Joe Handley

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

Is it just me, or does anybody else think that car would look better with a foot of sheet metal between the front doors and tires? Give plenty of room for a V-8 to be put in in a rwd fashion too

We nearly did as the afore mentioned Pontiac!

Welcome to driving in the Chicago area guys, where money only buys you a fancier car to crash! Harry, why is we live around here again?

Depends on the individual car. If the car was built to be streetable, I would definately drive a lowrider or show rod over one of those cars with 20° of negative camber. Those things just look like a rolling tire shredder, so long as the lowrider or rod is built correctly, that shouldn't be as big of a problem.

Considering the original GTO was built on the Tempest then Lemans, those were basically that era's equivalent to the Sunfire and the next was the equivalent of the Grand Am both with the big Bonneville engines.....can you imagine the ruckus that would have been raised if Pontiac followed the original formula and had done the newer GTO as a Sunfire or Grand Am with the supercharged 3800 instead!

I'm almost willing to bet that the crybabies would whine that it isn't a real Chevelle like they did with the GTO......

I wouldn't want to have to pay for the tires on that white car!

So long as he's legally on private property (as in it's his parents ranch) it shouldn't matter.

Once you ditch the bikes, those side pods would work well to hide those! Should paint it green and add an Agent P vanity plate to it

I'm assuming that bubble the top is a fly deck? Which end is the front or does that bubble move from one end to the other so you can come or go as you please?

Which show on Sunday? Chicagoland Mopar Connection show is then at the Dupage fairground..