[calex59]

Rebuild tranny(stupid expression)every 30,000 miles? Plain to see you didn't live in the late 50s. Rebuild engine at 60,000? That went out about 1935, cars in the 50s routinely averaged 100,000 or more miles and they didn't have the oils we have now. I drove a 1957 chevy that I paid 700 bucks for in 1962, it had 50,000 on it when I got it, I drove it until it dropped at 125,000 miles and it didn't even have an oil filter, but I changed oil every 1000 miles like clockwork. The transmission, BTW, was still going strong when I sold it to a guy for 90 bucks in 1968.

The only car I ever owned that the transmission(notice how it is spelled, it isn't a sex change victim it is a car part)went out early was a 2000 Ford Taurus, it went out at 70,000 miles, and pi**ed me off to no end when it did it.

[mkjessup]

Ditto, you can always identify these ignorant fools who don’t even know what they’re talking about when they start spewing off babble like that. Whether we’re talking cars of the 1950’s/60’s or cars today, the one key critical component is MAINTENANCE, *preventive* maintenance and in the vehicles of the past, it was far easier (and encouraged) for the owners to do much of their own upkeep and the cars were designed to make that upkeep simple and straightforward, unlike these computerized digital pieces of plastic crap that have only one thing in common with their namesakes of the past, and that is: the name/badge on the fender.