Joe Handley

Almost did that with a body reamer last year, it fell out of the cap and landed tip down on the floor next to my bare foot

That was one of the nice parts of that Pro-Line questionair, once you went to their website and contributed, the only was to contribute again was use anohter computer!

Depends on the finish you want, I shot a set of chrome plated nylon RC truck rims with Pactra Window tint and had it come out better than I expected it to, should be able to do the same with Testors/Model Masters window tint or Tamiya Smoke Black if you're willing to use an airbrush.

Here's an idea that may work too Over on RC Crawler Scott Hughes from Pro-Line Racing, a RC Car body and tire manufacturer announced that they got approval from Chrysler to produce a new Jeep body and asked the users and members at RCCRawler.com to give them some input on what kind of Jeep we wanted to see in lexan. The vast majority, much like myself would love to see a 1984-2001 XJ CHerokee while a decent CJ followed in a distant second. http://www.rccrawler.com/forum/showthread.php?t=199708

I went with my folks and sister a few times before she moved out and now that she has officially moved back home, we're going again next weekend, only instead of cramming things into my XJ, we're taking the Town & Country......lots more room to move in the back of that van than in my Jeep

I'm with you on the engines Mark, I'd almost prefer to see older, Non-Chevy/Ford "Small Block" engines or even some of the new stuff that has come out of Detroit like the Northstar/Aurora V-8, LSX, Ford Modular motors, and/or Gen3 Hemi's offered as well with both EFI and Carb intakes Body wise, about the only one I wouldn't buy is the 5 window......mainly because I don't care much for how that window arrangement looks for some odd reason, be it a classic car or a modern extended cab pickup. Even though I'd almost prefer to see the resources be used for a new kit or used to fix problem kits like the Cuda AAR, the afore mentioned B400 would atleast be something that has yet to be brought to market in plastic (maybe even die cast and resin too!), but can still be easily based on this existing kit too so it's not going to be as severe a retooling as the Cuda would probably need to make decent. Just my $.02

good god man, if it weren't for the lack of sidewall flex, I'd have sworn that orange one was a real Camaro That would have made a great "Real or Model" choice too

Looks good, is that the Revell snap '57 kit by chance and what did you think of it?

For me, a B400 with anything other than some cookie cutter small block Ford or Chevy motor would be cool!

Looks like it should be pretty interesting when you're done, can't wait! Excuse the brain fart, was that one of the kits you got from me by chance? I can't remember which ones I sent you right now

That was well before the windows became a "structural member" of the car body IIRC Dave I also seem to remember reading an article about how somebody wrecked an early B-Body Mopar while street racing a GM product (GTO I think) and swerved to miss an on coming car (pulled in front of them while they were running 120+ ) and hit a bridge. The front of the car had been pushed back nearly to the firewall and the hood was folded in half and the bend pointing straight up in the air when things came to a stop. Amazingly the driver, who had been wearing a seat belt and I htink the author of this story, not only survived but walked away and was extremely sore afterwards! Only other problem was that the police refused to end the investigation until they were told where the driver's body was and took some work to convince them that one of the guys they were talking to was the car's owner and driver at the time of the crash!

In some ways, I'm not as concerned about that as I am after watching videos like this where a late model extended cab, three door Ford folds up just as bad at lower speeds I do not trust IIHS much though after watching some of their crash tests on Dateline NBC though. There were several occasions on low speed tests that they docked vehicles because of the price of repairs for the body damage, yet because a motor mount cost less to fix after breaking in a 5mph rear impact, that car got better ratings...even though the freakin' motor mount broke after a couple minor impacts and the last one of which being at the opposite end of the car Then there was the test like the one I posted above where the dummy "broke his ankle" in one car because the foot was placed on the gas, not the brake and the car had been designed with a break-away brake pedal too keep that from happening, but since the IIHS puts the foot on the gas, they told the manufacturer too bad, you get to be rated our way. IIRC they even knocked a SUV because then it backed into a pole, the standard equipement trailer hitch prevented any damage to the bumper and tailgate and they claimed that if the hitch hadn't been a standard part, the truck would have recieved major body damage

Anybody from here ever attend?

http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=322419 I was getting ready to go and mow the yard around noon today when a local news channel had a story about a bank in Bloomingdale, IL about 10 minutes from the apartment my sister is getting ready to move out of being robbed by a run away inmate I turned the TV off and told Mom on my way out the door to turn on CLTV because of that and that Nicki (My sister), wasn't moving home soon enough (by sunday!!!) and walked outside to get the mower out of the garage and get to work. As I got started on the front yard Nicki stopped by while she was on lunch and then my neighbors came out the their front door and started looking at the sky north of us and I kept hearing what sounded like a helicopter (figured it was on it's way to Bloomingdale) but couldn't see anything After finishing mowing the front yard I turned the mower off and pushed it into the back yard and noticed what looked like it might be the local ABC affiliate's helicopter not far enough north of the house and figured out that's why the neighbors were looking north into the sky while I was up front. Both Mom and Nicki told me come in side because the guy wrecked here in town about 10 minutes or so from here while the police were chasing him:blink: Here's a picture I shot of the local police station after it was all over, I think most of the local news stations were there today!

I swear that thing looks like it was penned by the same guy who designs washing machines for LG

WOW, and I thought the Aztec was the fugliest thing on wheels

hmmmm, this ain't good....just found the "Battle of the Bulge" "Armored" version of this on the shelf http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wti00...=LXFHL3&P=7

That one probably had a Chevy motor in it

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Jeep-Rat-Ro...d=p4506.c0.m245

Sorry to make it sound like that didn't solve anything, I ment to say that this fixed it and it runs no hotter than it did before the pump came apart!

One fine looking model!

Just saw that whe I went to check my e-mail, what a shame

Dad and I got it back together today and it running the same temps as it did before the pump failed

After what he did to CB's finger, Mr. Squirly is fine by me

Dad already had a t-stat when he discovered the WP problem and IIRC it's either 195* or 205* on that. The plugs are Bosche Platinums that I put in at 77k and were the ones that were supposed to be for the 4.0l (counter worker handed them to me, so I had no further influence in what he looked up) so they should be the proper heat range.