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First, the whine: Here in Texas, we have a real finance disaster unfolding. Our legislature has based future funding on a continuing rise in sales tax that simply hasn't occurred. People are becoming more conservative/worried and are choosing to save money rather than spend it. This concept...

I've seen several posts concerning the military surplus engines that are showing up at surplus auction sites. Several months ago, I decided to join one of the sites - Governments Liquidation (http://www.govliquidation.com/index.html). I've been following the auctions that occur near (sort of)...

Last August I turned my truck over to the high school auto body program. Since it's running great, I thought it'd be kinda nice if it looked great, too. The bed was falling apart, the driver's fender had a kink in it due to some door misalignment, there was a serious dent in the passenger door...

Since getting my truck running a year ago, I've slowly added/performed the mods in my sig. One of the first (unintentional) changes was installing a set of 238/85R16 tires. The originals were dry-rotted from sitting for over 4 years, and I happened to have a set of almost unused tires from a...

Last April, after spending a year tinkering and twiddling, I got my truck running. I bought it from the 2nd owner, after it had been sitting by the repair shop for over a year. (This was the first time it'd run in over 4 years.) The whole sorry saga is listed on the oilburners page under...