Project POStal

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…

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…

For as long as I can remember, I’ve been spending most of my weekends fixing what has swollen into an overwhelming…

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…

After taking my $500 Postal Jeep 1,800 miles to Moab, Utah and then on a terrifying trail ride, I faced a daunting…

While driving my $500 Postal Jeep through rural Kansas on my way back to Michigan from Utah, I wound up in heaven…

My $500 Postal Jeep doesn’t have four-wheel drive, and yet, on the off-road trails of Moab, Utah, it blew me away…

My brothers and I were at a motel at the base of a grueling Rocky Mountain pass, and I couldn’t sleep. The following…

“That’s it. I’m calling it—Project POStal is officially dead. I cannot drive this Jeep,” I declared a day after I’d…

I still have so many stories to tell about my $500 Postal Jeep adventure from Michigan to Utah, including what the…

“It’s too far gone,” the unbelievers said. “It cannot be saved.”Project Postal—the $500 postal Jeep that at the time…

I haven’t written an update on Project Postal—my rusty, junkyard-grade $500 postal Jeep—since Wednesday, because…

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…