I definitely agree! I love old beaten up Japanese bikes. I currently have in my garage a 71 cb500, 80 cm400a, and a 79 goldwing. The cb500 is my regular rider, the cm400a is almost running, and the goldwing I just brought home Sunday.

I agree entirely! When I’m on a bike the nothing but the ride matters and it can turn around the worst day with a few turns.

Right, the issue with cng is actually logistical since outside of farm or fleet use it’s actually less practical than electric for daily use.

It’s a close call, but I’d go just barely nice price. A clapped out small sohc 4 goes for 3-4k in running condition.

This guy’s not fuel injected, 4 carbs is what delivers its fuel.

A couple years ago while I was working for a restoration company, we sent about a dozen trucks up to NJ/NY to work some commercial cleanup work.

You’v got me rolling at my desk here!

Wow... take it easy buddy.

It’s usually just a mis-adjusted chain. If the saw throws off a properly adjusted chain more than once then it’s usually the drive gear. 9 times out of 10 though it’s either a stretched or too loose chain though.

I have wondered why it’s called f-head before and couldn’t make sense of it either.

This one’s not too dirty, but did have a surprise. I had an explorer jump a tooth on its timing chain and backfire out the intake and crack it. The truck has 210k on it and I’m just waiting to find the time to replace the engine in her.

I use a ford flex with a 5x10 open trailer with a fold down ramp. So much easier than loading a bike into the back of a truck!

Rated does not equal legal. Rated keeps you in factory warranty, nothing else. Although it is a good idea to stay close to the manufacturer rated limits

This was awesome! Thank you for sharing- I’m going to be smiling all day at this damn thing.

I have, many sets of both drums and discs. If you have the right tools drums are a breeze. But I was speaking in regards to longevity. On a daily driven car it is common for drum brakes to last 50k more miles before needing rebuilt compared to discs.

I’m afraid you have your timing wrong. In the US most cars and trucks didn’t have front discs as standard until the mid 1970s and rear drums were standard on full size trucks until roughly 2000. The compact pickup trucks such as the ranger had rear drums until they stopped making them.

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Don’t worry about these bums whining in the comments about your story. You regularly provide both excellent insights and quirky facts for both the odd and the common. So this article has a couple non-automotive points in it that are relevant to the story, they’ll survive.

Thank you for updating the cj6 photo. Nice vintage pic of a pre 67 cj-6!

My career almost took me to Seattle last year and the thing I was most excited about was the cars. I live in Missouri and there isn’t much that survives more that 20 years between the salt and the humidity.