There is usually a fat layer of molded foam in there between the working bits and the cover bits to block noise beyond just the hood. It makes a huge difference. 

There is also sound deadening in all of that paneling/underneath. 

In middle and high school I had a crush on a girl named Julie Bentley, and early on when I was still trying to just make a friend and not be awkward I didn’t remember her last name and she said it was a car company.
Needless to say, I didn’t guess it as an 8th grader. And then felt like an idiot because I didn’t know a…

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That means we will be seeing a bunch of these turds on the road until they all crap out. Boo. 

Vulture Capitalism will ruin everything good before we kill it off. 

The least pulled over vehicle of all time is of course the plain white 250 pick up truck with a work bed or not. If it looks like a work truck, it won’t get pulled over unless you are doing something egregious. 

The trifecta, 300 hp, 300 ft. lbs, 3.0l displacement.

My Dad was recently looking for, and then bought a “retirement” car. Something for fun, driveable, and something that could be taken to shows or cars and coffee things low key with Mom or my Son and I. He picked a 1931 Ford Model A that was complete, original, and a runner. It has a little body damage and faded paint,…

Since everyone already knows “Cybachuck” is the best answer, I will go with Punisher skull stickers, Molon Labe, thin blue line, or some variation of an american flag but abstracted to mean something else, basically anything that screams “if you break into this truck, you can steal guns”.

This is banned, they shut down diesel shops all over for installing fuel rich tunes ala coal rolling. The fines now are catastrophic, nobody will touch em even for basic upgrades. 

This is a new thing, and I’ve been seeing it everywhere, student driver bumper stickers on obviously not student driver vehicles. I don’t get the joke, and you’re an asshole. 

Super normal behavior. 

That legendary Pontiac 3.5l V8, known for definitely existing. 

Pajero/Montero got some love! Locking hubs from the factory back in the late ‘80s in a reliable and serviceable form. I need to rebuild the engine on my first gen as it won’t pass emissions at 306k miles. Those things are beasts, if I ever get dumb rich a Paj Evo is in the cards.  SWB 2 door FTW.

Couldn’t parse that out to the $441 a month it ends up as? Which is an absurd monthly amount for insurance on anything not brand new and very luxury for a teenager.

This isn’t a Jeep Wagoneer. 

As with fisting, just because something bigger can fit in there, doesn’t necessarily mean it will bring pleasure.

I wish the interior weren’t so distracting, because this is otherwise an absolutely desirable heap of amazing. The colors, wheels, those fender flares, almost all of it but the poncho material in the interior...
That is just a bizarre choice.

Another - Never stop in deep sand, keep it floored. If you are driving a manual plan well because you might not get a chance to downshift from 2nd to 1st if it gets bad, and then you are in for some fun.