Antiquated Software

[John Esak]

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> move on and keep coming up with ways to believe and defend that
> 1966 Chevy
> will do everything and anything that 2006 Honda will. And probably with

To take this thread a little less serious... If offered a 1966 Chevy or a
Honda 2006 and both were brand new. Without a nanosecond's hesitation, I
would take the 1966 Chevy. :-) It's 40 years closer to being an antique...
and I actually owned a 1964 Chevy... just about the best car I ever owned.
You could "see" the spark plugs... reach in and take them out with a simple
spark plug ratchet. You could find the oil pan pitcock in about 3 seconds,
and do a complete oil change in a few minutes. Change the oil filter and air
filter in secods, etc., etc. Not too ramble too far afield, but I also owned
lots of other cars... the biggest baddest one was a 1963 Oldsmobile
Starfire. The engine was huge beyond belief, some crazy 4 barrel carb... and
it went faster in physical space than anything I've ever been in from 0 to
60... including a Ferrari my brother brought back from his stint in the army
in the late 60's. Absolutely *nothing* on the cars back then was
computerized... and back then, at that time... it was just fine. :-)  For
the record, my all-time favorite car (which actually caused me no end of
grief constantly) was a 1959 bug-ey Sprite... I bought very used and fixed
up to perfect condition... then sold for a song to one of the players in
RUNDMC. (serious) Back in 1965/66 when I was very into cars and especially
little foreign one... the Srites cost $1,995 and Volkswagon Beetles wer
$1,695... new, brand new... The most expensive Chevy you could buy was about
$3,100, Pontiacs $3,500, Olds's $4,200 and Cadilacs about $5,200... I mean
top of the line... and people think the computer prices have gone whacky.
Same thing, just in the opposite direction... why????????

Now, I like my nice new 2006 Navigator (the price was obscene)... yes I'm an
SUV owning republican... and proud of it. I buy the big cars not becuase it
is in vogue or whatever, but because every one in my family and extended
family is over 6 feet tall. (Karen and I are the only shrimps.)  We can get
7 of us in this thing and go out and eat together.  And no, I don't buy new
cars all the time. My last car (oddly enough a Chevy... :-) A Tahoe) has
270,000 miles on it. And the only reason I bought the new car is because I
wanted something "new" (and secretly wanted a GPS since I first saw
one...:-)

Hope this doesn't skew the topic of this thread too much. It has been a very
valuable thread, and I am sure FP Tech is taking what they can from it.

John Esak