@flga-2-2 While I agree to a point, I fear we will be worse off with the garbage Ford/Chevy/Dodge have been making for the past 20 years. I've already ranted about the 2011 F150 I drive with the old 5.0 shoe-horned into that abomination of a truck body made out of Bud Light cans. Sure, a '65 Chrysler is an archaic death trap but at least it can be fixed with basic tools.?ÿ
If the apocalypse hits during these last coughs of the internal combustion era we'll all be driving '90s Toyotas until we run out of fossil juice.
@drew-r death trap? just in the week i've had it i've come to re-discover what sort of RESPECT that car gets out on the road.?ÿ and i don't mean in the "wow, nice old car" way that i've been getting plenty of as well, but in the hard-wired "holy crap i'm staying out of the way of the aircraft carrier" kind of respect you don't even see lifted crew cabs get.
now, were i a lead foot or a street racer type... maybe there'd be some heed to be taken.?ÿ but i drive just like grandma anyways.?ÿ i ain't worried.
death trap?
Interesting, but I'm sorry to see that old Bel Air get smashed....
Malibu driver : Upset that his coffee spilled. Walks to nearest Starbucks for replacement. Wakes up tomorrow feeling a little sore.?ÿ
Belair driver : crushed legs, punched in the jaw by the steering column, probably dead.?ÿ ?ÿ
point taken.?ÿ however, as somebody who has already experienced, from the inside, what happens to a plymouth reliant when it hits a telephone poll at 50 mph... figure i've been playing with house money for about the last 30 years.
I once had an Olds Cierra sedan. Stepdaughter was taking someone to the airport to catch a redeye flight, well before dawn, when Bambi decided to cross the interstae. He caved in the front of the car and shorted out the battery so the lights went out. She was coasting off the road when someone came up behind in a minivan and crunched the rear, with the lack of tail lights a contributing factor.
That Oldsmobile rear looked like a Gremlin, remember them? If anybody had been in the back seat, they would have been shortened, crushed between the seat and the roof.
Everybody but Bambi walked away from that. Good thing it wasn't a small car.
@norman-oklahoma thanks for posting. I didn't feel like stirring the pot... ????
A guy I used to work with at an independent garage (before I got into surveying) restored one just like that. It was a beautiful car.?ÿ
Now you have to open every conversation ??NOW LOOKIE HERE SONNY BACK IN MY DAY???
