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19247 messages, Last post on Nov 08, 2009 at 7:46 PM
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Replying to: fintail (Jan 13, 2009 10:06 am) 
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Replying to: qbrozen (Jan 13, 2009 1:03 pm) 
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It was just this past Sunday we were cruising home from a fine day of shopping for the living room when we came upon a slow moving Mercury ... oh, hell ... whatever their version of the 500 is. Anyway, it had a carriage top. So this struck up a conversation with the wife about such a practice and how it seems to have held up as a "fad" with the seniors. This had me wondering aloud what will happen as the fast and furious crowd becomes seniors. Will we be seeing 2050 Toyotas with 20" chrome spinners and ground effects dropped within an inch of the asphalt driven by the gray-haireds? Well, the couterpart to the 500 was the Montego. When the 500 was renamed to the Taurus, the Mercury version went back to being called the Sable. My thought, however, is this ... why is it that when I used to travel, I saw more of these "carriage" roofs on cars on the East coast and Midwest, but virtually none here in Colorado or California. But, your point is valid ... in 40 years, when my son is closing in on 60, what will he want to drive. The current boomers, of course, have focused on the 60's and 70's muscle cars, and the generation before them the hot rods.
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Replying to: michaell (Jan 13, 2009 2:56 pm) Seniors like to WALK INTO their cars without bending over.
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Replying to: Mr_Shiftright (Jan 13, 2009 3:03 pm) |
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Make sure it starts easily when cold. If you bypass the rev limiter and wind those things up, which they will freely do, you get wear on the rotor wipers and lose compression when cold. Crank that sucker all you want and it won't want to start, or if it does it will burn oil and run poorly until fully warmed up. Knew a guy who routinely ran his up around 9-10K rpm all the time. After an extended highway run at those speeds, he pulled up to his house and turned it off. Next morning, no start, no compression. Mazda warranteed the engine, but told him the new engine was all his if it broke.
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Replying to: jlflemmons (Jan 13, 2009 4:57 pm) |
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Replying to: michaell (Jan 13, 2009 2:56 pm) I have to doubt in 40 years, when I am around 70, should I or any of us be around then, that the computer componentry in modern cars will have held up. Maybe it will all be able to be bypassed by some miracle new technology.
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Replying to: fintail (Jan 13, 2009 6:10 pm) Their computers still use "core memory" (ferrite rings)!!! |
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Replying to: qbrozen (Jan 13, 2009 11:47 am) I liked your thoughts about what teenagers will be driving in fifty years. I can see Lincoln Town cars with body kits , lowered and painted lime green. Of course they will have added hydraulic seats to make getting in and out easier.
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