Joe Handley

CRIPES! Good thing he had on a helmet

Hmmmm................Rust, Natures own Lightening Holes! Cool build!

Nice, looks like one quick little grocery getter!

Considering how tall Obama is, that should give that limo at least the same roof height as an unlifted Jeep Cherokee like mine if not more

We've had a few engines come in like that, especially the early 2.5's, but this it the first one I've seen where the rod actually split on the wrist pin and punched through the top of the piston.

Why not, I've seen a Ford Festiva R/T with VTEC and a Grand Caravan Sport Si

Apparently this one sounded a bit like a V-Twin when he fired it for the first time after getting it back from this shop. The guy who ran that shop called the one I work for asking if the guy was telling the truth because he was trying to get a new engine for his truck from this shop because of this. Sounded like from now on he will be shopping with my store from here out for his hobby needs. I was just showing a carnage pic here, figured that even though it was RC related, there might be a few good stories in 1:1 and smaller scales that would match this pic

x2 on shaving it, laughed my butt off on the Chevette emblem idea though

We never pulled the motor apart, the guy is probably going to exchange it for a new 3.3

Yup, I resent the pic tonight too David, I think the crank finally stopped turning when the big end of the rod got near the wrist pin.

Had a customer bring in a 3.3 Revo that had just been tuned by another area hobby shop and it quit shortly after he got the truck home and started driving it For some reason the piston got stuck half way up the sleeve on the compression stroke (Dad thinks it was run HOT sometime very recently, most likely by the guy who "tuned" it for this customer) and the crank and rod kept going. The rod split length wise in two after getting shoved into the wrist pin and continued it's path through the top of the piston before the rod and crank finally stopped just short of the head and plug!

Real, the rolling stock and flags do look "funny" though.

Or the Corgi figures also for the Goldeneye movie too?

That is going to be sweet when you're done with it

I watched this the other night and was mighty impressed! I seriously hope this kid go all the way!

Must have outgrown the doggie door, I'm guessing it's name is Clifford I don't really eat Dog's chicago style (techincally I was born in Iowa ), but I do love a good Portillo's Italian beef, and have one within a 5 min. drive from work

Thought that whole thing seemed a little odd, have they kept looking at the girls Ex and McNair's business partners?

Neat, kinda A100 like!

It's a shame, rest in peace Walter!

I'll be honest, even though it was in an older (maybe early 2008) issue of Street Rodder that I bought, I really didn't notice it until I saw that autocross video I posted and read up on it in the October 2009 issue of Mopar Action (which is currently onm the newsstands, look ofr the silver '72 Plymouth GTX and Mr. Norms/Sam Posey Edition '09 Challenger on the cover.) Believe it or not, those grill pieces were each milled from a 100lbs+ chunk of aluminum

Might want to rethink that Ricky

Neat, IIRC GM had been working on a Rotory until the first gas crunch hit and were going to be putting that in the Monza (and the Pacer was also going to get that motor too IIRC), so this could be the phantom type "swap that could have been" in this little car

I checked some other reference material on this car, it's probably the reflection of the right front headlight extension of you're looking at the top right corner of the passengerside grill insert.

Or readin' the same magazine IIRC, the guy left the handles because he really liked the way they looked

Real, I'll post why it's real on friday or saturday I will say this though, that backdrop and lighting really throws off the look of that shade of orange that this Desoto is painted