Joe Handley

I do like how they look, but they, like the JK and now JL Wranglers, are just too huge for my liking. As an example, here's the promo pic of one towing a Grand Wagoneer, which tends to be considered "Full Sized" and is often considered a FSJ. I do wonder how long before I see one being driven by a soccer mom with a matching purse like I saw about 10 years ago at a Subway near my former employer. A soccer mom parked her Rescue Green 4dr JK Rubi next to my XJ and when she was in line I noticed her purse was almost the exact same shade of metallic green

Part of my Black Friday order came in today, radiator isolators, headlights, and wiper blades for my XJ. 20181128_220914 by bjoehandley, on Flickr

Here's a link to the Photobucket album of comparing the A-Team vs Dirty Donnie Vans. http://smg.photobucket.com/user/bjoehandley/library/Plastic Models/Vans/A Team vs Dirty Donny Vans?sort=2&page=1

You might enjoy this then

Electricity just came back on after just over 48 hours, good thing too, ran to Portillo's to get us dinner and the 200 was showing 15 degrees on the trip

The Rescue Van will also have the rear plate set into the left rear door, which was bumper mounted on the '78 and later G-Vans, if it's like the Dirty Donny Van, won't have that rear bumper or the '82-'91 GMC 2 head light grill the A-Team Van comes with either.

While that is a possibilty , could be that the warehouse mis-shipped (not enough), something could have been returned and not reshelved, in a customer's cart and not bought yet, could even have been stolen.....likely by some toy dealer who didn't want to pay for what he was going to sell. Not a fan of the resellers, half the ones I ran across when I was at TRU were scumbags. They would return stuff that didn't sell( even when not bought from us), walk into the store room and look around, never saw it, but heard of them getting into fights over collectables in the store isles, ect. We finally had to start locking the HW, SW, and other collectables up with the video games to keep them from getting them. Now back to ComEd, Dad finally got an update and we may finally have power by about this time tomorrow 11/28/18......we lost power a little after 8pm Sunday 11/25/18. Mom is bed bound and both of them are in their 70's and he called 311 as was suggested to me to see if there was anything they knew of the could help with for Mom, and we have bring paperwork to them for any help.

While that is a possibilty , could be that the warehouse mis-shipped (not enough), something could have been returned and not reshelved, in a customer's cart and not bought yet, could even have been stolen.....likely by some toy dealer who didn't want to pay for what he was going to sell. Not a fan of the resellers, half the ones I ran across when I was at TRU were scumbags. They would return stuff that didn't sell( even when not bought from us), walk into the store room and look around, never saw it, but heard of them getting into fights over collectables in the store isles, ect. We finally had to start locking the HW, SW, and other collectables up with the video games to keep them from getting them.

Typically, if the employee says a store doesn't have something when the computer states otherwise, the employee is likely in the right. Don't know how many times I've seen something that we were supposed to have and knew we were sold out of.......if we ever had that product in the first place. Now for my ran, the ComEd phone system, tried to put in for a text alert when they might get to our area and can't get in and when I try to talk to one of their CSRs to try and move this area up since I do have a bed bound parent here, it tells me they're too busy taking storm related calls to have a CSR take my call

Well.......got the 4th or 5th snow this year, my office is open but were told that if it wasn't safe, we could use vacation or take an unpaid day, which I did since we have no power for the last 15 hours and I wanted to be here incase Dad needed help with anything......which right now is watching Mom while he gets a camp stove and heater........

They were definately in the 90's C4 Vette kits and I think in the then new tool '57 Chevy Street Machine (now would be Pro Touring) kit. The Firebird and Camaro had them too, but they were a different size in those.

I had noticed it with the first gen Saturn SC coupe too, but as late as it was forgot about the '88-'94 Cavalier and the SC.

Forgot about the Cobalt! Friend of mine has one in that is a Supercharged SS in black that he did some sort of Caddy V Series front brake upgrade on, looks pointlessly huge on a Cobalt unless you realize it's an SS with a factory power adder and that they could actually use that extra brake!

