Joe Handley

No arguements from me there! Well, that would explain the suden $9.00 jump in my insurance premium last month.

No kidding, all it tells me is that I have a 40% chance of getting hit by another drunk driver if I get in another wreck. IIRC here in Illinois you should wear bright/light colors cloths (white, yellow, prison jump suit orange, ect) and walk against the flow of traffic on the shoulder. Now if you're on bicycle, you should wear the same types of cloths, but you have to ride with the flow of traffic and stay over to teh right side of the road. Personally I like sidewalks, I grew up around here and took driver's ed here so I know better than to trust most of these licensed knuckeheads.

No wonder these questions half didn't make any sense, they were written by an insurance company or the insurance industry.

Only one reason I can think of, those are way cooler looking than anything that is competitively today. I'd still like to get my hands on a pre OBD2 and airbag 2wd 4.0l Jeep Cherokee to make a modern day gasser out of, all you'd need to get the look are some nice fat 30" tall tires out back, skinnies up front, a slight lift (ACOS adjustable bumpstop with 4 cyl springs up front and Up Country leaf springs out back), then start playing with the stock I-6 (stroker ) or maybe bump it up to a V-8 at some point (easier to do with the 2wd anyway, no front diff and driveshaft to get in the way ) Yes, I have thought it throuhg that much

Looks good and I'm digging the vented rotors.

We got a couple of those in at work the other day and both sold today!

Model, headlights don't look "right", the tires are lacking sidewall detail (like a lack of GoodYear licensing ) panel lines look too good, and dash looks like it's been molded from plastic and not painted or finished beforehand.

There's alot of IFS vehicles that get stupid amounts of negative camber when they get that low, but there's usually only two ways to get that with a solid axle......put in an IRS or bend the axle, otherwise a solid rear axle should have zero camber no matter the suspension elevation.

It would be enteraining to see if it would make it past the first 60ft in one piece That could be part of the steering mechanism

I don;t own one, but I do work for a HobbyTown and the vast majority of the models we carry come from Great Planes (Tower) and Horizon Hobby, with a handfull coming from Stevens.

The SB wing should be fine so long as it's now how the car would look today after a few decades of negelct and abuse.

If the local shops don't have it, have to youcked with places like Borders?

Did you use wide masking tape for the spare tire cover?

It may be too long and have no center clearance, but atleast over hang won't be a problem Looks good!

hmmmmmm, hot rod Kubelwagen, wouldn't that make it a Kubelrodder then Sweet little build BTW!

Sweet, can't wait!

DOn;t have it any more, but that kit still looks way better than the Testors' second gen F-Body

You know, the more I look at it, the more I'm thinking that there is not a windshield in the car just yet

One of the guys on RC Crawler scratch builds truck cabs out of styrene to work with Tamiya's 1/14 scale big rig r/c's, his work is incredible! http://www.rccrawler.com/forum/showthread.php?t=182057 http://www.rccrawler.com/forum/showthread.php?t=191676 http://www.rccrawler.com/forum/showthread.php?t=187881

My thoughts exactly, the carbs, headers, and front wheels look too real and the paint is just too "off" to be a decaled model.

No, I think it may have been California, we don't have state vehicle safety inspections like that here. Normally if you take it in to have the "Emissions" tested, we have to take the vehicle to an Airteam facility and have them plug in the computer for testing the OBD2 codes and put the gas cap on a pressure tester to make sure that is sealing properly. Until they stopped testing pre OBD2 cars here, they stuck a probe up the tailpipe and let it idle then when the "treadmills" were instituted the did that and ran them on a chassis dyno type that device that tested the emissions at various engine speeds plus they also tested the gas caps too. In many cases the employees that ran these facilities weren't nearly as qualified as the ones that worked at the shop in the above situatuon. Watching them running these cars on the dyno could get interesting though, my Turbo Lebaron would rattle the glass and aluminum boxes the car owners had to stand in while the cars were getting tested. I remember one J-Body Buick Skyhawk that was at least as old as my Chrysler (and was in far worse shape) that had a healthy pull to the left and nearly drove right off the dyno! IIRC the owner was told to get it fixed before it was brought back to retest otherwise they weren't going to touch it again. I'd imagine that depending on how bad that carnage was, they might as well have dropped it to the ground. If it was going to be a write off and the shops insurance wasn't going to get involved, the owner could theoreticly get it running enough some how get it to a dealer and trade it as a "clunker" and take the hit for what ever the X5 was worth.

I've seen it done on RC bodies with Drywall tape, but it looks much better with the way you did it on that car!

I'm almost positive I've seen that one with the Ilinois plates running around the area I work in several times over the past 10 years, wonder where it's based out of? Also ran across a Disney movie based out of LA about some HS dancing team a few days ago and the lead teen's dropout boyfriend was driving a car that looked alot like this one too.

That looks like it could be usefull, I can think of a few times in the past few years that I'd have beaten the snot outta one of those.

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