Everyone who flys on smaller planes in bush Alaska gets weighed. There have been flights on 737's where the pilot had us all spread out evenly in the cabin for takeoff. All the weight that goes into t he air has to be accounted for and energy expended for. It’s quite a dance to get the calculations right

It’s not a car that needs everything, people. It’s a guilt free blank canvas ready for a masterpiece or a scribble, run what you brung, grip it and rip it without a care about changing something rare or valuable, all at NP.

As mentioned in the piece here, it is much nicer left outside of a museum because there is no reason to leave it inside. I don’t need to be a weatherman to know which way the wind will blow this one, right into ND. 

Initial contact is positive, it does take one back to the early days of high performance racing cars, but upon reflection I see it as a T-bucket roadster kit without the big shiny V-8 under the extravagantly long hood. I’d be impressed if someone built it in their garage, but not $48k impressed. For that money I’ll…

Our favorite sales associate at the dealership where we bought our Broncos is considering quitting and moving on because she can’t get her orders delivered, and if she can’t get the deliveries she can’t close the deal and make her metrics. We are 4 hours north of the MAP and associated storage lots and it’s been…

NP-this is a lot of vehicle for the money. I rented one back in the early oughts and managed to break the first one but the rental company gave me a good one to replace it. It was roomy enough for the family and returned decent economy. Even if it needs some attention it’s not an exotic composed of unobtanium and most…

I’d like to love this car but I can’t

When my Bronco arrived after just shy of a year, my dealer didn’t even put the sticker in the window, it was given to me at closing.  No mark up and they made good on the price protection. Good dealers are as rare as chicken lips but they do exist. Sasquatch said he saw a good dealer but nobody believes him. 

Not so simple in MI. Insurance here is ridculous. 

and then the vendor harassed me endlessly because I didn’t give it 5 stars. Even offered to upgrade to upgrade to generation 2 at no extra charge!

I’ve used Scrubbing Bubbles and it looks like it works better than the stuff discussed. 

Boom. I saw it right away too. 

Hmmmm, established US automakers scorn the lower end of the market, build vehicles that insult those buyers, then get surprised when Asian manufacturers build the cheap and reliable transportation appliances that segment of public really wanted? I’m old enough to have seen this movie at the theater and the Big 2 1/2…

CP, $18K buys me a much bigger and nicer motorhome. This one is fine and all, but its so small you'd have to go outside to change your mind.

“it’s no show car” maybe at a Lotus concours but this would get a big buzz at just about every other event. 

I had some high school friends who managed to score some gamma goats. As an offroader they reported they were terrible, getting epically stuck and requiring a lot of effort to free them. Another friend was in the military and his MOS was vehicle extrication and he hated gamma goats with a fury. They look impressive…

I have a 74 Mini that absolutely defies any attempt to maintain hydraulic pressure in the bakes. I’ve replaced the master and all wheel cylinders, lines, copper washers, brake shoes, it’s a task I’ve done on other vehicles but that little bastard will not have its brakes bled. It’s insane. I’ve gone on with the damn…

Nobody did that to LeBarons back then. You only bought one if you couldn’t afford a Caddy and you weren’t fooling anybody. So, why do it now, put that kind of time and money into it to be told by the buying public the message the air filter is giving? ND. 

Our local dealer issued the wifely one a Mach-e as a loaner, so we took it out for a spin. And quite a spin it was! We turned the dial to “unbridaled” mashed the pedal and had a giggle at the 30 to 90 whoosh time, I don’t think we’ve ever been launched like that in anything with 4 wheels.

You can rent a carraige, and everyone should try it sometime. Or a just rent a horse.