Joe Handley

Dad was amazed he even made it out of teh driveway like this, let alone navigate the railroad tracks right next to where the truck wa sparked.

Went to a local cruise night with Dad tonight, and after we finished looking around and started to walk back to my Jeep and came across a very well used post war Chevy p/u that had been lowerd a bit. Just before we got to the truck Dad and I both noticed something that made both of us stop in our tracks. The guy used lowering blocks and new u-bolts to drop the rear, but didn't have the bolts over the axle tube Here's the pics Dad took! Yea, the bed was bad enough we didn't need to look under the truck to see the lowering job! I actually saw the guy driving past the street the car show was on, Dad and I still can't believe it's held together this well

Almost forgot, I was running a Parma lexan Dodge Tradesman body for the Tamiya Lunchbox on my Axial Scorpion for a while, had to severly bob and dovetail it, bit it worked halfway decent Still may put one on my Tamiya Mini Cooper And I still want to build a Venom Mini-Giant based Quiggley Van, think I may call it Mr. Quiggles

Wow, she's already lookin' way better than she did fresh outta the ground! I remember hearing about that Wildcat, the guy told his Co ot whomever that he had t wide open id it wasn't making any power, which forved him to dump it right off the run way. Of course he caught hell for sinking the plane, and when it was brought up, the throttles were shoved as far forward as they would go...just as he claimed they were. Don't know if he ever lived long enough to see it in person again, but he was shown the video of it as the plane was brought up and placed on shore as well as was told that the way the recovery crew found it confirmed his story!

Not sure where the Crown parts are made, I'll have to check the box today, the OE starter was built by Mitsubishi America here in the states. The reason I went with the starter sourced from where I did was that it was a new part, immeadiately available, and cost less that $200 (new Mopar is nearly $300 with my Jeep Club discount!) Normally I prefer factory parts where ever possible depending on both availablity and pocket depth at the time. I did have problems with Remans my Lebaron (alternator started squeeling within a month or two and had one starter fall apart and the replacement for that one nearly started the car on fire!) on this truck (actually that was one of a couple total Carmax repair problem, told them that the steering box was locking up so they put a reman PS pump in it that started to fail on the way home, had to take it to a Jeep dealer to get it fixed right after 3-4 trips to the CM I bought it at!!)

Don't know about you, but sometimes I think that discount cost me more money than just being a customer

Actually, the one that broke was a new one from an aftermarket company, we had to use a part form the factory starter to get the truck back on the road!

Everything was tight enough it took a little "persuasion" to get the solenoid off the starter. Atleast this failure wasn't like the battery failure I had in my E-Revo, that was a rather impressive to watch

Seems that way, atleast when I have had starting issues, it just flat quits at home! When the solenoid on the OE starter started to quit, I'd go at it with a ball peen hammer.......kinda left a large number of hammer marks in the top of the solenoid casing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Maybe I need to lay off the forearm exercises at the gym

I'm thinking a questionable idea, poorly executed on the aftermarket. Believe it or not, you can't buy just a solenoid around here, all the parts houses carry are whole starters in either new or reman........ It started to go away when I gassed up yeasterday and was probably lucky to get home with it. We held onto the factory starter ans was able to part it out for this little project. Unfortunetly......the ###### thing broke in time to keep me from going to a RC Crawler comp!

Has anybody ever broken the nylon plunger in the starter solenoid before? Had the one on the Crown replacement starter in my '98 Cherokee do that yesterday or today. I held on to the OE starter so Dad and I were able to swap the plungers to make a working starter but it seemed like a pretty odd thing to break. Here's a couple pics The OE one that's been cleaned up for reuse in the new starter and here's the broken one.

SHe must like having her picture taken as much as Mom does.............

Just these two, the beater I built in HS and teh other I need to actually finish....... The Beater has a Webber carbed SBC in it and one of the bubble windows has clear plastic glued in on the rusty side and the kustom one is on a stretched C5 chassis! Then again, I've also been around vans for years Here's the only pic I've got of our 1987 G20 CHevy Beauville, it's been dead for a couple years now but still hanging around as a storage container for the time being. Don't have a picture of it, but this one replaced a nearly identical G20 '78 Beauville. Here's my folks '06 T&C, can happily say that there has yet to be a problem with it!

Could have that Twin I Beam joke that for used for a couple decades. From what I understand, those were a bushing eater on rail road owned/leased Ford highrails that Dad worked with at the railroad.

Geez man, how can you see after working on that little thing!

Very nice, do those bodies fit the lowrider Caddy or Caprice/Impala SS chassis?

I love the way that looks, great job! Yea, the Chevy Van kits are the same way, you get a decent engine, a decent dash and wheel, but that's about it.

Could have sworn I what that car became in a commercial last night.

Makes a good looking panel!

I remember working with a kid who had a second 300ZX-TT with the Hi-Cas 4WS, it actually caused him to slide off the road on more than one occasion when he'd get the car sideways and it would steer the back end funny causing him to spin out into a ditch!

Click on it, it's part of a raffle to help injured solders

Just painted up a replacement body for my E-Revo with Mopar Parts Jeep Moss Green Pearl spray touch up for my XJ May shoot one of the HPI '69 Charger monster truck bodies and '70 AAR Cuda touring car bodies in the same stuff.

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

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