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Joe Handley

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  1. That was kinda just as digital cameras were just coming out, somewhere between '98 & '01 when I switched to my current job. Back then it would literally have been a VHS recorder, maybe with the mini tapes (can't remember if we had that tech by then). Sure would be glad it wasn't in Smell-O-Vision too, burned up tires and brakes would be the best smells coming from that car! Hopefully the car was bought by somebodybwho was a more competent driver and has lived on to this day.
  2. Eh, you were just a kid, these cars have caught experienced drivers out! Had a former coworker tell me about a neighbor who has a first gen GTS. He was racing another sports car on one of the toll roads when he spotted a State Trooper and punched the whoa pedal...........and that resulted in him doing some triple digit 360ºs and scaring himself so bad he went out and traded it on some high end Mercedes that had idiot.......errrrr.....driver's aids.
  3. The Viper wasn't the best car for people who have more money than driving ability. Being short, wide, and having enough torque to show up some diesels......it could be a handful.
  4. Well, these do still carry some of the old Viper's more insane and well..........axe murderer......tendancies, could be a toss up there.....
  5. That's cool! I've got a couple of those Magnums and a Charger wagon resin body laying around here and I'm getting ideas......................that's not good.....................
  6. There's a Blackbird under the wing of the Spruce Goose..............Weren't the Blackbirds also rather large?!
  7. And yes Chicago guys, I know saying it was "sunning itself" wasn't quite accurate for the day
  8. So I took it to the dealer I bought it from and then went to find the salesman I bought it from to say hi while I was there and found a snake sunning itself by the front window of the sales department!
  9. That's clever and actually looks good too! Wonder how it would look in Plum Crazy with a Shaker Hood, Black Hemi Billboards, and body color 6 hole Cop Wheels.
  10. Um, I think those might be the roof......and maybe the quarter panels too
  11. BTW, you guys ever see what an acetylene tank will do to a car http://www.google.com/search?q=acetylene+explosion+in+car&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=I_HoUau-KuXEyQHdv4DACg&sqi=2&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1280&bih=641
  12. Not the first time "ve heard about this happening, there was something about a 4th gen T/A that had that happen as well as a Nissan Maxima, and the Maxima was parked in the owner's garage! Personally, I'd prefer boost and/or displacement over laughing gas, you don't need to find someplace to refill your turbocharger or supercharger and you have the power when you want/need it, not when a bottle taking up trunk space isn't empty.
  13. From what I can find Skip, it's an old Auburn replicar. It belongs to James Hetfield of Metallica, who found it as a basket case and had Rick Dore build it like this. There doesn't seem to be much infpo out there on it other than pictures though, these are about all I could find. http://www.streetrodderweb.com/features/1136srp_1936_glenn_pray_auburn_852_speedster/viewall.html http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/11/james-hetfields-boat-tail-speedster.html Personally, I love how it looks!
  14. That looks good!
  15. I think the reason some of the old cars look better than the current racers is that they were actually painted instead of covered with vinyl stickers.
  16. That looks pretty neat, nice looking 911!
  17. Anymore when I hear the name Charger, this tends to be the first thing to cross my mind............... http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wti0095p?FVPROFIL=&FVSEARCH=battery+chargers&search=Go
  18. Sorry, had an issue with my first post.
  19. These are actually of my Axial based, ProLine bodied '92 Cherokee "scaler" being beat on.
  20. From what my Dad has told me, his Dad had one back when those were fairly new! Also be happy it doesn't have the stock headlights and electrical. I was telling him about some of the people complaining about the "bad" headlights on the Chrysler 200's (they're actually really good once aimed higher than stock, far better than anything sealed beam I've owned prior), and he said he'd love to see and hear these people complain about it after driving Grampa's stock '41 Chevy, those were 6 volt electrical and used a replaceable bulb that was similar to untinted turn signal bulbs (like the 1157 bulbs)! Probably put out more light than a Lucas headlight, but only because it was likely more reliable.
  21. Nice little Focus, is that one of the Flex Fuel cars too? I hear those will still get mileage in the mid-30's on E85!
  22. IIRC, that import tax thing was that Chrysler had a certain length if time before they had to pay the import taxes on those bodies since they were made out of country or destroy them before that date. I honestly don't know why they didn't have to pay those taxes up front, the turbine project was partially funded by the Department of Energy pretty much from the time it started after the end of WW2 until they went bankrupt in the late 70's or right before that. I don't know what ended up happening with that tech, but they also had ties to the development of the Abrams Tank, so I've been wondering if their turbine design found it's way into that.
  23. Those actually had a gas turbine engine designed for automotive use and they did something similar with those like GM did With the EV-1 by putting them in customer's hands for real world testing. Sadly, they went the same way of the EV-1 and most were crushed, then of the surviving few, most were disabled so they were no longer actually driveable
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