Joe Handley

Here here Mike! Actually, yes! I was going somewhere in my old '85 Lebaron Turbo Sedan several Feb's back and took a corner a wee bit faster than most and had the car start to push a little as I tried to drive out of the corner ( I was out of the boost BTW), so I let out of it and the car grabbed and straightened out again so I continued on out of the acceleration lane. I then looked back and saw what looked to be a Mercury Mystake try that same manuver with much less success, the car had it's rather small front tires (looked to be 195/70/r14 to my 205/60/HR15's) cranked full lock to the right and the car was sliding left out of the acceleration lane and finally collected up it in the passing lane just before hitting the center median Don't know what made them think it was a good idea to follow me into that corner at what ever speed they were running (I'm guessing Monkey See-Monkey Do ), but they did and nearly wrecked doing so :ph34r:

I honestly can't tell one way or the other for sure!

Yea, kinda like that Islander

To be honest, I'm 33 years old and have yet to get a notice for Dupage Co. Illinois! Nah, not in Illinois , btw take a look at my sig panel;)

When Dad was still working for the rail road they had an Exploder from that same generation that was a company truck and he HATED that piece of junk! It was tipsy, underpowered, didn't wheel worth a darn (his Cherokee wiht twice the mileage would go more places along the right of way in 2wd than that thing went in 4wd!) Only reasons he ever drove it was because he either he was using the railroad's gas money or he had to take a licenseless employee home and didn't want the liability on our heads if somehting went wrong.

Those old flatheads do sound good, I do like the sound of a 4.0l Jeep with a gutted cat too, even if it's got nearly 300k on the factory motor and running an otherwise stock type replacement exhaust. Even the 3.8 Chrysler Minivan motors sound nice at idle to me for some odd reason

My sister has an '06 Charger SE with the 3.5 V-6 and Touring Suspension and so far as I know she hasn't had any electrical issues with it. The back seat probably isn't as big as a CV's but it's decent sized. I'm 5'11" and over 390lbs and can fit in the back (uncuffed of course ) with hardly an issue other than cracking my head on the roof every once in a while. She went from a Cherokee Briarwood so the cargo space was a pretty notible loss but the back seat space was a severe improvement over the old XJ platform (I think stuffing a perp back there in one that had the cage could be considered prisoner abuse ) , but apparently it handles quite well even when compared to the XJ, which is quite capable of healthy cornering speeds for a jacked up unibody station wagon with 4wd and two solid axles Now that I take a closer look at that Carbon, it has less back seat space than any XJ Cherokee, if not the 3dr Dodge Shadow I used to own You know, I saw something about that in the Cali Mountains this morning on CNN and I could have sworn I saw a late model crew cab Dakota (looked like it might have been 2wd too) that had the front tires chained up and it sounded like a few admitted that they didn't know which end of their vehicle needed to be chained up :ph34r:

I work for my local Hobby Town, so what ones I have bought lately have been there, otherwise it's Hobby Lobby or Micheals. Haven't been to a Meijer or K-Mart in a while and the WalMart, Target, Toy's "R" Us have stopped carrying them. As far as online, I don't buy anything online...period, I prefer to support local retailers, their employees, and their surounding communities

IIRC Dad said one of my uncles (#2 of the of them) had an early '65 Mustang, even after comepletely reworking the suspension on the car about the only place it was drivable was on dry, paved roads.....and if you went on gravel...well let's just say that's how the car died

