Joe Handley

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).

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 )

What is it with these Gundam/Poke-van things?

That's not a Camaro, it's a Corvette

Nice, that on with the prostreet stuff on it reminded me of these two vans http://www.karsonracing.com/ and

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

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

Here's another one, but this one's real

Ooh, never thought of that

Supposedly this is an old Warn Winch Print Ad from the 70's, and it's a photoshop done the old fashion way...with a couple pictures and an X-Acto knife

Eh, I don't mind. The bickering and whining kinda ruined the read to be honest.......

Yea, we're just glad they were with digital cameras, could you imagine how much that would cost with any kind of camera that still uses film

That explains why it went from 3 pages back down to 2 pages then

I'm on the choice 2 bandwagon too, choice three is just ugly, then they don't look very good on the car either............... IIRC Jon, those decals were part of the kit.

Those wheels look great on that car!

I keep remembering Dad talking about racing back in the 60's when he had is '62 Plymouth how those X-Frame cars would usually light the tires and slide sideways before they'd actually move forward because the frame would twist under the load of a hard launch and the cars would not hook. That wasn't really a problem on uni-body and normal, full framed cars, but those X-Frame cars would always have that problem. My Dad's folks also had a '63 Riviera that Dad and his uncle built up and they had to do a bunch of suspension and frame work on it to make it hook like a full frame or uni-body car if not better. As for the interior color thing, it's bugged me for a while now that there are not really any color choices now like there used to be. I'd love to know why they still don't offer multiple interior colors...although somehow I get the feeling that production costs, possible environmental problems (from the dyes), and "Driver safety" concerns play a part in it

I wouldn't mine one of the turbo GT models, it would make a nice, roomy, fair weather driver and companion to my Cherokee. Seeing as how heavy I am, I seem to fit nicely in it and it has a good amount of room in the back without being as "big" as my XJ and carry my RC stuff in it too. Of course, I'd probably want to bump the boost and try to run it on E-85 too, might as well make a hot rod out of it and take advantage of the high octane and the additional chemical intercooling the E-85 would offer too

Is that silver thing a Camaro? That's not too bad, at this years World of Wheels, Dad and I managed to shoot around 1500 pictures with 3 different cameras......and we didn't even use the ones on our cell phones

IIRC the PT and Neon were to share some parts, but it only had something like 20% parts compatibility. I swear that the rear suspension, save the Watt's Link, was very similar to that of the Lebaron and Shadow I used to own.

OK John, htose are pretty funny

Real

I think that was a custom set up for that model, although the later '88 Pontiac/McLaren Grand Prix GPT turbo coupe used similar set up IIRC.

Just watched it, good episode!

Thanks guys, the guy I got these from was using them on an E-Revo Brushless Edition running on 22.2 volts....I had remounted a new set of tires on it after that truck destroyed a couple of them on a 6s run