Joe Handley

DMYeah, I spent more there today than I have in years! Picked up a couple Scenes Unlimited Mopar DogDish and Steelie sets, couple Pegasus Sovergns and Chrome Reverse sets, a set of Schueys, oh, and JoHan Rambler Wagon and Turbine Car promos. Can't get the pic of the Rambler Wagon over Chrome Reverse wheels to post though.....

The guy's name was John Handley?

Nope, thinking about a fictional daily driver for Bruce Wayne, especially since I want to do a "Dark Knight" inspired, Coyote powered, ProTouring TV Batmobile and this would go well with it.

Picked this up today, still in the plastic, for $13.99 Anything I should expect when building this, it'll be mildly customized.

I'm on my lunch right now, and the car is saying 39°, but it feels like a really chilly 39° right now.

Well, checked my bank account this morning to find that my tax refund was deposited this morning so when I got home, I logged into my Ally car payment account and paid off the car since I only had 2 payments left. So once the payment comes off the pending status and that title shows up in the mail, that 200 is all mine!

What did you think of the show? I ended up spending about 6 hours there and walking about 9.7 miles and over 15500 steps!

Took a vacation day so I could go to the Chicago Auto Show mid week and managed to completely blow a stop sign while stopping at the Thornton's less than 3/4 mile from home. Didn't see the sign or the cop until he followed me into the station lot with the lights flashing!

I saw them, took a quick glance, and walked straight back to the pharmacy, and the tech had me rang out before I knew it, at that point, I figured it was best to just get out!

I watched Brittany's crash and then Ashley lose in the first round today, home Brittany is ok though, that was a nasty hit.

ROFL, I had to pick up a prescription at the one Mom and I worked at and sure enough, I saw what appeared to be a donut box, bit in white with this odd red lettering, got closer for a look and sure enough, that's what they were! I was able to leave them behind though.

While I'm not sure how much the 2.5l OHV Jeep engine useed, the 4.0l I-6 requires 6 quarts, both of which are derived from AMC's I-6 engine family. Now the Chrysler 2.2/2.5 SOHC engines used 4 quarts for the naturally aspirated engines while the turbocharged versions needed 5 quarts to help lube and cool the turbos. Not positive, but I wouldn't be surprised if the ones that had the Cosworth/Maserati or Lotus DOHC heads also used 5 quarts, since they too, were turbo motors.

He's a teenager, he just comes out and grabs a shovel then starts pushing! The doctor that came to the house for a house visit with Mom told me that he appreciated that we had the drive, walkway, and front steps cleared form him when he got here.

I spent a at least a few hours of my "snow day" clearing the driveway and back yard with both a shovel (and help from my neighbor's kid, very grateful for that!) and snowblower. I then had a late lunch and crashed for at least a few hours in the evening.

We got just enough that my office closed as well as the one in Iowa, luckily working for a lawn company that doesn't do much this time of year (we don't do plowing), we have other call centers in warmer areas that can handle the volume, and they'd rather we be safe than risk coming to work in bad conditions.

Huh, the intake manifold on that turquiose engine kinda reminds me of the one for the '99/'00-'06 Jeep 4.0l I-6!

I'm too young for the '67 blizzard (I'm only 41) plus my folks were still dating and living in Iowa at time, they didn't get married until that October (we spent their 50th at CDH in Winfield, where Mom was a patient at the time). They did live in Minnesota for a while and managed to move there after a big snow store, as well as floods that the melting snow caused, apparently there were fish laying in the streets after the waters receeded and snow piles were up to the second story of they stayed in when they first moved there, according to what a hotel employee told them. They had moved back to Iowa from Minnesota and Illinois for a while and when we moved back (well, for them anyway, I was born in Iowa too) in '79, we had managed to miss the '78 storm by almost 2 years. We were here for the early-mid 80's deep freeze, kinda for the blizzard of '99 (we were in Iowa for a funeral and followed the storm home), then here for the '11 blizzard, as well as the Polar Vortex of '14.

When it comes to George Ryan, I'll give you that! Considering his corruption gave commercial licenses to people that had no right getting them, he and the people who took the bribes for him should have been charged with manslaughter for every death one of those drivers caused.

That said, I guess at least we've actually tried to do something to punish ours.

Well, at least Illinois isn't listed as "Having the most jailed governors"!

I tried to swap that bulb today, unbolted the coolant bottle, pulled the rivet for the windshield cleaner bottle and found that my forearm is too big to get between the mounting brackets AND get enough of a grip on the protective cap on the back of the housing to be able to turn it to get at the bulb and plug. Quick update, the plug was just loose, dealer didn't charge me to find that and I was able to return the bulb.

Those regulations are still present when it comes to new cars as well as roadbocks to getting better lighting in this country. Not sure how far it's trickled down so far, but Mercedes was putting this trick LED light array on their S Class sedans that had sensors that would detect traffic and other things to allow for better visibility at night. If you were n a dark road, the all of the LEDs would light up to give the best amount of light, then if they senses another car coming at you, they would turn off or dim the LEDs closest to the oncoming car while keeping the other side well lit for visibility and would even light up to act as cornering lamps (kinda like what the Tucker's middle light was supposed to do). Great ideas, but since we're stuck in the 50's, regulation wise, things range from basic sealed beams.....still, to good purpose build LED headlight assemblies that provide more light, but are still inferior to what is sold in other countries.

Tried my local store, don't have what I'm looking for.

I've been thinking about getting the clear GTS light covers so I can attack those with a scraper and not hurt the pricey lights!