It doesn't help very much.
Posted on 02/14/2014 11:09:59 AM PST by EveningStar
It's hard to picture what today's teenagers will wax nostalgic about 30 years from now when they reminisce about their first car. (It still required gasoline, perhaps?) Who knows how automobiles will change in the future; what we do know is how different they are today from 30 or more years ago. If you fondly remember being surrounded by two or three tons of solid Detroit steel with a whip antenna on the front from which you could tie a raccoon tail or adorn with an orange Union 76 ball, and enough leg room that you didn't suffer from phlebitis on long road trips, then you might also miss a few of these.
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Another thing missing from today's cars - local ownership of auto dealers. I try to buy from local dealers.
Had one of those things that had the lever that released the compression when you started it. Forget and it would throw your heel into the foot rest. Couple of times and you remembered.
It doesn't help very much.
A radio that did not require a BA in electronics to operate.
A heating or AC system that had a MANUAL OVERIDE for when the electronic duct flow controlers failed to work.
Wing windows to allow air flow into the car so you did not need AC.
Key start on the dash instead of the steering column which allowed easy removal and not disassembly of the steering column with the little aluminum push rod breaks.
me too. and the only one with lights that turn on in rain and when it gets dark.
Headlights that stay on when you forget to turn them off, so that you can drain the battery and have to call the triple hey!
anything that stops you cigarrette flingers, i am for. :)
i don’t care about you smoking, but we are all pissed at you when you flick your butts out the window and they hit our cars.
A lot of those smaller local dealers (at least the Republican ones) got terminated by Baraq’s “car czar” in 2009.
crap, imagine below freezing temps AND broken arms from a damn hand crank.
What I miss the most...A BRAND NEW 1970 truck for $1990!
dodge still makes a station wagon. prius has one that’s a station wagon. vw makes a station wagon. ford’s flex is a big boy station wagon.
i can’t stand what they did to the new escapes.
they went smaller to compete with honda cr-v and toyota rav4, and other small suv’s.
they should have kept the escape the same type of vehicle as it was, and created a new smaller suv to go after the other smaller ones.
the former escapes have very good visibility all around.
I think “Galaxy” referred to what you could put inside its trunk.
I think that’s why the Subaru Forester is doing so well, it’s got a more “blocky” functional profile.
LOL
i think those are gone now because so many thieves busted them out to steal stuff in the trucks. sometimes hard to tell if it’s open or broken.
try a new explorer. got a lot of good room in those babies.
i am never going back to cars, as a safety issue for my driving i need to be up higher and see what’s around me better.
yeah, your #12 is one I wish I had.
FIAT - Fix It Again, Tony :)
We rented one last year in Denver. I didn't like them before but really did once I drove it. Nice ride, all sorts of room. We had 4 of us, with skis, inside and still had plenty of room. If I were looking for something in that size I would definitely consider it.
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