Amusing auto repair website....

My car is 40 years old and I understand everything on it and can fix it. (I wish I had picked one with DB, though.)

No you don't, unless you're the kind of guy that would have White Post rebuild the calipers. I can still remember my dad cussing at having to "always" rebuild the calipers on my mom's Triumph (same as the ones you would have had.)

nate

The FO was a Central Valley farmer (flat-lander) who bought the model just above the Challanger, w/o DB. (I'm the second "real" owner.)

Yep, Fun and games with foreign cars.I am staying with my old vehicles, I know all about how to work on them. cuhulin

Hey Brent,

Great website. Thanks. You can't *buy* entertainment this good.

--Dave

The site makes me feel better about rethinking my feeling that my '89 Camry was in endgame, and doing some heavy maintenance instead.

Its looks get much more respect at four way stops than most of its stablemates, and it has a few quirks that I think of as theft prevention of the "don't worry, they won't get far on foot" variety. But in its real essentials, that car keeps going like the skeleton thing inside the Terminator.

Its only discernible option is air conditioning (R-12, but still ice cold) -- a degree of simplicity that doesn't have much to do with its durability on fundamentals but probably has a lot to do with owner satisfaction at this point of its lifecycle. One of the themes that seem implicit in that website, besides the way a cheaply implemented $4 part can send a $40k car to the garage, is that car makers are outsmarting themselves right and left.

I don't mind complexity if it is well sorted out and durably implemented and makes my life easier. Complexity that is riddled with logic crocks and/or cheap pieces of pot metal and plastic -- or complexity that mainly proves Pareto's Law is fractal -- that's the problem.

--Joe