Joe Handley

Nope, probably should have gone further with my description though.

I love that Audi commercial, it always gets a laugh from me and Dad!

No, these guys were people I actually knew from work and are mods on www.ChitownRC.com .

Wait a minute....you guys agree with me Last time I said something like that I was all but called a retard by the fireman and mortician who were mods on the forum

Actually I was talking about things like ABS, Traction Control, Stability Control, Tire Pressure Monitors, Air Bags, Post OBD1 emissions controls, ect. Now leave most of that stuff as options for those that are willing to take the cost, weight, and complexity penaltys can have them while those like myself who don't have much interest in them, or like smaller stature folks that can be injured by airbags can opt out of them. It's funny., I saw somewhere the other day that the insurance industry was going to be increasing premiums because people were costing more to take care of post wreck and cars were begining to cost more to repair and/or replace after a wreck, yet some of the problems with the greater cost is some of the stuff I mentioned above again like airbags that are one use only and cost a small forture to replace and repair damage from:blink:

Don;t forget Nick, even the newer and/or bigger Ni-MH Sub-C cells have been known to explode like a firecracker (had it happen to me with a 7 cell 100mAh 2/3 A pack a few years ago) and injure people. Some people on RCCrawler have started thinking Li-Po's might be a safer compared to the newer Ni-MH's Somebody else on their said that the crawling club he's affiliated with is considering mandating Li-Po sacks for Ni-MH cells at their GTG's and comps after a pack let loose in a local park while charging during a comp on somebody's car!

not a bad idea........................................

Wouldn't that mean the return of Drive In's then? I've started to park the Jeep and go into the places, I can drive in, park, walk in, order and receive my food, then walk back out to the Jeep and leave in less time than it takes to go through the drive up most of the time! I've thought about it some and it wouldn't really take much to make drive throughs more efficient, put the lanes on just enough of a downward incline towards the pickup windows so all you would have to do is coast down hill, preferably with the engine off and the trans in neutral. Of course some idiot would find a way to screw it up and kill someone And yes I was sober while typing that In some ways my Cherokee Limited with the 4.0l I-6 or my parents '06 Town and Country Touring with 3.8l V-6 and power side doors and hatch could be the same as that or a Ranger, Dad got around 23-25mpg on the interstate when he and Mom borrowed if for a mid winter get away a couple years back and on the interstate the T&C can pull that same mileage with 3 overweight adults and their luggage at 65+ MPH! Something else too, and yes I'm still sober as I type this too , is maybe roll back some of the emissions and safety standards that seem to add weight and/or reduce efficiency over what was produced a little as 10 years ago.

Now that I think of it, wonder who it is that writes with a stutter, the sign maker or the property owner.

Found this on a local Jeep Club's forum

Really, it looked like a sledded Karman-Ghia to me, explains why it seems so huge then..........

Is it me, or did that S-Type hearse look like a Taurus wagon?

Nope, don't think he had gotten that far at UTI by the time I came in. Funny, Cavi Boi was encountered at a Pep Boys maybe 5 or 6 years ago How's your local NAPA? Dad went to get u-joints for the front axle of my Little Sister's XJ Briarwood at our local NAPA store and the kid behind the counter kept trying to sell Dad u-joints for the front driveshaft, even though Dad was pointing to the PN for the axle u-joints and telling the kid what he wanted that part not the ones the kid was trying to sell him!

Cripes are these stories funny Believe it or not, the place I got the pic from was a thread on a Jeep forum where a guy started the thread wanting to put a 1-2" body lift on his '99 Cherokee........which is unibody, to prevent tire rubbing.

Great pics, but can I ask what this started as?

Actually, that's the very part I'm talking about that I thought was listed as an exhaust bearing! I went to get wheels cylinders, shoes, and pads for my 1998 Jeep Cherokee Limited last summer so Dad and I could do a brake job on it (still need to before this summer's out, rear brakes have 120k on them but it still stops!) and when the kid behind the parts counter found the part number in hte computer, he asked me if I needed the wheel cylinders for the front or the back.....of a truck has never had drum brakes on the front axle................ Also had a parts boi ask me one time if I knew whether or not the inductions system of my '85 Chrysler Lebaron Turbo (2.2l SOHC) would fit his mid 90's Chevy Cavalier (with the 2.2l OHV)......And yes the Caviler did have a big aluminum wing, glass pack with 5" tail pipe and 1.5" through pipe, and weathered paint, stock rims and hubcaps with the low line textured gray bumpers..........

You mean this? http://www.shoplaser.com/index.html There's just some things you can't make up......................

Funny thing is, IIRC VW actually has either a muffler or exhaust bearing! I think it's the flex joint couplers between the down pipes and the reat of the exhaust system.

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Only if they involve model Ford Explorers

This would probably be funnier if it were combined with this like so

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I'm guessing he's do that just to "do that", blown away by the work he's doing though!

I have to ask since it's a "dirt road burner", how much "E-100" are you giong to put in the trunk