Fuck no. Rust is car cancer and this one hasn’t even hidden it well. Filthy, old, high mileage, crapped out. NO.

Look $6,500 is a great price for a decent Bronco... but this one has a crap top, ripped up interior, and a center console that will for sure give me tetanus if I get in to quick. No dice buddy, get it down to sub $5k and it *might* move the needle.

Doesn’t have the hard top? I was leaning ND before, but that moves it solidly over.

For all Buffalo’s flaws, which include being nearly as economically run-down as Detroit, one of the things the city leadership has done well over the years is preserve quite a bit of the late 19th/early 20th century architecture.  There are some surprising architectural gems in Buffalo today.

I even saw an ad once for the Jeffery “American Rambler”, foreshadowing perhaps American Motors’ “Rambler American” introduced in 1958. The Nash Rambler of 1950 was related to the Jeffery Rambler in name only. The Rambler name had in fact been dead since 1915 when Charles Jeffery changed the name of the car to Jeffery…

I worked there from 1999-2002 and it was an amusingly-disjointed building to work in. The route from Point A to Point B often took you through Points C, D, E, F, and G.

In some parts of the world, ruin porn is a big part of the local economy. People will pay good money to see a nice ruin.

Duggan can fuck off. So many interesting and beautiful old buildings going to waste in the city. History gone and useful buildings bulldozed.

The vacant lots east and west were employee parking. There was also a few support buildings in the southern part of the west lot, like a car wash and a fueling station. This image does not include the (former) shop space to the north of the building, where were test labs and prototype vehicle shops in its later days.…

I am a fan of preservation and restoration be it cars or buildings. Unfortunately I do believe that there is a point of no return. I used to live in Detroit, I had hopes for the Packard Plant, after that bridge collapse I had to say its time to knock it down. Too many years exposed to the elements and scrappers.

Apparently one of the problems with this one was its post-Chrysler owner, according to the linked Architectural Afterlife article. (https://architecturalafterlife.com/2020/12/american-motors-corporation/)

Small piece of tired trivia: Hudson Motor Car was founded by Joseph L. Hudson, the same person who started a department store in Detroit (now merged with Macy’s). The Hudson Hornet dominated stock car racing wins back in the early 50's - reiterated in the Pixar movie Cars.

I think we should all chip in and buy this property for David Tracy to store his Jeep collection and start a museum.

Prediction: MAGA Bros will start to smash or burn EV charging stations.

Someone will release a car which everyone here will hate because of the stupid grill, the rest of the car will be fine though.

That is an awesome story. The world needs more backyard, bbq-style engineering like that.

No one doesn’t understand that and I’m embarrased for you for writing this like a brilliant revelation that we give a fuck about.

Since there is more front, the center of gravity of the engine may be in front of the front axle.  This would make an excellent drag car (assuming that the suspension & drivetrain hold out), but is fundamentally unbalanced to take any nontrivial turns.

I feel like listening to Welcome to Night Vale while driving through Nebraska would be a terrible, terrible idea, but your sentence definitely read out like a line straight from the podcast

I drove this beast 11000 miles in 10 days in the 1989 One Lap. An amazing piece of equipment.