Find a nice looking Jeep Grand Cherokee. WJ. Ad says no check engine light. Go to see the car, wait for someone else to get back from a test drive. Look inside, check engine light. Do the key trick to get the codes, look them up, both O2 sensors. (I owned a Dakota with the same engine for 13 years before this, I know…

I’d have bought that old GMC off of my dad, but I couldn’t afford to own and operate it at the time. We used it like a freaking tractor. Last known bit was that it passed a smog check in 3/2005, and failed on 8/2005 with a tampered device. So I’m pretty sure that it effectively died then. I don’t know the VIN, only…

I own a car without A/C. GM made 329,632 Corvairs in 1961, 1,600 came with A/C. For ‘67-69 they weren’t even offered since the AIR pump took the place that the A/C compressor needed. At one time my family literally had five cars in the driveway with a single working air conditioner.

The pictures were representative of the loads. Consumer level cameras required film back then.

I grew up with a ‘78 GMC that had T-hooks on the side of the bed, we’d haul hay like this, but tied down:

Bed rail hooks: SERIOUSLY underappreciated these days.

I went to check the battery terminals of a 2006 Dodge Caravan. I notice two of the three engine mount bolts were broken. On the top left of this picture, but three instead of two. One longer so it can be lowered. I know this because I did the water pump a year prior.

They actually are surprisingly cheap. Just make sure you get one large enough for the parts you are likely to toss in.

Why this law is existing:

If you buy a car out of state, California will require a smog check before registration. My brother in law found this out when he bought a Cummins Ram from probably the same place in Montana, and had to get it checked out. Not a deal breaker, just a hoop to be ready for.

Having learned to drive in vehicles like these:

It can be argued that the Budweiser Rocket was the first, though the fact that they didn’t back it up, and the means of measuring speed was not considered reliable, means that the record was never official:

That’s why when I damaged my Dakota’s tailgate, I never bothered. Here’s a replacement for my Ram, painted per code. Just takes about 10 minutes to swap over all the hardware.

Are you kidding me? I’m sure if Speedycop reads this he’ll be browsing government auctions to MAKE this real!

One thing to consider is career span. If you make $500k/year, but can only do so for 5 years, your career earnings are 2.5M. Which puts you at the same level as many office job employees.

Why are we scared about the cars being hacked? Maybe, just maybe, it has to do with damned near every company that collects and sells our personal information being hacked on a regular basis.

I had about half a tank when I let me dad, then my sister use my car. We had to rush somewhere to get an alternator tested, so we hopped in my car. Needle didn’t move. I nurse it to a gas station (about 6 miles away), filled up 10.4 gallons. The tank only held 10.2.

NEVER GIVE UP!

You need to go bracket racing, there my 230HP truck usually made it to the third round where I’d inevitably miss the 2-3 upshift.

I’d bet that most of the buyers have one of these if not both: