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This is like pinching the moldy bits off of a piece of bread while telling yourself that it’s probably fine. You know you’re going to wind up in the crapper. Please don’t do this, even though I know I’ll read every gruesome detail.
What am I supposed to do? Waste moldy bread?
David! NO! NO! did you read your own words where you shouldn’t have even brought your own rusty crap to California why do you think paying to transport another POS from Michigan is smart? NO! Cost of towing and fixing 3x what it’s worth. NO!
Listen to this man.
This is correct. It’s a terrible idea. There are hundreds of thousands of shitty Jeeps out there David, you can’t have them all.
“In the last year, we’ve collectively bought everything from a Pontiac Aztek to a SsangYong Rodius. ”
Uhhh, there’s not a lotta space between those two bookends, Matt-dawg.
I think David probably needs some kind of counseling or medical intervention, but I am in favor of him traveling to Virginia just to figure out how many
yearsdecades old that photo of the Holy Grail Jeep is, and just how full of speed holes it is by now. Even (especially?) if he discovers that it’s only held together by bailing wire and wasp-nests, it wouldn’t dissuade him from attempting to drive it home, but that story would be a guaranteed click-magnet. Do it for our sense of schadenfreude David!I appreciate all the jokes; with five brothers I’ve had plenty of fun poked my way. But come on now, counseling and medical intervention? I’m a business owner who enjoys collecting cars; it’s not unusual! Seriously, my collection is small compared to many. And if you’re counting by mass, it’s even smaller from all the rust!
Cue Foghorn Leghorn: It’s a joke, son. Ah say, just a joke.
OK, maybe I’m a bit worried about your preoccupation with rusty old Jeeps when you might have more pressing priorities in your life, but everyone has the right to follow their own path of happiness!
(Sorry; been dealing a lot with folks who actually do need help – it’s become clear to me that this nation is facing a mental health crisis. So I’m a little sensitive right now, but you’re right. That’s my bad!).
No worries and sorry to have caused you distress. I should have inserted a smiley face or something to flag the joke.
It was obvious; entirely on me!
Thank you for being here!
Still can’t insert gifs or smiley faces on this site.
🙂 😀 :-/ :-\ :-}
We love you and are trying to protect you from your bad impulsive nature.
But don’t delude yourself self most of what you have bought aren’t cars. Just rusty piles of crap
And we have all watched him have fun with each and every one.
I feel like it’s been maybe two weeks since you were talking about California cars vs not California cars. Don’t buy more not-California cars!
“In the last year, we’ve collectively bought everything from a Pontiac Aztek to a SsangYong Rodius. ”
A continent and an ocean? Assuming the Aztek’s in California (how long since it’s moved off the Galpin lot?) and the Rodius is with Adrian in England.
Well, sure, physical space, and temporal separation (given their respective model years) but they’re both generally regarded to be in the same class of “ugly”.
Nothing is free David. FFS, don’t buy a Jeep that needs floorboards when you live in Cali-friggen-fornia!!!!
And do you know what’s really sad about your first XJ? Letting it rot in the woods with goats using it as a playground. Let somebody else have some fun with it.
Oh, and another thing, I know for a fact that you prefer 4-door XJ’s anyways!
Exactly what is smarter spend thousands to restore a beyond restoration or a decent model that can be restored economically? Otherwise the decent model is sitting until it becomes a wreck
Aww, why’d you skip Albuquerque?
Because 70 is better than 40!
Not in golf and not in winter
Because you always make wrong turns there, according to Buggs Bunny
Thank you for that. 🙂
I mean if Bugs is headed to the Coachella Valley and (presumably) is LA-based, he’s already made a great many wrong turns to be anywhere near Albuquerque and should’ve turned back when he saw (or dug headfirst into the concrete support base of) the “Now Leaving California” sign two states back.
They didn’t they just forgot to take a left turn there.
David is not a magnet for shitty Jeeps.
His Jeeps don’t have enough iron remaining to be attracted to magnets.
COTW.
I would have offered to sell him my 4Runner as it just needed some frame work, but I found a buyer who is a welder.
