Joe Handley

Looking good so far!

That would be pretty cool! Aren't the '64-'65 truck's chassis' pretty similar to the '68-'72 truck's? If that's the case, couldn't they base a Copperhead (as well as any stock trucks of that generation) on the same chassis' used under the '64-'65 kit?

Define modern. I've seen a few rat rods that are using more recent small block Chevy and Ford truck motors that have had their EFI systems pulled for carbs, some even using more modern US and Japanese 4 cylinders (also truck sourced) for their rat rods.

Am I seeing the Orange Crate parked in front of that dealership? What's weird about this one, a couple summers ago there was a "working girl" (yea, that kind) that stopped in the store to look around and after she left the store, she walked across the lot and got into an older Cadillac limo. I showed these pics to a coworker who happened to be working that night too and immeadiatly recognized this Caddy as being very similar to the Caddy that working girl got into O-o

Wow, and I thought this was out there

Some of us prefer to do things for fun, the cartoonish subjects fall right into that catagory, as do rat rods and "inspired by" builds. In years past Chuck Most and I both built Revell's '05 Impala Cop Car into rat rod-ish cars several years apart. I built mine for fun and for something different and Chuck's was inspired 1/1 Buick Century of the same generation that he saw in front of a Vet's office. I'd be surprised that if we parked the two on a contest table and not have them get criticized by more serious modelers, hot roders, ect

Oh, That who he is?! Unless it's the Sox, I could care less about baseball........let me amend that, unless it's the Sox, Bears, Bulls, Blackhawks, or Iowas State University, I could care less about sports that don't have the word motor in it.

I actually know this one!

We had it playing on the TV at the store, but we were busy enough that we didn't really watch it. Not sure if any customers stopped and watched any of it.

With the exception of Saturday (today now I guess), working. Closed Friday, work all day Sunday and were closing early Monday, so I'll be working all day then too. My 200 needs a bath again pretty bad (I swear it's been raining mud around here lately ) so I make get it cleaned up tomorrow and perhaps trying a tank full of E-85 in it. Took my Jeep to a coin op car wash Thursday and spent $6 in quarters to make it look........ok. Funny you guys mention DUI's too, the West Chicago P.D. was running a road side check in the local VFW Hall parking lot when I was coming home from the gym tonight. I was going the other direction tonight and didn't have to stop for it (all they would have found is a sweaty fat guy a bunch of bottled water and some RC stuff )

I really wish they had made a 2dr panel from that version of the PT's unibody too!

I seem to remember reading something in Hot Rod back in the 80's about how the Big Three going after companies that were doing things like that and then putting the automakers' parts division's name on them and selling those through flea markets and such. IIRC it even forced Mopar to change the box graphics to something that was trickier to copy. Not sure if it's still the case, but State Farm used to insist that those parts be used on non-premium (as in not Lexus, Caddy, Merc, BMW, ect) cars and trucks so they could save money. Back in the mid 90's one of the local news channels (either NBC 5 or ABC 7) did an investigation and talked to owners who wrecked their "lesser" cars that were repaired with cheap parts. Some testing company even showed how poor of quality these parts were by taking a second gen Taurus and putting the State Farm prefered front bumper on it, hitting it with some kind of pneumatic ram in a way to simulate a parking lot oops which shattered it, then did the same with a Ford stock replacement and it just flexed and returned to it's original shape. IIRC in some cases they still want the body shops to use serviceable junkyard parts where ever possible to save themselves money too.

That's pretty sweet!

I really dig that build!

There were a few guys doing it to their Chrysler 200's on the owners forum I found, not fond of how it looks on the 200.

You and me both Chuck, I could have sworn that's a shop that somebody on here uses for their models!

X2 on the Red, perhaps a deep Candy Red Trust me, that paint looks incredible in person!

I still see a good number of PT's and HHR's around here, but was said earlier, the PT and HHR are actually practical cars once you get past the Niche market appearance.

There are some areas that is illegal, can't remember if it happened here in the Chicago burbs or not, but there was a woman that died the hair on her poodle pink with beet juice as a breast cancer awareness thing (she may have been a survivor as well as had freinds that also were) and her community had a law that specifically made that a fineable offence! Apparently they had issues with rwsidents trapping rabbits, dieing them in Easter type colors, then turning them loose afterwards so they city had a law against it for any and all animals ?!?!?!

If you want to try Monocote, look at their Trim Tape line instead. It's self adheasive and comes in 6"x36" strips and is about the same thickness. I've ised the Chrome on some R/C truck bodies and it does not like compound curves what so ever! If you were going to make chrome trim and cut the shape out of it (say Buick sidetrim for a leadsled for example) it won't like to be made to curve, so you have to cut that shape out instead of trying to form a strip to the radius you want.

I don't think that transaxle could handle the power of a V-8, don't count that 3.5l out though, especially the later one! My kid sister's '06 Charger has a variation of that one and for a big heavy car, it gets up and goes pretty good. My 4.0l Cherokee can get it off the line (it is a bigger, torquier, I-6 in a lighter 4wd truck....shouldn't be a shock), but once the two hit 45, that Charger is gone. Not sure how those compare to my Pentastar equipped 200.......seriously doubt that either will stand a snowballs chance against it

OK, That Ecto 1 Magnum is freakin' sweeeeet!

Dang that is a lot of snow!

If that is something he actually said, I wonder if he wasn't being funny, the man is a comedian after all. The fake Zombie bit in Zombieland didn't seem to off of what he would do either

Wow, another legend gone, sad day for sure