Joe Handley

That hasn’t happened in about 15 years now, the ‘90 XJ Dad had was last tested mid decade before getting scrapped in ‘10 or ‘11. We finally scrapped mine after finding rust between what was left of the rockers and the uniframe rails (which were still fairly solid!) and standing ice and mold on the passenger side foot well. Probably should have given up when the fuel line connection rotted out at the firewall (the lines were still solid though!) in addition to the cooling system issues and rust but we didn’t until I realized is was becoming a health risk as well as a safety one.

Not here either, so long as emissions related codes don’t show up in the scan, they don’t concern themselves with it. My XJ passed it’s last test 2 years ago while it’s temp needle was pegged, airbag light on, no horn, no cruise control (bad clockspring in the column affected the last 3), questionable alternator, rockers rotting away, 7 year old and weather checked tires, etc, but still was good to go due to the code scan checking out ok.

I ended up ordering 2 sets of these, want to see how they scale out against both the 1/20 AMX and 1/16 General Lee kits from MPC!

Nevermind, found the 23” Chrome-T’s I had and they’re way too small, may look at some 1/18 after market wheels made to look like the wheels from a certain Grey and Black Shelby GT500 from 20 years ago.

We do something like that around Chicago, OBD1 vehicles don’t get tested unless they trade hands then OBD2 vehicles go in every couple years for testing, where all they do is plug into the OBD Port to make sure there aren’t issues then give you the all clear to register the car for the next couple years. My XJ even passed while overheating during it’s final test in 2018

Think I would Rather have a Mach-E detail kit instead......

Does anybody know the as cast diameters of these wheels and the tires? https://pegasushobbies.net/catalog/p191/%232305-1/24-23"-Chrome-Hollie&%2339s/product_info.html https://pegasushobbies.net/catalog/popup_image.php?pID=191&image=0[/img] I’m looking to put these on the 1/20 MPC AMC AMX kit I bought right after Mom passed and want to do more of a modern build on it. I think these wheels and tires should be about right, but can’t find measurements or the ones I already have to measure.......... Now if the wheels are Close to a scale 23” wheel, that should be about .92”, an 18” wheel in 1/20 should be .90” and a 19” in 1/20 should be .95”, which puts the wheels around what I want, but I’m curious on the tire diameter too. Thanks

Ordered a couple new sets of tires for my Traxxas Stampede, one set for pavement and the other is a belted off road tire, both pre-mounted to the same type of rims, early Sunday morning after getting back from a friend’s place and paid extra a few extra bucks over the $140.00 in products I dropped to get them UPS’d here by 7/10. Got an email from UPS that they’re on track to be here by 9pm on 7/13.........free shipping would have been via USPS and would have been here on 7/11?

With a little bit of work, the Corolla and Metropolitan could be saved.......no clue what’s going on with that yellow thing though

That seems appropriate.......

Race Night is a little too Live PD like in the way it’s done, then has somebody who don’t know anything about the topic at hand doing the voice overs.

South Carolina, according to the plate in that rear 3/4 view pic.

I think that's the normal roof, it's just been customized as poorly as the rest of that car.

Those may have been gone by that generation of the 1st body style roadster in favor of the GTS Coupe's rear exit system instead.....though the exhaust still ran through those rockers to get to the back bumper!

Have to be a real Joker to drive this car and in those colors at that!

Seems like the perfect jumping off point for a Viper Death Cart!

Yes, for NASCAR under TRD, for the Tacoma, Landcruiser, and Sequoia, then for the Lexus cars as well. They even has a V12 for some time in their Crown sedan.

They used a Econoline (stub nosed like the 1/20 MPC kit) in that scene from the TV show. I seem to remember there were a number of times that they used the ‘72-‘77 m/y cargo vans on the show for the more severe stunts like in the bottom pic. That top one is from the movie from several years back, it died early in the movie, unfortunately.

I think the main reason is that while that tractor is still submerged in saltwater with no exposure to oxygen, I seem to remember seeing somewhere that oxygen exposure is what really kicks off the rusting process in those situations.

The one that shocked me was a Chrysler Conquest (Mitsubishi Starion) and the occasional Chevy Luv.

I found out a sub-30 year old coworker ended up in the hospital with Covid, thought he had come down with bronchitis when I did (and have wondered if it was Covid more and more since then).

The more Dad and I see about this virus, we’re thinking that Mom have have died from it early on, then I find out today a co-worker that had bronchitis anbout the same time I did actually had Covid too and was hospitalized and he’s younger than most if not all of us on here?

These showed up for the Clod and Lunchbox?

Can Autocorrect be turned off, works fine most of the time, it occasionally does that to me, but some R/C names make it worse.....like E-Revo for example, I think it’ finally learned to leave that alone?

Been working on these two, basically down to just needing receivers to be drivers, but there are some goodies coming in so I can’t finish the bodywork just yet. The blue XJ may be getting converted back to a monster truck it started life as with that set of rolling stock getting put on a different trail truck.