I feel the need to note that, for a period of about 43 minutes, David also wanted me to look into getting him a Mitsubishi Jeep. I think calmer heads prevailed because I was already sending him listings while the others were telling him no. 🙂
David, you need a Prius v. It’s so practical it’ll knock your socks off. Or sandals. Or socks and sandals.
I don’t know what you have on your feet. That would be weird.
I second this. My mother had one for a decade. Supremely practical, and as a bonus so utterly hateful to drive you will do so as little as possible. Huge benefit to the environment, that. I think the only way Toyota could have made it worse was to make the seats out of a bed of nails. But nearly 50mpg!
…are you sure we’re talking about the same vehicle?
I kid…yeah, it’s not exciting, but I’ve made plenty of mods to it so far and it does everything I need to.
Quite sure. It was loud, slow, road poorly, handled poorly, had an interior made out of Fisher-price grade materials, horrific ergonomics, and utterly awful seats. And it was actually less reliable than my BMW, being a first year car it had software glitches and brake issues. But it did everything she needed it to economically, and since it was wagon-shaped it was bought new at a massive discount. But I have rather higher standards than that.
I think “loud” is the only one of those I’m even close to having. It’s faster than a Ford E-series with the 4.6l engine, the interior plastics aren’t fingerprint magnets or reflective, and I’ve found the ergonomics to be quite good.
The seats are in a grey area where they could certainly be better and I wouldn’t call them “comfortable”, but I’ve driven 6+ hours in one day in it in almost a continuous stretch and it doesn’t do me any harm.
And yeah, going to it from a ’97 Econoline-150, the handling is downright sporty in comparison. Not feeling like I’m going to tip over in highway on/off-ramps is fantastic.
Your standards are so much lower than mine they might as well be at the bottom of the Marianas Trench, I suspect.
The big problem with the Prius-V, and all 3rd gen Priuses (except the Prius-C, which isn’t really a Prius, as it shares no parts commonality, and is actually a LHD Toyota Aqua) is that the the 2zz engine is prone to head gasket failures.(This also means the ct200h, but the 2018+ models apparently don’t.) The enthusiast forums seem to have found a preventive fix, but that means that buying used you need to find a low-milage, well-documented one or set the money aside for a head gasket replacement.
I’ve definitely heard of that issue and I’ve had some preventative maintenance done (EGR cleaning at 140,000 miles and recently had the engine water pump replaced), but I question how much of that is that the people who’ve had that issue are going to be far more vocal than people who haven’t had that issue.
Surely it can’t affect all of that engine.
At any rate, if worst comes to worst, I would absolutely consider getting some low-mileage JDM engine installed as replacement. I’ve put far too much blood, sweat, and tears into this car to lose it to anything that doesn’t get me an insurance payout.
The forums seem to be convinced an oil catch can is the way to keep the EGR system clean. I do wonder what Toyota did to the final ct200h years’ engines to resolve the problem.
(/David doesn’t listen to Adrian’s sage advice)
“I Had A Perfect Life That Was Torn Asunder By A Free Jeep”
followed by
“Elise (NHRN) Has Given Me 30 Days To Get TF Out And I Have Too Many Cars”
Elise NHRN knew what she was getting in to when she married him. If she’s one of the women who think they can create a diamond from a rough stone, she’ll just spin her wheels trying to change him. She promised to have and to hold, for better or for worse, so if she can’t handle another 4-wheeled hobby challenge for the love of her life, then it’s on her.
With all due respect to the blushing bride. She could have gotten stuck with someone who doesn’t know a pickle fork from a salad fork. We are probably too worried about her. At least she can count on his wandering eye only falling on fixer-upper cars, and his hobbies not including smoking dubious, foul-smelling plants, pounding 40-ouncers or worse. Ten years now we’ll all be congratulating them on their anniversary, their back seat full of happy children and numerous valuable finely restored classic automobiles.
This seems like the right place to note that Mike Finnegan spent most of the last 13 years’ anniversaries & valentines days on the road. And his drag boat is named Side Chick.
But, somehow, I don’t think the woman who convinced Our Rusty David to take a sonic bath will be quite as understanding as Mrs Finnegan
Damn, dude, you really took my sarcasm and ran with it! 🙂
That aside, allow me to get sentimental for a moment when I say he already has Holy Grails in the form of his wife and child. Maybe I should’ve just said that first.
