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Tim Garza
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Sun Valley, Idaho is a Land Cruiser Mecca. Valet park for an A-lister’s party and you’ll hit a gold mine. Famous folks that want the luxury and capability but not the flashiness or the badge. I remember the Hanks family entourage rolling up in a couple of LC’s. I drove one of an early 00s vintage and was impressed

Those side mirror covers don’t seem very well attached. They all flew off in the crashes. I’d imagine we will see a lot of Guilias on the road missing those.

A neighbor down the street has one of these bad boys street parked under a cover. Gold and mint condition. Had never seen/heard of the Dodge Rampage before this. From what I can tell it’s all original save for a mount in the bed to fly a giant American flag when the guy drives it around town. ‘Merica!

I had a lifted ‘89 K5 Blazer as a teenager and there was a symptom when the body mounts failed. Put some torsion on the frame and the fan will start hitting the fan shroud. I don’t know how inspections work but I would imagine some kind of torsion test could be done and check for frame/body separation @ mount.

When I was 9 or 10 I was with some friends who finished knocking out some cracked windows on a rusted out bel-air that appeared to be junked. Weeks later we had criminal and civil charges, the owner claiming he was going to sell the glass, and suddenly all of the glass on the car was pristine before we showed up.