The original 7.3 liter Power Stroke V8 diesel built by Navistar International is known for its basic durability compared to modern turbodiesel engines that are fraught with EGR/DPF/SCR and other 3-letter-acronym related failures. The International 7.3 liter engine wasn’t particularly powerful compared to modern diesels, but cast iron heads, cast iron block, and conventional turbocharger […]
I hope this next vehicle isn’t an ex-Burning Man car. There isn’t enough Lysol on the planet to remove the funk of a week of swinger-burner hippies from the cloth inside this long wheelbase camper. But this car is so cool that I might skip the hazmat suit for the experience and just enjoy the […]
A brand new Nissan Frontier pickup will set you back $30k before taxes and fees (more if you start piling on options)…and it is a nice car, but you can’t get it with a 6-speed manual gearbox because the only transmission that Nissan offers is some 9-speed super flappy birds paddle thing…sounds like a recipe for just putting in auto and following traffic on your daily commute. But if you want to save a few bones and you don’t mind the horrible death-by-plastic interior of early 2000s Nissan…then take the dirt road around traffic and get something like this 2006 Nissan Frontier SE Crew Cab offered for $7900 in Phoenix, AZ via craigslist.
Today’s Mid Week Match-Up is a request from Jim who writes: I am on a band with 4 friends in the north east. we play local shows once in a while. So far we have been getting by with a couple of hatch backs, but now we are beginning to book tours regionally and multiple […]
If you thought yesterday’s Fast and Furious Tokyo Drift Mustang was the only Fast n Furious movie car lurking quietly on craigslist in Los Angeles, you’ve got another thing coming. This next car was the star of the show, more of a silent uncredited walk-on part, but its asking price is about what you’d pay […]
Lincoln had built many cars since the brand was introduced by Henry M. Leland in 1917, but never had the four pointed star emblem been put on a pickup truck. In 2002 the Lincoln Blackwood was introduced, a re-badged and upgraded version of Ford’s popular F-150 pickup. The production of 3300 of the 2002 Blackwood […]