The $33,000 Chevette
Would you pay $33,000 for a 1987 Chevy Chevette? Apparently, someone just did. It's got low miles - just 47 - so it's basically a brand-new 1987 Chevette.
But nonetheless, a 1987 Chevette.
It...
Heater Core Part III
I finally got the leaking heater core out of my old Nissan Frontier ('02 model year, so now 23 years old) and found a couple of interesting things that you may...
Rockford’s Car
TV (and movie) cars are often remembered more fondly - and for longer - than the actors who drove them in those shows (and movies). The black and gold Trans-Am that...
Dirty Laundry
I rarely - I don't think I ever have - aired issues I've had with a business I'd dealt with. But I have never had an issue with a business that...
Collapsing Collector Car Market?
It may soon be a good time to buy that classic car you've always wanted to own - but couldn't afford to buy. The speculative demand that has pushed the prices...
Measuring Our Impoverishment (Again)
It is important to remember the way things were - as a way to measure how things are - now. It is especially important to convey facts about the way things...
Some Things You Can’t Do in a New Car
Just like you can't board a commercial airplane anymore without first being subjected to the sort of Obedience Training you used to have to get arrested first to experience, so also...
Clarkson’s Right
Top Gear frontman Jeremy Clarkson is right: Modern cars are "all shit now." But he didn't explain exactly why, so I'll try.
It is not because they aren't powerful or because they...
Daily Driving a 40-Year-Old Car?
Many people are understandably leery about buying a new or even recently made vehicle, on the one hand because of the stuff they don't want that's now standard in every new...
A Prepper’s Dilemma
Normally, it is sound policy to live below your means; to buy only that which you can afford to pay for - at the time of purchase. But we no longer...