Joe Handley

Wow, is it in as good a shape as it looks to be? Mom told be about someone who was a mortition and had to take delivery on a new hearse and asked his mother in law to come with to keep him company. I guess his MIL wasn't feeling all that good and he suggested that she lay down in the back, but with one request.......that when they get back to town he wanted her to wave out the side windows as they drove through town! For a couple decades my Grandparents had an apartment building in Ames, IA and one of the renters had an old hearse back in the 60's. He went home for Easter and left my grandparents the keys to it since he had it parked in the street. Well....Mom, Dad, his parents and brothers decided to "decorate" the car and cruise the main drag in it. They covered it in balloons, signs, and stuck a cardboard coffin the in back with sock stapled so that it looked like feet flopping around. Evidently they brought the coffin in the back of Dad's white '62 Plymouth Fury hardtop and were having one heck of a time getting it out of the car. The next day Mom was at work in the eye doctors office when an Ames cop came in and told her about seeing these folks struggling to get some fake coffin out of a white Plymouth so they could put in an old hearse covered in balloons. Mom ###### near bit off her tongue trying to keep from laughing out loud in the cops face as he told her about this!

Wasn't NAFTA initiated by the first Bush?

kids view on marraige -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- some of these are pretty funny, thats whats great about them, they say whatever 1. HOW DO YOU DECIDE WHO TO MARRY? (written by kids) -You got to find somebody who likes the same stuff. Like, if you like sports, she should like it that you like sports, and she should keep the chips and dip coming. -- Alan, age 10 -No person really decides before they grow up who they're going to marry. God decides it all way before, and you get to find out later who you're stuck with. -- Kristen, age 10 2. WHAT IS THE RIGHT AGE TO GET MARRIED? Twenty-three is the best age because you know the person FOREVER by then. -- Camille, age 10 3. HOW CAN A STRANGER TELL IF TWO PEOPLE ARE MARRIED? You might have to guess, based on whether they seem to be yelling at the same kids. -- Derrick, age 8 4. WHAT DO YOU THINK YOUR MOM AND DAD HAVE IN COMMON? Both don't want any more kids. --Lori, age 8 5. WHAT DO MOST PEOPLE DO ON A DATE? -Dates are for having fun, and people should use them to get to know each other. Even boys have something to say if you listen long enough. --Lynnette, age 8 (isn'tshe a treasure) -On the first date, they just tell each other lies and that usually gets them interested enough to go for a second date. -- Martin, age 10 6. WHEN IS IT OKAY TO KISS SOMEONE? -When they're rich. -- Pam, age 7 -The law says you have to be eighteen, so I wouldn't want to mess with that. - -Curt, age 7 -The rule goes like this: If you kiss someone, then you should marry them and have kids with them. It's the right thing to do. - - Howard, age 8 7. IS IT BETTER TO BE SINGLE OR MARRIED? It's better for girls to be single but not for boys. Boys need someone to clean up after them. -- Anita, age 9 (blessyou child ) 8. HOW WOULD THE WORLD BE DIFFERENT IF PEOPLE DIDN'T GET MARRIED? There sure would be a lot of kids to explain, wouldn't there? -- Kelvin, age 8 And the #1 Favorite is........ 9. HOW WOULD YOU MAKE A MARRIAGE WORK? Tell your wife that she looks pretty, even if she looks like a dump truck. -- Ricky, age 10 __________________

Looks like they never cleaned up after the fight scene near the end of the first "Cannonball Run"

I didn't know somebody actually built this thing http://youtube.com/watch?v=59H4S-a8Wj4 And in Lego too!

Oh you're a funny one:lol:

It would look good in a CJ!

I work with somebody like that funny thing is that he's been going to school to become a history teacher and plays Flames of War, yet still is of that mindset He actually kinda cringed once when I handed him my box cutter at work a couple weeks back!

What kind of road racing are those tires for, dirt road? Now that I look at that intake manifold more, it looks like there wasn't much change in the design used on the 4.0l version used from '87-'98 other than to make it an EFI manifold in aluminum!

Did the person think they were in a Dallas remake? Whiner

Just found this on another forum, kinda fits here http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/4/21/19...5152/392/496931

Very funny vid Mr O

I think you mean Conley there Nick

Check out the red under the car, that ain't no underglow

Dang

Speaking of guns............ http://enews.earthlink.net/article/top?gui...0604-1318146035 'Vigilante' gets revenge on metal shop thieves June 04, 2008 7:18 PM EDT VIENNA, Maine - The owner of a machine shop where thieves stole $3,000 worth of scrap steel, iron and aluminum wasn't going to let it happen again. After Saturday night's theft, Joseph Lord loaded his shotgun and laid low, expecting the thieves to return. They came back on Tuesday, in broad daylight. When Lord saw their 2008 F-250 pickup truck, he shot out its tires and windshield and blasted its radiator, Kennebec County Sheriff Randall Liberty said. The startled thieves took off on foot, but investigators quickly tracked down the truck's operator, who will be charged with theft, Liberty said. Charges are pending against an accomplice, the sheriff said. Liberty said he discourages the use of guns to protect property. In this case, Lord told investigators he wanted to disable the vehicle so the criminals couldn't escape. "I can understand the frustration that Mr. Lord must have been experiencing," Liberty said. But, he added, "We don't want to see anyone get hurt over property." Copyright 2008 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Pretty much eveything posted here

Beep Beep is one of my favorites.

I asked Dad tonight about the trucks C&NW had. Most of them were fleet orders that GM had painted the Chrome Yellow color that C&NW provided specs for that just happened to be close to alot of the yellows used on Corvettes over the years He also said that there was a railroad employee that had a factory painted 1984 Corvette that was a close match for the RR's trucks! Sounds like the E, J & E trucks were the same way, only painted a forest/hunter green.

Is that a Daytona/Superbird style nose in the bottom left corner of the of that image?

Here's a pic of a couple C&NW trucks from that time period http://webpages.charter.net/harrisjc/highrl.jpg

The paint was factory on this one, doorjabs, underhood, and all!

Where did they get the yellow at the time? My Dad worked for The Chicago & Nortwestern Rail Road at the time and they had a lot of bright yellow GMC trucks of all sizes. He also had a very basic but bright yellow 6.2l Diesel 1986 GMC Jimmy (with factory installed true duals no less ) as a company provided vehicle. Now IIRC that yellow was really close to the yellow used on the Corvettes at that time too! I'll have to dig around on railphotos.net tonight and see what I can find now that I think of it.........................

That's what I've been wondering for years, especially after hearing about Ford's accountant engineering of the Pinto and Explorer, Chrysler's 4 speed transaxles (the notorious Slip Oh No) being done the same way, GM's re-engineering of the Turbo 350 to work ok in applications that a Turbo 400 could have done no problem.........

Dang that's low!