It's Easier Than Ever To Daily-Drive A 50-Year-Old Car

A half-century ago last week, a rolled off a Munich assembly line, freshly bathed in an off-white paint color called Chamonix and assembled by what I can only assume were meticulously trained German craftsmen, peering down their noses through reading glasses as they expertly cinched down every nut, bolt, and...

Sep 13, 2025

This Couple's Toyota MR2 Restoration Project Is Better Than Any Car TV Show

Matt and Sophie’s YouTube series, “Engines And Unfinished Business,” about their casual Toyota restoration is better than any gassy, monstrous “car build” show I’ve ever seen. It’s cute, simple, and must be credible because British accents! The story will be familiar to many of you: here’s a moderately interesting car,...

Sep 13, 2025

My 1948 Farm Jeep Made It 300 Miles To Indiana

With its seemingly endless mechanical and electrical faults, I was convinced my off-road project had lost all will to live. But apparently, there’s some life in the little Jeep yet, because Project Slow Devil just drove 300 miles in a single day in the first leg of my 1,800 mile...

Sep 13, 2025

Here’s Exactly What It Cost To Turn The World's Least Reliable Car Into An Off-Road Beast

The Audi Allroad has become a running joke as possibly the least reliable car ever made, and for pretty damn good reason. Between the notoriously finicky 2.7-liter twin-turbo V6 engine (same as in the vaunted B5 S4) and the early 2000s air suspension (read: terrible), there is just way too...

Sep 13, 2025

My 1948 Jeep Off-Road Project Made It 1,000 Miles To Kansas

My Willys CJ-2A farm Jeep—a junker whose rust brought me to the, and arguably beyond—continues to blow my mind. At 40 miles per hour, the 1,800 mile trot from Detroit to Moab, Utah is set to be a long one. The good thing is: I’m over halfway there. I’m having...

Sep 13, 2025

How To Make Your Car's Face Pretty Again

It’s nearly impossible to keep your car’s paint looking perfect when you use it every day. It seems no matter what you do, highway debris, parking lot mayhem, and the sun’s UV rays do their fair share of damage to your pride and joy. Nothing short of a trip to...

Sep 13, 2025

Sixty-Four Million U.S. Drivers Can't Afford An Unforeseen Car Repair

It seems like skipping small repairs or maintenance when it comes to car ownership is saving money in the short term. In reality, it can get you into a pretty bad situation if and when sometimes goes wrong. Sixty-four million U.S. drivers—a third of them—cannot afford a surprise car repair...

Sep 13, 2025

My 1948 Jeep Finally Died After 1,300 Miles Of Glory

I never expected my to make it 1,300 miles; the thing started out as a pile of rusty garbage, and if I’m honest, remains in that state on the back of a trailer after losing its engine last night near Sharon Springs, Kansas at 1 a.m. This past leg of...

Sep 13, 2025

I Still Don't Know What's Wrong With My 1948 Jeep After Wrenching All Day In A Walmart Parking Lot

As darkness fell on the Walmart parking lot in Goodland, Kansas, my coworker Freddy and I couldn’t stop scratching our heads. “What’s wrong with this little Jeep?” we asked ourselves. Eventually, we packed up and drove to our motel, where I struggled to get a single moment of sleep. My...

Sep 13, 2025

Here's How To Keep Your Car Clean And Actually Looking Like New

Handwashing your own car can be one of the most therapeutic activities you engage in. Which is why, when cleaning expert and advice columnist invited me to join her on her podcast to discuss exactly that, I wasn’t about to pass it up. Chat about car detailing for an hour?...

Sep 13, 2025

I Finally Figured Out Why My 1948 Jeep Died

My 1948 Willys—nicknamed —has been dead since its engine on a rural Kansas road. Time of death: Saturday morning, 1 a.m. Ever since, I’ve struggled to get even a wink of sleep as I tried diagnosing the problem. But on Monday, after having a second look at the innards of...

Sep 13, 2025

Here's What It's Really Like To Buy An Old British Sports Car

It was one of those scorching-hot May afternoons when the air conditioning might as well just give up, where a slight breeze is the only break from molasses-thick humidity. It seemed far-fetched at the time, but tucked away in an unsuspecting backwoods Missouri lake house resided a four-wheeled curiosity: a...

Sep 13, 2025

I Fixed My 1948 Jeep And Now I'm Off-Roading In The Promised Land

After the that claimed my fiber camshaft timing gear, I had to tow the little CJ-2A the final 500 miles of . But now, I’ve swapped in a new timing gear, and oh my, she runs perfectly. Just after diagnosing that strange camshaft gear failure, I called up Autozone in...

Sep 13, 2025

This Quest To Build A 1989 Chrysler Conquest Show Car Is All You Should Watch Today

Wekfest is a car show that started a decade ago in San Francisco and quickly spread to places like Japan, Chicago and Hawaii. When tuner Noel Panganiban got an invite to the latter, he knew he had to do it. But what car to build and bring? He weighed his...

Sep 13, 2025

My 1948 Jeep Is Home After Conquering 1300 Miles And The Trails Of Moab

Upon my arrival in Michigan yesterday, I poured myself out of the driver’s seat of the 2017 Ford Raptor tow vehicle after 48 straight hours of travel. I was dead tired, but at the same time, thrilled with what was a genuinely epic journey. We did it. My actually did...

Sep 13, 2025