Lesson: Friends come and go, but the car is always there.
Story: My friend was digging through some old photos. He found a photo of him and I along with some other friends. The photo is about 13 years old at this point. Him and I laughed about how we're still friends but everyone else in the picture is long gone. He…
Placing the cost of a recall above human life is enough to make some people go insane.
Millennials/Gen Y/ (insert buzz word for broke 20somethings) Don't hate cars. They hate spending money (because they spent all their money, the governments money, and the banks money on college) If you show them a car that cost $2000-$4000 CASH gets 25+ mpg and is reliable enough that they can take it to another…
Because Bert Reynolds mustache
I got the Craftsman Tool Deal in the mail today, along with 3 of my co-workers who read Jalopnik :) 4 boxes came to the office. 3 were small 1 was large. The Large box had my name on it. We oped the boxes. Everyone else in the office got their tools in a small sleek briefcase size box. Mine was in a larger suite case…
I got the Craftsman Tool Deal in the mail today, along with 3 of my co-workers who read Jalopnik :) 4 boxes came to…
I'd eat a Klondike bar for one ;)
I'd put these welds to the same test I put Tacos.... If the Taco is better then the one I make at home, the restaurant is worth going to again... if not, I might as well eat at home.
That said, I don't think there is anything wrong with these welds. They look like they'd serve their purpose. I may even have welds like…
The W123. RWD, cheap, and a large engine bay. I've personally seen them in the junk yard with Ford 5.0 engines, and Chevy 350s dropped under the hood... Or if your more of a pure is put a the OM606 like this fellow from Black Smoke Racing.
Message to the kid, Your not alone. But you've learned lessons the hard way, and you'll never forget what you've learned here.
While working on a friends truck in my uncles shop I was welding a bracket at the welding table when a spark went in a bucket and the bucket light on fire. I looked in the bucket best I could…
I travel to Lake County CA all the time to see my dad. I love taking Hwy 16 over taking I5. There is traffic from a casino for the first half of the dive that just kills your soul (the old, the drunk, the broke, traveling to and from the casino) but after that there are corners that more then bring you back to life.
he won't have to pit as often ;)
This is not my car... as my car was stolen... but this could be my cars twin, rust around the rear window and everything! It was stolen Easter Sunday 2004. After looking all over Craigslist for another car, something not a mom car, really wanted a Celica or a turbo mopar 80s econobox. But instead I found another…
Being POOR!
As a "parking lot mechanic" I can tell you, not having the money to send a car problem off to the shop forces you to become your own mechanic. And once you get your hands dirty, you start to understand how and why cars are the way they are.
I think a true Jalop is somone who loves a car for what it is and…
Lifting your trucks. Yes there is a point to a mild lift and larger tires if your going off road... but when you lift your truck super high, and put on 20+" wheels, sorry there is no practical benefit. You don't have enough tire to take it off road. Its to tall to tow anything without a ridiculous drop hitch (which…
TRACTOR!
They should park this tribute car behind the the real Turbine car.... then fire up the turbine car so we can all watch the new plastic one melt.
The difference between cheating and bending the rules, Kirk
That would look nice in a garage next to a GLHS
Bandit Approves
Someones gotta ask the question, "How did they poop up there?" I guess they just let it go off that platform, plenty of desert so they didn't have to worry about hitting someone... but man, that would be the scariest poo ever!
