Well, the insomnia and expected mental impacts appear to be confirmed. 

You have a weird edit issue where the first two paragraphs basically say the same thing. 

Close. Put Hammond on one island with a crate of fine scotch and put Clarkson on another within eyesight with a crate of gin, and let them try to figure out how to get to the other island.

yep. going to cost that much in just batteries to renew its range.

It’s a Jeep thing. “If you see red, flip me over”

Indeed, but if you look closer the Dodge Ram 2500 takes the asshole cake.

they have dice too

They should make a set of those out of carbon fiber, to fuck with both demographics. 

That’s horrifying.

....and as much of a pain in the ass as it may be, it is hard to argue with the spirit and persistence of enthusiasts in California. It may be the hardest place to own fun cars or modify them in the continental United States, yet there is an abundance of race teams, performance shops, engineering firms, manufacturers…

That is a good outlook. Why waste money on cocaine and meth when there is a perfectly drivable rust bucket available?

There are people that toss away that kind of money for booze and “herbal therapy products”. A much better choice of expenditure and it provided fodder for Jalop Blog Posts, too.

You just broke the number one rule of building a project car. Never look at the receipts. 

Aside from rust, the highest insurance rates in the country, terrible roads, and back-asswards registration fee structure, sure.

I’m PA born and raised but in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia. So I have the benefit of the city/country life if I go 30 minutes north or south. I love the East coast, I went to college in Vermont you probably couldn’t get me to move anywhere except parts of Europe.

It’s a pushrod engine.  Timing chain should be good for hundreds of thousands of miles.

Stupid thought but initially my reaction was like “are you from the future?!” and then I remembered that was an older Chevy truck.

The people that can afford one after what I can only dream will be titanic dealer markup won’t be servicing them so it isn’t really much of a factor to them.  But I imagine...not easy.  Well except for the Bank 1 O2 sensors, those look simple as shit to swap out!

Yes, and they’ve managed to not screw it up with politics! It’s like the old jalopnik is back.