Because California.

You don’t even have to be working on a car. I rented a 3 jaw puller from Autozone last year to remove a part from the drive shaft of a washing machine. Worked great.

That engine rebuild stuff just intimidates the hell out of me. One wrong move and... oops I need a machinist. Or oops I need a new head. Or oops I need a new block.

I don’t care what color it is I want to bring back the functional simplicity of that dash.

Nah. Just bring back that cool-as-hell analog VDO instrument gauge panel for oil termp, oil pressure and voltage. I remember the 80s.

Counterpoint...

I personally have been championing a blue comeback myself (see below), but I could get behind a dark crimson interior as shown in your photo.

That interior is all wrong; where is the infotainment screen, how do I connect my phone and where do I put my phone.....I look at that interior and all I can do is drive. Oh, wait.......

What is it like to be so wrong?

Ah Covington County, AL. I too have been stopped for a bullshit reason there.

The summer after my freshman year of college two friends and I drove down to San Antonio and to wander around the Frio River for a few days. We’d stopped for gas in Mount Pleasant, about halfway between Texarkana and Dallas, when a copy who’d passed us the opposite direction turned around, drove up the shoulder, and…

Sweet trans cooler you scored! Now please don’t skip installing a digital oil temp gauge. I had no idea how crucial this was until I added one to my own near-capacity tow rig for hauling long distance. Without it, you’re truly flying blind. The difference of just 5mph can have an enormous impact on transmission…

FYI - grassroots rally folks (like me) consider a discarded street sign to be an excellent skid plate for any use case

Intermittent failures: the most gremlin-like of failures.

I am that cheap.

I’m more impressed that your neighbor didn’t murder you yet.

Surely you’ve seen the vehicles David showcases here. Even a reman alternator would be the single most valuable part on any of his vehicles.

Nah, its too old for that. He held up a picture of Lee Iacocca while dosing it with holy water. While chanting the firing order of the engine.

Safety items first!!! That means taking care of the ball joints, like now. Then go items, like the transmission and driveshaft. Then, and only then, worry about crap like a skid plate. A new skid plate isn’t going to be of much help when your wheel falls off going down the highway.

The great tragedy of the Liberty, of course, is that it was the next generation of...wait for it...