I love this idea. I've got an eclectic taste when it comes to vehicles, and it can be hard to share that with friends or model-specific online groups. I'd really love there to be a more generalized forum to share what I love with others who are lest fanatic about one flavor and more interested in the general culture…

A little fiberglass work... a little welding... I'm thinking speedboat.

I'm more interested in the sleeping accommodations...

True - I'd missed that on the first read through. That makes it infinitely more badass.

The LARC-LX laughs at the cute little toy... 62' long, 26' wide, 20' high, can carry 60 tons, and has 4 diesel engines. NOTHING prepared me for seeing it in person at the Lane Museum in Nashville... it dwarfed a fire engine parked next to it. http://www.lanemotormuseum.org/collection/car…

An Intruder in the snow out at Quonset in Rhode Island (where I grew up).

If I recall, the whole purpose of the Fiero was to be modular. It had a platform/frame that was, at one point, intended to simply have body work fastened to it that could be swapped out at will with official redesigns... perhaps this is part of the reason they're so popular as the basis for kit cars. Would've been…

Even when we call them "shooting brakes." Wagons rule. That's mine on the left.

Another distinct advantage to electric cooling fans... when they fail, they won't go spinning off the front of the motor and into your radiator or through your hood. Here's my Volvo 1800ES after a fan clutch failure.

One other fun fact: there was a defect in a number of the front spindles that could lead to the spindle shearing and the front wheel going on it's merry way without you. The replacement spindles had an "X" stamped in the end. Prospective buyers may wish to look for that...

I've got an original ES. This is a travesty. I'm going out to give mine a hug and some consolation right now.

I actually found one in the woods at an abandoned house; it was the longer M422A1.. I put a lot of time researching it, found the owner, and learned a lot. He wasn't willing to sell, and it's since been moved. These were fascinating. The original concept used a Porsche engine, but the government wasn't having that,…

Growing up in the late '70s and the '80s, everyone lusted after Ferraris and the Countach... until the McLaren F1 came along, the Pantera was the one I wanted. I would read your sub-blog.

And steelies.

I had just graduated high school, and was about to head to college, but I was working on a maintenance crew for the summer. I was with my supervisor's brother digging a trench behind the headmaster's house for a new drainage line. I had an old Sony handheld "Watchman" black and white TV I brought with me that day, so…

You're right, of course. That was pre-coffee. Dana 20 transfer case, 44s front and rear on the J10. Also has a T150 that's getting swapped for a T18. I can see it now... all taking the stake sides off to save weight... little spoiler on the back edge of the bed for crucial downforce... suicide knob on the wheel for…

Glances out at J10 stakebody in the driveway. Dana 20 front... check. Dana 44 rear... check. 4.2 with 4.0 head conversion and MC2100 carb... check. HEI distributor and new coil... check. Hmm...

Are we just not going to talk about how there's a town in Maine called Wayne? Wayne, Maine. Wayne in Maine. Maine... Wayne. I... I can't stop.

I vote XT6. It had all the technical insanity that Subaru was capable of packing into a single car at the time (a precursor to the SVX), and had an interior that still, now, I absolutely can't believe ever saw production. In my hazy '80s dreamworld, this is what Buckaroo Banzai would roll up to Mann's Chinese Theater…

We had a wicked ice storm this winter, and a limb came down on my J-10. In this spirit, I posted a pic of it on Facebook that said "This particular species of tree is now extinct. It just doesn't know it yet."