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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 |
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Modern day cars,
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 |
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Modern day cars,
> 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. |
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Modern day cars,
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 |
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Modern day cars,
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 |
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