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Old 03-27-2019, 03:28 PM
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Originally Posted by Two Bills View Post
I like todays cars, bland, boring or not.
The exitement of UK motoring in the 60's was, will we get there and back with the minimum number of break downs and overheatings.
Today we give a time of arrival, in those days, especially with the 'bangers 'I owned, an aproximate date was best option!
Ha ha! I had a British sports car in the '70s that, according to the almost-only foreign car mechanic in town, financed his winter trip to the Bahamas every year. My husband would call him, and he'd say, "Where is it now?!" Or something like, "Cars don't BREAK axels anymore."

I'll take the mechanical reliability and non-rusting finish of today's cars.

I'll also take the internet, the cell phones, the microwaves, the blue tooth ways of monitoring your home, and any other technological advance that has freed up our leisure time and generally made life easier. I'm talking to you, online banking.
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