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I laughed pretty hard. Maybe you will, too. Why Old Cars Suck However, I must say that I could fix / tune just about anything pretty cheaply on those old

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Old 06-03-2016, 11:33 AM   #1 (permalink)
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However, I must say that I could fix / tune just about anything pretty cheaply on those old cars. Of course it was because I had so much practice. For example, I once bought an early-1970s Ford station wagon to deliver bundles of newspapers to newspaper boys. My route began at the publisher at around 3 AM, where I would carefully load it with (depending on the day's edition size / weight) up to 1200 lbs of bundles of newspapers. Shortly after buying that vehicle, I came to appreciate how the name "Ford" became the acronym F. O. R. D.

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Oh, the memories! They were so great that I've pretty much stuck with Japanese-built vehicles, but I must say that the most reliable and easiest-and-cheapest-to-fix vehicle that I've ever owned was a 1981 Chev Impala sedan, 305, auto. I even drove it up a pretty bad dirt road to the top of a Rocky mountain and it survived. It was pretty rusty when I sold it in 1999 for $1 to a family friend who then got several more years of DD-to-work out of it. I was sad to see it go.
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Don't forget the author is one of the principles of 24 Hours of LeMons so his perspective on older machinery can be a little biased. That said, I pretty much agree with him. Up the mid-70's, cars were rather simple and easy to keep running. The interim years after pollution laws took effect but before EFI became commonplace was a sucky time to have to work on engines.
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LOL. Great article. Thanks for sharing.

I grew up in the 1970s and love cars from the 1950s through very-early-1970s (pre-emissions era). But, yeah, they did require almost constant attention. If you weren't tuning up points and carb, you were adjusting the drum brakes, clutch linkage, or something else. When I was a kid, that was part of the fun of owning/driving a car. Now that I'm an old fart, working on cars isn't as much fun.
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Oh, you forgot "Fuckin' Old Rebuilt Dodge".
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