They were the beginning of the Low VOC paint, IIRC the Neon was designed to be environmentally friendly (Something like 90% of the car was recyclable), and at the time they’d use a water based low VOC primer and clear coat, but the mid coat (the actual color) was still oil based... Once they started using water based…

I had the Neon’s replacement in Hawaii once, a Dodge Caliber with the golf cart CVT. It was slow and it handled like the suspension was made of cheese, but it was comfortable and roomy. Only main complaint is I thought it would have gotten better than 28 mpg. 

Yeah, like any other “disposable” cheap ass car, they’re the type of car that’s bought cheap, and driven, and taken to Goofy Lube for the occasional oil change and that’s about it. Some cars will hold up better than others with just oil changes. I’ve known people with Escorts, Cavaliers, and Neons that have gotten…

Corollas are one of those cars that you can pretty much do zero maintenance and still get 200k out of it. My old DD was a 99, my sister bought it like 8 years ago for $2500, needed a bit of work but it was serviceable, she got tired of it after 3-4 years and her kids got too big for the back seat, so I helped her find…

I hardly ever see those, even here in the PNW where things grow moss long before they rust out. Buddy of mine had one, got it for like $100 because the previous owner didn’t do the timing belt and it snapped. Rebuilt head, new head bolts, quality head gasket... I think he drove it another 200k before someone blew a…

I thought catalytic heaters were safe? TIL... 

In my mind’s eye two-toning the door only looks good if it were to have a trim strip across the center of it to line up with the seam in the body of the camper, having it match one or the other looks good IMO, and as stated below it’s how his wife wanted it, and I can’t speak for Mr Brownell, but Mrs BigBadSubaru’s…

My older cousins had one of these when we were kids, I’m pretty sure it was this exact frame or one extremely similar to it. Only had one engine but we had a lot of fun with it. They brought it over to our house once when I was probably 8 or 9, and my grandfather made a roll bar for it out of some pipe and welded it…

One of the local dealerships in Portland (can’t remember which) offers a lifetime powertrain warranty, but if memory serves me you have to have all your maintenance/service done there or it’s void, and if you skip a service it’s void as well. 

I think he’s going for maximizing the interior space while minimizing weight of unnecessary converter boxes and such. Personally, I’d just wire a battery tender up to trickle charge the batteries when parked (Or an automatic charger that was capable of running all the interior lights + fridge + charge batteries) and…

I used to have one of these, although I had the larger version https://www.mrheater.com/portable-buddy-heater.html but it kept me warm in a 16x30 shop, so this smaller one would probably keep your trailer nice and toasty. They also have a cheaper one that mounts on top of a 1 lb propane cylinder. Both of these can be…

23 here! Although to be fair the newest one was a 2005, and it digested a turbo at 80k or so, thankfully my ex-wife knew enough to shut the car off and get it towed as soon as it started making funny noises instead of “Oh I’ll just floor it until the noise goes away” like some people... 

My cousin came to visit once and left his license at the liquor store the night before, which he didn’t realize until I was dropping him off at the airport that was 90 minutes from my house. Since he had other things in his wallet with his name on them, plus his boarding pass from the trip up (with the proper markings…

When I dragged my 68 Dodge Polara home, after it had sat 10+ years, I put a couple of squirts of Marvel Mystery Oil plus some marine fogging oil in each cylinder and turned the engine over by hand a few times, new spark plugs + some fresh fuel in the carburetor and, using a screwdriver on the starter relay, it fired…

They’re pretty much unicorns, but these were available with a 5 speed manual trans, and those models had a normal manual transfer case with LOW RANGE and not the electronic full time thing the slushbox models had. 

Best I’ve gotten out of mine is just shy of 24, when I moved back from Wyoming the box truck I rented was governed to 60mph and WAY detuned, and my mother and my now-ex-wife were following my dad and I (They were in my truck, dad and I were driving the box truck) and I think it was a combination of the basically doing…

Mine is a W250 with a 518a (727 with overdrive) and a 12 valve Cummins with under 200k and will probably outlive me too :-P

That’s what I’ve got, an extended cab long box 4x4 that I bought from the original owner in 2004. Sadly, it’s an automatic, but once that gives up the ghost it’s getting a six speed swap. 

My folks just bought one, a 1970 I think. Got it pretty cheap from my uncle’s estate. It was originally a soft top as God intended but it’s got this super ghetto homemade hard top thing on it, I told my dad he needs to put it back to the soft top :-P or get the proper hard top for it, not one that looks like someone…

I’ve always considered “classic rock” to be 60s and 70s and to an extent 80s, depending on the band (like REO Speedwagon and Styx I would consider classic rock, where stuff like AC/DC and Iron Maiden I’d consider more Classic Metal but my local “classic rock” station plays both... SiriusXMs “Classic Vinyl” and…