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To: Olog-hai
**Drivers behind the wheel of older cars aren’t enjoying some of the latest advanced safety features or infotainment systems**

My car property taxes went from $500/yr to $5.85/yr.

Gets great gas mileage, even has AC, and plays cassette tapes [heh]. I won't be getting any speeding tickets.

I do miss my heated seats, super disk brakes and infrared windshield wipers, though.

People stop me all the time to *talk* about their wagon, they once had. I'm thinking of charging people who want to take a selfie with my wagon. [It's named the *Ronnie Raygun* b/c Reagan was still prez in 1988]

B/c it's an *antique* by DMV standards, it doesn't have to go through emissions testing [another tax scam, in CT]


38 posted on 07/29/2015 5:29:04 AM PDT by Daffynition ("We Are Not Descended From Fearful Men")
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To: Daffynition
I do miss my heated seats, super disk brakes and infrared windshield wipers, though.

I don't know how to upgrade the brakes or the wipers, but you can add seat heaters. The heating elements slip between the seat covers and foam structure and are easy to wire up. The same kits are used in pretty much any vehicle that has seats and 12v power, they even sell them at Aircraft Spruce.

53 posted on 07/29/2015 5:42:03 AM PDT by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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To: Daffynition

Do you tell your friends that you have a...

Classic Woody

[snicker]


57 posted on 07/29/2015 5:50:58 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (BREAKING: Boy Scouts of America Changes Corporate Identity to "Scouting for Boys in America")
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To: Daffynition

I’d love to have one of those... how many does it seat? With car seats?


82 posted on 07/29/2015 6:47:54 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Daffynition

If I ever need another car, I’d like to have one from the 1980’s.


95 posted on 07/29/2015 7:06:44 AM PDT by Nowhere Man ("I wish we were back in the world of Andy Williams." - My mother, 1938-2013, RIP)
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To: Daffynition
I thought they got rid of that emissions tax scam in CT. Guess it was too good of a revenue stream to let die. Wonder when they will re-toll the Wilbur Cross/Merritt, Hartford bridges and I-95.

Still have tokens from the I-95 tolls. Had a plate for the Wilbur Cross/Merritt(Wallingford, Milford, Greenwich) and tear out tickets for the Hartford bridges.

Tough to be a traveling salesman in the '80's, early '90's in CT.

111 posted on 07/29/2015 8:03:33 AM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys-Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat-But they know what's best for you.)
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