look a lot like GM upper A-Arms from that era?

I've got a 3 that currently has full bearings, Futaba 123 oz/in metal gear servo, full bearings, sticky HPI Mini RS4 tires, Tamiya red anodized oil filled sedan shocks, universal drive shafts, heavy diff grease, a Castle Sidewinder 1/4600kV 2 Pole combo juiced by an Orion 4000mAh 2s 25c pack and it is idioticly fast

Considering my fondness for their 1/10 R/C Mini, I really need to buy one of those kits too. Great looking build!

I've come close to that a couple times, but the worst is when I had my Patriot R/C Body Reamer slide out of the cap and land point down on the floor by my right foot. It's a rather heafty toolwith a large, anodized aluminum handle and a pointy and very sharp tip that would have buried itself in my foot of it had been just an inch or so farther to the right.

LOL, love that plate Tom! A few years back we had a regular customer build a weathered '55 Cameo delivery truck that was really well done for one of our HTU contests. The paint had some nicely done patina and a few rust holes.....including a couple in the bed sides..........the fiberglass bed sides. I was the only to notice that but just couldn't bring my self to knock the guy (he's a good guy and a regular), or even mention it to him until earlier this year. Turns out he didn't even know they were 'glass until we talked about it a few months ago. Next time he comes in, I'll have to show him your Vette!

Got a friend up in Lansing, MI and he sent me a text saying there were a bunch of areas that had no power, his Dad might get his back until after Christmas!

I saw a Fiero this summer that had a Vette LS motor dropped into it, that could be an interesting swap too..

Lol, love it Tom! I'd love to be at a show to see how people react to that without realizing it's intended as a joke.

What is it with these idiots lately? I haven't have any near head on incidents yet, but I've had people blow past, tail gate, and nearly pull out in front of me the last few days as the crappy weather has moved in. I'm almost afraid to drive to and from work the next couple days since the weather is supposed to get even worse tonight.

Yes, I've driven a number of roads around here that could be considered off roading if they weren't paved

I've heard the same of Japanese manufacturers too. Seem to remember that Iacocca talking about agreements between Mistubishi, and the Japanese banks and government that should have put him in jail here in America if he had tried that while at Ford or Chrysler.

If I lived by you? I'd still find ways to use the 4wd.....

Speaking of irked, I drove past the nearly dead strip malls one of the HTU's I worked at was in before it closed........not so nearly dead any more, looks like every store in that building was occupied?!

I've done it both ways Nick, I still prefer having 4wd for the snow.

Don't get foxes, usually lots of squirrels, the occasional bunny rabbits, skunks, and oppossums yes, but no Foxes. Have seen a few coyotes running around town of late though.

Hopefully they'll get jobs here in the States or in Europe.

Sounds like my Jeep Tom, only times my 200 has seen much salt was Monday while my XJ was getting fixed. Just took that out to get the salt washed off of it. Now I just need to get the Jeep over to a place to get it washed too, one of the places I get E85 for the 200 has a machine that literally beats the dirt off the vehicle...........Don't want to hurt the 200's paint, but it's about the only thing that will clean the Jeep.

It's not like we got much snow Harry, it was barely enough to bother leaving the Jeep in 4wd.

That's why I kept mine when I bought the 200 Charlie. Yes the mileage kinds sucks, but sitting well over a foot from the pavement when the flakes start to fly is worth the extra insurance and few thousand miles a year or crappy mileage.

The HobhyTown I work for ran into that issue when we've tried to carry Legos, the Toy's "R" Us I worked.at prior as well as Walmart and Target all sold them for less than our cost and we were all within a quarter mile of each other. We literally couldn't compete, same happened with Dremel stuff, the one of the big hardware retailers were selling them for around what we paid to bring them into the store.