What an old pushrod motor sounds like with a ported head, cam, and extractors, now thats what a real car should sound like, i,me only 28 and i cant stand the horrible fake droneing sound my neghbours chrysler pt cruser makes, or any other fule injected modern piece of c#@p bring back the carberator, and bring back real cars i say.
Agreed op, those days are gone. Gotta love my american v8
gunna-1,
Apr 28, 11:48am
They should put some of these old cars back into prodution, and to the original specs, like they were thinking about doing to the morris minor back in the 90s.
vtecintegra,
Apr 28, 12:08pm
Will never happen, we have emission and safety standards to consider.
gunna-1,
Apr 28, 12:10pm
I know it sux bigtime, goodbye real cars.
gunna-1,
Apr 28, 12:14pm
Couldent they just make a few and give them an exeption, maby higher rego, insurance ect plus they would probly cost a truckload of money to buy one so there wouldent be many not like a mass prodution or anytrhing, besides isnt someone building another titanic lol.
vtecintegra,
Apr 28, 12:16pm
If you want an old car, then why not just buy an old car!
They're still around if you look.
gunna-1,
Apr 28, 12:21pm
Yea but the problems are endless, even if you get a minter, quite often you dont see the rust untill its to late, and when a little bit of paint starts to bubble before you know it you have to chop out half the sill with an angle grinder, weld it up, and put a insane amout of bog in the damn things, if they built them again they could fix the rust problems by painting the insides of them better like the did with modern cars that dont rust so much even though the metal is allmost twice as thin.
gunna-1,
Apr 28, 12:26pm
Not to mention 40 year old brakelines and master cylenders that have a nasty habbit of condensating over the years and getting rust/pit marks, every where, i have no idea how water/condensation gets into the old brakeing systems but it dose, and most people didnt change there break flued like you were suspose to with them.
rob_man,
Apr 28, 12:34pm
I know I'll get abused for saying this but people used to spell better too. Be nice to see that come back as well. Wholeheartedly agree with your sentiments about some of the older cars having appeal far beyond the modern technology riddled fleabags though.
gunna-1,
Apr 28, 12:40pm
Well you can blame the school system for that, they only catered for trouble makers and not people with genuine learning difficulties.
gunna-1,
Apr 28, 12:42pm
Like teacher aids ect, you only got one if you played up enough.
neville48,
Apr 28, 7:25pm
Lord love them for shelving that idea.must have been some 60's bright spark having an LSD flashback to go there.
gunna-1,
Apr 28, 7:39pm
What were people smokeing when they desighned the horrible looking cars we have today, i,me more of a v8 fan but give me a morrie minor anyday.
franc123,
Apr 28, 7:40pm
If you were going to recreate a Morris Minor it would have to be made from an existing modern car platform with a new body styled to look a bit like the original, in the same way the modern Mini and VW Beetle are, as others have said emissions and safety regs have killed the old ways of building stuff. But who would build it! BMW wouldn't be interested and I don't think they own the Minor name anyway like the do Mini. Perhaps Tata in India or that chinese outfit that makes MG's and rovers might be lol. Nobody is really wanting to sink cash into low volume stuff these days.
mantagsi,
Apr 28, 7:43pm
Have the best of both worlds I say; my daily driver was an old 70's vw, which was nice when things were going well, but in the end I've moved on to a good japanese car for daily driving and for weekend fun I've got a late 60's vw to tinker with. nice and easy, I couldnt be happier :) I suggest to you that all the problems you mentioned with an old car should be taken as opportunities. Even when these old cars were new, they required constant TLC and maintenance, which a lot of people seem to have forgotten as time has passed. If you buy an old car you are buying a shitload of work and a massive learning experience, not some pretty status symbol thats going to cause you no trouble and score you maximum admiration!
gunna-1,
Apr 28, 7:52pm
No way in hell, same steel thickness, bakerlight stering wheel, round glass/steel headlights or no deal, but your right, it,s not going to happen and if it did, they would make a horrible mess of it, but like they say dreams are free lol.
gunna-1,
Apr 28, 7:52pm
No way in hell, same steel thickness, bakelight stering wheel, round glass/steel headlights or no deal, but your right, it,s not going to happen and if it did, they would make a horrible mess of it, but like they say dreams are free lol.
franc123,
Apr 28, 8:02pm
You're right there, people don't know what they are getting themselves into and don't realise whats involved in keeping an old car running, despite their simplicity. People moan these days that their modern car needs the hassle of an oil service every 15000km, or even longer on some of them, how will they cope spending every weekend under a 1968 VW sorting everything out! They don't.
rob_man,
Apr 28, 8:11pm
I had an owners manual for a 58 Minx a few years ago, if you did everything it said to do in the way of maintenance the car would probably have lasted a hundred years but you wouldn't have any spare time.
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