I just drove nearly 700 miles in my 1985 Jeep J10 pickup, and encountered a failure so absurd, I’m still not sure I…
As you may be aware, I’m in the process of buying a new car for the first time in my life.
I do all my own work on my cars. I rebuild engines, transmissions, and brakes. I weld up rusty frames, I repair steer…
If I could buy any pickup truck in the world right now, it would be this amazing 1983 Jeep J10 pickup for sale on Bri…
To see if the old truck has any redeeming qualities, I took two through muddy forests trails in central Michigan.
The Cummins diesel-powered heavy-duty Ram was the U.S.’s final full-size truck with a manual transmission, and my…
What do you do when an extremely rare, but not particularly valuable piece of automotive history is in desperate…
Lots of folks don’t realize just how much of an automotive town Kenosha, Wisconsin once was. And part of that has to…
By now it should be clear that I am, often, a fool. Since buying my Jeep J10 in 2015, I haven’t driven it more than…
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The 2020 Jeep Gladiator has been getting lots of attention lately, but unfortunately, my own Jeep pickup—a 1985 Jeep…
Now that the first Jeep pickup in 28 years is here, many wonder: Can it possibly live up to the hype?
After a brief visit with my doctor, Tom, the O’Reilly Auto Parts clerk, I’ve learned that living alone in a small…
What do you do when the Jeep pickup that you’ve been neglecting for three years needs a transmission rebuild, but…
I just got my beloved full-size Jeep J10 pickup that’s been sitting in my backyard for over a year up and running,…
Later-model "SJ" Jeeps are hiding a bit of history behind that grille.
While enjoying a typical, romantic Friday evening with a bottle of automatic transmission fluid, a few lit MAP…
I haven’t even thought about my 1985 Jeep J10 since I wrote the last article on the old Jeep truck back in November,…
My unreliable vehicles have turned my garage into a veritable prison from which I simply cannot escape.
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When we first bought our Jeep J10, it was absolutely disgusting. The interior was moldy, the tires were rotted, the…
As you all know by now, I wrench 12 hours a day (the other 12, I surf Craigslist). As such, you’d think I’d have…