Funny how this rusty car blog led to me looking up weathered steel, which led to me looking up Atlanta’s Omni Coliseum (made out of weathered steel), which led to me finding a car blog about a man fixing up his rusty Dodge Omni (https://www.ifitjams.com/omni.htm). 

Your colleague, Mr. Tracy, is a pioneer in this field.

Your move, Sonic movie.

Nintendo just casually rolling out the beta to a Zelda Maker game.

You CAN upgrade on a small budget “incrementally” but it takes some research.

This is such an embarrassing anecdote. Top Gun came out in 1986 and I was just in the first year of high school. I saw it and like every red-blooded commie-hating American I wanted to join the Navy and punch a Russian. Years later I was an undergrad at UCLA and still planned to join the Navy when I graduated, but my…

I finally got away from the counter at work to watch the trailer and it gave me chills. The original was cheesy as hell and this one probably will be too, but damn it I’m pumped to see it.

and those two identical cars will have wildly different build quality 

I think we’ll  have to call you “Fancy David” now.

Some tint places offer “no-fault” warranties, ie if you scratch it they’ll replace it.

Clear tints with really high solar rejection might be an option.

Lights too. People need to see you at night so no one dies. Other than that I fully agree

Anytime I see a mini-spare that’s clearly been driven for a while, I think to myself this is why I’m fine with automakers not really including spares at all anymore.

The Broken Windows theory applies to cars too. Once you let little things go, things go downhill at an very quick pace. If you stay on top of repairs and maintenance, you end up with a car with 200k miles that looks brand new. If you neglect small stuff and let it snowball, soon you are selling your car for scrap with…

Tires! Fix them! Stop driving around on your donut space-saver (I see this way too often). They are literally the only thing keeping your car stuck to the road.

Also, brakes. Fix your brake leaks or you and others may die. I don’t see this often, but worth mentioning.

Anything beyond that, you do you, man.

I drive it daily.

I can’t believe it. I am a person who always advocates for saving every old vehicle if there’s even a slight chance that it can be fixed, and even I thought that that Jeep was too far gone and just needed to be parted out. The fact that you somehow got that thing running again astounds me. It’s so beat up and worn…

Well that was a factoid that I was not expecting: how the postal Jeeps—those puny boxes on wheels—came with the old-style badass big bulletproof 727 TorqueFlite transmissions. WTF? The same trans which delivered stump-pulling torque for muscle car MOPARs equipped with 426 Hemis or 440s is also the trans used by…

Of all the questionable decisions that went into this epic journey.....

Only 5% of buyers want wagons - kill the wagon