Mark Tapley wrote:
> Uncle Roger asked:
>
> >A quick question... How many people know how to work on their cars? How
> >many drive older vehicles without as much "black-box" stuff?
>
> '68 Plymouth Sport Suburban (= 3-seat Fury wagon *not* the Chevy Suburban).
> I'll work on the stuff that makes it go but I let professionals
> handle the stuff that makes it stop or turn.
> I sometimes fantasize about a medium big terrorist nuke at very
> high altitude using EMP to shut down all the microprocessor-controlled cars
> in the state. I don't think that would stop my car with its points and
> coil. 'Course, the road will still be jammed full of inert new cars....
> ....and my classic computer collection will be garbage! Auuugghh!!!
> I don't fanatasize about that very often.
Of course the radio won't work so why drive<g>. I have a 74 Chevy C20 crew cab
pickup with points/condenser/coil and a 77 Ford F250 4WD standard pickup with
electronic ignition.. Wanna guess which starts after an EMP blast?
Anyway to get back to Roger's question, I have always worked on my own vehicles
down to changing tires when a machine is available (military auto hobby shops)
and always rebuilt my own engines, electrical, suspensions, body work, etc .
About the only thing I leave to the local grease monkey is an alignment and I
watch that like a hawk (I've doine my own alignments before on a Bear rack). I
haven't owned a vehicle with an automatic trans since my 65 Chevy Impala 2 dr
with the slip-n-slide Powerglide. All my present vehicles since have had either
commonplace 3 speed or heavy duty 4 speed rock grinders and I rebuilt them in a
few hours easily.
As for the lack of technolog in it, forget that. I always have a load of
computers in the back at any given time whether the Ford or Chevy. BTW I'v e
only owned one foreign (non-US) vehicle, a Datsun pickup, 74. Hated it.
> - Mark
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> Large Asteroids headed toward planets
> inhabited by beings that don't have
> technology adequate to stop them:
>
> Think of it as Evolution in Fast-Forward.
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