I'm not a fan of the new fangeled cars either, maybe because i don't understand them.
Up until recently the newest streetable vehicle i had was my 1993 Chevy Duelly crewcab, which now has 204,000 miles on it, i have a 1990 corvette that i haven't driven in a yr. due to electrical problems, i now cannot even get it to start. There's no question about it if you live in hill country, the fuel injected computer cars/trucks will perform better. Living in Az a number of yrs. and going up to some mountain lakes with spill ways at 9300 ft. my carberatated duelly would run so bad/rich it would hardly pull itself with a small camper.
I too have old cars 1980 or older. But recently my Neice donated to me a 1998 Lexus ES300, (rather than junk it) very clean inside and out that had wore out the front suspension so bad it would wear out tires in 5,000 mile. I rebuilt that beat me to death, now i still have to change the timing belt and put new seals in the front cover. i did put valve cover gaskets on it the engine inside is really clean,as far as i know the spark plugs have only been changed once, no other maintance on the car. Every elecrical thing on the car works which there are plenty of, power everything and it's like like the day it was born, uses no oil and drives like new.
NOW !! why am i bringing this up, because the odometer has over 365,000 miles on it ( if doubters, i'll take a pic. and show it) and it gets over 30 MPG, and i hate to work on it.
So like said i don't like them but i sure got to respect them
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I was born when the 1939 Ford was new, so i've seen and lived when cars were growing to what they are today, but in my heart i still love old cars which i have owned many of in my time.
Zip.