Oh I’m well aware (I live near St Louis) and count on those occasional warm and dry days to get out on my Motorcycle and survive the winter. Spring is the worst, it’s warm enough but won’t stop raining for weeks at a time!

Beautiful car! Without a top in Missouri I imagine you only ride it in summer and fall?

I ride a 45 year old bike so tinkering on the road is frequently required.

Excellently put Sean. I feel the same way and I really enjoy reading your down to earth writing and opinions.

Can a jalopnik writer get COTD? Because this just had me rolling with laughter!

It’s not actually a Harley engine, it just looks like one. It is built by a custom engine shop S&S

I’m with you, if my idiot brother hadn’t run the oil tank dry it would still be running today.

I grew up riding a k7 175! Loved that bike! One of my younger brothers ended up seizing the motor and then scrapping it. I’ve been looking for another for a while, not many have survived though.

Not in Missouri, it has an open container law and a differentiation between driving while over and under the limit of .08

When I was 16 my father made a deal with his neighbor for me to get his old car, a 89 Pontiac Lemans, in exchange for me to do a bunch of work around the house (mow lawn all summer, clean gutters, etc). This was circa 2000 and the car was far from pristine.

Excellent fun. I grew up driving old 2wd pickups in the snow and this is definitely a more fun route.

The price is a bit high for a relatively solid early jag. It’d be a steal at $4k though. That inline 6 is reliable and the 5 speed is nice. For my unhealthy lust towards those flying buttresses I voted nice price though...

My old cb500 (71) with ~40 hp is plenty quick enough to out accelerate nearly any car on the street and break any speed limit. It does leave me wanting a bit more. I picked up a gl1000 (79) recently with ~80 hp which should fill that need.

Good luck and good riddance to that accursed honda!

I’ve always avoided the cloth covered lines in my old trucks and motorcycles. Just plain rubber line has always worked. If you need some serious line protection go with the Teflon or steel coated stuff. I never found it to be worth the hassle.

It’s been great- I love the coverage on two wheeled transport, and the fun bits about jetskis, atvs and such!

The later years are more reliable, but take a visit to an explorer forum or Google ‘explorer timing chain’ and you’ll see the spread of the issue.

The SOHC 4.0 wasn’t released until 97, so yours would be the old pushrod 4.0 which didn’t have the same problems. Those engines would run forever when properly maintained

Ford 4.0 SOHC v6-

I’ve been screwed out of two grand by UPS before. I was shipping a custom computer, which arrived trashed at the customers house. I paid full value for the insurance, they wouldn’t pay out a claim because I didn’t drop off the package at an official UPS drop site. I dropped it off at a UPS store, apparently official…