Modern day cars,

nowadays, you have to wet nurse them all the time.

I say bring back the Good old Ford Model Ts.
www.barefootsworld.net/ford-t-specs.html
cuhulin

On Jul 5, 6:22*pm, wrote:
> nowadays, you have to wet nurse them all the time.
>
> I say bring back the Good old Ford Model Ts.www.barefootsworld.net/ford-t-specs.html
> cuhulin

Can I get a HELL YEA

> nowadays, you have to wet nurse them all the time.

Aw, c'mon. Remember having to do a tune-up twice a year? Flooding
carburetors? Brake fade? Putting in a quart of oil every thousand
miles? Rust that starts in the showroom?

My one concession is that when something does go wrong nowadays, there
is more head scratching in the diagnosis and probably more wallet
exercise in the repair. But from a simple standpoint of getting out
of bed on a cold morning and knowing you will get to work, or shutting
down on a hot afternoon and knowing you can get a first-bang restart,
or sending little Pumpkin off to college knowing that remembering to
check the oil once in a while is all the maintenance that will likely
be needed until spring break, cars have never been better.

> I say bring back the Good old Ford Model T

An epochal example of "appropriate technology" in its day, but in
most usage scenario,s its day actually ended some years before the
car's production run, allowing competitors to steal a march on Ford.

On Mon, 6 Jul 2009 16:23:56 -0700 (PDT), Ad absurdum per aspera
> wrote:

>> nowadays, you have to wet nurse them all the time.
>
>Aw, c'mon. Remember having to do a tune-up twice a year? Flooding
>carburetors? Brake fade? Putting in a quart of oil every thousand
>miles? Rust that starts in the showroom?
>
>My one concession is that when something does go wrong nowadays, there
>is more head scratching in the diagnosis and probably more wallet
>exercise in the repair. But from a simple standpoint of getting out
>of bed on a cold morning and knowing you will get to work, or shutting
>down on a hot afternoon and knowing you can get a first-bang restart,
>or sending little Pumpkin off to college knowing that remembering to
>check the oil once in a while is all the maintenance that will likely
>be needed until spring break, cars have never been better.
>
Exactly right. And that modern ease of care goes even with my 12 and
19 year old daily drivers.
You hit the high spots about what had to nursed on older cars, but
just about everything else failed more quickly too.
Nope, don't want to go back.
For old time's sake I wouldn't mind taking a spin in a replica of the
'64 Olds Holiday 88 I had. But I don't want it my garage.

--Vic

On Mon, 6 Jul 2009 15:26:50 -0700 (PDT), "
> wrote:

>On Jul 5, 6:22*pm, wrote:
>> nowadays, you have to wet nurse them all the time.

Nonsense.

>> I say bring back the Good old Ford Model Ts.www.barefootsworld.net/ford-t-specs.html
>> cuhulin
>
>Can I get a HELL YEA

hell No

wrote:
> nowadays, you have to wet nurse them all the time.
>
> I say bring back the Good old Ford Model Ts.
> www.barefootsworld.net/ford-t-specs.html
> cuhulin
>

I have heard folks say, "they don't make cars like they used to." I say
thank god. My more recent cars far exceed the quality and longevity of
the cars I used to own. One used to be lucky to get 100K miles. Today,
the cars are still like new at that milage. I just sold an 11 year old
Neon with 145K on it, and there was no RUST on it at ALL. Never had
cars in the old days that didn't have SOME rust on them when they got
three to four years old. I remember putting rod bearings on flathead
Ford V8s at forty to fifty K miles, and replacing water pumps every
three years or so. Points and plugs frequently. Valve jobs seem to have
become a thing of the past.