My mom had a washer dryer set that lasted 30 years. My dad died, she got some $$$, junked them and bought the most expensive things she could find. The washer stopped working within 2 years, barely used. Bunch of Chinese junk nowadays.
My best friend’s Daddy had a 49 Ford pickup. It had a floor mounted shift and the knob had come off years before. It had a flat head V-8 and ran fine.
For some reason he traded it for a 1950 Ford sedan, also with a flathead. This was around 1964. Maybe a month after the trade, the drive shaft broke on the sedan. They just pulled it up into their pasture and left it. I saw the guy with the pickup driving it around town for several years after.