Joe Handley

Being one of Joe Bailon's cars would explain why that chromed tube work on the front end seemed so familiar Hope it get's put back to it's previous glory too!

I think I know what land your talking about, it's now owned and maintained by Ball Seed. The Napa is now in it's own building and what used to be called Adrian's is now a paint shop that might be part of the Napa. The spot in Batavia is pretty much right in the middle of the river near Duck Island and close enough that when the water is low enough later this summer, you could actually walk to the island! May have to bring Dad with me for a navigator though, I managed to get lost and ended up in Wisconson last year trying to get to Zion Beach State Park for a comp

Yup, definately a neat car, kinda reminds me of a heavily modded Low Rider.

There aren't really any places on 59 to run them and the Dupage Forest Preserves are pretty much off limits if you don't have a plane or boat...and the permits to operate them in the approved places I have run them over at the Bowling Green and the Mexican Grocer that is now where Eagle and Family Foods used to be since they have a bunch of rocks around their lots. I do prefer playing at the Potawatomie Park and Dam (near the police station and city hall) in Batavia. The club I'm a member of runs a lot at Busse Woods at either the main dam or off Higgins (Cook County doesn't seem to be as concerned with trucks that can barely get into their own way like DuPage is ) and we're having out next Comp down at Kankakee River State Park. Never been there, but from the pics I've seen, it looks like a gooooood place to play!

Oh, same here, and it always kinda pissed Dad off when people would act like it wasn't a real GTO (which to him died after '64 when they went to the LeMans platform from the Tempest) I do seem to remember him finding it funny that Car and Driver prefered the '05 Mustang over the '05 GTO...even though the GTO was faster, quicker, less pointlessly optioned, and more "subtle" looking to the average witness....err....motorist

Yup Jim The Green XJ started out as an Axial AX10, then modded into what I was competing with, then threw the suspension on their Scale SCX10 "Ladder" chassis after I got my Losi Comp Crawler, finally last week I had to put most of the original suspension links on the "Ladder" chassis to shorten the wheelbase to fit that body and put the smaller 1.9" rims with matching BGF knockoffs to make legal for my club's scale "Street Truck" class. It's kind of ment to look like a Weekend Warrior type daily driver capable rig, the reason I put those rims on it was to look like the factory rims off a Jeep like mine that were powdercoated black after beeing taken off a junkyard XJ or ZJ:P The Dark Blue XJ started out as a HPI Wheely King that I made into a home made "Crawler King" (before any of the Crawler King stuff as offered) and have been thrashing a TJ Wrangler body from HPI on it for the past couple years till this body came out and decided to replace the old Axial 2.2 beadlocks and Proline Masher 2000 tires with a set of J Concepts Tense 2.2 beadlocks and a new set of M2k's. Between the wide WK axles and "6-Lug" J Concepts rims, this one ends up looking like somebody took old Full Size Chevy/GMC or Wagoneer axles and put them under their XJ....... Now I do have a few Rubicon decals from that TJ body that would look good on these two bodies too come to think of it

Finaly got the Proline '92 Jeep CHerokee bodies for my Wheely King and SCX10, even painted and mounted them on the trucks too Unfortunetly, I haven't had the chance to go out and start to destroy......er....weather them yet

Don't forget all the guys that whined that it wasn't a "real" GTO and that it looked like an old ladies car or a Cavalier either. Even though that exactly what the original '64 GTO was, an old ladies car with a Grand Prix/Bonneville motor shoved in it. They could have stuck a 3800SC in a Grand Am or Sunfire and called it a GTO just as easily and been a bit more historicly accurate to boot

I've seen Escalades and H2's like that around here, there's even been a Charger Limo running around here a couple times too

I'd hope that Ford would atleast give the guy the chance to sell cars and trucks from Ford, Mazda, and/or who ever else they still might own. Same with the guy now only selling Buicks too.

Meh, it's just a Ferarri, no big loss.

And I thought this was going to be the infamous Veyron, did they park it next to Miss Belvedere by chance?

No, not really......................

Done that a few times with my Jeep, the Cherokee's are more capapable that many suspect in corners Had some hot shot in an Acura RSX chase me into a 15mph right hand corner at about 35 or so a couple years ago and by the time I was back up to 45 I looked back to see that he was stopped dead mid-corner with the front tires turned full right lock with the car's left front corner just to the left of the yellow center lines

DO you know how hard it is not to laugh in an open store when you really shouldn't be surfing the web

I picked up another Testors Charger kit, only the Daytona version at Hobby Lobby for $15.00

Picked up a Testors Charger RT glue kit on Saturday for $16!

I'm with Harry on this too, needs something on that side.........maybe to make it look like a shop truck. BTW, good looking Magnum Sedan Delivery 'shop Harry!

I'm going real here too, looks like it should be a die cast, but just looks too good to be one at the same time...........

Why not do it to do it, might not hurt the mileage much either since that motor wouldn't have to work all that hard

By the looks of it Eric, the Duck here was much, much cheaper to feed I don't mind the ducks compared to those geese, had to deal with them when I worked at the Toy's "R" Us down the road from there. They'd leave messes all over the parking lot, and I even had one come after me after I got too close to the nest while cleaning up the parking lot....mainly of their dropping Luckily there is a quiet retention pond on the property across the lot from where her nest was at and I thought I saw her and her mate head over that way when I stopped by the store on my day off (need stuff to mod my Comp Crawler a bit before Saturday.) That cig may be from one of my co-workers, we've got about 3 smokers that work for us.

I'm still not too sure where that debris comes from, most of the time it's stuff we don't even have to throw out that ends up in there. She was very well hidden though, I almost couldn't see her and the nest without my glasses when I first found out about it!

To try and make it street legal?

hahahaha

I think that door opening is smaller than I am