I really used to enjoy coming here but no more. One modern EV car story after another, it's like a daily e-issue of Consumer Reports, and/or repeatedly reading about someone's latest bowel movement. I accept that there's nothing I can do to change the focus here, so I bid my fellow classic car owner's adieu. ... View more

A magnificent automobile, to be sure. Of course, it was a magnificent automobile when it was built. ... View more

Stopped reading at, "emissions-free car". ... View more

written in 2006? ... View more

Respectively disagree, just because it's, Oshkosh Defense part doesn't mean it can't bid on civilian projects, and if the judging declares it, get the contract. The pork part makes no sense. ... View more

OMG, what has happened to Toyota's front end designs? Subcontracted to Dyson? Is this what the market wants? (i.e. am I officially too old to comment on any new car?) ... View more

Thanks! Feel free to delete my question & your reply, all good. ... View more

Ugly and their moms dressed them funny. ... View more

Does that mean my post got deleted, or did I just forget to hit reply after typing it? ... View more

I had a short tail Commando in the '70s and still have a Studebaker, so I get to use the N, um I-word if I want to, correct?  😉 ... View more

Possibly, but they still make and use garbage trucks like that nationwide. The brake is a deadman's pedal, where you brake by raising your left foot. Brake stays on when you leave the truck. I drove an electric Yale forklift like that in the late 70's. ... View more

That Packard is just gorgeous, talk about the Golden Age of automobiles. ... View more

Some real Beauties there, have loved some of them from the beginning. Good to see the United Nations finally found something they might be able to handle for the measly billions we have paid into their wealth distribution operation. ... View more

I talked to some people and there will be an EV model, the product mix hasn't been determined. Heck, we still have to have the State vs State bidding freebie/tax incentive war to see where they'll be built. Gentlemen, start your wallets! ... View more

19 years ago?  🤔 ... View more

Hmm, Panoramic roof MKZ or Vista Cruiser wagon... 🤔 ... View more

Great, another straw man question.  😂 ... View more

I had to check to see if it was April 1st. ... View more

There's so many ways to manipulate, "the truth(s)" pick your bet- Does that mean exactly what the article says? Does that tell a lot about how dirty EV's really are? Does that mean they're not actually telling us what it really costs to produce (energy-wise)? How does it compare to old-fashioned non-alcohol gas?  ... View more

Please don't take it personal, I've had better luck with Ford products than any other and still have a Ford van and Lincoln sedan as my daily drivers. That said, my friends' experiences are what they are, and theirs (both in SE Wisconsin) rusted to death with under 80k miles on them. Despite the, "I got Rusty Jones with Quaker Coat sprayed OVER it." and, "I wash mine 20 times a week, especially underneath" stories, there is nothing you can do about vehicles that were prone to rust by poor design, materials, and/or manufacturing. My much beloved 1996 Celica GT would still be in my garage now if it weren't for the fact the tops of the strut towers rusted up from underneath with 86k miles of year round use (and weekly car washes). One day bubbly paint appeared,  next you know, the hood was hard to latch. After a few horror stories of how at some car washes you are washing with saltwater, and how under car washes can dissolve and drive salt up where it'd seldom get from driving, I quit using the "chassis wash" feature at car washes. Car washes re-use water, after filtering...except when they toss the cartridges and media out and even save on electricity for the pumps. I'm glad you had a great experience with yours, really. Am I part of the usual negative crowd if I mention all three of my 60's Ford wagons completely rusted out behind the passenger rear tire at the bottom of the spare tire well, and so did thousands of others? ... View more

Friend of mine said, "Every time I close the side door it weighs 5 lbs. less". ... View more

Love the Carrousel concept. I owned 1967, '68 & '66 Ford wagons (in that order, run what ya can afford) right out of High School, two 289s & a 390. I easily could have transitioned to a used Carrousel back in those days if it had been a "thing". The Aerostar & Astro were the choice for a lot of folks pulling modest boats and/or campers, but the Aerostar truly was a rust & maint. nightmare for the two couples I knew that owned them. Up here in snow country, folks loved the 4wd "Fastro" vans, a concept ahead of it's time? Now you can get just about anything in AWD. ... View more

Agreed to some extent, but I think the tracks are more of a problem than the cars. NASCAR's gotta eventually admit the superspeedways were a mistake.   5000hp cars running at Bristol would be safer than 500hp ones at Daytona. Can't wait to see how the clay experiment goes at Bristol.  ... View more

Imagine if you changed the oil yourself in your car, but couldn't reset the oil monitor and/or turn off the OIL dash light without paying the dealer $50. Shouldn't be an indentured servant to your Deere, but again, the market will fix this by making even the most loyal farmers purchase their next $500k machine from India, China, wherever.   ... View more

It does seem strange, and not in a good way. 😉 ... View more

Way to go, guys. No doubt, American farmers will be forced to buy their equipment from other countries if other countries', tractors can be repaired in-house. I seem to remember a plan a decade or two ago have legislators micromanaging the sale of caterpillar Earth moving equipment to China. I believe the end result was Caterpillar building a plant in China to supply China's needs. ... View more

It still closely resembles a refrigerator, but at least it's a good-looking refrigerator, and the inside is really nice. ... View more

Since it's based on the Ford Transit and not the smaller Transit Connect, the new vehicle is huge compared to the little ones we are used to seeing based on the AM General design. ... View more

