It was a dorky little car, but I must admire the fact that he used it for over 20 years. Of course, since it didn’t have all the electronic cra...er...Obamastuff on it, it was actually repairable - albeit at the cost of having possibly the slowest car on the road.
Yes, the days of repairable cars is over. I drove a Porsche 911 Turbo (930) for about 25 years. I loved that car, but it was a love/hate relationship. It was fast and fun, but it would sometimes try to kill me until I backed off on the throttle a bit. I was able to do much of the work on it myself.
There is a guy in Canada that has a 1985 Toyota Tercel with about 800,000 miles on it and it looks practically new..
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