Recent content by GoHawks63

I just checked the loom (if in fact that’s what the recall references) that runs behind the radiator and it looked fine. it was a quick look. Will go through it again tomorrow.

Just came across this article. https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/general/15-bronco-fires-later-ford-s-fix-for-565-000-broncos-is-basically-tape/ar-AA28BXGb?uxmode=ruby&ctsrc=dgst&ocid=edgntpruby&pc=DCTS&cvid=6a63a72f8f8e467e9cca77095686a0df&ei=72

I see the recall on CarFax. As has been mentioned before, it is not yet visible on the Ford website or in the app. 2024 WildTrak with a November 2024 build date.

I think Jay has more than that and he isn't the only one in the country with a large collection.

Those products are aspirational and status driven. Most people, not all, but most people who buy Ferraris rarely drive them, and as far as manuals go, they stopped building cars with manuals many years ago, replacing it with the DCT. As did Chevy with the Corvette Cadillac had a manual for the...

Very true. Well said.

I retired early almost five years ago. I have a "retirement job" managing a car collection (about 130 cars). Not a bad gig and I get health insurance until I am Medicare eligible in a year or so. I would say 60% of the cars are manuals, so I get my fix driving them when they need to be exercised.

As I mentioned earlier in this thread, my uncle had an auto repair shop that specialized in foreign cars (which was worth advertising in the '70s and early '80s). He was always coming across cars. Early on he found two 1964 FIAT 1100Ds that were sitting in a yard somewhere. He restored both...

That first car I owned was a '76 FIAT. I can't tell you how many times the clutch cable would snap on that thing while driving it. As I came up to a traffic light I would have to pop it into neutral. Turn the car off, put it in gear and then start it in gear (it didn't have a neutral safety...

My father worked his whole life for Radio Flyer (the company that makes the little red wagons). When I was a late teen, I was contemplating dropping out of school to work in my uncle's auto repair shop. My immigrant father was having none of that. They were hiring summer help at the factory and...

Agree with you 100%. Along with the windshield film.

This! I was born and raised in Chicago. I learned to drive on a manual and my first car was a manual. I commuted to college (DePaul) and sitting on the Kennedy in stop and go traffic was brutal, not to mention that it really wasn't that enjoyable driving a manual on those city streets. I moved...

I have WTs and have been happy with them. They have changed the material on their current products. They are a bit softer and not as slippery as they used to be. More "rubbery" and flexible than hard and "plasticy" as before. They still are liners though, if that what you mean by the "Bathtub"...

I did full PPF (except the roof) on my 2024 WildTrak almost immediately after purchasing it new in January 2025. After a year and a half and over 13K miles, I don’t have one stone chip or pinstripe, and I have taken it on trails where branches rubbed up against it. My installer used STEKDyno...

Good point. We went a couple of days earlier for our Moab Off-Roadeo. The day before we hiked Fisher Towers. We were up at sunrise and were at the entrance at 6:00 am and were finished at around 10:00 am just as the sun was rising over the towers, and even with that it was hot. We brought those...