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I love the Ford 289. Free revving and lightweight...one of the all time great powerplants!

I was going to get a GTO hood for this 68 LeMans and turn it into a GTO clone, because even in the late 80's GTO's were getting too expensive to beat on. And so the thread drift really begins.....

Double shoulder rigs are comfortable. Very balanced. With seatbelts fouling my usual inside the waistband rig, my driving rig back in the day was for a pair of Smith and Wesson 65 .357 Magnums. Since I travel by car now that I am retired, this still gets dusted off sometimes and pressed into...

For those that pocket carry a J Frame, does anyone carry one in each front pocket? The famous "New York Reload" since NYPD officers figured out it was faster to draw a second gun than reload the first.

I dearly love the old stuff for toy cars, but I have to admit a modern car with fuel injection, cold a/c, disk brakes all around, rack and pinion steering, competent suspension and a stereo system that shades the Hi Fi I had in my home 20 years ago the siren song of newer cars is one that has...

Yes, Hy-Point does. They come with an evidence tag already, you just fill out the time and place it was recovered at the scene of the crime.

Another 30-06 vote. And remember what my father taught me...the real hunter brags about how close his shot was, not how far. Shooting beyond 300 yards is difficult and takes a LOT of range time. Guys at the gun shop are always bragging about shooting a deer at 500 yards and beyond. I actually...

Or eight years and 6 months from now, when his BIG battery is dead and needs replacing! I shudder at the cost of that...an all electric Nissan battery was 21 grand! I personally wrote the check for $4000 plus for a Prius battery, and the hybrid batteries are a lot cheaper. I wonder if these "go...

Here in this college town where I live, to me "tactical" means "looks like every other weed smoking backpack wearing hippie infesting this town". So my "tactical" backpack looks 'normal' for this area, but has a ballistic plate in the laptop pocket and other novelties to make sure I can get home.

That is where I keep looping back...F150 5.0 4X4 Super Crew Cab. It has more room inside than many cars. It would be, under my tutelage, perhaps the most under stressed vehicle I have ever owned or indeed ever even heard of. I choke on the price, but I suppose this is where we are now. Like the...

Car and Driver magazine article 2016: long term test of a Porsche Cayman S. After 40,000 miles, performing routine scheduled maintenance cost $3094. For comparison, the highest performing American Car, practically a race car nowadays, the mighty Corvette in scheduled maintenance over 40,000...

I like the fact he is so young. We have lost too many artists in the recent past, it is encouraging to see the next wave with so much talent.

They don't work for me. Inside the waistband is the only way I can hide anything at a towering five foot five. Every one I have tried has stuck out way too much. I avoid the take on/put off question with my lifestyle...always on.

So playing with the build and price features since I can't sleep. Toyota is out. Already dropped the V6 apparently. Boo Hiss! Ford with a Super Crew Cab (very car like) and a short bed with a 5.0 V8 engine is $57,000 with the exact model on my local dealers lot. Honda Passport with a V6 and all...

A great deal of my misspent youth was misspent in a 1971 GTO convertible, Nassau Blue, that belonged to one of my best friends. I still love that car.

I admit I lean towards used. My wife is a buy new, maintain it and in ten or so years when it is time for a new one, give the old car to someone in her family and buy another new. So I suspect I will end up with new because I pick my battles and if she wants to win that one it is not really too...

I stand corrected! I forgot about the Desoto Firedome (great name) and the Imperial Firepower (even better name)! My old man used to drive an Imperial. Because he said "You can't outrun the State Patrol without a 440 Chrysler". He was kidding of course, but it made an impression on me.

I am a little leery of turbo's and the complexity they bring. Admittedly, Buick T-Type in the 90's and the aforementioned Mercedes are all the practical "ownership" experience I have had...I didn't own them, but my two best friends did so I was around them a lot and drove them a lot. I know...

Modern cars offer way more capability than can safely be used on the street. Which is kinda why I am stuck in the 60's in terms of fun cars. They slide around and make all the right sounds and you feel like you are flying, then you look down and you are doing 45 mph. Safe as sitting on a sofa.

Had to look up DEF. See previous entry about never trust a politician. When the 2005 new body style Mustangs came out I knew a girl that had one; V6 with an automatic. Would leave my 67 Mustang with a 289 and three at the knee in the dust. I appreciate V6 technology. An honest 300 HP on the...