Joe Handley

Considering that the 258 that should have been in there would have been an AMC motor, it shouldn't have been a Chevy engine.

I were just talking about this yesterday with my Mom and my newlywed Sister (married on 10/19/18), and one of the things brought up would be a multipurpose hobby room if we were to all stay under one roof, as well as a large, high roof garage (something that I can fit a larger van on and lift it far enough off the ground to walk under it), and a paint booth we could use for various projects of ours. She does a lit of crafty type stuff, her husband is into Gundam Models, then there would be my models, plus who knows what else automotive I might drag home.

I'd take a Roxor over a Wrangler, only new Jeep I have much interest in owning is the Trailhawk version of the KL Cherokee. The JK and JL Wranglers and Grand Cherokee are just too big and unfortunately the Renegade and Compass are too small for me to be comfortable and really could use a small, Roots type blower on the 2.4l for the Trailhawk versions of those to give them a bit more low end grunt.....the 3.2l available for the KL should have plenty to do the work boostless, although the 3.6l would be my preference

He could have been running it in 2wd, it's seems like it's Jeep enough to go more places in 2wd than many vehicles will in 4wd It's the safety and emissions regulations, then insurance. Even if DC allowed stuff like this to be used in a limited way on the roads, the insurance industry and safety advocates would lose their minds over it.

The Roxor is only availabe with 4wd, but it is a mechanically shifted, part time set up that you can out into 2wd, but also has 4low for when you really need it.

Trust me, I've looked at that already, fellow XJ owner David Tracey at Jalopnik has looked heavily into these and their own US division staff in Michigan have experimented with putting vintage Dana bolt on parts on in place of their Mahindra made counterparts and the Dana parts bolted right on. IIRC, the D44 R&P that allow for shorter gearing (I think 4:56-1) is a direct swap for the factory Mahindra R&P. There have been some people I've read that feel that if you need/want something like this, just buy a real, early CJ and use that. Fortunetly, I'm among the larger number of Jeep owners that are of the opinion that with one of these little Mahindra Roxors, you're taking a brand new little rig out and abusing it, not a survivor or restored CJ, especially if that resto money came out of your pocket.

I did see that there had been a DUI within an hour of weed becoming legal, the country treating it like alcohol in those respects.

There's a lot of CJ suspension and drivetrain parts that seem to swap right onto them. The engine is a Mahindra diesel and it has a 5 speed manual but most of everything else is based on blueprints for the Willys and Kaiser eras/Pre-AMC CJ's. If I had a farm, ranch, or just a bunch of land and would need a small, side-by-side type vehicle, I would buy one. There seems to be quite a bit of interest in these from other Jeep owners that don't have their heads in dark and stinky places as well!

Those to car-truck abominations would make great tannerite fodder.

Some years back I had a customef at the HTU I worked for say that he told his son that if he wanted to have a solid career that paid well, he needed to get into the distribution side of alcohol. His reasoning, when thd economy is good, people drink to have a good time, when the economy is down, they drink to forget their problems, so money is always coming in. That said, it won't be much coming from my family, none of us really drink

They're Losi 2.75" safety cones, sold in packs of 6. This is one of Losi's 1/18 trucks (now disco'd) on a tile floor.

Lol

More than they already do?

I made this last year based on the traffic cone Jack O'Lanterns that Disney has at the Carsland part of Disneyland, but used the grill and headlight shapes from different, aggressive looking cars. 20171009_221524 by bjoehandley, on Flickr Problem I ran across though was that the battery op mini Christmas lights I used were weren't working like I though they would/should due to hot glue not holding things. I found some electric tea lights the other night for cheap and picked some ShooGoo and mounted them with that. Turns out they worked great and it looks like the ShooGoo will too. 20181013_112317 by bjoehandley, on Flickr 20181013_112942 by bjoehandley, on Flickr 20181013_112916 by bjoehandley, on Flickr 20181013_112930 by bjoehandley, on Flickr 20181013_112258 by bjoehandley, on Flickr

If that was turbocharged, it wasn't factory, those should have had GM's Meh-tacular 2.8l EFI V-6, with that style nose, maybe AWD and ABS too!

Picked up the F&F Charger to help replicate the '70 R/T Mom and Dad bought new, apparently Dad had them detrim it to a 500 to help hide that it was one of the nastier version of the R/T.

Can't help but to think that this car would look better with the tail lights Magnus Walker seems to like. Maybe even the front end treatment off that same 911.......

https://jalopnik.com/this-mud-splattered-911-targa-rally-car-is-the-best-kin-1829673165

BFG never really got them going, all that was theorized by "Won't somebody please think of the children?!" Busybodies. http://www.tirebusiness.com/article/19991011/ISSUE/310119994?template=printart&X-IgnoreUserAgent=1

This looks great, I think that's the color the '70 R/T my folks had was too......going to have to ask Dad next chance I get for when I build one to look like their's..............

I can believe it, some people are just scum and it knows no societal divides, got a real eye opening working the service desk at a Toy's "R" Us in a wealthy area when it came to people demanding refunds, lying to your face, insisting that their credit card getting declined wasn't their fault, ect.

I did Chris, windshield and A-pillars look an aweful lot like the '58 GM cars.

Apparently they destroyed it by ramming it with a '57 to crash test those.

I may mod the fenders a little bit since they kind wrap around the outside of the tire. Been so long since I build it that I didn't even notice the pin/dimple until I bought the new kit and was looking over the parts and remembered them from that.

I took it to work to display in my cube', looks like the little alignment dimples that key the pins on the upper arms/fender pieces to the lower arm/upright/pushrod pieces weren't keyed in, so I fixed that between calls. Looks much better now