Posted on 06/11/2017 10:11:26 AM PDT by Lorianne
Gives you something to look forward to.
Well yeah...
He brings them back to better than new, replacing or upgrading all worn mounts, bushings, moving parts. Then gives them flawless paint. Usually frame-off rebuilds.
That should make you appreciate the "core value" of your local vintage tin.
I tend to agree. New cars/trucks are plastic computers with wheels attached.
I’ve owned many cars over the years. Form many different manufactures. I must be unlucky because I’ve never gotten more then 175k miles on any of them before the auto trans blew out. The weak link is the transmission and not the engine.
Yeah, they look like a bunch of futuristic roller skates
“That they are, who needs all that crap anyway?”
Options are optional .... DUH ....
“Sixty percent sounds like the official version of events from the federal government which is disconnected from the real world. I would as soon believe figures quoted by Barack Obama.”
You are letting your bias get in the way of facts. According to government figures, $110 in 1967 would be almost $800 today.
Not everybody likes 'boring' colors but most do. And you can get a decent car for FAR less than $70k.
“Gives you something to look forward to. “
I may not live that long ...
“He brings them back to better than new,”
LOL! New running gear and body/paint work would run over $20k. And he is selling for less than $6k?
DUH ...
“I tend to agree. New cars/trucks are plastic computers with wheels attached.”
Interesting that today’s family sedan outperforms many of the old muscle cars.
We've been had.
“I must be unlucky because I’ve never gotten more then 175k miles on any of them before the auto trans blew out. The weak link is the transmission and not the engine.”
I tend to agree with you on older transmissions. They were not properly spec’d to pull trailers and have no maintenance. Heat was the enemy.
My car has a transmission cooler.
“We’ve been had. “
And those same evil people have been paying you higher wages and/or profits ...
“new cars are little more than plastic encased computers on wheels. “
Your post was ridiculous the first time you posted it ...
Wage never kept up. And no, not the same people as you suggested. They had nothing to do with the manipulation of currency and debt. Not even close.
What controls/monitors and evaluates nearly ever component including the drive train of most 2017 model vehicles?
“Options are optional .... DUH”
Use to be optional, you mean. Try finding a new car that is not loaded up, a lot of it now is really “option delete”, meaning you have to place a special order to get a car without a lot of that stuff. If you want a stick shift it may not be available at all and probably won’t exist in a few more years.
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