Great job; great pictures. Not too much detail for the scope of the article, but hit all the big points.

I think they haven't been done well yet. At least in the ones I've tried. Let's look at it differently:

Why the hate for Aerostar? Body-on-frame RWD with a good engine... we went through 4 of them as a kid. Dad loved those things.

I'm also building a Brute. Do you have a build thread somewhere?

Can I take this to mean that two people can log on to one Gold account at the same time for Netflix, XBOX video, etc? HOORAY.

Anybody else think of Stephenson's REAMDE?

Was going to say the same thing.

I keep buying mk4 era VW TDI's for my d/d because I really like them, but also because I know all the things that are probably going to go wrong on them. That shimmy in drive when sitting still? Not the engine mounts, random mechanic. It's the axles. The difference between the loss of power from a bad MAF sensor…

ah, you beat me to it.

"Toilet Water"

I'll agree that the 3.6 was awful. I can't speak to the trans on the JK but the TJ ones were never all that great until the last couple of years. At least the autos. The 32RH sucked, and the 42RLE was never as good as it's competitors (in my opinion). The AX-15 was a good manual in stock and lightly modified TJ's.…

A little idealistic, but..

You list a bunch of valid concerns and assign them to republicans, and then a bunch of valid thoughts concerning the outcome derived from the validity of those same concerns, and assign them to democrats. When you wish to contrast differing view points, you have to do some contrasting.

whois data for that site says it was just registered today.

NP. That 1.9 is amazing and near infinitely upgradable. I've always wanted to put one in a Wrangler. There's a company (HSA?) now making a kit to do just that. The torque!

Max out my render distance so I could see to China.

I meant this specifically for the car repair use, by the way. Tried to use the "caption" stuff but repeated attempts failed.

This may be useful in some situations, but I'm struggling to come up with as many uses as you'd like.

Very nice. I'm in Baltimore; I do see some Westfalia's now and then, and there's a VW shop in the city that has a lot of older Type II's, but never anything clean and updated.

I look for one as clean as yours weekly on Craigslist. Not that I should buy it. But I want to anyway.