I had one ride out in front of me once and then when I honked at him he turned around, flipped me off, and pointed to the GoPro mounted on his head. I hung out the window and asked him if that was so that when he got run over for doing something stupid (Like cuttting in front of a car doing 40) the cops would have a…

The complex I lived in, didn’t give a hoot. You couldn’t do fluid changes or major stuff but if you were doing spark plugs, brakes, etc... they didn’t care. And if you had a garage you could do whatever you wanted, as long as you didn’t use the rafters to pull an engine. 

In Oregon in the summer at the Powerland Museum near Salem, they have the “Great Oregon Steam-up” where they bring out a bunch of vintage steam powered equipment, including old steam tractors. One of the events is a tractor drag, except instead of seeing which one can go the fastest, they see which one can go the…

When I worked at Firestone we required “double checks” for lug nuts and drain plugs/filter/oil level. When a tech was done s/he’d yell “double check” and another tech would come over and check everything, and then initial the RO. In theory, it was so if a car ran out of oil or a wheel fell off, the store could say…

It’s probably expensive too

My 1968 Dodge Polara had a matchbook from “Kitty’s Pleasure Palace - Denver’s Finest in Adult Entertainment” in the glovebox :-P 

Once upon a time I had a 1982 VW Rabbit diesel that my friend’s dad had bought new. GTI dash, GTI brakes, GTI suspension (Didn’t have the GTI wheels though since one of them was cracked - snagged parts off a wrecked GTI). Slow as frozen molasses going uphill in North Dakota in February, but it was fun in corners :-P…

I remember once getting some snark about my Toyota Corolla and how I needed to support American jobs by buying an American-made vehicle. When I pointed out that my Toyota was built in the US, with American workers, in a GM auto plant, and his “American” Chevy was made in Canada, he clammed up pretty quickly. Did the…

Something of the darker earth tone persuasion :-P 

Why does just about every Jalopnik writer used -’d instead of -ed?
Side note I wish we’d get a GLD wagon with a manual and AWD :-P 

Supercharged Range Rover. You can get them for much less than $60k, save the balance for repairs and adventures. 

Oil filter socket or one of those universal oil filter remover things (The type that has the spring loaded fingers and attach to a socket wrench) make the ring of fire not a problem at all. 

When I worked for Toyota we had a Land Cruiser towed in, they were on a road trip and stopped on the way out of town and got the oil changed, coolant changed, and the drive belts changed at Goofy Lube. On the freeway it overheated, so they had it towed to the dealer I worked at. They had only replaced two of the three…

are the ones that are old enough to import to the US cheaper in Canada than they are from the importer? I lust after a 4WD manual diesel Delica :-P 

SVX is a solid choice, I had one. Add a trans cooler though! Will otherwise handle anything LA weather can throw at it, a BIT low for pothole jumping, however I can confirm that even with street tires they handle snow quite well, and with snow tires they are damn near unstoppable. You get quite the weird looks from…

I thought Cameros only existed on Craigslist? 

I had a Peugeot once upon a time, a 1985 505 STI turbodiesel. Had a blown turbo gasket, which meant it was really good at turning diesel fuel into noise and smoke and not much acceleration. Worst part of it was getting parts. Most basic things like filters and such I could easily get, although some of them had to be…

This needs to be the new Prius V 

One would think that the rear suspension would be close enough to a CJ that a set of CJ rear leafs would work, and that their shackle bushings would be easier to find.

Makes sense, my folks used to have an Ariens lawnmower that used the same setup to adjust the drive speed.