Joe Handley

I don't see anything wrong with the Maverick name on a small pickup, after all, how many people that buy them are going to remember it was originally on a crappy little commuter car 50 years go. Mustang on the Mach-E is a bit of a stretch, I'd have just used the latter and left it at that.

Saw either this bus or a duplicate on a flatbed today, kinda wondering if it was being brought someplace for a demo. Apparently it’s EV power train was developed by Cummins!

Luckily, these calipers are still currently used on just about every big car and truck that Chrysler sells, it’s just on back order right now. I’ll just have to see if I can get one then and use that Napa one for now.

Called the dealer no exchange and the the parts is backordered until mid Sept, so I went to Napa and picked up one of their remand until I can get another Mopar Reman on hand.

So long as there isn’t any supply chain issues on Mopar Reman calipers, yes, they’re nothing really special about them and get put on just about all of the RWD based Chrysler products anyway. The only tricky part other than money was the brackets that mount these calipers to the car, they were only made for the 200s going to Europe as it sounds like the EU has some rules regarding braking capability vs lbs per hp that made these bigger brakes on the V-6 cars mandatory there. Since I have those brackets, everything else on the caliper side is just LX car parts and the rotors look to be the same as the last generation of Grand Caravan and Town and Country.

Dad and I spent the weekend putting new brakes and rear shocks on my 200 the rears were new pads and rotors from R1 Concepts and the shocks were a KYB/Mickey Thompson collaboration that were pre-assembled with springs and ready to bolt in. Other than dealing with a little corrosion on the brakes, things were pretty straight forward out back, though it does sit a little high in the rear right now. Other than having to get a couple minor things that I had forgotten to over the last couple years of collecting the parts to go big on the front brakes, the front should have gone fairly smooth since all we were doing is removing the stock sized calipers, pads, rotors, caliper brackets and hoses, then putting on the bigger rotor, Charger/Challenger/300 2 piston calipers and matching pads and hoses, then bleeding the front brakes. Well, we had a few things to figure out since some of them were not needed for my Sister’s Challenger R/T Classic (uses the same pads and calipers) during a normal brake job but as Dad was buttoning up the right front corner, I discovered that when I bought the calipers from the dealership the 3 of us bought our last 4 cars from gave me 2 right side calipers ?? So right now, I have a text into the dealership to see if they’ll let me exchange this right side caliper for a left side still, even though they were bought in the spring of 2019. So right now, I have what is basically the closest thing to “cop brakes” (hopefully read in the voice of Elwood Blues?) on the right front, and the stock, good for a 4 banger, rental spec car but not one that has 280+hp and weighs 3600lbs and typically halls around a couple fat guys until we can get that left front caliper in hand and on the car. so here’s how the car sits now, with one side jacked up with brakes that look like they barely clear the factory 18” wheels while the side still on the ground still has the factory rental spec brakes on it.

I think that was Hearts A Fire, IIRC!

Charles Robinson ( the court clerk, Mac passed on a month ago and it’s been a few years since Harry Anderson passed on too.

Yeah, as he was describing that in the video he showed the damaged car back at his shop, all I could think was how bad of an idea signing that was, I kinda thought he was smarter than that too, but guess I was wrong.

Nope, they're on their own for that, the kid with the Tesla said that they had been asked to sign a waiver not to hold then show responsible for damage and things like that weren't going to happen anyway. He does have that Tesla driveable again and it may be in the process of fixing the structural damage at this point, since it hasn't popped on his YT channel since it was brought back to running condition and showing what used parts he was able to get for repairing it, which even matched the car's original white paint under that wrap. IIRC that was mostly cosmetic and mechanical on the front, but the IIRC rear is going to need that entire corner of the body (inner and outer quarters, door, bumper, lights, ect) replaced, so needless to say, that will probably require a real body shop to take care of.

Honestly, that would look great with just a 2"/4" drop. Low enough to tuck those whites a little on all 4 corners and get rid of the CUV stance, but but still high enough to easily make it over the same obstacles a modern sedan should at stock height!

I guess there’s a company out there that makes kits to swap K-Motors into just about any thing, and you can get 300hp out of them without boost!

Now that I think of it, would it be a 4dr like a sedan or a wagon, or a 3dr like a Hyundai Veloster?! The Pacers had the longer single door on the passenger side to get back seat passengers to get in and out of the car on the curb side, where the Veloster has 2 passenger side doors and 1 driver side!

Interesting use for the Ecto-1 kit!

He was pretty angry about what happened, though I Think if I were to do a show like that and had time to prep the car, it would probably look like a cheater demo derby car that looked presentable enough to not draw unwanted attention.

Here’s how they look with the kit rolling stock, the tires are taller and slightly wider as well as I’m not sure how I’m going to mount them to the car, debating about cutting the back sides down and using the kit wheel backs.

Makes me wonder what a 4dr Pacer might look like…….?

He’s rebuilding that car now, I’ve yet to see the show but it sounded like he got hit for what little he had mentioned so far prior to the show hitting the air.

That would be interesting to see as a fastback with the 4 doors.

The wheels arrived today, look nice too! I’ve been running a couple of my R/C trail rigs of late, so I may need to dig the Jag back out and test fit these to see what I need to do to mount them.

Looks like it should have a mountain of mason jars or a huge, yet discretely installed tank in it someplace.

I had heard that Dusty was going to be sitting some of this tour out due to an old hip injury and the band's guitar tech of 2 decades was going to step in in his place, sounds like he may continue to do so now, from what I just read.

I was going to say, I have one out in my car that was a recent reissue and I don’t think it was that bad!

Camber doesn't seem to bad, could use fatter tires on those wheels though........

That will come in handy, thanks for posting that Lee! I did watch this earlier tonight, as per usual for the Audrain Automobile Museum and Donald Osborne, it was interesting and informative as well!