Buy German, Expensive but straight forward

Agreed - well written, but painful. Unique cars are absolutely wonderful or completely dreadful depending on the day. Read more

Then off the front assembly must come to do this job correctly. Cars can be fun, right? I get the advantages of FWD, transverse-engined cars, but ease of working on them is rarely one of them. There are definitely jobs where even though you COULD do it with the engine in the car, sometimes it’s just easier to take it…

I would also enjoy a third season of the Tempest podcast, if you can magic that into happening! Read more

As the owner of a 2006 Citroen C5 and having owned a 1992 Peugeot 405 in a previous life... I can feel your pain. Read more

I wish that you could have, too! Read more

I would highly recommend some kind of spill proof coolant funnel. Generally the rad cap is the highest point of the coolant system. Adding a funnel filled with coolant makes it even higher. You run the car with the funnel on and the car will suck in coolant air will make its way up through the funnel as it wants to… Read more

That was painful to read.  Read more

When I started reading this seemed like pretty standard timing belt affair stuff. Many modern FWD cars have a belt driven water pump where there is little access (due to the longitudinally mounted engine), also many are interference engines making the job scary. Outside of all the super hard to get to bolts for me the… Read more

I still wish I could have kept my dad’s 404 Read more

How about seeing if there’s a way to get his byline to appear at The Autopian?!  Read more

Nice job! Read more

Unfortunately, you are not the first to imagine changing the oil strainer via the top of the engine, before changing your mind by some miracle, and draining with more liquid oil. Read more

Test for the Water Pump, Take off belt, spin and rock side to side. If no Obvious coolant leak, move on.  Read more

DAVID!!! Holy crap this is like getting Hanukkah and Christmas presents at the SAME TIME! Your stories are captivating as always. :) Read more

I know I have something wrong with me because literally none of this puts me off the idea of owning an 80's Peugeot.  Read more

I realized when I started having kids (my oldest is 13) that they would never know, meaningfully anyway, any members of that generation and it really made me sad. I cant imagine anyone of my or even my parents’ generation having a life like Jim’s. A hero and an inspiration in the truest sense of the words. Read more

Why does this guy not have a wikipedia entry? A google search only yields the jalopnik articles and a tribute on the Riga (Latvia) Ferrari Scuderia Club site which appears to be an unattributed amalgamation of Obuchowski’s posts about the guy. Read more

Every so often you hear about someone like this, and it sounds like they’ve lived 10 lives, each one incredible. Read more

Great article on a great man. RIP. Read more