Joe Handley

To me, the Dart name seems more appropriate on this car than those that proceded it, and I still don't know why people complain about it being an economy car, they all have since the mid 60's, just modern economy cars are small, fwd sedans with 4 cylinder motors. Chances are this one is going to be quicker and will corner far better than any average Dart of years past. Times have changed anyway when it comes to power vs displacement anyway, any of the cars equipped with the engine in the Challenger Jeff mentioned, my 200 has a toned down version of that motor and magazines have gotten quarter mile times that would rival Iroc Z's and 5.0 Mustangs, as well.as some of the milder musclecars from the 60's and 70's, yet it can be driven daily, get decent mileage while being able to drink everything from plain old 87 octane to E-85 (the mileage isn't as good on E-85, but the performance is better ), handle well, and not stand out in a speed trap!

I get the feeling bothe the Wilys and Caprice would be a handful to drive as they sit in those pics. I'd consider the Willys first, but I would at least have ground off the rust and put some kind of sealer primer on it to try and protect the sheet metal. I'm not super fond of the rat rod as it has become, it's become more of a freak show than a hot rod at that point. I don't mind a patinaed car, I've owned and driven newer vehicles that ended up having a patina by the time we scraped them. I just don't get the idea of taking an older rest, survivor, or just a decent ride that needs a little TLC and basically ruining by ratting it out either. It would be one thing if it was a field or junk yard escapee that was being built as time went on, but sanding or stripping perfectly serviceable, if not brand new paint to make it look older makes no sense to me. Trucks! took an "Advanced Design" Chevy that needed a little TLC (pretty much a freshened engine is all it needed) and put a Pinto style front suspension on it, 4 Linked rear, mild kustom body work, modern brakes, and a worked over I-6 with Torque Thrusts. What bothers me is that after all that work, they put a fake patina on it tuat just ruined the truck to me. Had they just seam primed the whole truck, or just repainted the altered sheet metal in a matching dark green, it would have looked better. Had it been me building it, I'd have probably left it solid axled, but still lowered it, done the hot rodded I-6, maybe put a newer trans in it, and played with the rolling stock on it if it was supposedly a budget build...........then again for me, I don't have all the cool toys they do on that show......as well as an enclosed shop..... I always found it funny hearing the people that were on Monster Garage complain about how primitive the MG shop was........while thinking how nice that shop looked when compared to laying on the bare concrete in the back yard with basic hand tools...............

Wonder how long before somebody finds a hack hat makes that emit farting and/or belching sounds in tune to the engine's rpm's .?

Gotta agree with the Vette and Riv, but I'd expand that to cover that whole generation of both lines. I half agree with number 5 though, I thought the Saturn Sky was better looking than the Solstice IMHO. Don't care much for the Camaro or Tornado though, the '71-'95 G-Vans and '67-'72 Chevrolet pick ups would have been a better choice than those two.

I wonder what kind of tractor it had to be, kinda.figured it had to be a 4wd Case though.

Hmmm, I wonder which of these songs will better describe this guy......... Or

I gotta agree with Bill. The whole car goes to pot after the B-Pillar and over all kinda reminds me of that yellow "Mingni" that was shown on Top Gear earlier this year.

I'm surprised the van did better, my parent's Town and Country might be one of the worst handling vehicles Dad has driven!

I don't know, that almost looks like the one Cooter was running 'shine with in one of the early shows filmed in Georgia.

Nice looking build, are those set up as a draw through type induction with the carb mounted before the superchargers?

I still see more Dustbuster in these things... It's even nearly the right color

I work for a shop and we're selling ours for cheap because nobody wants it, usually the only Pactra products that sell are the spray lacquers for RC bodies. You probably got old paint.

A "trip" in the literal of figuritively? I'd be willing to bet there was LSD involved, and had nothing to do Lake Shore Drive or Limited Slip Diffs

Looks like original asking price on that Charger is a rip off no matter what decade it is!

Welcome to Palmer Models, where the Mustangs look like Camaros....sorta, the Mustang 2's look even more like Pinto than normal, and the C2 Vettes........look like a half melted blobs.....

MUWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I wouldn't be surprised if some of the 1/1 cars wore Hazzard County markings at one time

Oh, so this zombie is all Your fault

Doubt it, I think VW had been flexing their legal muscle at that time since all of the VW/Audi r/c stuff came up at the same time. They have since allowed other stuff to be made or modified enough to be legally reissued as a VW.

Ok, it's funny you two brought that up, all I could think of was one of the TV cars corkscrewing through the air with the A-Team theme song playing in the back of my head

Don't know, but if any more show up, I'm going to break out the Zombie jpgs and gifs

Wow, that's bad compared to the other Palmer builds I've seen.

That Camaro doesn't look too bad at least!

whoa........that would be a mess even if it wasn't a glue bomb, I think it's supposed to be a '68 or '70, maybe a little '69 too.....wow

We had two in one day Guys, the Lindberg/Palmer Challenger thread popped up too!

Considering the tooling for those tires is probably old than me, I'd hope not!