I had a beloved great Aunt that I only knew as “Bootsie” until I was 14 years old. She was coming to town and while my folks were going to pick her up at the train station she called the house collect. Operator said her gov’t name; her first name was one of those old school names that I had never heard before and her…

Since this is turning into a Corvette tax thread, I’ll share my story, too. Took mine in for VA state inspection at a shop I got good references for... Parked it out back and got a call that they had rejected it because the rear brakes were locked up and they couldn’t even move it into the garage. I went over to take…

I had a ‘91 L98 with 6-speed and LOVED it. The most difficult part of owning it was the Corvette tax. For a car that shared so many parts with a Camaro, things got expensive and mechanic shops got dumb. I would go for this even more as the ‘91 still has the first gen C4 boxier body, which looks awesome. Also, the L98…

Agree that on its own, it’s the least attractive gen. But some people have tried to rectify that:

Wow! Wow! Wow!  Thank you Jason for featuring the video I put together.  It was definitely a labor of love, but I wanted to do something unique to document the front end swap process.  

Goddamnit, now I want a 300 Wagon too.

I have a real pet peeve when I hear women threaten a man to “fuck him up”. Ladies don’t do it, don’t say it. All you are doing is gonna get you man beat up and/or you beat up. There are some crazy people who will take you up on that offer, and you are not Ms Elizabeth and he is not Randy Savage. 

The real loser in this whole thing is her husband.  We just have to put up with several seconds of her. He’s got to put up with that 24/7.   

And that snail (when you replace the stock airbox with a cone filter and remove some piping to let the diverter valve vent to atmosphere) is ROWDY

This was a job to replace leaking hydraulic hoses and fit reconditioned hydraulic rams. Each ram has two hoses that run to the pump in the trunk. It would only be a moderate pain in the ass (removing trim from the trunk to the rams in the back seat beneath the C pillar) - except that in this car, there’s a…

You have never driven a 90's Dodge, This is pretty nice

All the better to be able to press them with your thickly gloved hands in Scandinavia.

I’m voting NP, but just be aware of how much may be involved in dealing with convertible top issues.

86-1/2 Ford Aerostar, shorty. Bought it two years old with 88,000 miles on it already. Drove it to 240,000 miles, sold it to my mechanic. Casually checked with him a decade later, he’d used it to get parts or as a loaner then sold it on. The van was still going with 400,000 miles on it for the next owner. The damn AC…

495,000 on my 2000 Econoline dually van (E450 running gear all around) with the V10. Bought it from Enterprise with 105,000 miles. It was a plain white van when I bought it, got dualliefied a year after I bought it (after chewing through too many rear tires). Then got it’s extreme makeover around 250k when I realized…

If you were only getting 11mpg on the highway you don’t know how to drive. When I moved from Alaska to Idaho, traversing the Yukon on the way down through Canada, I was averaging 14/15mpg at 70-75mph with five people, two dogs, a bed full of heavy boxes while towing a three horse slant Circle J trailer loaded up like…

Wife spotted a Hummer H2 SUT this weekend and asked me what the point was.

A TDI Jetta Sportwagen is a great choice! But Smarts and VWs would be as obvious choices for me as Jeeps would be for David Tracy, so I’m trying to branch out. lol

nah thats a dumb ass idea. could cost him tens of thousands or another 100k to get a place comparable to what he has. i used to live 55 miles away from work too and i loved it. out in the country 1 acre lots no hoa. small neighborhood. now i live in town and i get artillery and chinooks rattling my shit all night. if…

Sure as money is no object. Moving is easy. In the before times I faced a 70 commute round trip. I know this feeling.Moving is not always an option if you own a home.