Recent content by Mad Mac

Old timers like me will recall that Land Rover pioneered the iconic contrasting white/limestone roof on its utility vehicles, starting with the Series II Land Rover in the early 1960s. A white top will add comfort here in far Northwest Deep East Texas in the Dirty South.

Would this help?

In the oilfield service business we made an open box with a plywood floor and 2x12 sides to prevent wellheads from rolling around and smashing the walls of the pickup bed. Helped keep the bed clean, too.

My 95-gallon wheeled garbage can with my Garbage Commander.

They say when you age you cage. That's true for me. Rode about 100,000 miles on two wheels, 67,000 of them on a Yamaha V-Max, and owned a number of motorcycles. Put my kickstand down for good when I turned 67 and switched to Jeeps. Figured I had stretched my luck far enough. Read about my...

Upon further reflection the Fiat 500e was discontinued for 2026 and replaced with the hybrid Abbrida. The unit above is two years old and used, but still very attractively priced.

I just checked and it is still available for that price.

You are correct, Sir. In fact that is how I bought my 21 Nacho Gladiator in 2023. It was in Manheim PA and I am in East Texas. Guess I'm not that motivated after all.

If that deal was near me I would jump on it. I did a quick Google search and the only thing close was a used 2024 Fiat 500e for $24,000.

The Fiat is at a Ram dealer because Fiat bought Chrysler, Dodge, Ram and Jeep and renamed themselves Stellantis. In 1970, I was stationed in West Germany and bought a used Fiat 850. If someone had told me then that Fiat would one day own Chrysler/Jeep I would have told them that they had...

The lowering kit will help a lot. Too bad it will not be all wheel drive.

What class would it be in? What would it be running against?

No stranger to small pickups. I had a 1995 Nissan compact pickup. Put 120,000 miles on it. Traded in 2009 in the Obama Cash for Clunkers for a midsize Toyota Tacoma Access Cab kept until 2023 when I purchased yet another midsize truck, albeit a four door Jeep Gladiator Rubicon. Looking forward...

A butt-o-meter ! Evidently I was not issued one of those. My purchase decisions have mostly been based on emotion. I have to be smitten, infatuated. The Nacho Jeep Gladiator Rubicon Truck in my avatar is a good example. Purchased used, sight unseen and shipped 1800 miles. I had never driven...

The Subaru Brat bed mounted seats was a workaround to classify it as an SUV instead of a truck. The Johnson 25% "Chicken Tax" tariff also applied to Japanese trucks. Subsequently modified by Reagan to close the chassis cab loophole, it ultimately prompted the Japanese to move production into...