One thing I find interesting is that somebody there saw fit to sort of bring back the "Bubble Top" shape on the '88-'03 Cavelier and Sunbird/Sunfire Coupes, just with more curve and less clunky appearing than the original Bubble Top.

Interesting that this all but nailed down the '67-'68 body sides and the '69 grill all on one mock up.

There is one BIG advantage to the bigger rims that isn't mentioned here, bigger brakes. My Sister's Challenger does have the 20" wheels, but it also has a bigger brake package on it that might just barely fit an 18" rim from what I saw of it Saturday night. The Chrysler 200s like mine had 17x7 as the base wheel, but mine was ordered and delivered to the dealer with the 7 spoke 18×7 wheels that were the factory upgrade on theTouring package cars. Brake wise, you could fit a 16" wheel on it and clear, as I've seen earlier Avenger and Sebring wheels on later Avengers and 200s as well as some of the early SN95 V6 wheels being used for winter tires. One thing I have planned for mine is getting the parts for the Euro Market only BR2 big brake package, which included a 13.4" front rotor (vs 11.6" for stock) and 2 piston calipers like used on a bunch of Chrysler's much heavier vehicles.....like my Sister's Challenger, bigger rear rotors (305mm IIRC, bigger than the stock front rotors!) that I think just reuse the stock calipers on a different bracket. I had originally preferred the 17" rim since it had a better tire from the factory as well as a bit more sidewall, figuring if I ever wanted to go to 18", I'd find what I liked and go wider than stock while I was at it. thing is though, with this BR2 front brake, the car needs at least an 18" rim to clear the caliper and rotors! I already have the front caliper bracket since those are the key part and hard to get here in the US (quite literally knew an Avenger owning parts guy in NYS who knew a parts guy in Europe.....), everything else is already available here since the rotors were used on the SRT4 Caliber w/19" rims, calipers are used on most of the cars and trucks they make, brake lines from the Charger or SRT4 Caliber work, and the rear brackets (as well as rotors) are on the Journey, and if I really wanted to go all out, the Journey Master Cylinder is bigger too, but not needed from what the guy I got the brakets has found on his Avenger.

I've yet to own anything with a 14" rim, even the Dodge Shadow I had ran 205/50r15 tires on a 15x6 rim, and compared to my Jeeps and 200, that's tiny. I think that tire above would have fit the base Shadow with 2.5l TBI motor, and would have been close to base on my Lebaron, but both of those had the 2.2l Turbo in them with the handling package that included the 15×7 wheels.

Can't remember the last time I saw a 185/65R14 waiting to go on a car And here I thought the Goodyear Wranglers in 235/75r15 Walmart is putting on my Jeep Cherokee XJ right now were hard to find

4th snowfall of the season, and it't not even Thanksgiving yet.......

As the saying goes, "Money doesn't buy taste"

I thought I saw one of the people from Forgiano say they rented it for the weekend, the scrapper wanted to charge them $10k for that carcass just for this show. They did get a bunch of attention at their booth with it though, that's what's important at these shows.

I thought I heard that fire exceeded 1000° in areas, I'm not holding my breath that the body survived. There are pics of Gerard Butler on the property he lost in the Woolsey fire and what I think may have been a garage has some kind of I-beam structure with it that had the horizontal beams start sagging in the middle, I think that might take 800°-1000° to cause steel to get sofe and start to sag under it's own weight like that.

Nope, it went like this, I know EV West is working on their own Tesla Swap RWB style 911, but that is in more of a "School Bus Yellow" color

My friend Aaron has 3 cats, 2 females named Mocha and Grace that he has had for years and a male stray he took in about a year ago that he named Linus. Here is Mocha (in box) and Grace (on shelf, and annoyed). And here is Linus, he's a bit of a character, also appears be trained to use a litter box earlier in his life, loves Tortilla chips, fish crackers, Cheez-Its, Mayo (not making that up...) and seems to not be freaked out by fireworks.........does occasionally have a weird, PTSD like freakout out of nowhere I'm told.