Dead-end cars ?
 

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:

Or by that time, you just plug it in to your holocontact lenses and download whatever you want to fix the tech and be on your way. Who knows.

Maybe in 2060 drivers will put water or whatever liquid in the gas tank and the combustion engine and burn whatever it is and make 330hp..

who knows? it's 38 years later....

I'll most likely be dead.

:iagree: I'm with cooltoy on this one.

So enjoy it now while you can, nothing lasts forever.

I'll bet the farm that I will be.

And I'll bet even more that I hope to be.

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.

Keep everything, parts, fenders, bumpers, wheels, skirts, etc. My future grandson will restore it. But will need the future's version of youtube to learn how to drive it since they will all be flying at that point.

They won't know how to drive. Because everything will be self driving. :shakes head:

(They don't know how to drive now.)

If Elon Musk has his way, we'll all be traveling in the Hyperloop, 700mph baby!

Go ahead and stick you hand out the window on that. :eek:

It's the same with almost all technologies. I've got a lot of digital storage media from the 1980s and 1990s - even have the drives to read them - but finding a computer with the proper interface AND drivers would be very difficult, if not impossible, in some cases. It will difficult to find OBD/CAN tools (compatible with today's systems) that far in the future - replacement electronics and sensors will probably be more so.

With today's tech electronics will be hard to come by. But if 3d printers could and it's a reasonable stretch print sensors, boards, and processors it would just take 1 person uploading plans and you can print your parts. Electronics shouldn't be an issue to create cheap for vintage tech.

Not to worried about high tech here.

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