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  1. Joe Handley
    Gah, I'm not a sign painter, But I still agree with you two 110%! I hate those stickers with a passion too, they just look horrible! Saw a rebodied Fiero that would have looked good if it were painted and not wrapped (especially like that, Steie Wonder could have chosen better graphics) and that dang wrap ruined it.
  2. Joe Handley
    Kinda wondered about that after we got the newest diecast release of the General and they had a low tack and what appeared to be an easily removed orange sticker over the flag.
  3. Joe Handley
    Um, technically.......so did we!
  4. Joe Handley
    What happened to the Jet Bike?
  5. Joe Handley
    Depends, usually I just twist harder, if that don't work I tap the cap on the edge of a counter or something like that, and if that don't work I break out the Robogrip pliers.............not many stuck caps stay stuck
  6. Joe Handley
    They're a couple of lucky kids you got there Terry, that first wreck could have gone sooooo much worse and if their friend's Cherokee was the same type as what my Dad, Sister, and myself have had, those can pack a serious wallop for how small and light they are when compared to other SUV's (and some mid sized and larger cars)!
  7. Joe Handley
    I've just gone to the Wheaton office last few times for my DL or plate stickers Harry, it's closer than Naperville and Aurora plus since it's only for stuff like that as well as having to change of address stuff..........strangely, they're actually nice and friendly the times I've been ther too........it's like a DMV Twilight Zone, or Pod People, or something......................
  8. Joe Handley
    Wanna bet that motor is a truck smog motor with parts, chrome, and pretty paint
  9. Joe Handley
    That's what I had been thinking too, funny cars had always been deformed in one way or another, so it's not as good of a basis of measurements as say; the Monogram 1/24 Tri-5's vs the 1/25's, Tamiya's Supra vs AMT's F&F Supra, Monogram's Challenger T/A vs AMT's Challenger R/T coupe/convertible, Monogram's1/24 '32 For Roadster vs the Revellogram 1/25 Deuces, ect. Speaking of different scale cars looking off next to each other, remember this pic I took a couple years back at I-Hobby
  10. Joe Handley
    What kit is that white body from? Same here, I tend to look for a subject that interests me and the scale of it is the last concern (usually price ranks higher than scale). I can see a problem if you were making a diorama or making a "scale trail run" (if you're into the rc scale trucks like me), and even then if you stage the different scale models correctly, it won't look too off.........well, so long as there isn't a F-650 bodied rig thats using the chassis as my green and black Cherokee
  11. Joe Handley
    I thought the rotories were actually pretty inefficent as well as pretty dirty and had enough reliability issues that GM decided that it wasn't worth the effort.
  12. Joe Handley
    Don't see why not, I seem to remember a Caterham being run in Sport Compact Car's version of the Ultimate Street Car Compition that had a very healthy (and emissions wise, insanely filthy) Turbo Rotory out of a third gen RX7.
  13. Joe Handley
    Cool, I found that show by accident on my way to work.....right in the path I was on taking to get there in fact Couldn't believe some of the cars I saw trying to get around it, or that they were parking them out in the rain.
  14. Joe Handley
    Are you sure it wasn't Throttle Body Injected James? They kinda look like carbs, but had injectors above the throttle butterflies instead of bowls on the side. IIRC they didn't really work all that good in comparison to a good carb or multipoint injection setup inless you wanted to advertise you had Fuel Injection on that particular model.
  15. Joe Handley
    Same here, those tail lights remind me of the ones on a co-worker's rustbucket '76 Nova.
  16. Joe Handley
    Did those have the truck rallies from the factory?
  17. Joe Handley
    Looks like it's got too much Camaro in the rear of it. Not a big fan of the way they line the LED's like that either, kinda prefer the light tube set up Chrysler used on the 200's like mine.
  18. Joe Handley
    That Camaro nosed Ute is pretty sweet looking!
  19. Joe Handley
    Ended up ordering the more expensive driveshafts for my scaler anyway, the steel rear output yoke might not last this weekend. It's so far gone that if it was on my real Cherokee, I probably wouldn't have made it too far the next time I drove it!
  20. Joe Handley
    Just a new set of driveshafts for my Cherokee Scale R/C truck, blew both of the old ones out on a trail run/cardio session Tuesday. Just using the home made Traxxas conversion I was using before since it was cheap and already put up with years of torture. Had I bought some heavy duty driveshafts, they retail for around $60............if I used a junkyard, the same repair on my 1/1 Cherokee probably wouldn't cost much more
  21. Joe Handley
    Could have sworn I saw one here in West Chicago with our PD's markings on it a few nights back that was patroling a local parking lot, I also thought I saw an unmarked Explorer a few days before that and an unmarked Taurus since New Years here in town too. The Taurus has been a rare sight (only saw it twice, only at night), the Caprice is too new to here (plus that was from a longer distance on top of being at night), and I have no clue on the Explorer so far (just barely caught the lights when I realized it had a pushbar on it).
  22. Joe Handley
    Do they still make Tang? I haven't looked for it in years!
  23. Joe Handley
    That's what I thought, I'd feel the same way if it were my Cherokee. If something like tuat happened to my 200, it could easily be replaced easily, but not my XJ. Looks like it might have been a SUV or truck of some sort..............although now that I look at it again, could have even been a motorcycle, I've heard that ones like the Honda Goldwing can pack quite a punch in a wreck.
  24. Joe Handley
    Looks like a HotWheel!
  25. Joe Handley
    Didn't you just get that car for a song in the past couple years too?
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