Joe Handley
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I never kept a car long enough to let it get as bad as the ones mentioned here, the worst was my '85 Lebaron, some of the reason I took it off the road as that the floor was getting bad enough to be worried about my rather hefty self would fall through it, but it ran good much of the time I had it, and was frighteningly stable at 85+mph with the floor (and the whole body really) in such shape
Probably the most dangerous car I have driven was the '86 Pontiac 6000 Dad used to own, the brakes were such that if you hit the brakes just hard enough to stop when it was slick (and sometimes when it was dry too), the thing would swap ends, wouldn't corner if it's life depended on it (wet or dry there too ), and It would also stall for the no apparent reason within the first couple miles after start up after having the fuel pump replaced. We were actually pretty happy when that car got totaled and Dad replaced it with our first XJ and my Lebaron, even at the end of it's life was a safer, more stable and more reliable car than that car ever was! -
I hope it was a model!
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IIRC there was a real Nova built like that some years back, it was meant to look like something a kid slapped together and had some DOT "Slicks" on it, but also had a 1000hp, twin turbo LS motor in it!
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Can't wait to see what you do for a correct dash on this thing, the dog house is looking pretty close already!
I wonder why they never went this far when they tooled up the A-Team van, shouldn't have taken that much more work
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Oh yea, forgot to post a few pics.
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Tuffone 20, you just blew me away with the pic of the Aussie Valiant Charger. They are a rare sight on our roads these days and to see one Stateside is great. Has anybody else seen these in the USA?
Saw one many years ago at a local Mopar car show put on by the now renamed Koller Dodge, it was an american couple that brought it over here and was identical to the car on page 1.......with the exception of the plates though. Good looking car and I may have beenone of hte few that actually knew what it was at the time (there had been a few articles on them around that time in the Mopar rags.)
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Fantastic looking wheels, with an equally fantastic price!
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Dad has a very truthful saying about getting old, unfortunately.....I can't post it on here
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Probably didn't intend to do that, then just rolled with it when that happened......then nearly rolled in the next corner
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Don't know what it is, but it's one goofy looking little car
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Wow, I thought my eyes were screwing with me at first! How hard was it to line everything up to make the Camaro clip fit the Nova body?
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There is something bizarre about a heat shield... catching fire! It's like the fire extinguisher bursting into flames.
Some of the post '99 4.0l Jeeps had that problem too, apparently the heat shields separating the exhaust header from the intake system had a habit of holding flammable junk between itself and the header......IIRC they were installed because of some federally mandated recall to prevent the risk of the header starting things on fire
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Nope...in many states it was easier to register as a truck (emission tests, insurance) and cheaper to operate. It cost me $20. more per year for a truck plate and saved me close to $300. a year on insurance registered as a 1/4 ton truck
But it was still a Vega
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Major improvement over the original Raul, very nicely done!
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I'm going with Model here too, it just doesn't look right.
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As bad as things have been for us here, be glad this hasn't happened to any of us here....not like it could easily happen in this hobby......................
http://www.rccrawler.com/forum/showthread.php?t=205387&highlight=Save+Brians+bodies+foot
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She wrote that very well, and it can apply to many modeling hobbies as well. I'll have to forward that to some other forums I go on!
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Kinda reminds me of the second gen Chrysler Concord
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I've got a whole fleet..............
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That is a stunning looking car
Are they keeping the wood frames and body structuer under those?
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No problem Brian, I not only grew up with that style of van (we just scraped the last one we had a few months back), I learned to drive in one as well!
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Looks good, but those vans had their sliders along the roof and gutter instead of in the side like all Ford vans and the Chrysler minivans.
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Shoot me a PM
I have an 4G63 engine from a fast and furious eclipse laying around...almost certain it is complete.
You would just have to repaint it to match your project
Let me know what you have to trade for it
That's not the Mitsubishi 4G63 engine DIY, that's a poor rendition of the Chrysler 2.0l Neon engine with a turbo on it
Probably the most dangerous car I have driven was the '86 Pontiac 6000 Dad used to own, the brakes were such that if you hit the brakes just hard enough to stop when it was slick (and sometimes when it was dry too), the thing would swap ends, wouldn't corner if it's life depended on it (wet or dry there too 
), and It would also stall for the no apparent reason within the first couple miles after start up after having the fuel pump replaced. We were actually pretty happy when that car got totaled and Dad replaced it with our first XJ and my Lebaron, even at the end of it's life was a safer, more stable and more reliable car than that car ever was!
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Neat build, I had one of those little Mini's as a kid too!