Joe Handley

I'm surprised that doesn't exist. Used to work with another lefty and one day he showed up at the HTU we worked at with a couple pairs of "left handed" needlenose pliers (I think they were bent tip as well), and couldn't believe how much easier they made some jobs! I was just so used to grabbing what was on hand and adapting to use those that I never thought that such things existed!

Insured, but higher deductable and out of plan expenses.

Finally got around to doing more work on this car today, filled the holes left by the C-Pillars by chopping a couple wedges out of the roof and trimming them to fit. Also ordered up some of the smaller Redline tires from AMT a while back, seemed to go well with the whole build.

Got a chance to mess with the Shelby Z tonight, started puttying the seam for the sunroof, cleaning up the glue seams on the seats and engine/trans, and then started working on the stance, justusing the OEM Eggshell wheels until I get the Minilights later on this week. Oh, also pulled the '69 Charger Convertible project out and shot the two together. Forgot how much bigger the B-Body Chargers were in comparison to the G-Body Daytonas, or any of the K-Car offshoots Also popped that crunched Recall Wheel onto the left front, just out of curiousity........ I may have to try the other set of Recalls I bought on one of the other Daytona kits I've bought over the years

How does this sound, I had ordered new checks 2 weeks ago after procrastinating and being down to my last one and ordered for the express delivery, which should have been here last saturday, but they never arrived. I give it until mid week and looked further, found that they were "delivered" last Saturday and we couldn't find them incase we missed them. I called the printer and they were going to print up and send out replacements with the next batch of numbers to be here early next week. Went by the local P.O. to advise them of the situation on lunch yesterday and tey were going to put a track on things, then stopped by my bank today to see what to do here and they put a hold on the missing batch numbers. Just before I get ready to leave, Dad texts me that I got checks in then mail......I went and grabbed lunch and checked when I got home, the ones that showed up are the original order. Since the timing was right, I mentioned it to the bank employee that was helping me and we set things up so that I can pull that hold order with a call on Monday, at least.

No matter what they call it, the engine is in the wrong place for a Corvette, to me anyways.

And I got another hospital bill, just short of $5k Nearly had an actual heart attack this time.

These will be happening more as more EVs hit the streets, then get totalled and the tech gets cheaper. I'd love to see some sort of Show Rod with a fully polished and/or chromed Tesla gearbox out back Jag Rear end style

Ralph Gilles posted this on his Instagram today, it's the hearse that carried Lee Iacocca's body.

I've know R/C plane guys that knew better too, then again, some of the local retired guys that flew R/C would go out to the field first thing the in the morning on really windy days with their beater planes, then power up the radios while pointing them into the wind to see how long the plane would hover with just their inputs

He didn't have anything to do with the Edsel though.....he did save Ford after it nearly killed the company though.

Well, there are pilots that believe that if the wheel speed on their plane is off compared to ground speed, the plane won't take off, even though it's going fast enough to produce the needed lift with the wings.

I knew a local kid that went to work for a little airport in a different state and they had mechanic there that worked on private craft that lived at that field and he managed to convince some of the pilots that flew out of that field to do just that Now think about this, these were people who had enough money to learn how to fly then buy, store, and then pay somebody to maintain their planes

'86 sounds about right to me, turns out those VR50 tires when mounted up on the kit supplied Sawtooth/Eggshell wheels look dead on for those 225/50VR15 Gatorbacks too! Here's how they look in comparison to the kit supplied Radial T/A tires. The other tires might work out to be more like the 205/60R15 like my Lebaron GTS ran, but just under rated for that car was way too willing to do Thanks, I'm aiming for a "sinister" and "wouldn't want to meet it on a dark backroad" sort of look for the car. Think I'm going to paint it just plain, basic Black with Dark Bronze colored MiniLights and a "Blood Red" interior

Hope it's rebuildable, looks like somebody was using it as a boat anchor.

I was happy to find them with almost no digging, these look like they'll be perfect for the factory wheels, kinda hoping those MiniLights will fit too. I think these would be about what Chrysler would have put on them from the factory too!

Found these in a random box of parts I had aquired in the last couple years, no clue where they came from, but I think the 90's issue of the '41 Plymouth may have been the source.

New t-shirt artived today

Might as well! I was telling a friend of mine about this community build and that it should have an interesting and possibly weird mix of FWD Mopars and Mustangs by the time we're done with this

What as left in the kits after the updates was interesting for sure, has most of the parts to build an "early Turbo 1" as well as woudn't take much to make it a "late Turbo 1" either as well as still has all the parts to build one with an automatic! The BFG's aren't bad, probably would look right for some of the A-Body kits if you want to represent a restified car that doesn't have enough tire for anything more than a 2bbl 318. Other than the early SN95 Mustang convertible kits they made, I'm not sure if they ever made a tire that would be right for what we we would get, although what they would have would be decent aftermarket replacement tires on a "Day 2" type build. Agreed on the Minilights on a G-Body, think they would look right on the P-Body Shadow/Sundance/Duster (2 and 4 dr) as well as the H-Body Lancer/Lebaron GTS sedans too. Not sure how it's taken me this long to notice this, but I wonder if the "Crab" wheels like my Shadow had (I think those are in the '86 or '87 Daytona kits too) were inspired by the Minilight wheels, both have 8 similarly shaped spokes with a center "disk" like area.

I know, I'm going to dig through my stash of old AMT/ERTL kits that should have the smaller versions of the Goodyear Gatorbacks in them to go with those Minilights on this car. I know those Radial T/A tires has been popular on a lot of 1/1 stuff, but being S-Rated (112mph), I wouldn't run them on my Lebaron or Shadow since those were spec'd for H (130mph) and V (149mph) tires and didn't drive right with lesser tires. Even on the 200 I now own, the T-Rated (118mph) 0.E.M. rubber just wasn't enough for that car and I've only run V or Z (149mph+) on it since those wore out, also bumped those up to 235mm wide from the factory 225mm while I was at it I've bought a couple '84 kits, the '87 and '88 share lots of parts from the original '84 issue, even still has the '84-'86 tail lights in it too

Just ordered a set of these Narrow Minilights, minus the tires, off eBay for this model, should be seeing them next week!

I still get irritated thinking about when Dad and I had to stop and change a flat on his Town and Country on the 4th back in 2015 while Mom was still at their now preferred nursing home for the first time. He was having issues getting the right rear to hold air and we stopped at a gas station to put the spare on and the neighbors there were setting off explosive to the point it sounded like we were in a war zone and I was half expecting something to randomly fly out way until we were done.. Luckily we didn't have any pets with us and we don't have any PTSD issues between the two of us, but I can't imagine what it would be like if we had either.

I look for one of those every time I go to a show, but anything Shelby Dodge, or even FWD Mopar is tough to come by.

Thanks Stef, I did more research now and found that it looks like the back bumper did stick too far out, also just to happened to have the president of the local Shelby Dodge Automobile Club and owner of a 10 second SRT 4 swapped '88 Shelby Z look at it on my Instagram noticed it with the box stock rear bumper too this morning. I'm probably going to replace most of the exhaust with larger diameter rod as well, I'll probably recycle the muffler and maybe the cat....or turn the resonator that I don't remember my Lebaron GTS or Shadow ES Turbo 1 cars having into an aftermarket high flow cat.