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