Joe Handley

If there is a 3rd hood available, I suggest ditching the Chevy hood scoop and making an stretched out SC/Rambler style scoop or use the cowl portion of that hood for the bottom of the scoop and fab up a stretched upper. Power wise, I'd get one of the kits with a late model HEMI in it and use that engine instead. Here's what the SC/Rambler scoop looked like.

Possibly this very Depot Hack!

They did, it's called the Challenger.

There's very good chance that if the Celebrity, Citation, Tempo, Monza, Escort, and Shadow name came back, they'd be on better cars.......although I can see the Shadow being reused as a trim package on something like a Charger/Challenger or a Jeep while while Monza could be reused in the same way to sport up a the Cruze Monza Turbo version like the Corvair, or another hot version of the Camaro........... now that I think of it, Monza Turbo version of that too

Sounds like that is what killed KB Toys too, actually, I'll have to research some after work, but I think Bain Capital was part of that too.....

This was a pretty good article on what happened to Toy's "R" Us, as well as other low lost retailers. https://www.buzzfeed.com/leticiamiranda/how-wall-street-bought-toys-r-us-and-left-30000-people?utm_term=.xp1mj0xOr0#.vvxVelPOYl

Here's a couple I've seen in years past.

I was just at that paint shop I found a couple weeks ago today and had asked about speed forms while there. He had looked at them earlier and thought they might have been pricey and I had seen them on the DYC site at 5 for $25 or thereabouts. While talking about this I told him I always will try and buy local first, even if it means ordering it and will go online if I can't or need it quicker and/or way cheaper than I can locally. Spend 24 years in retail, not going to turn my back on those still in it now.

OK, I was just curious, I couldn't remember when it was when I met you and was curious if you had since my old store was still open at the time..

Hey Luc, did you stop at any of the Toy's "R" Us stores when you were here in Chicago about a decade ago? The TRU I posted the picture of was just across the street from the strip mall the Hobby Town I worked at in St. Charles was at the time.

Got me interested already!

Saw that in person, Used to work the service desk in my store (hated that and the R-Zone there) and we would have people complain about the price difference vs the Walmart across the street for the Hot Wheels cars. One day I was bored and poking around in the system at the time (we were still on the orange and black screens and satellite data transfer at the the time) and found we were paying $.67 a car and selling them for $.99, while Walmart would sell them for $.69/ea.

Not sure what happened to Borders, but it's not incompetence at the top like Sears and K-Mart. about 12 years ago a few vulture capital companies, including Bain Capital took $6b out in loans to help help broker a stock take over of TRU and then dumped the costs of the loans on the company to pay off, they finally lost that battle, employees lost their jobs, we as consumers lost the only place that actually had a good selection of toys you could go in and look at before buying and children lost another store that was dedicated to them.

How is she holding up with this? From what I've seen elsewhere, I'm not the only former employee that finds this loss "difficult"

Picked these two up at the HL by the Naperville, IL Secretary of State office while I was down there getting the plate sticker for my Jeep.......kinda irked though, I bought another 914/6 kit two weeks ago at the Batavia, IL store with the 40% off coupon and still paid twice what this 914/6 did today........

Here's my old store as it sits right now. Didn't grow up shopping there, but I spent 5 years working there. I went in there once when it was a Savers and the only things I recognized were the bathrooms and the hallway to the breakroom then the compactor that I could see through the doorway into the store room. I hate seeing it there, empty and looking like this, just hate it.

If the Revenna Green in the tags means you're wondering if the color on the 914 in the picture is available, might check out the Model Master Dodge Sublime Green spray lacquer pn#28117, looks like that should be a close match!

Found this on their website after hearing about it last night on YouTube.

For a while out my way, I thought I was going to have to set my Cherokee's suspension up like one of those desert racer XJs would have. Roosevelt Rd (Rte. 38) was so bad at one point that it was about like running a paved off road race track.

Thanks, thought that seemed like a valid question, all things considered.

Are you talking an A-Body Demon or the late Challenger Demon?

The Jeep passed it's emissions test!

Well, the test drive in my Jeep didn't go well. Kept smelling hot brakes, but couldn't figure out where it was coming from, then it started running hot and I kept getting rerouted due to a parade in trying to get it home, finally had to stop half way and let it sit and cool for a while before I could go the rest of the way home. Lucky, another XJ owner pulled up to see if he could help, and we ended up standing talking and realized we had been members of the same, now defunct Jeep club! We talked XJs some and the differences between my '98 and his '99 then the '00 and later under hood due to emissions regulations changes. It finally cooled off enough to get it home and I tried to clean up some mold lines on the Revell C7 snap kit I was going to try a new color idea on, but the second layer of primer came out and dried like sand paper........ Decided about 30 minutes before Auto Zone closed that I should get more Super Clean so I can strip the Vette body and had to detour, again, because somebody who was having a far worse day than I, somehow rolled their TrailBlazer right at the intersection that is not only at the south end of a bridge that goes into downtown West Chicago, but also right in front of the WeGo PD! Once I finally got to the A.Z., I realised when I got their my wallet with license were at home....... Ran home and grabbed my wallet with almost 10min to spare. Grabbed the Super Clean and some M&M's, bought the stuff, walked out to the 200 and realized the Super Clean was still on the counter...... Walked in, grabbed it, and kinda laughed with the woman behind the counter and the other customer be for leaving........

The Jeep is behaving so far on the drives I've taken it on, think I may want to at least put a new thermostat in it before winter though.....

Basically, we're returning to this, but they're now called CUVs, but don't have the interior room, the style, or the toughness of the above, then.......... we don't get things like this to help ease the suffering!