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Joe Handley

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  1. Can't even get people to act respectfully for non servicemen who've fallen, this isn't a shock either
  2. Thought I read someplace that when he fired that thing up, it made so much boost that it blew head gaskets while idling
  3. I vaugly remember a green Mustang funny I had way back when, I'd take it apart and put it back together all the time.
  4. For the money spent on those stupid looking wheels and tires, that could have been built into a decent looking little Bucket. Now it looks like it needs to be media blasted/primed and maybe painted, new frame, more appropriate engine (that would look good in a later style rod or street machine once cleaned up), different wheels, ect. I've seen better looking cars and trucks laying in the junkyards around here!
  5. No, as Roadkill stated, the 164 was the last, until the Dart, which is the upsized Gullietta, and the new Cherokee here is also based off that platform...........I believe the next Chrysler 200 and Dodge Avenger will also be based on that platform. Supposedly the current ones (my 200 included) share their basic platforms with the Mitsubishi Lancer and Hyundai Sonata, as well as the basic design of their 2.4l engines.
  6. I've always liked how those Alfa 159's looked, especially in black!
  7. Anybody else think that Shelby F100 looks..........poorly designed......not poorly built, just not good looking?
  8. While I'm not sure bout the mid motor, steering wheel, and SS badge on the grill, I think it looks good! The stretch looked decently done, the Corvair rear is a bit novel and could be a bit C5-C7 Vette like with vintage parts if they kept the engine up front stretched body/wb or not. Unless you crawl under it and find it heavily butchered to the point it's unsafe to do anything other than look at, I can't find anything wrong with it other than I wouldn't have the money for it or the place to put it if I wanted to buy it.
  9. Should just be the body, interior, tail lights, and maybe windows to make the Plymouth cars for that year. Most midsized Mopars were pretty much identical mechanically and even had some parts that would be used on the '62 Fury, '68 Cornet, and '70 Charger my folks had just as easily as they could on the Diplomats our local Police Department used back in the 80's and would also fit the Plymouth in your picture there and the cop cars used for Dukes of Hazzard.
  10. Been watching a few of MT's videos on the CTS V-Sport, sounded like they really liked it, guess so.
  11. And what kind of Volvo does he drive Harry, it may not be any more grown up than my 200, if you know what I mean
  12. That right there is why I won't own a bike, things aren't ant better here!
  13. I'm not going to lie, I've done stuff like that with the glass pack on my Jeep too
  14. Those bare a STRONG resemblance to the Early 60's Mopars Exner designed. That Mercer even reminds me of that Slant 6 powered asymitrical concept car he Chrysler built.
  15. There has been some talk of Maserati getting a variation of the Pentastar V-6, I think a 3.0l turbo or twin turbo, but can't remember for sure right now.
  16. I'll have to ask, but I think Mom went to that with her high school class for their Senior Trip. A bus "full" of teenagers road tripping from a rural Iowa town of 400..........and her graduating class was a bus packing 13 kids!
  17. That one even looks better.......kinda makes the '05-'09 look kinda plain.
  18. I've had that happen a couple times lately too Harry, the "driver" that did it to me on Rt. 38 yesterday instead of staying in the slow lane, joined me in the passing late, while maintaining that extra low speed. Got a new one though. My store is in the same strip mall as an Enterprise RentACar and they have about a dozen Chevy Express and Ford Econoline 15 passenger vans. Lately they have been parking the vans directly in front of my store and taking up all but the handicap spots. The store owner went to talk to them on it Friday, and all it got was another van added to the current row of vans today. There's plenty of parking elseware in the lot (the mall is half empty) as well as behind it, so there is no reason to dock the fleet where our customers could use it.
  19. I hit something today with my 200................................ Miles that is! Hit 20k while coming home from the dealer and filling my 200 today and around 15k of that has been on solely E85! Since buying the car in April of 2012 the only wrenching done on the car has been oil changes, tire rotations, and headlight alignment.
  20. I like that Blue and White one far more.
  21. Road construction and the lousy timing of it. The three ways I'd have to get to and from work are undergoing construction right now. Two years ago, Rte.64 started undergoing a widening and upgrading project that ran past our old location and would be an out of the path for our current location. Luckily it appears that this work should be done by Thanksgiving. I'm honestly shocked it is already nearly done already! One year into the above project, they started on Rte.38 they started building a much needed bridge over the now Union Pacific (ex CNW) right of way and have it down to one lane each way in what was the westbound lanes. This is the most direct way, but between the tracks (rarely had good timing related to trains and that crossing) and driving through downtown Geneva, it can slow things down if you're running a bit late......... In the Spring of 2012 I started using Fabian Parkway to Rte.31 to 38, which is a mile longer that straight up 38, but even before the bridge project started it was enough of a better path that it made a 1-2mpg improvement in my Jeep's mileage over he other way! Now they're doing work on Fabian between the Kane County Sheriffs Dept and Rte.25, which was one lane going east and now westbound........and clogs up during rush hours worse than before with the extra traffic from the 38 & 64 projects. I have heard that this is to some drainage and would be future washout issues, so it's good that they're working on it, but timing again.......somewhat annoying. Used to be that I could jump onto Kirk Rd. and go from Fabian back to 38, and now they're doing some work work on the other bridge over the same UP tracks, same source tells me that this 20 something year old bridge is also having "issues" and needs the work being done to it like they're doing on Fabian in a portion south of the bridge too. Can't complain too much since all the work is needed for infrastructure repairs (Kirk and Fabian) and/or upgrades (38 and 64) that they're all fairly major East-West corridors (with 38 & 64 going all the way East into Chicago and West past Dekalb/Sycamore), just most of it being around the same time is a bit annoying.
  22. I honestly think I could fit the 235/75r15 Wranglers off my Cherokee inside some of those rims!
  23. No thanks, that's just ugly.
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