[For many of us, the term "classic car" really means "muscle car."]   But for most of us it doesn't, so the premise is pretty much irrelevant or at least seriously flawed, no? On top of that, in a world that has been increasingly demanding that we be all damp and excited over converting everything to electrics, the future for classic cars is on the downswing for sure. ... View more

Good on you, Ford. Thanks for helping. ... View more

Actually, the outboard engine industry has taken a near-fatal beating over the last decade or so, from high fuel prices especially. A good example is Bombardier which bought the bankruptcy assets Outboard Marine Corporation (Johnson/Evinrude outboards) and moved into a new plant in Wisconsin but finally got out of the outboard business last year. Like Mercury, they had some innovative ideas and made some great engines but there isn't even enough of a market in the US to support both Merc & BRP anymore. Don't know if it's right or wrong but if you look at the various transoms in your local marina you will find tons of foreign brand outboards hanging off them, which diluted the local industry to the point where only one could survive. Don't know if it's still the case, but the smaller engines of the "American" company's ended up being made in Mexico and Pacific Rim countries for a long long time now, just to make them viable economically in competition with the foreign makers. In the very near future, you'll probably have to be a liberal politician to have gas outboards on a boat. ... View more

Sorry, it just doesn't work for me. It definitely should have been modeled first on an AMT or Revell plastic model, and that hopefully would have discouraged the actual construction after asking what people thought. There's a reason why George Barris and a few others stayed at the top of the heap, they just had the eye that people like myself and this guy do not. ... View more

I'm not automatically against putting a small block Chevy in various vehicles, but in this case even the standard 304 Gremlin X was quite the potent little car and it was easy to go upwards in horsepower using all American Motors products. Many an unsuspecting SBC powered vehicle got smoked by a "worked on" 5.0L Gremlin with a little weight over the rear axle. And then there's ones like this one; (SBC lovers need not apply) https://www.motoringresearch.com/america-news/rarest-gremlin-headed-to-auction/  ... View more

" because I can..." ... View more

But no more new trucks/cars under my scenario  🤣 😂 ... View more

Could be worse, Jack. If new automobiles contained stories about Hunter Biden there would never be another new car. ... View more

"Chas'n that donut" love it! Car looks great  ❤️ ... View more

I wonder how many old face masks per used car will be common in the near future. ... View more

Don't know how I missed the Old Spice. Shame, perhaps, since that's what I wear? 🙄 ... View more

Love the fuzzbuster, I eventually replaced mine with a newer Escort unit that attached to the sun visor when I bought a different "old Ford wagon". I'd run my FBuster with a baseball cap over it, the rear opening being as large as possible with the strap set on the last set of snap pin connectors. Eventually I got pulled over by a cop who got behind me and just wanted to tell me my rear license plate/tag was hanging by one screw. He checked my insurance, registration, and drivers license, finding all were in order. Before he turned to return to his cruiser, he grinned and said something like, "bet I can make your baseball cap beep, am I correct? I sheepishly assured him he could, and it would also blink red. He told me it was like finding the peanut under the shell, with only one shell...   Getting to the original question, a prior owner of my '64 Avanti put Magnum 500 wheels on it, and I wouldn't dream of replacing them with the stock wheels and wheelcovers. They were such a common add-on, that many Studebaker dealers would sell-them with different tires as an aftermarket option, with credit for the brand new OEM wheel/tire sets that they'd then keep.   ... View more

Finally saw with my own eyes what my fiance had described; I did that post above by phone, voice to text, and AFTER I'd hit reply but before the screen changed, I saw the VTT happily change some of my reply to different words. Let's try that again- "Sadly I suppose, it was proof once more that it doesn't make any difference what the performance is like if the showroom appearance is worse then boring. Seriously, the original Ford Escort didn't look any more dull than that, but at least it hardly cost anything, so it had an excuse." ... View more

Sadly I suppose, it was proof once more that it doesn't make any difference with the performances like if the showroom appearance is worse then boring. Seriously, the original Ford Escort didn't look any more doll than that but at least it hardly cost anything so it had an excuse. ... View more

Brings back good memories, of remembering what side the shifter is on, brake drum sprockets, not wearing shorts. 🙂 ... View more

Um, time warp of sorts? Not news, considering the van's already been re-done and delivered to the group at their Las Vegas venue. Do articles here get generated by watching a re-run of an American Pickers episode and rewording it for Hagerty? ... View more

True, but it's not an unreasonable price for what it is. It's a specialty product that will never sell a million units, with a lot of time and equipment invested in building the first one. ... View more

Doesn't matter, it's not about, "making sense" it's about approved/unapproved actions. ... View more

Maybe the dealer is supposed to remove then during prep? 😁 ... View more

The lines are simple elegance, a gorgeous car. ... View more

Getting back to the people telling us how wonderful the windmills are, how ironic that this weekend brought us a touch of actual reality:   https://wattsupwiththat.com/2021/02/15/texas-frozen-wind-power-outages-ensue-electricity-now-at-unheard-of-9000-per-megawatt-hour/ ... View more

You are probably correct, however there is always the chance of a knee-jerk correction when the eggs of the current mindset start hatching more quickly. With a progression of Clinton Obama Trump and Biden we've gone from b***jobs, to no jobs, to more jobs to Nut Job. ... View more