Category Archive: Craigslist Find, MOPAR, TRUCKS
Rough Start: Add An Extra Grand To The Budget For This Ballsy Dakota R/T!
Whenever I go daydream project hunting in areas of the Pacific Northwest, I try to keep an eye out for vehicles that I might have known. A Chevelle here, a Cutlass there, or maybe something that I...
Unveiled: 2021 Ford Bronco and Bronco Sport
They’ve finally appeared, after years of the faithful praying and begging, after years of seeing the Jeep Wrangler do well, years after putting the original horse down in the name of a more...
The “WTF?!” Files: 1976 Ford F-100 Custom, With Oldsmobile 455 Heartbeat!
The Ford F-series has been America’s best selling full-size pickup for what feels like for-freaking-ever. Why is that? Because every generation of F-series brought enough to the table to be an...
American Ute Fixation: 2008 Ford Explorer Sport Trac Adrenalin, With Coyote and Six-Speed
It’s a bit of a toss-up to know where the American SUV craze started. Was it the XJ Cherokee, with it’s boxy shape and it’s proven four-wheel-drive system that was smaller and...
Rough Start “Tour Of Temptation”: 1981 GMC Caballero
The list of cars I actually want to own longer than a few weeks at a time is fairly short, to be honest. I want to sample everything, I want to push cars to the limit, I want to understand the...
Rough Start “Tour Of Temptation”: 1994 Dodge Ram 1500
Out of all of the trucks built since 1990, the 1994-2002 generation of the Dodge Ram is my favorite. When these things came out, they immediately made GM and Ford trucks look dated. The GM trucks had...
Rough Start “Tour Of Temptation”: 1991 Ford Econoline Dual-Axle Bus
For those of you who are following along on our Rocky Mountain Race Week 2020 coverage, my end of the story goes like this: after the livestream at Bandimere Raceway, Haley and I crashed at the hotel...
The Hauler: This 1978 Ford Flatbed Is A Coyote-Swapped Beast!
I’ve been thinking about duallies again. Now that we’ve ditched the experiment in fuel economy and “responsible vehicle decisions” that seemed like a great idea at the time...
Money No Object: 1986 Ford Bronco XLT – One Burly-Looking Bullnose
Everybody is waiting on baited breath for the return of the Ford Bronco. The upcoming version will be retro in design, in both two- and four-door layouts and will be aimed squarely at the Jeep...
Money No Object: 1970 Dodge D300 – Working Never Looked So Good
I’ve always been drawn to the idea of a work truck. Blame my father for instilling that stereotype of “the truck is for work, the car is for everything else” into me when I was...
Bite-Sized Hauler: 1976 Ford Courier – The Little Stepside That Can
A Mazda B-series by any other name, the Ford Courier was a very appropriate answer that landed just in time for the first gas crisis and rode out through 1982 in the U.S. market just fine. A small,...
Hellcat Hauler: Tell Me You Wouldn’t Swap A Third-Gen Hemi Into This 1992 Dodge D350!
With Holley unloading the swap kit program for 1972-1993 Dodge trucks, it was a given that I would be foaming at the mouth to try that plan out. Nothing against Angry Grandpa, but in the end...
Random Car Review: 1994 GMC Suburban by Lingenfelter: Would 605 Cubic Inches Please You, Sir?
(Lead and engine photos: Aaron Kiley/Car and Driver) 1994…what a year. Music, news, world events…way too much to dive into without going off on thousands of tangents, so let’s stick...
