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Todays cars last longer than cars made in the 1950s. Better metalurgy, engines and lubrication.

I know! The problems my father had, trying to keep his old cars on the road.

I used to have to get out of my first car on the side of the road and fiddle with the carburetor when it would just decide to conk out at highway speed. Back in the late '70s.

And I used to have to get a new muffler ever two or three years, due to winter salt damage in the northeast.

I still live in the same place, and I haven't had to get a new carburetor in like 20 years. A small thing, but I appreciate it.

And the richest man in the world couldn't have an iPhone, or get a CAT scan or MRI, or use the internet, back in the 1950s. Couldn't get genetically-tailored cancer therapy. Couldn't get cataract surgery. That's just scratching the surface, of course.

I haven't had to get a new carburetor in like 20 years

lol. How old is your car ?!?!?

When was the last time you had to file the points.