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sx moneypit

02-21-2018 06:49 AM

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Originally Posted by Spoiler (Post 3732190)

Not to worried about high tech here.

My main concern is that if my 8 track player ever goes, I’m screwed... :icon14:

:icon17::iagree:

Rusty

02-21-2018 09:30 AM

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Originally Posted by Spoiler (Post 3732190)

Not to worried about high tech here.

My main concern is that if my 8 track player ever goes, I’m screwed... :icon14:

I got boxes of 8 tracks, cassettes, and vinyl in 45 and 33. Plus a couple of 4 tracks, and reel to reel.

Have video cameras in VHS,and Super 8mm.

Jayhovah

02-21-2018 09:52 AM

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Originally Posted by Rusty (Post 3732259)

I got boxes of 8 tracks, cassettes, and vinyl in 45 and 33. Plus a couple of 4 tracks, and reel to reel.

Have video cameras in VHS,and Super 8mm.

Rusty I've been meaning to hook you up with a friend of mine, named "Trash Bin"... PM me if you need his contact information.

Fuzzzy

02-21-2018 10:25 AM

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Originally Posted by Rusty (Post 3732259)

I got boxes of 8 tracks, cassettes, and vinyl in 45 and 33. Plus a couple of 4 tracks, and reel to reel.

Have video cameras in VHS,and Super 8mm.

Vinyl has made a big comeback and it is pricey. No idea what the market for old vinyl is though.

Larso1

02-21-2018 10:39 AM

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Originally Posted by Fuzzzy (Post 3732280)

Vinyl has made a big comeback and it is pricey. No idea what the market for old vinyl is though.

Not to mention vacuum tube amplifiers. A guy I worked with a few years ago swore by them for excellent sound reproduction in music. He bought NOS tubes from different sources around the world.

danegrey

02-21-2018 10:42 AM

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Originally Posted by cooltoy (Post 3732040)

I'll most likely be dead.

2060, I be long gone by that time....

Baronsmokes

02-27-2018 09:15 PM

Retro Modern

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Originally Posted by SteveBad (Post 3732013)

Was reading some of the problems and glitches folks are posting here..........

I can easily comprehend what it takes to restore an older , 1970-ish car in the present day, but I just can't imagine someone in the year 2060 trying to accurately restore a Z. (Or any other car, for that matter) With all the electronics and such, it is surely not going to be possible. I just had a ride in my friend's new Lincoln, and the Z seems positively Neanderthal by comparison, as far as technical features. Guess our cars are designed to be scrapped when they get used up. :twocents:

I some times forget the Z is a modern car.Old school rear wheel sports car.The fact that the Z is somewhat of a throw back is what I love about this car.

DYNAZOR

02-28-2018 06:42 AM

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Originally Posted by Rusty (Post 3732141)

The internal combustion engine is dying. It is slowly being replaced with electric. By the year 2030, it might gone in most euro counties. The only hope is IF they find something to burn that is clean. I predict when the electric car takes over if not sooner. They will find something to bitcch about it. It may be about the hazards of mining lithium, or the used battery waste and cost of replaced. Maybe then, they might think the old gas motor wasn't so bad.

20 or more years ago I used to occasionally see this bumper sticker on cars: "Evironmentalists! Let the bastards freeze in the dark!"

Desert Rat

02-28-2018 12:23 PM

I restored a Z31 a few years back and even that has so much crap on it, it made it difficult. Everything these days is modular though....replace the whole box with something else.....

At least the entire HVAC system isn't running off vacuum anymore. That was nightmarish on the Z31.

Rusty

02-28-2018 02:23 PM

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Originally Posted by DYNAZOR (Post 3734350)

20 or more years ago I used to occasionally see this bumper sticker on cars: "Evironmentalists! Let the bastards freeze in the dark!"

Take away all of the plastic they use. The polyester, nylon, electric, gas, vehicles, all modern conveniences. Then see how much they will bbitch! :shakes head:

Seen this bumper sticker a while back. "Tree Huggers, Let them burn trees to keep warm".

JLarson

02-28-2018 02:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Larso1 (Post 3732284)

Not to mention vacuum tube amplifiers. A guy I worked with a few years ago swore by them for excellent sound reproduction in music. He bought NOS tubes from different sources around the world.

I still use a tube amp. Way better sound than solid state, but pricey replacing tubes. Also.... it's incredibly loud.

sx moneypit

02-28-2018 03:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Desert Rat (Post 3734481)

:iagree:Had a Z31 too.

ramoszx12r

02-28-2018 06:48 PM

I do not think oil is going away for a longtime, to big of a business.

Spooler

02-28-2018 07:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Desert Rat (Post 3734481)

LOL, troubleshooting the auto air in one was a nightmare. Step one, remove the dash. Been there done that. All of the vacuum lines and 8 or so vacuum solenoids. It was crazy. I worked on one and put a heater core in it.

Rusty

02-28-2018 07:57 PM

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Originally Posted by ramoszx12r (Post 3734638)

I do not think oil is going away for a longtime, to big of a business.

So was tobacco. That industry is just a shell of it's self now. They bought up other companies and diversified. Most food companies. Big oil is getting into other fields too. They see the writing on the wall. In some euro counties. They have already outlawed gas and diesel vehicles starting in 2030.

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