Get an old cherokee, it’s hard to beat for blending in, being capable of going interesting places when you want to, fitting your stuff and/or friends or family, being durable, cheap/easy to fix, and easy to re-sell. You could get a damn nice one in your budget and have lots leftover.

I’ve been a semi-regular on Oppo since I first learned about it circa 2014. I’ve never found a better corner of the internet, and I’ll be a part of the transition, wherever it leads. 

Finding part for old cars that weren’t the most popular or sought after is the hardest thing about keeping old cars.

This should have been the official reply. Well, the first part anyway. 

I mean, they’d keep bugs out for the most part. Ironically, I never slept in mine. 

My E46 wagon had little screens that popped into the rear windows and you didn’t have to take them out to roll the windows up. It had little clips that held it in place, and it was fine unless you went above maybe 40 with the windows down. I liked them for the shade, as I always had my kids in the back of that car.

NEVER HAD A ROCK IN IT

I am lucky in that I’m working remotely now, and my parents are close by and can help with the kids being home for 3 weeks (at least). We are in a small rural town and feel reasonably safe going out to the grocery store, etc. as needed, with reasonable caution.

Great article, I loved it. Here’s one of those little buggers:

In 2009 I bought a 1972 F-100 in mostly-original condition. The price we arrived at was $3,200. I later found a receipt in the glove box from the original dealer back in 1972 - for $3,200 exactly, off the dealer lot to the original owner.

SERIOUSLY. Hey man, just go list your car ON BRING A TRAILER THEN. They probably rejected him based on his attitude. 

If only there was some kind of vehicle, shaped in the front like a regular sedan, with an elongated roof structure creating a kind of box over the rear of the car. It wouldn’t have to be longer than the sedan it’s based on, but it would have greatly enhanced cargo space, such that you could fold down the rear seats,…

It depends on the job, more than anything I think. My 1961 Ford truck has a PITA oil filter that’s a cartridge-type filter inside a canister, the gasket is separate. It’s really hard to keep that gasket in place while spinning the canister back on, just because of where it sits. On the other hand, my 2003 BMW had a…

This is the one:

Rural area. Keys stay in my car pretty much all the time. 

We are in New Hampshire, though, where there is no such law. We are more likely to drive into Canada than California. 

They couldn’t do it back then because how would they have googled the answers?

My driver’s ed instructor used to say, with great authority, “it is ILLEGAL to drive with only your parking lights on” (or whatever you want to call the lights that aren’t headlights, keeping in mind this is before DRLs were a thing). He was SO adamant about it, but I think it was just a pet peeve of his, so he…

An E46 is a good example of a car that you can keep fixing for a long time, driving it hard all the way. I had two, both with high mileage (one over 200k, the other just under) and they were great. I tracked my costs for 10 years with those cars, I bought them both under $10k and over that time I spent ~$200/mo all…