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Joe Handley

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  1. You know, it's funny. I met the guy who's Charger was used for this kit and it was nearly identical to this car! The car was the same color, but it had Magnum 500 wheels, 440 Magnum/727, and white interior.
  2. I'm surprised that Petty's '88 Daytona crash isn't on that list, I remember watching it 22 years ago!
  3. Depends of which "Lee" it's replicating, the one that John Schnieder owned and used as "Traveler" in his movie "Collier and Company, Hot Pursuit" has opening doors...also had a 528 Hemi too
  4. I don't think that wing is optional, should be functional and probably needed to get the full performance out of it.
  5. Hahaha, I was just wondering if there was a knife holding the gas pedal to the floor of this car
  6. Sounds like fun, you going to build the Mustang he had too?
  7. I kinda did that with a mid-70's Candy Van back in high school, it was intended to be an old van that was in the middle of a restification, so there's primer, miss-matched body panels, some rust, and a weber carbed SBC under the cut open hood I still need to get this one A-Team Van started again though
  8. Actually, those look alot better now they they got rid of those stupid hood ribs
  9. We got those at work the other day, I want one bad but have wheels and tires for my 4-Tec to buy first
  10. My god, both of those are hideous!
  11. I kinda dig that box art.
  12. To be honest,I'm kinda digging that Sunfire
  13. I've sent stuff to Dukesfan and To members from Texas and California from here in the Chicago Burbs and I swear Dukesfan got his stuff in less than a week, yet Tx Rat and the member in Cali (sorry, I'm having a brain fart on who that was, but it was the Calsonic R32 that ended up with a broke or bent A-Pillar IIRC) I want to say the one sent to Canada took 5 days, but the ones sent to Cali and Texas took 7+ DAYS
  14. Ok, is choice #1 a sporty cousin to the Reliant Robin and #2 seems like it might want to stand on it's front end if you had to jump on the brakes too hard. #3 would is pretty neat looking, and wouldn't take much to update it and clean things up a bit further.
  15. Does that car even make enough power to generate the electricity needed for all those lights? I stand corrected, looks like it needs some work on it's tush too Where did you take those pics, it looks like the park in Fairmont, Indiana!
  16. I'd just find a newer one and set that one aside for some kind of "custom" model that those problems might be used as an advantage.
  17. Actually, other than needing a little work on the nose, it doesn't look too bad!
  18. The more I think of it, the more I wonder what that car will look like when the swelling goes down Believe it or not, a friend of that van's owner is on another forum I'm a member of and helped in the construction of it as well as worked for Chrysler in Ontario and customized the very first Dodge Caravan CV off the line (which is now in a Canadian Auto Museum with the first Caravan Passenger Van) and the owner of this wild van did the airbrushing on both vans. I had to ask him if it started as a GM G-Van or a Chrysler B-Van since the since the side kinda looked more G-Van (and had the exposed upper front door hinge), but the top of the windshield area looked a bit more B-Van like, and the roofs are close enough between the two brands that what's left of the stock roof could go either way. Turns out it was a Chevy and the reason the windshield looks B-Van like is that when they chopped it, they laid the a-pillars back so they could use the stock height windshield. The guy who helped build this van also had built a customized stub nosed Ford Econoline that had a chop with the windshield laid back in the same manner of the above van. After building it, he was driving around and had a cop pull him over and tell him the reason he pulled him over was that the windshield "didn't have enough enough square footage", to which the officer was told that he "didn't know what he was talking about" and that "It was a stock windshield" (but not that nicely).
  19. Real, likely at some kind of poster/calender/catalog photo shoot, and probably slightly over-restored to boot (later two could explain the front plate as well )
  20. What is it with these Gundam/Poke-van things?
  21. That's not a Camaro, it's a Corvette
  22. Nice, that on with the prostreet stuff on it reminded me of these two vans http://www.karsonracing.com/ and
  23. I don't mine most of the Yosemite Sam car, with the exception of the interior (well, I don't mind the shift know and steering wheel to be honest) and all that yellow garbage under the hood. The rest of them
  24. Here's where that pic is from, http://www.airliners.net/photo/SATA-International/Airbus-A310-325-ET/1615692/L/ The reason the it looks like there is no runway left is because the plane is coming sideways and pointed at the side of it right at the camera man I've driven by the DuPage County Airport on my way to work off and on for over a decade now and have seen quite a few private aircraft coming in for a landing sideways like that while driving under them as they're trying to land on a windy day.....very un-nerving sight to see through the top of your windshield, believe me
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