You can restore anything, but these aren’t that rare. There are much better ones to start with, ones that don’t need whole chunks of the side wall and rear clip replaced. If someone gave it to me for free I might consider trying to fix it, but I wouldn’t pay $6,700 for the privilege. The rear hatch area, in…

Sure, and if you’re a construction worker you can fall to your death pretty much any day of the week. It’s far more likely than being shot if you’re a cop.

I’d be with you if the good cops didn’t protect the bad ones behind the blue wall of silence. I feel like it’s bad cops and accomplices.

“Uni-party” is a weird way to discuss two groups with diametrically opposed stances on immigration.

The air vents on my Clarity are recessed and the ones on my Econoline are way too far from the driver’s eye line, sadly. I have tried an air vent clip mount on my Del Sol and it works, but it blocks the heater fan control.

This is why, as a 6' tall person, I never bought a Miata. I didn’t plan on doing track days but I could tell I wasn’t going to fit with the top on.

That rust on the side panel is very bad news. There’s a pinch weld there. Water has been leaking down *inside* the panel, pooling on top of the pinch weld flange, and rusting it away. It’s a big repair that’ll require removing the interior and cutting out most of the panel. Basically the van has inoperable cancer and…

Farm work is a bit of a special case because farm labor in the US has *always* been performed by an underclass that essentially has no power to push for better wages and treatment.
First we had chattel slavery, where laborers were literally owned by their bosses.
Then we had sharecropping, where laborers were kept in…

The idea that Americans are lazy and soft, and America is going downhill because of it, has been a talking point on the political right for decades. Often there’s a subtext that it’s “other” Americans who are the problem, not the target audience of whoever’s doing the talking. “You guys are the good guys, it’s just…

Ah, interesting. For some reason it didn’t occur to me that there’s a resale market for pickup beds.

Sadly there are no good phone mounts, just ones that are bad in different ways.

Eh, to each their own. Personally I find it a lot easier to interact with a 10“ screen that’s fixed to the dash than to fumble with the 5.5" screen on my phone, especially since I have yet to find a phone mount that’s both convenient and doesn’t dump my phone on the floor every time I hit a bump. This way the phone…

Yeah, the ‘64 would have had, I think, a 50 hp engine? Really not good enough for modern highway travel. I had an ‘81 Westfalia with a 50 hp diesel and it was pretty awful.

I have yet to find an in-car phone mount that’s secure, easy to use, and doesn’t create other problems. The most convenient ones I’ve tried have been magnetic ones but they don’t work with heavy-duty cases and screw up the phone’s compass.

Yup. I used to be loyal to Hertz but I will no longer rent from them because I can’t risk this kind of thing happening to me.

Being a cop isn’t that dangerous an occupation. It’s not even in the top 10. You’re more likely to die if you’re a construction worker or a farmer than if you’re a cop. But only cops get to put the rest of us in danger to protect themselves.

Yeah, that too. My Honda’s on-board infotainment system doesn’t even have its own data modem; it piggybacks on my phone.

That might be one of the few RVs that’s actually more underpowered than this. ;)
I looked at one and liked it, but I totaled up how heavy it was and divided by the output of that 4-cylinder. Then I thought about the ordeal of getting it smogged every other year, and decided to look elsewhere. (The owner freely admitted…

Just our of curiosity, what would be the advantage over a slide-in pickup camper?

The Type IV engine makes about 75 horsepower. It’s by far the best aircooled engine VW ever made, and has improved durability and cooling compared to the Type I. I won’t say it’s speedy, but I had a Westfalia with one and it would hold 60-65 mph all day. Top speed was somewhere around 80, although I’d expect a bit…

Eh, these are people who call for civil war because they think they’re the only ones with guns, and are thus confident they’d win. Showing them they can expect pushback is the only way to avert real carnage later.