Recent content by JJMM

In California, gophers have lawyers.

It is the 4K and zero sag. Did a great job of handling the weight. Zero float in the front end and no difference in acceleration or braking. Good little horsey!

Here in the once great State of California, our government is singularly focused on all of the fraudulent ways they can siphon money out of our pockets so I don't think we'll see any change that doesn't increase the amount of blood they can suck from our bank accounts.

Thanks for the note. It's a dealer provider temp. paper plate. Long gone into the shredder.

Halfway through unloading 1,200lbs. of river rock as part of a landscape project out back. The materials yard is 9mi. from home. Got 41mpg under load and the truck drove like a dream. The extra heavy duty tarp did a great job of protecting the factory bed liner as well as the lens covering...

I wanted a small truck that was quiet, comfortable, and capable. After 25 years with a GMC Sierra 1500, I've already hauled all the big loads of rocks, trees, lumber, etc. that go with building a new home on a good sized piece of land. And with 296K miles at 17mpg, it was time to send that...

These look great for a single person who works with his or her hands. But, parents, be extremely careful if you have kids of any age sitting in the back seat with racks like these in front of them. I'm visualizing all the potential ER visits with broken and torn fingers from kids playing with...

Yes it was. I believe they called it Forest Green. Beautiful!

Wow! That's $3K more than I paid for my brand-new Maverick in 1970! Wish I had kept that little beauty. I found a photo online that looks exactly like the one I bought new...

Meet Grey Ghost Jr. We call her G.G. I drove a grey '99 GMC Safari 1500 Classic new in '99 and drove it for 26 trouble-free years and put 296K miles on it. We called her the Grey Ghost. When it finally went to that big truck stop in the sky, I looked at and drove every small pick up on the...

In the middle to late '60s, I bought a succession of old, non-running cars, repaired them and sold them ('54 Ford, '56 Pontiac, '58 Buick, '62 Corvair) and worked a number of jobs to save money. By 1970, at 18 years of age, I was able to buy a brand-new Maverick from my uncle, Jack Mongiello...

Great photo. That looks like one happy pup! Mine is definitely a world class back-seat driver...

I went with the Lariat for a bunch of reasons. The seats are more comfortable (for me), I wanted the moon roof and I also wanted the power sliding rear window for my GSD fur missile. She loves to lay her muzzle on the center head rest and watch what's happening behind the truck. With the...

Meet my Baby Beast. 2025 carbon grey Maverick Lariat Hybrid with OEM spray-in bed liner for the standard 54.4" x 42.6" bed, Moon Roof, Locking door on the side-wall storage compartment, 4K towing package, Bullet-point dash tray with magnetic phone holder, power sliding rear window, hybrid and...

The heavy tarp did the job. I don't yet trust that the bed liner is enough to resist dents from a load like this but it did its job. Also, I have to chill a bit and accept that the truck is doing exactly what I bought it for. Very happy with the increased confidence this trip instilled.