I just feel like hating on one of my acquaintances.
He's the type that uses hyperbolic antidotes as scientific method.
He strongly believes older cars are better at everything. Now, I drive a '77 Lincoln Continental, have driven 70's pickups, have driven 80's muscle cars, have driven 60's sedans, and have had to work on them all. It sucks, even though it's fun, it sucks.
Yes I enjoy plowing roads in the Continental, there is NOTHING in the world like seeing that hood 10' in front of you like steering an airboat on land. But my god does it suck smelling the unburned exhaust, yes, even with the carburetor tuned perfectly, EGR and AIR systems working properly. It sucks tuning carbs twice a year due to weather shifts. It sucks feeling the heat bellowing out from the wheel wells and fenders when it's 98º out here and you have to park the thing in the fucking garage...and smell it from inside the house.
But it's FUN and irreplaceable, I'll give him that.
The problem is whenever he talks like this:
>GWAAAAA PLASTIC, MORE LIKE "I SUCK DICK!"
>OLD CARS ARE REEEEEAL STEEL
>NEW CARS JUST CRUMPLE LIKE TIN CANS. TIN CANS MAN, NEW CARS ARE ALL TIN CANS. CAN I SAY TIN CANS TEN TIMES, I CAN!
>OLD CARS NEVER NEEDED REPAIRS, THEY NEVER HAD PROBLEMS, PROBLEMS WERE INVENTED BY THE JAPANESE!
>I ONCE BACKED INTO A CAMRY AND DIDN'T EVEN REALIZE IT. HIS CAR LOOKED LIKE KING KONG SHAT IT OUT, MINE, HEH, NOT A SCRATCH!
>MY DAD HIT A NEW CAR IN AN INTERSECTION AND IT WAS LIKE THEIR FRONT END EXPLODED. MY DAD JUST LICKED HIS FINGERS AND WORKED THE BUMPER BACK INTO SHAPE AND DROVE HOME JUST FINE. THEY ALL DIED AND HAD TO HAVE THE CAR TOWED AWAY. IT WAS TOT'LD!
Post more stories about old cars eating it bad when pit against new cars in the real world.
I remember a story of a 60's Chevy/Buick/Olds whatever hitting a modern Japanese car head-on. Both of the people in the old car died, both of the people in the new car walked away.
Pic related. 70's vs 2012, he died, they didn't.
