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It’s shaping up to be one of those all-too-frequent sleepless nights for your boy. Don’t pity me, I have many bottles of fine tequila, and a whole fridge full of craft beer. But that’s not important now. I want to know about what you drive. Give me specs, give me photos, give me video, give me hyperbole, give me speculation, give me exaggerations, give me made-up facts; what you got, Oppo?
I spend a lot of time on here bragging about my other cars. The fast stuff, the rare stuff, the beautiful stuff. But tonight I’m going to brag about my Tahoe:
Hell yeah. Unstoppable off-road monster.
Eats that shit for breakfast.
Look how far away that shit is.
Look at it it tuck that goddamn wheel.
Sometimes I drive it off cliffs, and it does this to the exhaust, but it gets me home like it doesn’t even care.
Ain’t nothin’ to a boss. Cut that shit off, and go do more off-roading.
This is the most American picture ever taken.
Alright, I’m done. Your turn, Oppo. Tell me how awesome your ride is. Lie about it if necessary.
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My car will last longer than your next car.
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My next car is going to be an e9, so yeah, that’s probably true.
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I hear we’re bragging about our rigs...
It’s got a cop race motor, a 244 cubic inch plant, it’s got cop race tires, cop race suspensions, cop race shocks. It’s a model made before stripped of its catalytic converters so it’ll run good on regular race gas. What do you say, is it the new Bluesmobile or what?
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You’re on a mission from God. Also, you brag good. I think we have different, though both excellent, approaches to driving in Baja.
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Wing windows
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My car is bad ass. Almost the most bad ass. If you if you think otherwise then you damn well better be living in Russia.
This here is a 1998 Pontiac Firebird 3.8L. Yeah, the V8 is better, but I don’t have the V8 so fuck you.
If you’ve never driven 130 mph on a 55 mph American highway with the T-tops off and Pantera blasting through 12 speakers while candy flipping on high-grade LSD and MDMA then you truly have never lived a day in your life.
Now, go rethink your cubicle-dwelling existence, and instead of killing yourself, just go buy an F-Body. It’s a lot easier on your life insurance premiums.
PS- You will never have a cooler dog than Bandit ‘Buck Rodgers Millennium Dog’ because he is dead and no canine will ever surpass him in terms of loyal, cheerful malevolence. I pour one out for that sweet, sweet animal every day. RIP Bandit, your deep seated hatred of strangers lives on every time I yell at random people at the bar.
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Hells yeah
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I used to own a 1982 Toyota Tercel. There’s no need to exagerate, it was the best car in the snow of any car I’ve driven. During one Colorado blizzard I was driving down the Raton pass when it started snowing - then blizzarding. Everybody else on the road pulled over, you couldn’t see anything. After about 15 minutes the highway was completely covered - you literally couldn’t see the road. Normally at this point I would have pulled over and waited for the plows to come out. But the problem was the heater blower in this car didn’t work. If the car wasn’t moving their was not heat coming into the cabin.
So I kept driving. The only thing that could guide me were the reflectors mounted on the sides of the highway. So there I was in near white-out conditions, driving along an invisible highway at about 15-20mph. See a relfector on my right - steer slightly to the left. See a reflector coming up on the left - steer slightly to the right. Just zig-zagging across the lanes and trying to avoid sliding into a ditch. No other cars in sight. After about 20 minutes of this I finally see a plow coming up behind me (I’m sure they were wondering what the fuck I was doing swerving all across the lanes in slow motion) and I pulled over to let them pass then followed them safely down the mountain. I didn’t make it into denver until about 4am. When I woke up there was about two feet of snow on the ground. Somewhere I have a picture of that car up to the tops of the wheels in snow that day, can’t find it right now though. I even pulled a couple cars out of drifts with that thing.
Also these awesome icicles formed on the hub caps:
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I like you, man.
Off topic note, I’m going to adopt a dog tomorrow. He got rescued from a dog-meat farm run by a bunch of Koreans in San Francisco. I’m hoping that sweet, sweet love makes him as cool as ol’ Bandit.
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That picture is incredible. Also, I almost died in an ‘80s AWD Tercel once, on a fateful, drunken night in Alaska where we also set the airport on fire.
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That’s awesome man! Pets are like superheros, the best ones have great origin stories.
