On Monday, February 12, 2018 at 4:18:01 PM UTC-6, Electric Comet wrote:
On Sat, 10 Feb 2018 14:35:58 -0800 (PST)
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can do. Think of cars. A fancy luxury car from the 1970s is the
same or maybe worse than a medium Camry, Accord etc. today. Camry
and Accord are not luxury cars, but they probably have better, more
powerful motors and nicer interiors today than what the 1970s luxury
cars had. Would you buy a 1972 Coupe de Ville for the same price you
can buy a new Camry? Most likely not. Unless you really want the

i get it and not disagreeing with your point

one thing about using a vintage car as a daily driver is that safety
was not as well baked in to cars then as it is now

crumple zones come to mind first

but the air bags and abs etc

lathes are as safe as the operator

I wasn't even thinking about the safety differences between the Eldorado and the Camry, Accord. Just the quality aspects. You're right the safety aspect is there. Even though the Eldorado probably weighed one ton more, it probably fared much worse in any safety test crashes.