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Ahhh, but the "flaws" in quality lended to the character of many of the cars of yesteryear. :0)
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Ahhh, but the "flaws" in quality lended to the character of many of the cars of yesteryear. :0)
Not I. I had a 71 Mustang 351, a 72 Nova 305, a Mustang II Ghia 302
4bbl, and my trusty little MG Midget 4 banger. Didn't give a thought to trading any of them over the 70s oil embargo when we had rationing, long lines, and fights in lines..... However, we did cut back on how much travel we did, and there was a lot more car pooling to work. Oh, and we had a lot of patrol vehicles that ended up sitting as we ran out of our fuel allocations. They started a drive and walk patrol. You drove a circuit through your patrol sector, then parked and walked.
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On Sun, 05 Jun 2011 18:37:16 -0700, D E Willson rearranged some electrons to say:
Really? Drop-in gas tanks?
Among other things, yes. If you want to think that way, then you would have to take into account the deadly problems of far more recent models. For example, the number of people (especially my comrades in law enforcement) who lost limbs while standing between a patrol car and a subjects car, when the rear bumper suddenly released. Engine fires from faulty electrical parts. Seat belts which wouldn't release following a collision. True, engineering mistakes were made, but that is part of progress. Heck... don't forget things like the Titanic, or an atomic submarine lost with all hands because valves were installed backward.
In the 1970s I worked with various new test aircraft. With the millions of dollars spent on engineering, you wouldn't expect a bomber's bay doors to rip off the plane the first time they are opened in flight. Or how many swing wing aircraft had catastrophic failures.
There is no progress without errors which reveal the deficiencies people didn't think about.
wummin ........
airbust are top class at that........DIGITAL DEATH ......
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