Not just SoCal. When I lived in IL, I worked with a grad student who’d grown up in the San Jose area. He was properly ashamed of his lack of geographic knowledge east of the Sierra Nevadas. On the other hand, his friends from home kept asking him how things were going in Michigan.

Now I want a periscope in my Gambler rig.

Or a diesel one? That’s something they sell in other places, but apparently Americans don’t want torque in their off-roaders.

The M29 wasn’t developed until the late 50s. Also, that’s more like mobile artillery.

17 hours is longer than it takes to go from NY to Hong Kong. NY to London is less than seven on a conventional plane, and that was the problem: you were only saving about three hours for that quintupling in price. If they’d flown to Asia, it would’ve been a much bigger time saving, which would’ve been worth the…

That Airstream you posted has the king of back doors.

I recently shopped a tow rig for a fully equipped Airstream Classic with a shitload of gear permanently mounted inside. Even with the biggest trailer and all the crap we’re throwing inside, a 3/4-ton with the right towing package will comfortably do the job.

I know a guy who owns a routing business. He has to haul these huge drilling rigs all over town, so naturally he needs a bigass pickup. He got an F-450, but he basically never drives it anywhere else. His daily is an F-250, and it’s a better vehicle in every way other than max GVWR. He even avoids taking the F-450 if…

I have a bunch of German friends. As far as I can tell, they come in two types: the ones who acclimate beautifully, and the ones who really just want to go back. My most reliable “lets do stupid car shit” and/or “redneck golf” buddy right now is one of the former.

Yep: we want their junk, they want ours. I have a German friend who was telling me his first car was a Peugeot 205. When I started telling him how jealous I was, he looked at me like I’d lost my mind.

It’s a better comparison in some ways, but a G-Class starts at $122k. By that measure, this thing is a bargain!

We should have a Jalop HOA where you’re required to have some half-built project car in your driveway at all times. If you’re not in compliance, the penalty is having to host someone else’s until you get one.

I live in TN, but I’m a Northerner transplant. It was a delight to see all these old cars with basically no rust. When I was shopping for a car shortly after moving here, the mechanic doing my PPIs told me not to look further north than us. Apparently the KY/TN border is the dividing line for salt.

You don’t, but you do have to show proof of insurance. Combined with fairly high registration fees, it becomes somewhat prohibitive for a collection this size.

Bit off topic here, but especially since he won’t be able to get a license until he’s at least 18, you should put him in a kart. He’ll love it, and he’ll know how to drive better than most by the time he betrays you by moving to the Carolinas and buying a truck. These guys can help you get started:

He’ll still have potential sponsorship deals, probably for the rest of his life. On the other hand, he’s worth something like $400M, so it’s not like he desperately needs that income!

I saw a similar comment about how Alejandro Villanueva saying he didn’t mean for him standing for the anthem to be taken as a stance against the rest of the team for staying in the locker room clearly meant “someone had gotten to him.”

After that, you deadbeats have to pay