Joe Handley

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!

Wow, two zombie threads in one day....impressive for our little forum!

I saw one of these in person a few weeks back........looks better than that one! I do think that one was a survivor though..........

The price certainly doesn't help, for $25 you got one of a few paint jobs and only the Impala. Selling it in plain white helps, but I don't know why they didn't try it first.

They're above and beyond my build skills Jim, otherwise I woild have a go myself! Oddly enough, with the way things are going there politically and socially, it could be possible in the near future

Trust me, every car in the show is Cranky material

There's a show on Disney XD called Motorcity and is based in a future Detroit that wasn't much luckier than the one in the Robocop series was supposed to be. In one of the shows there were custom vans used by the characters brought in for the episode. http://brandoncuellar.blogspot.com/2012/07/motorcity-ride-of-fantasy-vans.html

She did a good job there!

Love it, I could drive that almost every day if it were 1/1!

Considering the last Tempo I drove, even a stock Vega would probably still be an upgrade.

The G-Machine version of the ProShop '57 CHevy.

The "Mustang" and "Challenger" are like that too LownSlow the nose and tail kinda, sorta look like the production car while the middle looks...well...............not so much like any of the production cars the race cars are named after right now. Well, make the chassis one specific set of tools and the body and engine tools separate but 100% compatable with the chassis tool. Then either provide the approriate decals for the car in question and offer just a plain, decal-less kit (like theLinberg cop car kits) for those that want a driver they havent licensed just yet.

Be carefull Andrew, you might get reported for that first line a time or two

That's rediculously awesome Chuck!

Looks good, used to see a 1/1 that was almost identical to that one running around here.

It just plugs into the cigarette lighter and sits on the dash, should put just enough juice in to keep it topped off.

Wouldn't it be possible to make the roof section include the windshield and back window frame so that it attaches to the shell there instead of at just the rear "posts" and the top of the windshield? That X brace would be nice to have for guys wanting to build a roofed hot rod Tri-5 in a way that would make the car stiffer.

I think the Leaf and current Prius have solar cells in the roof as at least an option and I thought the Karma did too. This would help and they're getting fairly cheap too, Dad saw that Menard's has a small solar battery tender for vehicles that sit for a long time on sale for $15............need to go get one for my Jeep now that I think of it..............

How old is that picture? It looks like it could be a scanned conventional picture!

One of the bubbles from the Homer might be your only choice, might make it look like a large scale go-kart or stroller bodied like a random kustom like this one

That's why I like the Karma and Volt over the Tesla's, Leaf's, and that little Mistubishi being built in the Bloomington/Normal plant that used to build the "Diamond-Star" cars! When the battery goes away, you still have the on board gen-sets to make the electricity

I think they're back in production now, seen a few running around St. Charles in the past several months now too. IIRC their sales picked back up when gas prices started heading back up past $4 a gallon. I heard of the fires and even looked to see what I could a few months back. The ones that NHTSA managed to start on fire were wrecked for side impact into a pole test had the case for the batteries punctured when the driver's seat mount welded to the floor was struck during the impact with the pole, which shoved the mount into the battery tunnel collapsing it into a somewhat vulnerable portion of the pack. They then left the whole car or the now damaged battery pack removed from the car (I've heard both) upside down outside for nearly a month without discharging them before the batteries shorted out from the leaking coolant actually caught fire. Considering how those cars are constructed, to get that exact same wreck to happen in real life would probably take some pretty incredible odds (like sole mega billions lotto winner odds) to actually happen. Here's one of the tests that caused the damage to the battery. And here's what GM did to fix the problem. I had also found some garage fires that when I had last checked were Volt related because there were Volts in them at the time of the fires. One was a million dollar home with an attached garage that caught fire and what they had found in the investigation was that the fire had started on the opposite side of the garage from where the involved Volt was charging and had the big Titan P/U based Infinity SUV separating the two sides. One thing that was found during the investigation was that the car had been charging during much of the fire until the computer involved in the charging process noted things were getting too hot (likely do to the fire approaching the car) and shut it off. I do remember reading that GM and Nissan were involved in that and some of the right wing members tin foil hat set figured that GM pressured that finding into happening (I'm not buying that though) and I'm not sure why Nissan was there, unless they're using some of the same components as GM for the Leaf or because an Infinity was also involved. The second one was also an attached garage on a 40+ year old home with it's original wiring and a Suzuki Samari that was also converted to 100% Electric Power. Apparently the owners had set the garage up for 240v service themselves (again with wiring that was original to the house) and were "fast charging" both the Volt and the Sammi at the same time. When I last looked into it, it was beginning to sound like they suspected that the wiring the garage portion of the house was severely overloaded by trying to fast charge both vehicles at the same time and the wiring went up taking the garage and vehicles with. Luckily there was at least a double layer of drywall between the garage and the rest of the house, which saved the home portion of the structure.

Wouldn't that be an A++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++?