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To: EveningStar

One thing I notice from many of the apocalypse type futuristic movies, with decimated cities, desserts, hoards of barbarians, etc. — they usually are driving cars from the 60s and 70s.

It is amazing how many of those old vehicles survived.


13 posted on 05/19/2013 10:41:26 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: TomGuy
It is amazing how many of those old vehicles survived.

Yeah. All the computers failed on the newer ones.

22 posted on 05/19/2013 10:51:56 AM PDT by null and void (Republicans create the tools of opression, and the democrats gleefully use them!)
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To: TomGuy

I think it presumes that all computers are defunct, Older model cars (Automobiles) such as those from the sixties and seventies didn’t have micro processors,

older models used distributors and points etc, which would still work after an E.M.P. event such as a nuclear detonation.


36 posted on 05/19/2013 12:05:06 PM PDT by davemac.439
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Well we have the example of Cuba where pre revolution 1950s vehicles last almost forever because that is pretty much all they have.


44 posted on 05/19/2013 12:32:49 PM PDT by xp38
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