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I have an 2010 Ford Explorer (I would post pictures but the Air Force firewall doesn’t like that). That thing is awesome for moving my family around but when I bought it, I was living in Alaska. Off. Roading. EVERYWHERE! It was awesome. I never did anything to crazy with it because it’s the main family car but I did do things that made my wife nervous as hell and had my daughter (3 at the time) giggle her ass off. Now, the Air Force has moved me to Spain. It’s flat. Really flat. Nowhere, that I have been able to find as of yet, to go off roading. It makes me sad. I mean, yea. I could go barreling through some poor sunflower farmers patch of sunflowers but that’s just messed up. As for how it sits, it’s stock. I eventually want to lift it an inch or so and put some bigger tires on it as well as get a rear mounted rack for the spare (Wrangler style). A front grill guard is being considered depending on whether or not I want to add a winch. With a grill guard comes some spotlights for night time mudding. Lastly, a Skybox for the roof. Who wouldn’t want to go off roading, then camp wherever they stop? Sounds awesome to me!
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Lifting an Explorer = INSTANT DEATH!
But seriously, look closely at those Tahoe pics. There’s a front-mounted hitch receiver. So I have a winch that I can leave at home when I want, and that (with some electrical work) can be plugged in to either the front or rear receiver. It works awesome, and I highly recommend it. It’s a very graceful solution.
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Here’s hoping. It’s going to be a lot of work, but I have enough spare time to sit around yelling at a dog, so we’ll see.
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PPS- The neighbor who’s driveway is just above the Firebird’s rear wing has a 356 which has been hidden in his garage for at least 8 years.
PPPS- Yeah, I’m from Florida, come at me bro!
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I take my driving so seriously I wear a pair of Sparco Puma driving shoes exclusively for my 15 minute commute to school. I change my shoes at the last moment while stuck in the traffic jam. Oh yeah my car has a GoPro housing mounted in the front bumper, even if it's not being used.
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I got Bandit on January 1st, 2000. The very first thing he did when we got him home was to take a big ol’ steaming shit right under the Christmas tree we’d left up. It was all uphill from there. Just put in the love and most any dog will return it tenfold.
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I’m weird. I always drive barefoot. I like the additional articulation provided by the toes for precision heel-toe action. In motorsports events, I’m like, ‘yeah, I’m totally wearing my driving shoes,’ then slip ‘em off right before I take off.
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I see your Tahoe and rair you a 1989 E250 4x4 and a 1991 Taurus SHO. (1984 Cutlass not pictured.)
As an off roader you’re probably more interested in the van. Started out life as a standard 2wd half ton van, was bought by Bell Canada and sent to Quigley in Pennsylvania for a 4x4 conversion which included a Dana 60 front axle on a custom 4 link suspension, made of bridge girders, a high low transfer case made by some indeterminate company because I can’t figure it out. And a GM 14 bolt rear axle on cart springs. 30 inch pizza cutter tires top it off.
The SHO is my 400 dollar Crusher rescue that I bought out of New York and am now happily daily driving. As soon as the new master cylinder is on. Hope i don’t need to change the booster too.
All 100% true by the way. No joke.
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Lmao. Yeah dude. I’ve spent the last few days reading articles with titles like ‘Can you Rehabilitate an Abused Rescue Dog?’ and then I go back to the humane society website and look at the pictures, and I’m like ‘Fuck it, I already love that ol’ boy. He’ll be fine.’
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I have got a new 2016 WRX STi in HyperBlue and it’s fucking incredible! It’s stupid fast, it looks good, it feel nice, and the interior is bitchin. I’m in love with this thing
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6.0 liters, 12 mpg and 8000lbs, get the hell out of my left lane.
No, *you* turn off your brights.
I make more power (370/390) just on the value of displacement then anyone else in my car club does with their fancy tunes and turbos.
O-60 in as much noise as seconds.
The rear tires are supposed to be filled to 80 psi lol.
Bench seats front and rear, seats 6!
I have almost every tool imaginable under my back seat, from a come-a-long to kitty litter to pliers to primer, and a shovel and sledgehammer in the bed. And two small American flags on the dash.
She only has 50k miles on her, at least the engine will last me another 250k.
I think it has the best looking front end of any modern trucktruck, authoritative and commanding without being edgy and angry.
My home made Cai + ram air system works!
I can back her up through the eye of a large needle. Screw parallel parking though.
Next steps is an electronic exhaust cut out and bigger tires to fill out the wheel wells better.
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Now this is one not those stories you hope is true. And if it isn’t, some one needs to make it happen.
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My van is the same way. Works great when the switch isnt broken. I’m not bitter.
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Dogs are the best kind of friend. I need to find another one soon. Good luck with the rescue.
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Yes, yes, YES. My dad used to have an old Chevy bubble-top camping rig when I was a kid. It was tan, and he painted 3 different shades of brown A-Team stripes on that sumbitch, then rattle-canned the wheels gold. That rig probably sparked my love of both off-roading and tailgating.
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Needs moar gold wheels.
Sorry, I’m old school. Looks awesome.
