Posted by Buzzman72 on February 18, 2010 at 08:32:10 from (74.129.194.33):
In Reply to: stuff these days posted by Evan jubilee on February 17, 2010 at 19:18:41:
Back in 1960, my grand-dad decided to get out of the automobile business. He'd been a mechanic since the 1920's, and a Hudson and International dealer since the 1940's. In the '70's a longtime customer asked him why he ever got out of the car business...and Grand-dad told him, "Because cars were getting way too complicated."
Now,compared to today, the cars of 1960 were simple...but compared to 1920, they WERE a lot more complex, what with power seats and windows, automatic transmissions, automatic headlight dimmers [GM's "autronic eye"], and other such newfangled gadgetry. So it's all a matter of your perspective.
On the other hand, a lot of folks who understand fuel injection, computers, and sensors post queries on boards all over the internet wondering how to get a carbureted vehicle with a points distributor to run right. As I say, it's all in your perspective...where your background is.
Back in the "good ol' days," it was pretty uncommon to see an engine that would run 100,000 miles without a rebuild; today even the cheapest Korean and Japanese cars do that with ease. Some people just have selective memory when it comes to that...but an engine with 75-80,000 miles back in the '60's was considered a "tired" engine.
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