Please Welcome: jokers_toys to the chapter

tojoski · #1 (**permalink**) 03-13-2011, 12:55 AM

Everyone give a warm welcome to the newest addition to the chapter : jokers_toys

Good lookin van too, don't see too many of them on the road anymore..

mechmagcn · #2 (**permalink**) 03-13-2011, 10:22 AM

Welcome to the madhouse we fondly refer to as the AR Chapter

zhilton · #3 (**permalink**) 03-13-2011, 04:50 PM

^^^^What he said^^^^

The part about welcome to the chapter. I don't know if I'd call it a madhouse, funny farm is how I spin it. But we're all a little "different" to say the least either way you look at it.

Old_Crow · #4 (**permalink**) 03-14-2011, 05:53 AM

Now that's travelin' in style. Mad house, funny farm, or whatever, welcome.

bill henry · #5 (**permalink**) 03-14-2011, 02:18 PM

jokers, like the ride. what part of the state are you from.

zhilton · #6 (**permalink**) 03-14-2011, 06:19 PM

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jokers, like the ride. what part of the state are you from.

According to the stats he's listed...he's from Midway. Which is midway (pun intended) between Paris & Dardenelle on Hwy 22. I spent the afternoon/evening of my 25th birthday at Midway with two blown & shredded tires on the lowboy I was driving at the time.

jokers_toys · #7 (**permalink**) 03-14-2011, 07:07 PM

thanks everyone great to be here ya she is my first full size van and i am really loving it

i am from midway, ar about 8 miles outside mountain home, ar

the van is in in great shape and i have found very little that needs attention

fits the kids very nicely and makes driving on trips very nice

i dislike minivans so unmanly

zhilton · #8 (**permalink**) 03-14-2011, 07:59 PM

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i am from midway, ar about 8 miles outside mountain home, ar

Oops, apparently there are two different "Midways" in Arkansas.

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i dislike minivans so unmanly

I know that exact feeling. I don't like driving the wife's ride...I feel every once of masculinity disappear when I drive her ride. I told her that last weekend, lets just say what she told me after that wasn't exactly supportive.

mechmagcn · #9 (**permalink**) 03-14-2011, 08:49 PM

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Oops, apparently there are two different "Midways" in Arkansas.

Make that three, there's one between El Dorado and Magnolia too

zhilton · #10 (**permalink**) 03-14-2011, 09:38 PM

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Make that three, there's one between El Dorado and Magnolia too

Great, this thread has turned from a "welcome to the chapter" to geography lesson for a couple of us. I don't think the one on Hwy 22 has a post office (pretty dang sure of that)...so maybe that's how they get away with at least two of the towns with the same name...wonder if the one down by you Jeff has a USPS outpost?

mechmagcn · #11 (**permalink**) 03-14-2011, 09:47 PM

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...wonder if the one down by you Jeff has a USPS outpost?

Nah, just a community of a few houses.

jokers_toys · #12 (**permalink**) 03-14-2011, 10:43 PM

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Great, this thread has turned from a "welcome to the chapter" to geography lesson for a couple of us.

LOL i know i have a Post Office 72651 is the zip

i live right next to bull shoals lake 10 miles from the Dam and 4 mins to the water

took a small trip the other day and found out the 351 is getting 12.5 MTG in the hills (85% hills) so i am taking that as pretty good my '76 454 suburban i just sold was getting 10 if lucky

zhilton · #13 (**permalink**) 03-15-2011, 07:35 AM

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Nah, just a community of a few houses.

That just proves the one near you, and the one I mentioned must be impostures.

The real Midway, AR is in north central Arkansas. Some needs to call Al Gore or Ralph Nater...

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LOL i know i have a Post Office 72651 is the zip

Yip, that clears it all up...as clear as mud.

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i live right next to bull shoals lake 10 miles from the Dam and 4 mins to the water

The railroad I work for crosses the White River at Cotter, just below the dam. And from Cotter to Batesville it follows the White. I hear it's a pretty run, but since I'm out of Carthage...Cotter is about far south as I can go and still get back to Carthage in a 12 hour trip.

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took a small trip the other day and found out the 351 is getting 12.5 MTG in the hills (85% hills) so i am taking that as pretty good my '76 454 suburban i just sold was getting 10 if lucky

My Ranchero is that way, you don't get anything better than 12 mpg...unless it's on the trailer behind the Princess. I wonder if FoMoCo is going to offer that new "super wonderful" 3.5L EcoBoost V6 in the vans anytime soon? If it's half as good as they're crowing about... they may have a winner on their hands. It will be interesting to see it 10 years down the road.

jokers_toys · #14 (**permalink**) 03-15-2011, 10:37 AM

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Originally Posted by zhilton

The railroad I work for crosses the White River at Cotter, just below the dam. And from Cotter to Batesville it follows the White. I hear it's a pretty run, but since I'm out of Carthage...Cotter is about far south as I can go and still get back to Carthage in a 12 hour trip.

ya i am about 15 miles from cotter

have a few RC buddies that live there

ya 12.5 is not bad to me seeing how the van is like 7000# plus the passagers

going to try and find out what the shacking in the front end is this week sometime i get a viberation when i am on the gas and goes away when i let off

bill henry · #15 (**permalink**) 03-15-2011, 01:46 PM

there is also a midway about 5 miles from me.

hard to tell some time by a name.