Well done, man.

Dealers will usually re-set all the codes behind the dash lights before putting a car on the lot anyway. I test drove an F150 last summer (that I ended up buying) at a large Ford and Lincoln new/used dealer that had no warning lights except the “Brakes” light. I asked why it was on and he said it just stays on, but…

Now here’s a twist. I was the seller in this sketchy car transaction.

I bought my previous vert from a guy who did not even have the pink slip in his name. Something about sketchy sellers always trying to sell their parents’ cars and signing their pink slips.

so I towed it to my mother in law’s house where it sat for 6 months before I scrapped it for $125.

Has to be my 1990 240SX. It’s a hatchback with an SR20 swap and a Silvia front end: the three things that were on my S13 checklist at the time (notice how “running” is not one of those things). It was in the far north end of NJ and the first time I saw it, I drove through a literal monsoon, so bad the Turnpike was…

Back in the 2008 days of $4/gallon gas I was driving a 2003 Ram 1500 Hemi, which got 12mpg on a good day. I was tired of $80 fill ups (did you know that most pumps will shut off at $75, forcing you to do another transaction?) so I trolled Craigslist for something small and cheap.

My first car ever was a 1986 BMW 528e. I got it without ever seeing the owner. It was apparently owned by a high school kid, and he left the keys in the car for us to look through it and drive it (!). I offered him 400 dollars over the phone and he said to leave the cash in the mailbox (!!). The title was already…

I bought a 1997 BMW 328i off of a really shady used car lot once. It was clean though, and was listed at a good price, so I bought it.

It’s difficult to prove arson as long as the fire starts in the engine compartment. Tell them it started and escalated quickly and make sure it happens in a remote location so the fire department doesn’t get there until all rubber hoses are gone. Particularly the hoses relating to fuel supply.

Hmph. Amateurs.

Once I started driving a car that didn’t lose all acceleration when the A/C was turned on, I never looked back. That’s my Maginot Line.

The only possible way of damaging a fuel pump when racing is repeatedly racing with very little fuel in the tank. This prolonged use with little cooling can theoretically can stress the pump from heat. Of course the same habit in street use would cook it just the same. Fuel pumps are on or off. What the engine does…

Being an adult without a drivers license just baffles me. Not getting one must only be a thing in large cities with ample public transportation where the traffic is a nightmare.

This is why I worry about all of the engine downsizing and turboing that has happened over the past few years. Sure, the smaller engines make the same amounts ​of power as their predecessor’s​, with better economy, but if the engine is over stressed constantly, they break quicker. I worry that this generation of…

People talk about the 12-Valve Cummins engines because they’re the ones with mechanical fuel systems. When the engines switched to 24-valves, electronic fuel injection came with it.

Hence why you often hear people saying they prefer the “Cummins 12-Valves.”

It’s just a joke about how the engines last forever with basic maintenance, but the rest of the truck usually needs major work after a couple hundred thousand miles (trans especially).

She should slam the front, install chrome side pipes, wide tires at the back, paint hot rod flames on it and stick a Weiand blower through the hood just to spite those intolerant bastards. See how they like having a death-hot-rod-wagon on their perfect little street.

Who’s in for a Kickstarter?