Daily driving classic cars and trucks comes with benefits and pitfalls. 200,000 miles combined with 25 years can have deleterious effects on the materials originally used to build even the finest automobiles. One of the more vexing failures is when a horn stops working when you lay on the button or worse - when the horn sounds off all on its own. And that's just what … [Read more...]
Tool of the Week: Mechanic’s Stethoscope
The biggest trick to fixing something broken is diagnosis, or identifying what to fix in the first place. When it comes to vexing mechanical problems there is probably no greater source of mystery than car noises. Pinpointing the source of the sound in question is the key to victory, and there is no better tool for this task than the simple mechanic's stethoscope. For just a … [Read more...]
In a Word: Vermontero
Driving with eighties turbocharged technology across the disintegrating concrete expanses of the greater Los Angeles area was all fine and good for the likes of the Starion. New England is a different story. After the 2011 Snowpocalypse and subsequent summer flood fest of a hurricane and tropical storm, it became clear a different sort of automobile was required for the frost … [Read more...]