To be honest, I've yet to own a vehicle that was actually bad in the snow. Tire choice did make a difference in how things worked in the snow though. '94 Grand Cherokee Larado; Never owned it long enough to find out, but it did use the 4.0l/42RE/242 (Selec-Trac) drivetrain and Wrangler GS-A tires (in 245/70/R15), which would have made it pretty nice to have in the snow! '88 Dodge Shadow ES Turbo Coupe; It was competent in the snow. Even though it was stock, it sat too low and the tires were too short (205/50/R15 all season performance tires) to be of much use if the roads weren't plowed. I did run it one winter with almost completely bald tires on the front and while it wasn't good, I made it the whole winter like that and the only thing that I hit was a small deer that ran infront of the car at night, with about 5 feet to stop, during a snow shower on a slick road at 30mph...........so needless to say, even if I had fresh snow tires with spikes, ABS, and clear visibilty, I couldn't have avoided that incident unless I had stayed home! Amazingly the car sustained only minor cosmetic damage in the incident too! '85 Lebaron GTS Turbo Sedan; When I first got it the 205/60/SR15 Grand Prix Radials were worthless on anything but dry pavement (and not worth much more there either ), but after I totaled the ZJ I used some of the insurance money I recieved to get some 205/60/HR15 BF Goodrich Touring T/A's from Sam's Club and car went from barely usable to fantastic on the snow and far better everywhere else including dry pavement! One thing that's kinda funny about that car though is that it's about the only front driver that Dad actually trusted enough to run hard and fast! '98 Cherokee Limited; Main reason I bought that one is that it has the 4.0l/AW4/242 (Selec-Trac) combo and didn't have the Anti-Lock brake option. When I bought it Carmax had stuck 224/70/R15 Toyo Open Country AT's on it. It worked well with those tires, but I ended up replacing them after 30k or so with 235/75/R15 Goodyear Wrangler Silentarmors (I'll never know why 235/75's weren't atleast a factory option on those things ) and over the last 45k I have found that those tires on this truck have made for an outstanding year round combo for this area. I was kinda stupid and didn't rotate the tires for about the last 15k and the front tires are probably ticket worthy right now but still work frighteningly well in what we've had around here lately so long as I drive accordingly So far as I know, the only Bad snow vehicle any of us in my immediate family has owned was Dad's '86 Pontiac 6000 LE. That car was just an absolute "piece" from the get go and the only way it wouldn't spin out when trying to stop was if it was completely dry out. Dad even spent some money and put one of the better tires he could find on it and that made no difference in how it drove when damp or worse out! FOrtunetly that thing was totalled and replaced with a '88 Cherokee that was equipped with the 4.0l/AW4/242 combo and with the exception of my ZJ, all of the Jeeps we've owned since then have all had the same combo in it

I'm not so fond of those little Italian V12's, they're kind of annoying to me. I do like the sound of a larger inch motor though

I'd have no intrest what so ever in a Prius, but would love to have a full detail Volt or that hybrid with the same name as the scissors

They had a F1 Austrailia race on the other day, kinda suprised me.

I've been debating about maybe weathering the car and making it look kinda ratty. Don't know if I've spent too much time under the front my XJ or what, but this kit's front control arms scare the heck outta me

Not a problem Rog!

I'm going to have to say real, unless it's for the flower, which is totally fake

Here's a link to the pics of the one I bought earlier today. http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v698/bjo...reet%20Fighter/

Here's a link to the pictures I took today. http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v698/bjo...reet%20Fighter/

Thanks Steve, and yes it looks like it's been restored to 1970 specs. I took a bunch of pictuers of the sprues right out of the bag as well as the body with the front clip, roll pans, interior, and "chassis/floorpan" all taped on.

Problem is Craig that I like the kit body's lines, but want to make it sled rather than a wanna-be Gasser/Street Freak. I am trying to remember if i still have a Revell '37 ford kit at home that i can rob the 4 wheel inferior suspension from that and make something useful for a chassis myself.

I just bought it, the chassis isn't even remotely stock, I'm hoping the AMT '59 ElCamino chassis will be usable for my purposes.............................

Beep Beep by The Playmates http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1c4QZGQw5o

Found some of it!

Yea, but he doesn't have much place to talke after shoehorning himself into that Isle of Man car

A Euro is a basicly stock or otherwise tastefully and cosmeticly modded car that has deep dish wire wheels sticking out of the fenderwells, probably would look bettr on a V6 car than a Z28 though.........