Joe Handley

So that's what it would look like if I stuck a spare Mini Cooper RC body on my Traxxas Bandit

Nope, here's the Karson Racing Chevy Van This van; Is from Jarvis Performance

Believe it or not, it came in first in class at that race and 32 out of 170+ cars, and it's a 200k mile, $200 clunker that is mostly stock! Only mods have been exhaust, rear axle (Ford Exploder 8.8 with LSD and disks), springs (lowered all around with cut coils up front and lift springs in the back with an axle flip), big wide tires and rims, then they gutted and caged it, painted it a Pettyish blue, and added that odd ball wing to the roof ONe thing that got a few of us on NAXJA laughing was that if you look through the wing in one of those pics, you'll see a Swift semi and the word Swift a perfectly centered in the wing If you go here; http://www.youtube.com/user/TeamPettyCash It's there YouTube channel with on board video of the LeMons races they've been in so far

It was more of a moving obstacle (hence the name Rolling Chicane Limo Service) than a race car

I'd just be happy with the "Autobahn" spring package for mine, only way to get those here in the States was to be a cop, or get a retired cop XJ. I do dig the "Steath" package that was offered on the XJ's in England though

Yup and over restored too I'll bet

I think Hobby King is based out of Hong Kong and is internet only, but have heard they were opening offices and a warehouse here in the States. Now that I think of it. 2 weeks sounds about right for that shipping, or at least that's about the length of time a lot of their buyers wait for the LiPo's they sell. Don't know about their other hobby products, but those batteries were usually cheap enough that even if they were bad right out of the package, most people would just dispose of the bad ones and order more from them and take the chance on the new ones being ok

I don't do any online shopping, so no I haven't. I do know a lot of people who have bought LiPo batteries for cheap from them, usually with decent luck on quality.

Real, I think it's one of the Ford built "jeeps". IIRC old Henry got pissed because he was building somebody else's truck under that contract and not his and it had to be 100% identical to the Willys' "jeeps" for obvious parts compatibility/ease of battlefield repair reasons. Apparently the only thing he could do to make them "His" was stamp and/or cast his F script into all the parts on the Ford "jeeps"

Is that the exhaust cross over pipe running between the engine and radiator?

Ah, thanks Slant! Don't know if I can make it, Dad and I still need to pull the Jeep apart and find where it's leaking antifreeze and we're not totally sure if it's the radiator or water pump If you walked past a dark green Cherokee in the Dupage lot and smelled antifreeze, that was mine

I saw that same Concord at the Dupage show too (guy had 2 of them, IIRC!) and stopped to see if he had one of the LHS'. I looked on eBay and emodelcars too but there weren't any on there at the time though. I don't need one right away luckily, I was more curious than anything else, but I appreciate the offer! I didn't know the Countryside show was still going on, it's been over a decade since I went last. Are they still at that hotel just east of "The Strangler" near Mannheim, or have they moved it to a different location?

AH Ha, I thought it was Brookfield! I looked for one at the local show a couple weeks back but they nobody had one this time around. Thanks Rob, I'll continue to keep an eye out for one of those

I've been wondering doe a while now if this car had ever been modeled in any way, shape or form. I always thought they'd make a great looking mild Kustom and would love to give it a try and I thought there might have been one sold as a bank, but can't remember for sure.

I thought the AMT one was mostly in bare plastic?

I'd probably use the AMT '57 Ford kit, IIRC it's got a nice 312 with the Paxton blower in it

Gotta agree with Mark here. At least he's "one of us", knew there was something I liked about him

Well, we have a dozen airbags, traction control, ABS, Stability Control, Tire Pressure Sensors, and nearly every luxury option you could want, isn't that progress

None that I know of, however they have owned the AFX Slot Car line for a number of years and have recently brought out the first new home set HO car in probably a decade or more! With any luck if they keep with the current R2 contract, they might have some willingness to go farther with them in the future!

Considering the disaster RC2 made of things, I have no problems with it at all

You can still get the Liberty like that overseas, same with the Cherokee's like I have when they were still being built in Austria and both were set up like the HHR panel vans on the inside.

The AMTRAK cops get Chargers? I figured they'd be Exploders like the rest of the railroad cops use