Andrew, are you driving my scout instead of yours? That’s the exact same experience as mine, driving in terror because of the extraordinarily twitchy steering and the speedo refusing to give your speed!

I live in Jefferson County. I work downtown and am only about 35 minutes of a commute away so I’m out a bit, but not way out. I’ve known several people who lived and worked downtown and thought anything past the Kirkwood was way the hell out in the sticks, it just shocked me because I’m from a small farming/factory…

I feel the same just north west of you here in Missouri. Not a single person I voted for was elected, from the president down to county sherrif. I even live in what was traditionally a ‘liberal’ county just south of St Louis.

Amazon is great, but their search and match can be a little iffy. I’ll usually spec a part to match on rockauto or oreillys and then price check on amazon. With big ticket items (like decent struts) it saved me a bundle.

I like my clean air, water and fuel efficient cars. Please don’t undo all of that.

Terrell- I am glad to see more effort put into Foxtrot Alpha again and genuinely have enjoyed reading your last few articles.

I’ve always had a blast with either my bike or my focus on a dirt road. I ride my CB500 like a dirt bike still and love blasting down gravel and fire roads. A little manual hatchback is also way too much fun on those roads.

So this past October I took a short weekend camping trip with a coworker and a couple of his sons. Nothing too special about it, just a nice fall weekend out in the wilderness. This wasn’t on a paved and manicured campground, but in the middle of a 15 thousand acre conservation area.

I used to see eagle wagons around here all the time, but the last time I saw one it had been hacked up and lifted with giant tires for the mud fest around here years ago. It died a glorious death that day...

I love my Flex! The wife convinced me we needed to buy one a few years back and it is awesome! We’ve got a 10 Limited (Not AWD) and I was planning in the next year or so trading it in for a AWD twin turbo one... They don’t sell a ton, but they hold their value and are hard to find used around here at least.

My first was a 94 Voyager! I loved that sucker. It had the Mitsubishi 3.0 and was the perfect first car.

I wholeheartedly support this mindset! I’ve limped home many overheating or otherwise damaged vehicle over the years, even redneck towed with rope if it came down to it!

I will be remembering this link for when I have to rebuild my T90. Another excellent online forum and wealth of knowledge on these jeeps is the early CJ forum.

I have a very similar truck that followed me home this spring. A 79 traveler with a 304, but mine has the 727 auto. Yours is considerably nicer though.

Yeah, I love those wheels. I got them from a guy who pulled them off of a CJ that he put big axles and 37s under. I also got a pair of spare axles and a CJ6 hardtop from him. The Jeep community is a pretty neat place sometimes...

There were no Uhaul locations within 250 miles from where I was that were open on a Sunday

Awesome! My first featured story or misery on Jalopnik! My wife won’t let me buy anything from Illinois anymore (for a good reason) nearly everything I’ve got from there has been fat worse or more expensive than planned...

Most of my bad ideas/experiences involve Illinois. I live in Missouri and the worst was probably going about 3 hours into southern IL for a 62 Willys CJ6 that I was planning on flat towing back. I got there, made a deal and stared prepping it to tow.

That’s how I feel about bikes, I drag them home and stash them until I can rebuild them. I rarely make much on them but it’s a labor of love.

While I love the squareback, and have actually been looking for one recently, most have been beaten to hell and back and are not bulletproof reliable anymore.