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The van, I call it the Bruiser, was painted black and blue before you see, needs and engine something terrible. Wee little 302 with about 300 thousand kilometers on it, natural has the shit flogged out of it as a work van. Need to build a nice 351 Windsor for it or something.
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Thanks bud, I’ll need it.
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Don’t forget a chip tune to compliment the intake and exhaust.
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I just put in these little plugs. The guy at the RV accessories shop called them ‘tow truck plugs,’ but I don’t even know the proper name. No switches though, and they work great. Remind me tomorrow, and I’ll take some pictures.
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I think they’re both true. He has sufficient details in his, and I was there for mine, so I saw it happen.
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My rig may only get 8 miles to the gallon, but when I get to my destination or wherever I decide to stop along the way, she sleeps 4, has a full size refrigerator/freezer, kitchen, and bath..... oh did I forget to mention the enclosed garage for my sportscar.
Did I mention it has a 6.5KW generator, air compressor, shore power hookups, and is equipped for up to 10 days dry camping.
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Niiiiiice. I had a 2500 Suburban for my first car, and now I can parallel park anything you got into a dog house. I have a 2500 too. It’s an ‘09. Great tow rig. Pic in next reply, have to switch over to the kindle...
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I’m going to go ahead and suggest a Chevy 350 at the risk of being excommunicated for blasphemy
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Daaaaaaaaaaaamn dude! That’s so badass. I’ve always kind of mulled the idea of converting an old bus into an RV, but come to the conclusion that I can fit everything I need into the Tahoe, so what’s the point? Love that XLR. I’m a Caddy guy too. Gotta do a pic in the next reply. Have to go to the kindle...
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Cts v-sport
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Do you want a car synonymous with being awesome?
You want a Trans Am.
You don’t want just any Trans Am either, you want the final one, the culmination of 33 years of american muscle. 5.7 liters of angry 8 cylinder LS power burble subtly at idle, the non-WS6 hood giving bros revving V6 Mustangs false confidence, writing checks they most certainly cannot cash. A mere stab of the throttle sends them cowering away, now aware of the beast whose wrath they’ve foolishly brought upon themselves.
This is why the final Trans Am is a 2002 swan song of a car which will never be built again.
(Also, it has T-tops and headlights which go both up... and down . So it’s automatically the best.)
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I’ll submit that any Trans is a brag-worthy car, but you’ve been Kinja’d.
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In what way?
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Nevermind. First time I looked, the picture didn’t show up.
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It’s a bad picture anyway, Kinja will be kinja.
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Now that it’s showing up, it looks awesome.
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Will look better with the WS6 wheels, whenever I get those finished.
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Wheels are always fun
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Ha ha I only want to do enough of a lift to be able to accept some bigger meatier tires. And I never thought about a portable winch. New things abound!
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Yeah dude, it’s the way to go. You don’t appreciate how heavy a winch is until you pick it up.
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my ride is nothing special
2004 MItsubishi Lancer ES 2.0L manual sedan , silver , 582000km , no mods , not trading any time soon either , gets me from point A to point B and back again.
too damn reliable!
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Rattle-can some flames on it. Maybe that will help.
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It’s definitely true. 2006 Blizzard, was on my way from Seattle to Denver to visit family for Christmas. Driving down in one day was normally not a big deal, but I remember the snow delayed me so much that I was afraid I was going to fall asleep behind the wheel - which became really disconcerting since with all the snow flying around I couldn’t see any landmarks to tip me off on how much progress I was making.
Although it must not have been the Raton pass I took that time (I normally took a longer route on the way back to seattle to enjoy driving up the coast, but I never took it the other way around).
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I bought the Mustang from a monk who had taken a vow of silence, but in his print ad he said that the meaning of life is hidden somewhere inside a Fox-body Mustang, so he started taking it apart to try and find it. Personally, I think the meaning of life is driving a Fox Mustang, so I’m putting it back together.
The truck is a rare experiment by Ford. See, before they started building them out of aluminum, they thought they could save weight by building the F150 mostly out of rust. In fact, my truck seems to be getting lighter every day...I keep finding pieces of it in the driveway. It’ll basically be a BAC Mono in no time. Also, it’s got a bottle opener bolted to the inside of its bed.
I also have a Crown Vic that is exclusively driven by small dogs.
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I’ve only got two pics of it.
It’s a 2009 Hoonda Odyssey. I don’t even know where to start. It’s a great all-arounder. It can seat 8, carry a 7 piece furniture set, or carry 4 people along with three bikes inside (all things we’ve done with it). It’s got everything you need, nothing you don’t. You might be thinking, “This is Oppo, and that’s a boring minivan!” But no! 244 raging ponies from a 3.5l V6 (with VTEC) hooked up to a 5 speed (dash-mounted shifter) autobox make this big van pretty quick.
