I,ts a funny thing because thats about all i have now is motors, i,me not even going to buy another car because they are all horrible looking eye sores and most of the decent cars from the 60s and 70s have fallen of the face of the earth.
moosie_21,
May 11, 7:58pm
Cool story bro, tell us another one.
mugenb20b,
May 11, 8:02pm
So, you have lots of expired technology engines in stock and you refuse to buy a modern car because they look funny to you! If the cars in the 60's and 70's have fallen off the face of the earth, then they weren't exactly "decent", now were they! May I suggest you test drive one of these "eye sores"! You might be impressed.
gunna-1,
May 11, 8:12pm
Well they have lasted to around 40, 50, years now and no modern car will ever last that long because people have no respect for them, they are unimaginative and uninspiring machines that have no charicter and are over complicated that go fast and dont need maintanence as much where is older cars you had to cut and polish them every now and again and service them more reguarly that was what part of owning a car was.
tonyrockyhorror,
May 11, 8:17pm
Nostalgia's not what it used to be.
attitudedesignz,
May 11, 8:18pm
Haha very clever.
gunna-1,
May 11, 8:18pm
Oh and i have owned one modern car only, it was 9 years old when i got it and it died up the drive, it had been repainted and was full of rust, there was massive plates welded behind under the sills and then the firewall started getting rustholes about a year later.
mugenb20b,
May 11, 8:23pm
What kind of car was that!
gunna-1,
May 11, 8:26pm
To tell you the truth it was cheap and it had high ks but you would still expect better from a 9yo car, it was a 1997 el falcon.
gunna-1,
May 11, 8:30pm
My point is they wont last any longer, and while they dont require as much servicing, when something goes wrong you need a computerised diagnostic machine to work out what the problem is, you cant just get your mate to drop you off to repco to get some plugs and points or something.
andrea_w,
May 11, 8:31pm
Why! A cars condition reflects how it's been treated over its life. It sounds more like you're a few screws short somewhere, or you just need to evolve. nothing at all wrong with most modern cars. But as with buying ANY car, a pre-purchace inspection is recommended.
gunna-1,
May 11, 8:33pm
Ive had old cars that have been neglected and abused and there was nothing that i couldent fix, all i,me saying is that all the modern technology and ugly aerodynamics arnt all they are cracked up to be imho.
gunna-1,
May 11, 9:00pm
It looks like a piece of moulded plastic but thats just my opinion.
gunna-1,
May 11, 9:01pm
The back end dosent look right eather.
gunhand,
May 11, 9:12pm
Hmmm that sounds pretty much like every "old" car I deal with.
gunna-1,
May 11, 9:19pm
Old as in 9 to 10 years old compared to old as in 20 to 30 years old!
hyphen,
May 11, 9:26pm
Nah, it hasn't quite got the beauty of a Prius
gunhand,
May 11, 9:26pm
NO, all the so called yank classics, Aussie clasics and British ones. You know, Mustangs, Impalas, HQs, XY, XB Falcons etc. There all mostly rusty wrecks untill restored, even then alot are just covered up rusty wrecks. And yes not so old cars are rusty to.
bellky,
May 11, 9:51pm
New Sux.
gunna-1,
May 11, 10:00pm
But they are allmost 40 years old now infact some of them are.
noswalg,
May 11, 10:21pm
Sounds to me like you have failed to adapt to new technology by either ignoring it and hoping it would just go away or plain stubbornness and now you are so far out of the loop you fail to understand modern technology, by the way cars of the 50's & 60's were modern technology too in comparison to say a model T .
gunna-1,
May 11, 10:55pm
I was a haveing an argument with my old man one night about adapting to modern veichles and he was saying that men back then had to adapt to the new style of cars in the 50s and 60s but the way i look at it is everything they built up untill about 1980 absolutly kicked ass, and pictured myself trying to get out of a hillman hunter or morris minor and into one of those silly little cars where the plastic headlights go half way up the gard and i thought nup, infact i get imbarrised even looking at them walking past, surely the transition to the sedan shape of the 50s and 60s wasnt as frightning to them as a piece of plastic shaped like an insect is to me, or was it!
jmma,
May 11, 11:37pm
Stillgot the old black & white TV and valve radio aye (o:
gammelvind,
May 12, 12:07am
Funny how rose tinted glasses are to look through, sure most modern cars won't last but where are the Morris/Austin A60, 1100, 1800, Princes, escorts, Zepher mark 4, fiat 127, Sunbird, Hilman Avenger, Triumph, the list goes on and on. All these cars were common at the time. (Yes you can still find a few of these, but nothing compared to their haeyday). In 50 years time our grandchildren will be looking at the cars that remain from today (and there will be plenty) and go look at those cool classics.
gunna-1,
May 12, 12:23am
No but i miss the big wooden box ones with the big speaker at the bottom that were coulor those were cool.
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