”Shirt buttons? We don’t need no stinkin’ shirt buttons.”
Posted on 06/26/2022 1:31:16 AM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
Makes me wonder how I survived the 70's when I first learned to drive!
Sounds pretty much like every care ever build when I was growing up. I wish that we could buy cars like that again. The price sounds pretty good too.
Actually, modern oil has as much to do with extended life as do clearances and metallurgy. Even the old engines live longer with today's lubricants.
Given that every neighborhood I grew up in the #1 weekend “hobby” was fixing the car I’d say they didn’t.
Changing the advance springs and weights in the distributor (re-curving) also made a huge difference. Thanks for bringing back some memories. I have a 1056 Cadillac Eldorado engine, with factory duel quads out in the garage that I may have to go out and work on today because of you.
——the new Lada-—
is actually a very old lada
Russia has become what isolationist Freepers want America to be
We had covid bs lockdown...we had nothing for a year
”Shirt buttons? We don’t need no stinkin’ shirt buttons.”
Oil pressure too. Used to be 10-15lbs but now it’s 40-50lbs. Tighter clearances have also allowed for the use of 5w20/30 as opposed to 10w30/40 which is less apt to sludge, especially as you say, with the newer formulations.
And before that, SAE 30/40 single viscosity with no detergents would sludge real quick.
Indeed a lot of cars from the 30’s to the 60’s still around no new car will be around that long they will be soup cans.
We should be so fortunate. Car prices - and insurance - keep climbing in part due to government policies and progressive actions.
I'll take one.
Such is the life of a CINO on FR.
Russia buys 70% of its chips from China
I have a 2000 Civic.
The spousal unit recently bought a 2022 CR-V. It essentially is a rolling iPhone. A little wind shield ding and half the sensing "tools" are at risk.
The Civic? Just keeps rolling along at 280,000 miles.
“How did vehicles in America operate reliably for the first 100 years without all the extra stuff.”
In the 1920’s deaths per 100 million miles traveled was over 20. Now it is down to almost one.
Let's hope the open shirt thing ends there
Russia earned what is very likely a record 93 billion euros(about $97 million) in revenue from exports of oil, gas and coal in the first 100 days of the country’s invasion of Ukraine, according to data analyzed by the Center for Research on Energy and Clean Air, a research organization based in Helsinki.
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MOSCOW, June 22 (Reuters) - The rouble jumped on Wednesday to its strongest mark in seven years against the dollar and euro, supported by capital controls, a favourable upcoming tax period and Russia's trade surplus.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-16/russia-current-account-surplus-surges-to-96-billion-on-energy#:~:text=Even%20with%20oil%20restrictions%2C%20Russia%27s,Economics%20forecast%20on%20May%206.
Russia’s current account surplus more than tripled in the first four months of the year to $95.8 billion, the central bank said, as prices surged for its oil and gas exports and imports plunged under the weight of sanctions imposed by the US and its allies over President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
The surplus on the current account, the broadest measure of trade in goods and services, was the highest since at least 1994. The figure in first four months of last year was $27.5 billion.
“90% of the mandated crap from DC to the Car Manufacturers contribute very little to actual function.”
Such as?
“.and ROLL DOWN WINDOWS...cuz the elec ones fail and they’re damn expensive to repair.”
Fifty years (forty years of owning at least two cars) with electric windows and ZERO failures!
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