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The tire pressure light is a late warning

By the time that little horseshoe lights up, a tire's already 25 percent low. A gauge, a quarter and two minutes a month get you ahead of it.

GuideFitnessCal Brennan23 Sept 20266 min

Read the prescription label before you leave the parking lot

The sig line, the fill date and the warning stickers tell you most of what the doctor didn't have time to say. Ninety seconds, in the car.

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Plan a cook for eight people

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StoryAutosDean Shaw4 Oct 20266 min

Detroit's best idea was a big engine in a cheap car

The muscle car began as a loophole, a price tag and a few engineers who knew exactly who was buying. That's still the formula worth chasing.

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Red on dead, and the black clamp nobody gets right

Four clamps, one order, and the last connection that keeps a jump-start from becoming a spark next to a battery. Learn it once.

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GuideSkillsWes Dunbar23 Sept 20266 min

Change a tire in the dark and the rain without getting hit

The order matters more than the muscle. Loosen before you lift, and never put a body part under a car held up by a scissor jack.

GuideAutosDean Shaw3 Oct 20267 min

The spark plug job is easy until the last quarter turn

Gapping, torque and the hand-start habit that keep a simple plug change from ending with a stripped aluminum head and a tow truck.

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GuideOld SchoolDean Shaw23 Sept 20266 min

How To Keep A Car Twenty Years The Way My Grandfather Did

He drove the same truck for two decades on cheap oil, a spiral notebook and a garden hose. None of it was complicated, and all of it still works.

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Does your wardrobe actually fit you?

Five questions, honestly answered, and a plan for the next fortnight.

GuideBRO for HerNina Castellan23 Sept 20265 min

Declutter one shelf at a time and skip the weekend meltdown

Forty minutes, one zone, four containers, and a hard rule about the trunk of your car.

GuideAutosDean Shaw26 Sept 20266 min

A supercar is bought. A coachbuilt car is argued into existence

The one-off cars from Rolls-Royce and Ferrari cost millions. The rules for commissioning one scale all the way down to your local shop.

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GuideYoung MenSam Ortiz23 Sept 20266 min

Your first car should be boring, and that's a compliment

The insurance call, the ten-minute walkaround, the inspection a seller will try to talk you out of, and the four words that end a bad deal.

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GuideBRO for HerNina Castellan23 Sept 20266 min

Walking to your car alone, and the ten seconds that matter

Parking garages, late flights and hotel corridors don't require paranoia. They require about six habits you run without thinking.

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GuideAutosDean Shaw23 Sept 20265 min

The best collector-car deals aren't under the auction lights

Televised auctions set the market. Estate garages, regional sales and patient private-seller hunting are where you actually beat it.

GuideTools & OrganizingDean Shaw23 Sept 20267 min

How to Lay Out a Real Shop in a One-Car Garage

Twelve by twenty-two feet is enough room to build furniture, if you chalk the floor before you buy a single tool.</title> <dek>Twelve by twenty-two feet is enough to build furniture in, if you chalk the floor before you buy a single tool.

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GuideBRO for HerNina Castellan23 Sept 20266 min

Dressing well when you're outnumbered by small children

Clothes are equipment at this stage. Here's how to buy things that survive the floor, the car seat and the wash, and still look deliberate.

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Is your money actually in order?

Six questions. No email required, no sales pitch at the end.

Autos6 min

What to Buy When You Need Three Rows and a Trailer Hitch

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When living without a car in the city actually works

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GuideBe a ManMarcus Vale23 Sept 20265 min

What to Say at a Funeral and What to Do With Your Hands

Say his name, tell one story under a minute, and be the guy who's still there when the cars pull out.

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The Classic Cars Still Cheap Enough to Buy This Year

Seven cars the market still files under used instead of collectible, plus the one rule that decides whether you win or bleed.

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