$27,000 for an FJ80? Roasting a Facebook Land Cruiser Listing
My friends sent me a Facebook listing for an LT-swapped 1991 FJ80 asking $27,000. No lockers, 33s, paint needed all around. We need to talk about the number.
Crack Pipe or Nice Price: A $15,000 1987 Toyota Pickup Flatbed
A blue 1987 Toyota flatbed with a 22R, a stick and 81,600 miles is asking $15,000. Crack pipe or nice price? The comps, the Car-Dex and my number.
Shiny Unobtainium: A Dusty Porsche 912 Breaks the Car-Dex
A dusty green early Porsche 912 with a roof rack scanned as the first rainbow-bordered shiny in the Car-Dex. Screenshot or it didn't happen.
Rad Old Toyota Shitbox: A Patina E70 Corolla at the Hideaway
A rad old E70 Toyota Corolla spotted at the Hideaway: rust on the hood, polish on the deep-dish wheels and the last of the rear-drive Corolla sedans.
The Love Miata: A Cursed 1999 Miata With Hearts on the Hood
My old all-black 1999 Miata: hand-placed color-shift hearts, WAIFU plates, race number 13, RGB underglow, and a curse that ended relationships. Video inside.
Happy Boy in the Beat: Boone and a Blue 718 Spyder at Ressler Cars & Coffee in Belgrade
Ressler Cars & Coffee moved to Belgrade: Boone grinning from the Honda Beat, a familiar blue Porsche 718 Spyder on gold wheels, and an early exit for the farmers market with Mom.
Mama Mia: Pavarotti’s F40 and a Green LaFerrari at Museo Enzo Ferrari
A friend went to Museo Enzo Ferrari in Modena and texted me the evidence: Pavarotti's F40, Jay Kay's green LaFerrari and the Greatest Hits exhibition. I replied "Dang." This is the long version.
Jeeps at the No-Tell Motel
Sixteen rigs, a flood watch, and the roughest trail in Montana — a convoy push toward McElvy Lake that turned into a mud-soaked detour to Twin Lakes instead.
A Bypass For Blue Lake, And Morrison's Back.
Trail access update: SGCRA installs a bypass on Main Boulder Road south of Big Timber, while Shoshone National Forest reopens all 21 switchbacks on Morrison Jeep Trail.
It made everything else look heavy: a love letter to a blue Caterham Seven 360
I gave this blue Caterham Seven 360 four sentences in my last recap. Here’s the full post it actually deserved, straight from Ressler Cars & Coffee.
The Beat and Boone Show: How a Kei Car and a Bird Dog Stole Ressler Cars & Coffee
A 63-horsepower Honda Beat parked itself among a Porsche colony, a Demon Slayer-liveried Subaru, and a blue Caterham Super Seven at Ressler Cars & Coffee — and still got upstaged by a Wirehaired Pointing Griffon named Boone. Here's how a kei car and a bird dog stole the whole show.
Porsche Row, a Stagea, and a 17-Year-Old With Better Taste Than Me
Round two from Ressler Cars & Coffee at Gallatin Subaru: a black 356 Speedster, a JDM Nissan Stagea wagon, a row of Porsches, and a 17-year-old in a pink JDM Roadster with better taste than the rest of us.
Giallo Ocra and Me
A 1971 Alfa Romeo GTV 1750 in a color I'd never have picked off a swatch — Giugiaro's shape, a quadrifoglio on the C-pillar, and why the paint stopped mattering the second I got close.
Dolce Vita on Main Street: a love letter to a red Alfa Romeo Spider
Che vergogna — I gave this Pininfarina Alfa Romeo Spider one paragraph in the Cruisin' On Main recap. Here's the full confession: Nardi wood wheel, twin-cam bialbero, and why this is the exact car for the Amalfi Coast.
The Roly-Poly Daily Driver Show: I met somebody else's wife
A "daily driver" show at Roly-Poly turned into a full-blown crush on somebody else's Alfa Romeo GTV — quad headlights, SPICA injection, and a wife who's already made peace with the blue project that isn't finished yet.
Carspotting in great falls
Explore high-def shots and rare automotive finds during a carspotting run in Great Falls, Montana, captured by Aaron Thies Motorsports Photography.
Moose, Meteor Showers 16-Year-Old in an FJ40
Join 406 Cruisers on a high-country Toyota trail run through Montana's Beartooth Mountains to Goose Lake, featuring FJ40s, meteor showers, and local wildlife.
Cruising on Main 2026
26 years of Main Street chrome, 230 classic cars, and $400k raised for charity. Here are the top highlights, rare Alfas, and the time my Honda Beat got out-sized by an actual racing go-kart at Cruisin' On Main 2026.
Sunday send off
The Vigilante 77 Sunday dirt crew returned to Virginia City covered in dust and carrying plenty of stories. From air-cooled Porsches and oddball rally builds to Nick’s barbed-wire field repair, this is what the rally looked like when the dust settled.
VIGILANTE 77'S SUNDAY DIRT CREW
Day 3 of the Vigilante 77 Rally sent the Sunday Dirt Crew charging across Montana’s fast dirt roads. A rally-prepped Porsche 944, a vintage Dodge on retired Crown Victoria cop-car bones, a yellow Land Rover Defender—and one big, fat, slow Lexus camera whale—made this the dusty finale we came for.

