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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,

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Old 02-20-2018, 05:41 PM   #1 (permalink)
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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.
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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.
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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....
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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.
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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 flying at at that point.
They won't know how to drive. Because everything will be self driving.

(They don't know how to drive now.)
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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.
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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.
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Not to worried about high tech here.

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