Pickups, some kind of pickup and also, pickups.

It’s a total-loss cooling system.  A giant tank of coolant is kept in the bed and pumped into the engine where it does it’s cooling duties.  When the thermostat gets hot, it dumps that load of hot coolant on the ground and circulates the fresh coolant into the void.  It’s great because the cooler coolant more…

If you like your Miata’s uglier, with softer handling and a questionable engine, yeah.

Gearing makes a difference... looks like rockwell toploaders which are probably the 2.5 tons out of a duece and a half... so probably 6.71s in differentials...  so it would move around fine... possibly better than most school buses...  fuel mileage would be rated in gallons per mile though.

Sorry, what?

Unless you take a really shitty photograph, one would hope that anyone with a passing familiarity of how automotive paint ‘works’ could tell from the photo at least something about the paint.

I’m not going to be able to tell if the wax is in good shape, but I can usually see orange peel and overspray, and I…

I got hired to photograph a car show in Perry GA.

For me it was a meetup in the early 2000's in L.A.

I don’t know if I’ve ever been to a truly bad car show. There is always at least one odd or interesting thing to appreciate, like an unrestored Corvair rampside truck:

I’m a Trekkie, and love the conventions, as well as car conventions. I never been to a crappy car meeting, unless it’s like a Ford Grenada/Maverick/Pinto owners meet.

IMO, the worst would be the least entertaining. Those where people crash, cops come, someone is arrested are pretty entertaining. It’s hard to remember the uneventful meets with boring cars. Those would be the worst.

I used to live in OCMD. Need I say more?

Me, sitting in my literal beige 4-cylinder Camry: “Hmm...tisk...not an S, huh?”

Nice price, for sure.  And I’m sure it’s genuinely 10x better than anything I’ve ever had.  But...knowing there are “S” models out there that I didn’t reach for would eat at me.   

riding this thing across the American West feels like an extremely punk rock thing to do.

But yet an oil separator/catch can is illegal in CA....

Here’s my theory...

It’s a vicious cycle. Small man buys truck to feel big > Truck requires small man to use step stool > Step stool makes small man feel smaller > Small man buys bigger truck.

Isn’t that the 12:10 to Saskatoon?

The NRA has made it very clear that there is no way to stop people in this country from buying death machines.

The bigger the truck, the smaller the you-know-what. And as a gay dude from Maine I can assure you it is true from personal observation.