Just look! So much room for activities!
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Of course.
2010 Chevy Colorado. V8. 4x4. Nearly loaded (no sunroof).
0-60 in somewhere south of 6.9 seconds. Don’t know for sure, just know that it can beat a sharknose TL, the slowest of which was 6.9 seconds.
Unstoppable in winter.
Really fun to drive. Even more so now that I added a rear swaybar.
Pics? Oh yes, got those.
http://oppositelock.kinja.com/2010-chevrolet…
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How cliché, I write on Oppo and I have a Miata! I at least try to do un-Miata things with it while also doing very-Miata things as well.
http://oppositelock.kinja.com/my-introductio…
http://oppositelock.kinja.com/2800-miles-lat…
http://oppositelock.kinja.com/what-a-nice-da…
http://oppositelock.kinja.com/made-my-miata-…
http://oppositelock.kinja.com/got-my-snow-sh…
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I have an 02 SVT Focus. It says it’s Special right there in the name. Do your cars say they are Special?
I heel-toe rev-match downshift for traffic lights. In dress shoes. Come at me bro!
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1993 Ford Ranger XLT with the 4.0 V6, 5 speed manual, and a 3.55 LSD on a Ford 8.8 rear axle.
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So far away!
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Getting an STi in blue and that blue is not WRB.
Respect.
(I’d still choose WRB...)
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Is there another car that can do these two things as well?
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Glad you’re ok bud.
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If you have a 350 however, my Oldsmobile could use it. Fords go in Fords, GM engines go in GM cars.
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This guy fucking gets it.
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Thank you sir, Firebirds/TAs of Oppo unite!
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Doubt it. I’m an M guy myself.
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How’d it even get that far away!?
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Hell yeah, dude. The world was a better place when half the pickups you saw were that shade of green.
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I’m a huge fan of the SVT Focus
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Counterpoint: LS1 all the things
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Now that’s how you fuckin’ brag
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Dat John Deere
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Redneck ski lift ftw!
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Nice dude. Next up, you should go rallying.
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Offroad prowess, clearly.
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I wanted good power, great handling, a manual transmission, 4 doors, and RWD/AWD. It’s slim pickings these days when you check all those boxes, but thankfully one of the choices is as good as this glorious machine I get to call “mine”.
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Gimme my damn flamesuit back.
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Little brother’s ride on
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If I ever end up installing a roll bar, I will be ice racing guaranteed. But idk if I want a roll bar on my daily. If I do eventually get another daily driver, I will certainly be doing every sort of racing imaginable in my Miata!
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I adore my car. But, it is 13 years old, the past 9 have been in Ohio, and it has 110k miles on it. I have neither the time or money to keep it running like it needs, so with much regret I am in the process of selling it and getting something else.
So, if you wanted another toy, it is for sale. If you are seriously interested, shoot me an email at A Dab Of Opposite @ Gmail dot com.
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Beautiful
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No! It’s mine now.
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Excellent
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Nah I’m good. California cars only for me. I’ve seen what salty roads do to undersides.
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I know...it’s terrifying.
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Thanks. It’s my first BMW, first sports car, first time I spent more than $20k on a car for myself. Worth every penny, and I love this car enough that I want my kids (and hell, grandkids) to be able to enjoy it like I have someday. Hopefully I can make that happen!
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Change that oil, dude. Bimmers are either indestructible or nightmares depending how well taken care of they are.
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Yessir. Last Blackstone oil analysis (at 77k) looked great.
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You see this Jeep? That’s right, it’s a god damn Jeep Cherokee. A real Cherokee. An XJ. Not that bullshit KL thing. You know what’s more American than a Jeep? Nothing. Yeah so it’s not a Wrangler. Well fuck your Wrangler! Maybe I like having a top speed higher than two and having some creature comforts. It’s got the AMC 4.0L Straight-6. You can run that engine without oil for months and she won’t die. Cracked block? You must be on crack to think the engine wouldn’t run. But you know what? My 4.0 has oil and doesn’t have any cracks. If you have a Jeep with the 3.6 or 3.8 Pentashit engine, then ha.
You know what I’ve done with this girl? Recover Tacomas.
That being said, it’s a fucking 1990s Mopar. How anything other than that bullet proof engine still works is black magic.
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It’s got fuckin dirt and fuckin snow on it. That’s badass.
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WHY CAN’T I LIVE HERE!!!!!!
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You don’t want to live there lol. Hottest I’ve seen ‘round those parts is 128. Land’s cheap though. Good place for a vacation house.