True story: I was a young teenager near Syracuse when the DeLorean came up. My brother’s friend’s dad bought one. I overheard the wife say to my mom: “At least it is not a woman” God, what an eye-opener to my young self! I guess I had not really considered the car/non-monogamy angle until that moment.
David, its time to move on. I’ve had 4 XJ’s over the years and sold my holy grail 2 door 5spd 4×4 in 2023. Do I still love them? Yes. At 40 do I love how I feel after driving one on a road trip? Hell no.
Same boat here. I love the memories I’ve had in my XJs and I love just about everything about them, but they’ve aged about as gracefully as my 42 year old self and I think my lower back would protest daily driving one again.
In 2020 I drove my XJ from Houston to Moab, UT, wheeled it, and drove it back.
I just moved from Houston to Portland. Between here and Moab, same drive. Doing that drive in a 2022 Accord 2.0T and again a month later in an Audi Q5 was so much easier than doing it in a stick shift XJ with no cruise control. Semis weren’t trying to murder me up the hills.
When it comes to acquiring one’s favorite cars,
Just Enjoy Every Possibility
Those wheels are soo cool.
Honestly, I think you guys should convince David to buy something completely opposite to what he normally drives and get a cheap old sporty car like Miata, Solstice, or MRS and then do autocrosses or track days with it.
thats the move I made post XJ, so I approve.
He already has a Mrs and I don’t think E(NHRN) would appreciate him looking for a new one. 😉
David cannot be a magnet for old Jeeps because magnets don’t stick to rust or Bondo.
Thank, that was my first thought too. Well, without the bondo.
Well I mean if it’s free idk what the problem is. Maybe sell a car or two (I forgot my list from that other post on which ones, I could be interested in buying the k1500 myself) to pay for the shipping/make room in the lot for it? If it’s literally free to get and free-adjacent to ship, AND the net total on your fleet is at least a -1, who can knock him for this? This is the type of thrifty, wheeling and dealing, “I do what the hell I please and everyone is better off for it” move dads are known for.
David, just buy the Jeep, write several articles about all the additional work you didn’t even realize you’d need to do, and stop obsessing (over this particular Jeep).
Someone else with access to David’s fleet, please remove some vehicles while he’s busy with this Jeep. Selection method entirely up to you.
I like this idea. “We’ve Titled David’s Cars in a Blind Trust to Save Him From Himself”
I totally read Mercedes’ “DAVID” in Alexis Rose voice.
Ew, David!
David, last I knew Elise NHRN didnt even know about the Michigan XJ- have you told her?
But according to my other half, “Since it predates her, it doesnt count. Get another XJ.”
There is no reason to bring rusty XJs to California.
Didn’t he already claim to have learned this information? The hard way?
WE JUST WENT THROUGH THIS!!!!!
Would click on the stories though. Maybe the Nissan taxi can tow it from Michigan to California?
Our goth uncle = adult supervision? Curiouser and curiouser…
You’ve REALLY not been paying attention have you.
I wish to plead incompetence.
He wants to have a written record for the inevitable “I told you so.”
God bless Adrian for trying
Truly a losing battle
I’ve given up on Miss Mercedes.
It’s a rusty Jeep. Only clean Jeeps.
I think it’s time to put our collective feet down and insist DT buys NOTHING until he fixes or disposes of everything in his fleet. Nothing in storage, nothing “just waiting for parts” it all runs and drives, or goes away, THEN DT can have a new shiny.
I also love how Alanis is just piping in trying to get work done during XJ chat.
Idea: If we get x number of subscribers David isn’t allowed to buy any cars for a year.
We’ll use the business to force him to break the habit.
Next year we can use the same plan on Mercedes
He’ll just stop telling us.
Listen to Adrian. Just put that on a T-shirt and wear it. All. The. Time.
Everybody should. I’ve lived a life.
Jesus, did he not just write an entire blog post about how everything in Cali is so much better than the shit traps from Michigan and he did the whole move to LA wrong in bringing his rust traps with him?!?
GAH!
When he comes to Goodwood I’m going to bog flush some sense into him so help me God.
So says the guy who owns a Ferrari
A perfectly working, non-rusty Ferrari.