On Mon, 26 Apr 2021 14:25:19 -0400, wrote:

On Mon, 26 Apr 2021 13:50:36 -0400, J. Clarke
wrote:

On Mon, 26 Apr 2021 12:01:38 -0400, wrote:

On Mon, 26 Apr 2021 09:52:14 -0500, Leon lcb11211@swbelldotnet
wrote:

On 4/25/2021 8:42 PM, wrote:
On Sun, 25 Apr 2021 17:07:12 -0400, J. Clarke
wrote:

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Between 1900 and 1975 the US managed to invent and bring into
production the airplane, nuclear power, computers, and the capability
to land on the Moon.

With the people born in the '30 and '40s. The millenials live in
mommy's basement and play X-Box. We were talking about 60 the last 60
years.

Well in all fairness, vehicles built in the US were pieces of crap from
72~2000. Progressively getting better year by year. Emission systems
that hardly worked and wasted fuel was not healthier for the earth.

Seems this is when the Japanese entered our market and pretty much
showed us how a vehicle should be built.



Glad you only went back to 1972 !
1971 MotorTrend's Car Of The Year
Chevy Vega ... :-)

Which was actually a pretty nice car until it rusted away. My Dad had
one--he really enjoyed driving it.


I had one as a teenager - my second car - it was ~ 4 years old
& I paid $ 450. for it - I needed wheels fast for a job transfer -
- the rust-repairs were already failing badly ;
it burned oil ; noisy ; no trunk space ; uncomfortable seats ;
terrible rear wheel drive traction ; etc
I can't think of a single plus that I could grant it.

One winter morning, I was spinning on a patch of snow in the
parking lot when a nice guy offered a push - he put one hand on the
drivers door handle and his other hand grabbed the rear fender well -
and gave a good heave-ho - he apologized as he stood there with
a good chunk of fender in his hand - I thanked him for the help and
said don't worry about it .. you can keep that .. :-) true story.

Drove it about 2 years and gladly scrapped it.
Car-Of-The-Year ! yeah right.
John T.

I suspect one of the reasons my Dad liked it was that we lived in
Florida where winter traction wasn't an issue.