I don’t care what your situation is, if you resort to stealing from other people (who probably also don’t have a ton of money), the world would be better if you dropped dead.

I keep a vintage flashlights in my car because I like the era matching, and I usually clean them up and replace the lenses and whatnot. I’ve had two of them stolen now, worth maybe a dollar to the thief, yet fucking annoying for me to replace.

I have a reproduction of the 1902 and 1927 Sears catalogues, each is almost 11" x 17" and over 1000 pages thick. Looking through them feels weirdly like looking through a paper Amazon with prettier typefaces. Somehow I’d feel better with Sears getting all of the sales business Amazon does, even though Sears was also…

To this day though the massive Microcenter near me has a more limited selection of random resistors and switches than the tiny RadioShack near me did 15 years ago. I miss RadioShack, and was also thinking the whole time they were going bankrupt that if they just started catering to the maker community instead of…

Speedometers of the late 30s through the early 50s are a wonderful world of weird Art Deco and Western typefaces.

I’ve still never gotten over my surprise at how popular vintage American cars are over there. Apparently in Germany too, some visiting Germans once saw me and my Falcon and started glowingly talking about the 1995 Suburban they had imported back home. This was 10 years ago too, when a suburban from the 90s was still…

It’s the same reason an original Dodge Power Wagon will always be so much cooler than any new “heavy duty” truck. The new truck is always styled to try to look cool, covered in plastic diamond plate and fragile gimmicks like powered lowering running boards. The original Power Wagon was barely styled at all and looks…

I think an interesting counterpoint to this is which normal city treats its cars the best? Of the places I’ve seen personally maybe Salt Lake City?

Okay dude, unless the only way you fucking survive is by eating and living in dirt on a patch of land that your family evolved from amoebas on, you are contributing every single day to millions of problems, most of them much worse than having a fucking savings account.

No, they’d have issues with that too if you found any way to do it without suffering.

Your opinion is fucking insane. I know how banks work, but telling people they’re sinning by having a savings account is really something else. I hadn’t even made more than $20k last time I filed my taxes, yet I managed to stash some money away because that’s how you prevent yourself from being a burden on others the…

I’m gonna guess that those old mechanicals would actually be less of a headache than the also-old German mechanicals they were replaced with, and cheaper to deal with when they were a headache. You can buy starter motors for old american cars for like $40 new, and replace them often without even needing to move any…

I scrolled past your username but knew it was Just Jeepin’ when I saw the yellow Rubicon.

Ugh... this looks so much fucking cooler than the new one would in the same colors.

There are many reasons body-on-frame is generally considered better for off-roading. But the biggest reason is because body-on-frame is more robust for the type of abuse a vehicle takes off road, even though unibody is more rigid for on-road use. With a frame you can generally be sure that wherever load is applied to…

I... what? Having -savings- is evil?

Yeah, if you live in a remotely dry climate microfiber towels are almost unbearable to touch. I can practically pick them up by just touching them because they stick to dry skin like crazy.

This advice is why we have thousands of white trucks with Texas plates swarming everything in the summer here in CO.

The Mercedes is definitely prettier, but I think both are equally good looking cars, just in different ways.

I don’t really know about other cars, but in the I know that in the 90s the high spec 4Runners could come with cloth. The two I have experience with are a 1990 and 1997, both high trim levels with cloth interiors. But the cloth didn’t/doesn’t feel like a penalty in either of them, because it’s almost entirely …