Joe Handley

I heard about that late last night or early this morning, was shocked and saddened by the news. Thought I’d post 2 favorites of the band’s on YouTube, performing with Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones at Wembley Stadium some years back.

I've got to fill up tonight, looks like the local Thornton's is going to be $3.94/gal for E-85 with a $.10/gal disc I have through the customer card, which beats $4.29 for 87 or $4.99 for 92!

That has crossed my mind for years now, then the XL ones DYC sell might fit over an R/C chassis too? I may have to try and get one of those, but they’re way more expensive than the little ones are.

Well, the reshoot of the speed shape that I had paint issues with turned out pretty decent, not perfect, but decent.

I agree with David, there's also something out there called "Speed Shapes" that are relatively cheap and made to do things like this too.

Didn’t post this hear last night, wet sanded the speed form that had the paint issue last night as well as wet sanded and polished one I shot in Duplicolor primer, one of their glitter effect clears then their regular clear a few years back. Just need wax to finish the work!

Well, I think I might be able to respray that speed shape, wet sanded it tonight with a 1500 grit, 2” square sanding pad and cut through the pain and primer way quicker than expected! I also used my lexan scissors to cut the flanges where a lot of the paint pooled and bubbled off the bottom and wet sanded those up too.

That is a sibling of that 6000LE Dad had, I think that is the only car that any of us had that isn’t missed!

Did a little spray out work on some spoons today. Laid the Duplicolor sealer-primer a few days ago then shot some more of the Testors black paints from the speed shapes as well as a little Diamond Dust. Didn’t have the bubble issues again with the Blazing Black, though it did happen with one of the spoons I shot in the silver. I’m planning on using some of the Testors color flip top coats to see how they work over colors other than gloss black as well as with a matte top coat.

That's why I included that info, I remember you mentioning living around her before moving to Florida!

Can’t believe I never posted this, fantastic cover with a thumbs up post right at the top of the comments from Elliot Lurie himself!

From here, https://www.restopaint.com/ , Owner's name is Miguel and his shop is on the NE corner of Rt. 59 and Rt. 64 here in West Chicago (next to where the Subway used to be), he ordered these for me in '19 and I still had a some on hand. You can get them more locally to you through Dip Your Car, that company also sells them on line in the small size like I have and an XL that's close in size to at least a 1/16 model if not closer to a 1/10 on road R/C car. https://www.dipyourcar.com/collections/speed-shapes They're great for showing what paint, plasti-dip, and vinyl wrap looks like on an automotive surface, especially when you're looking at showing off metallics, pearls, and color flip paints and work well as a practice surface if you want to scale up from spoons before applying to a model you've been spending months on!

This? I went to shoot some Speedforms with Model Masters Flat Black lacquer and Testors Blazing Black Lacquer over Duplicolor Sealer Primer from the same can and laid down at the same time last night. As you can see, the flat black went down fine while the Blazing Black started to bubble almost instantly.

Those used S-10 chassis under that Grumman bodywork, so at lease a chassis source would be easy to find, just need an Iron Duke to put under the hood!

If that was a 4.0l in that '00 Grand you had, that should have been the 1st place to look, that sensor has always been an issue with that engine, going all the way back to the Renix EFI days on the XJ and MJ.

Yup, Every so often it does!? Checked with a couple other guys from my club, they suggested Black Magic/Westley’s Bleche-Wite, so I need to try and score some of that this week to try out now.

I think the rocker cladding started with the Jeep Grand Cherokee with the ZJ body style, though the CJs, YJ Wranglers, and MJ Comanche and XJ Cherokee had them at times, usually on the cheaper models.

I’ve heard of lightly, and I mean LIGHTLY, hitting them with a propane torch to get back that matte black finish as it oxydizes, but I think when it comes to wax, the truck is to not get it on there in the first place.

Agreed, I may need to investigate that with the kits I have too!

Never let a crisis, real or made up, go to waste, seems about normal for petroleum.

Picked up a few donor kits and a potential chopping victim at the Cedarville, IL show today

Right now the only one I can think of is the ‘86 Pontiac 6000se my Dad had when I was first learning to drive, it wouldn’t stay running for the first 10min or so after start up and Dad would have to drive it 2 footed, it understeered so bad that if it slick, it wanted to keep going in a straight line, especially if there was negative camber to the curve unless you were aggressive when stopping the brakes were so jacked up the rears would lockup and swap ends before you catch it, even more so in slick conditions. Fortunately, it’s third wreck was the one that finally killed it, first time it was backed into and damaged the left rear corner, second Dad tried taking an exit ramp in Gary, IN in the rain and the car went straight……into a guard rail, and the kill wreck was when a pick up stopped short in front of him, possibly with “intermittent” tail lights, as I seem to remember him saying that the cop that showed up was familiar with truck and driver and was quite unhappy with him, kinda eluded to him going around and causing accidents on purpose and that turd of a Pontiac was a perfect mark. Then there was one last parting gift that resulted help our insurance from American Family, which was they called the house to demand Dad call the yard that towed the car and have them release it to AmFam, but Mom and Dad were both working and my Sister were barely home from school ourselves, she was still in grade school and I was 15 at the time. My Sister answered the phone and the person on the other end of the line was rather aggressively telling her she needed to get Dad to to make that call when she handed the phone to me. I said “Hello?” and that person suddenly goes “Oh, Hello Mr. Handley, I’m calling from American Family about your Pontiac…..” I told, I think, Her that it wasn’t my car and I was the one she was looking for. IIRC, She responded “Oh, you think you could call the towing company saying you are your father and release the car to us?” Obviously, I told her “No!” then said I would tell Dad when he got home. Well Dad did make that call, as well as one back to AmFam and tore into them about how that one rep thought it would be ok to ask me to call the yard and impersonate him to release that car to them.

Well, went nuts with the Dremel again……..

Well, this one may be a lost cause for this project, got most of the exterior chrome off, but it’s still holding on inside the body and the buttresses are breaking off behind the B-Pillars. Maybe I can save this body by making it a phantom roadster instead?!

Yeah, it’s times like these I don’t miss my XJ as a daily, 20.5 gallon tank bs 16.9 gallon for my 200, there were times I spent over $60 a week to feed it just before things crashed in ‘08 as prices were about $4.40-$4.60 a gallon for regular and I was driving 12+ miles a day for work. I paid $4.04/gal for E85 in my 200 tonight and even if I wasn’t WFH, my drive to and from work is about 7-8 miles depending on where I go. I don’t want to think about feeding the ‘87 Chevy Beauville we had up until ‘06 or ‘07, it had a 33 gallon tank and a TBI 5.7l under the doghouse backed by a 700r4, you could probably put a 6.0l and 4l80e out of an Express Van, run it on E85, and still get better mileage than that TBI motor got!