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Joe Handley

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  1. Yea, I'm pulling up to work as the DJ was talking about it and he couldn't beleive how lucky the guys has been so far!
  2. I've owned a Chrysler with something similar on the hood, I kinda dig the vent in all honesty.
  3. I heard about that while heading into work today! Apparently he passed the bomb 30 seconds before it blew and was fine while his wife only recieved very minor injuries. They get home and he has a work meeting and drove past the plant shortly after it blew without any injuries to himself or apparently even to his vehicle! Needless to say, he counting his lucky stars now...........hopefully none of our flood waters end up going his way..............
  4. From what I understand, there was a call out to private boat owners to come help evacuate peope from Lisle! If it's the same sink hole as in the video I posted, that was an Avenger. Supposedly a woman and her brother both lost their cars to it and that Avenger looked like an '11-'13 model by the looks of the grill and bumper.
  5. That's good to hear. We got pretty lucky out by me, the worst flooding I saw before going into work was Roosevelt (Rt. 38) in West Chicago where the old EJ&E (now CN) tracks go over the highway by Bowling Green. The Fox River is in flood stages, which could be good considering that if it had gotten much lower, I could have driven my stock 1:1 Cherokee across it in some spots I guess there was a good sized sinkhole that opened up on one street too, gotta feel sorry for the guy who owns this Avenger, not only can't be any older than an '11, but I wouldn't be surprised if he just got it recently
  6. My store's manager is stuck at home, so I'm going in for him. Needless to say, I'm taking the Jeep...........and my camera, just in case
  7. So, anybody here in Chicago got flooding? Sound like it's pretty bad closer to the city.
  8. X2!!!!! That was bad, real bad.
  9. sorry to hear it Brian, hopefully you guys are otherwise safe and healthy.
  10. Apparently the mods on Forza Horizon have just perma-banned a whole mess of gamers from online multiplayer play for "modding" and/or using "traffic" cars. I should be good (won't get a chance to plat until mid week), anybody on here with it?
  11. Ah, I didn't know we had extended limited use plates now too! I knew we had limited use plates that were 3-5k, just couldn't remember exactly how many miles it was.
  12. Honestly, I kinda dig the little car......in the full on mentalness of a Lambo engine stuffed in a car not much larger than itself sort of way..............
  13. No point in an expensive paint job on it, seeing as it's got a Lambo motor in it, the engine will probably catch fire and burn the car to the ground sooner or later.................
  14. Does having collectors plate on it limit the miles driven per year?
  15. Kinda got a point, most "hobby cars" are probably going to be well kept, some will be heavily modified and probably not as clean a steam locomotive burning the more sulfur heavy coal, there's ones that are likely more like barely maintained beaters that happen to be old enough fall within the "hobby car" rules.
  16. When Illinois was still doing the tailpipe testing, they didn't care about the mods, so long as it blew clean and and looked like it had functioning cat(s) on it. I seem to remember a few if the Turbo Dodge guys around here talking about getting their modded 2.2/2.5l turbo cars to pass smog with gutted amd straight piped cats. On a side note, I was joking with one of our R/C customers yesterday that now that my 200 is running on E-85 I wouldn't have to worry about it passing emissions tests..........just have to be careful with roadside sobriety checks though, pretty sure a cold start on the stuff would peg a breathalizer machine
  17. It's just not Buicks here, seen plenty of Toyota (mainly Camry and Prius owners) as well as Honda Accord and stock Civic owners.
  18. Now I like those! The second one is more like what I was thinking but needs a bit of a side cove worked in, or at least a nod towards one. That said, look at the Mustang II vs the Fox Body Mustang as far as a nod to the past. The Mustang II was chocked full of them but kind of an insult to the Mustangs before and after........probably should serve as a warning from history for Ford. The Fox Bodies only shared the name, some of the badging, and the basic drivetrain layout with the others, but really was an improvement in appearance and performance without "looking like a Mustang".
  19. I like it so far. Change the front end a little so the headlights are "taller" and the grill a bit more "square", add some sort of scoop like depression to the sides, and reshape the fenders and quarters to have a slightly raised "edge" ala C-6&7 Vette's and it would be more Mustang like without looking like yet another rehash of the '64.5-'69 Mustang.
  20. I've had mine a year and a half and about all I'm good at is using the web browser and frying batteries in it!
  21. Is that like the DJ's in Florida that caused the Dihydrogen Monoxide in the water supply scare yesterday?
  22. LOL, I wondered how that was going to work!
  23. Didn't realize that Stude conversion was a kit, done with the right paint, it should look decent if it did. Always thought the Shoebirds looked good too. Now that S-Truck conversion, somebody needs to be smackex for that disaster!
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