Any owner who drives their vintage car is aware of the quality gap between old-school manufacturing techniques and modern vehicle assembly. I’ve owned cars designed in the ’60s, ’70s, and ’80s, and I have little doubt that even today’s most poorly engineered and built cars exceed the standard of decades past. And I’m not even talking about major issues—failures that will leave you stranded on the side of the road, cursing your luck as your pride and joy inches up onto a flatbed. No, I’m referring to the many manufacturing inconsistencies, high tolerances, “good enough” parts designs, and lax attitudes toward planned obsolescence baked into so much of car building prior to the 1990s

I get to exorcise the demons living in the doors of my 1987 Jeep Grand Wagoneer by documenting the catharsis of replacing its terrible window lifters and motors with thoroughly modern mechanisms. Read it here at Hagerty.