when an average 15 year old car is more reliable than an average 5 year old car! Complicated electrical systems seem to constantly go wrong where as the old car just keep going.
thunderbolt,
Jan 24, 7:26pm
Nup, plenty of old flatheads still chugging along.
Doubt my FG will still be running in 2070
sifty,
Jan 24, 7:56pm
The more gadgets a car has, the more crap there is to go wrong.
I'm always waiting for stupid dial type temp controls to expensively fail, and quite enjoy getting back in an old banger with cables operating flaps and valves etc, sturdy, effective and reliable.
elect70,
Jan 24, 8:29pm
yep my firstelectroniccar vl commieno end of problems . but the BMW s ive hadhave been pretty good .
skin1235,
Jan 24, 10:11pm
don't miss the remove points, rub on a bit of concrete, replace back in dizzy and carry on home, or the drain water from carb bowl, restart and keep on truckin, but with all the electronics and injectors etc a minor hic up becomes a major dolly or trailer tow to a computer based repair shop today, no such thing as crouching in the rain for an hour then driving home maybe the old way was easier to fix on the roadside afterall, and if all else failed you could hook up a bit of a cockies fence and pull the beast home, today you'd cook the trans and or screw the tailshaft of a manual before you'd got 50 km closer to home ( at 120clicks ph)
dave653,
Oct 29, 10:17am
Yep. old rules!
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