Category Archive: Monday Shopper, OTHER, TRUCKS
Money No Object: 1977 International Scout II Half-Cab
While out and about the other day, Haley and I stopped in at a dealership’s used lot to check out a lifted Ram 1500 that had piqued her fancy. We did the usual song and dance with the salesman,...
Rough Start: 1993 Chevrolet Blazer Sport – The Dying Breed
Forty years is how long the Chevrolet Blazer K5 lasted in it’s original form, a two-door full-size sport-utility vehicle. That body shell outlived the Blazer name, living on as the two-door...
Free Snake: Gifting A 1979 Ford Mustang Cobra That Was Saved From The Junkyard
Antiquing? Um…normally that’s a very, very hard pass from me, thank you much. I know that there can be some cool things to be found on some shelf in some store on any given day. Among the...
Dajiban: 2001 Dodge Ram Van 1500, With 410 Stroker Motor Available
If you are unfamiliar with the term “dajiban“, let us bring you up to speed: the Dodge Ram Van, specifically the 1994-2003 variety that has the looks of the 1994 Dodge Ram, might not...
Go Green: 1977 Plymouth Fury Sport Suburban Station Wagon
I’m normally not one to get argumentative with anyone. I’m happier to keep my mouth shut, keep my judgements to myself, and move on. But I swear, if one more mouth-breather approaches me...
Too Quiet: 1981 Chevrolet Malibu 9C1 For Flying Under The Radar
I recently had a guy pull me to the side to tell me about how he saw a couple of supercars and a built Mustang GT500 ripping down the Interstate near where I live and that he probably saw a...
Upper Class Trash: Vice Grip Garage Wakes Up A 1975 Ford Gran Torino Elite
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: when the special editions start coming out, you know that a manufacturer is desperate to get every last dime they can out of a platform before...
Pop Goes The Frunk-Lid: The C8 Corvette’s Frunk Lid Opens By Itself?
The only time I’ve ever driven a C7 Corvette, I discovered one seriously annoying thing about it: every single solid time I sat down into the driver’s seat, my left knee would hit the...
Rough Start: 1980 Toyota Celica GT Sunchaser by Griffith
For our younger readers: ever look at stuff made after about 1973 and wonder why you can find sunroofs, T-tops, targa tops and the like, but nobody outside of the biggest Buicks, Oldsmobiles and...
Colonnade CPR: Bringing A 1973 Chevrolet Chevelle SS454 Back To The Outside World
When I first saw it, I hated it. When I saw it with wheels that weren’t wearing Chevrolet Celebrity hubcaps, I started to come around. When I bought it in 2007, it spit the harmonic balancer...
Rough Start: 1973 AMC Hornet – Call It The Mongrel!
Does that seem like I’m already picking on this little Hornet, calling it “The Mongrel”? I don’t think so. Part of me is looking at this car with truth: it’s rough...
Random Car Review: The 1980 Ferrari Pinin, The Four-Door Performance Sedan That Never Had A Prayer
Looking around in today’s market, the two-door car is on the critically endangered list. Four-doors have finally made their way to the mainstream, and fast, potent versions of four-door sedans...
How Would You Build It: 1989 Shelby Dakota
Seeing Carroll Shelby jump ship from Ford around 1970 was no surprise. The direction that the Shelby Mustang program was headed towards was pissing him off more and more. His GT350 and GT500 were...
