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To: babble-on

“In the 1970s you had to trade your car in after five years because it had stopped running. Cars are much better made today, at least as far as reliability. Some of the engines were bigger back then, and the cars were heavier, but I for one am glad Toyota and Nissan exist”

In the 1970’s up north, you would see the road through the floorboards due to rust long before a car would actually stop running.


8 posted on 05/04/2024 4:24:00 AM PDT by The Antiyuppie (When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.)
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To: The Antiyuppie

In the 1970’s up north, you would see the road through the floorboards due to rust long before a car would actually stop running.


The “rule of thumb” for rebuild projects was to buy your bodies from Southern states and engines from up North.

The motors in the South were often worn out and the bodies from the North were eaten up from rock salt.


62 posted on 05/04/2024 6:48:52 AM PDT by Cold_Red_Steel
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