I am so tired of hearing about people suffering trying to make car payments and repair payments on newer vehicles. These vehicles have 6,8 or 10 speed transmissions. All of these transmissions seem to be “Glass” transmissions, they break easily. All these Whiz-Bang marvels with 10 speeds are great, …

[image] db4690: So you should buy a 1982 Chevy Cavalier or a 1984 Ford Tempo Tell me more about the Cavalier and Tempo. Though I wouldn’t buy the early models from 1980s, I remember that these were both decent cars by the early 1990s. Millions of them were made, and millions of people drove…

The band lead, Tom Morello, recorded Highway to Hell with Bruce Springsteen and Eddie Vedder as I mentioned in the favorite car song thread. That’s on a solo album.

[image] Mustangman: This thread has progressed beyond Get off My Lawn to short trousers pulled up to mid-chest and sandals with black socks… … which makes me wonder… if these technophobic people are currently in… let’s say… their 40s or 50s, what will they be like when they actually enter cod…

[image] VDCdriver: what will they be like when they actually enter codger territory? Same as they are now. They’ll just have more to complain about. Everyone should perfect their art.

[image] VDCdriver: if these technophobic people are currently in… let’s say… their 40s or 50s, Most technophobic people I know never did well in school - especially math and science. They’re scared of it because they don’t understand it. So they distrust anything they don’t understand.

If one of them worked well enough that IO was not required to have a license to drive it in NY state, I would buy it.

[image] MikeInNH: Most technophobic people I know never did well in school - especially math and science. I got Cs in high school and introductory college math, but A pluses in English and Bs in history.

You would have hated chevy’s turbo-glide transmission of 1957 and the nearly identical Buick flight-pitch Dynaflow of 1959.

He has ranted about the dangers of cars that understeer, so he also would have hated the 1962 Buick. Buicks of that era were typical of front-engine RWD cars with pronounced understeer, but for 1962, they decided to move the engine even further forward, thus producing a truly lousy-handling car. …

I prefer (moderate) understeer to oversteer.

I wouldn’t be at all surprised if somebody flags this post and gets it removed probably the same person that got the image of the camel wearing boots removed

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I got Cs in high school and introductory college math, but A pluses in English and Bs in history.

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