Holy crap, that’s what I have too. Honestly, it is too rare and too unique for me to enjoy it as a car. I’m firmly in the “driver” camp vs the “trailer queen” camp, and this is a fine driver, but there are like single digit numbers of 28 Series 81s remaining, and I’d be fine letting this go to a museum. I almost got… Read more

Whoa, a ‘28 Pierce? What model? I too have a 1928 Pierce (and an incredibly similar portfolio of cars), acquired under the same circumstances. Read more

I am with you 100%, and asked the same reasonable-seeming question and was pelted with rotten produce. You’re a blog. Pivot to text, bitches.
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Back in the 1990s, if you wanted four doors, performance and a bit of refinement, you had to dish out large sums of money for a BMW or an Audi.

Is Dustin as chill IRL as he seems on TV?
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The problem with crank starting a Model T is that unless you retard the spark appropriately, there is a pretty high risk of kickback, which drives the crank handle back, which breaks your wrist. If you only pull up on the crank, you can avoid this, but then you only get half the starting impulse, which on a cold,… Read more

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Dude, what the hell. That is real clean. ‘93?
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Yea, I’ve had few, and agree on that assessment. Engine: 10, gearbox: 4. The two I currently own cumulatively have over 500k miles, so I guess it kind of counts.
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“And I only went through 10 gearboxes!”
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Lol at “perfect colonoscopy.” Read more

Is there a more compact competitive offering that I overlooked?
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Barely a weekend went by this past year without me putting stuff in the bed. Observed usage was lots of stick lumber, plywood and drywall, bales of Roxul, push mower, snowblower, old storm windows, appliances and demolition crap. Nothing that an even smaller truck wouldn’t have handled just as well though. Meanwhile… Read more

I’d actually love it. I drive - and use the hell out of - a Ridgeline. My use is more “weekend renovation contractor” than “towing the Hoover Dam up Mt. Everest.” When I bought the Ridgeline, multiple people warned me “bad decision, you’re going to want a bigger truck” and that hasn’t even been close to the case. In… Read more

Thanks, man. I’ll let him know.
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Is this a good car for my buddy Brett AKA “Bongo” who drank himself out of college Sophomore year back in the early 2000's, and after working some crummy jobs put somehow himself through nursing school, where he met his smarter-and-hotter-than-we-anticipated-for-Bongo wife, who is now the mother of his kids to whom he… Read more

My ex-wife!
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Where’d you go in Western Ma? Skiing at Bosquet? Swing by the Berkshire Mountain Distillers shop in Sheffield? Peoples’ Pint in Greenfield? Read more

My dude... What? I had the 2.9 in a Colorado and had the dreaded cam timing chain tensioner/cam phaser failure. When I brought it in to my mechanic, he sighed and was like “yep, another one.” Engine had <40,000 miles on it before the whole cam timing system started self-destructing. Of the 4 people I knew who had 4… Read more