At this point Chevy should just bring back the front of the old Kodiak.

What shocks me is just how tall modern pickups have become. That is utterly ridiculous.

Am I doing this right?

Glad it worked out, bud. I too am all too familiar with that sinking feeling that comes halfway through what was supposed to have been a simple job, when you realize that you might have just ruined the thing you were trying to fix. I’m glad you were able to push through and that it came right in the end. It usually…

Maybe I missed it, but is anyone else concerned about a motor mount failing that early?  The car looks to be in good shape and well cared for.  Great write up, and way to stick with it.  Moral of the story, adjustable wrenches are one size fits none!

It’s not about “250-300 miles a day”, it’s 250-300 miles ANY day. It’s not a fear of being inconvenienced daily, it’s being forced to reconsider any long travel. It's fine if it's not your only car, or if your travels are metro to metro, but that's not everybody.

If you can’t, then a gigantic SUV is probably not the car you should be driving.

Do you remember the target market for Hummer before? I suspect they’re 99% homeowners, mostly with garages.

I would argue that the first “Genuinely Modern Car” was the Citroën Traction Avant.

FYI, the blue car in the lead picture is not a 1968, and therefore isn’t fuel injected. The lowback seats and front markers are giveaways.

The Squareback is decently high up on my want list.  I have a thing for odd wagons.

Another reminder to kick myself for unloading my Type III years ago. It came with the ECU, harness, and other FI components in a tub when we got it, but they weren’t going to work with the bigger engine I upgraded to, so out went the FI and in went the Weber 44s.

The Squareback/Variant is definitely one of my favorite of the Aircooled VW’s as its not a Beetle and it’s not the “I’m wealthy but I want to be a poor surfer/hippie” VW Type 2. I guess it’s the Aircooled VW for weird enthusiast hipster types. Too bad there aren’t many of them in the Diecast car world. 

out before the head gasket failed, good on you.

Sample Kia Telluride markup items:

“Demanding that all four of you travel in a single vehicle, howver, means the bikes are out.”

The new ‘Woody’ line of Snap-On tool cabinets look really sweet.

Clearly he has more money than taste...or imagination- with 4 cars with the same engine in the garage. I’m not impressed. They’re probably all at 100k miles and he’s gotta rotate between each one while the other 3 are broke because it’s Chev-ro-let

I agree with this. 30k is way out of range for this thing and the owner makes of point of having all the other toys in the pictures. No rush to sell, then why post it? Either post to see if there any bites or just don’t post.

“No rush to sell!!”