Being a dork, I’ve often talked to my mailman about his work truck, the venerable Grumman Long Life Vehicle (LLV).…
Project POStal—my 1976 Jeep DJ-5 Postal Jeep—is officially dead. The Jeep, which started out as a hopeless pile of…
Earlier this month, I drove my 1948 Willys CJ-2A through a deep mud pit, filling the engine with water. Worried sick…
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The best thing to do when you sell a vehicle is to never see it again. I know, because I just sold my $500 Postal…
At the top of my list of “nightmare car scenarios” is someone in a three-ton Hummer H2 failing to notice me in a…
Back in April, I concluded a 3,800 mile road trip from Michigan to Utah and back in a 1976 Postal Jeep that I had…
Mahindra is looking to add an additional factory to its arsenal in Michigan, and is scouting locations in Detroit,…
“It’s too far gone,” the unbelievers said. “It cannot be saved.”Project Postal—the $500 postal Jeep that at the time…
The Rockies are coming, and I’m worried.
After fixing the engine, ignition system, frame, body, suspension, steering, and basically the whole damn car, I…
I haven’t showered in five days, and I’ve barely slept. Trying to prepare my dilapidated $500 Postal Jeep—dubbed Proj…
I’m supposed to leave tomorrow on an 1,800 mile expedition to Moab, Utah, but the amount of work I have to do to get…
Good news on Project POStal, my seemingly hopeless rusted-out $500 Postal Jeep that will soon be tasked with an…
This year’s off-road project has been a disaster, and I’ve now got only eight days to essentially repair an entire…
I have two weeks to get my $500 Postal Jeep, Project POStal, ready for a huge trip across the country, and I’m so…
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I do this every year despite how much it costs me psychologically, physically, socially, and financially. But I…
“There’s no way in hell this will work,” I thought to myself from sun up to sun down this past Saturday and Sunday,…
This is the weekend of weekends. My $500 Postal Jeep’s frame is fixed, most of my replacement parts are in, and I…
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My biggest concern in preparing my dilapidated $500 Postal Jeep for a 3,500 mile trek to and from Utah has been the 2…
Earlier this week, I wrote about my $500 postal Jeep’s rotted-out frame, concerned that it may doom the project.…