17 Aug
1998
17 Aug
'98
6:05 p.m.
Uncle Roger asked:
A quick question... How many people know how to work
on their cars? How
many drive older vehicles without as much "black-box" stuff?
'68 Plymouth Sport Suburban (= 3-seat Fury wagon *not* the Chevy Suburban).
I'll work on the stuff that makes it go but I let professionals
handle the stuff that makes it stop or turn.
I sometimes fantasize about a medium big terrorist nuke at very
high altitude using EMP to shut down all the microprocessor-controlled cars
in the state. I don't think that would stop my car with its points and
coil. 'Course, the road will still be jammed full of inert new cars....
....and my classic computer collection will be garbage! Auuugghh!!!
I don't fanatasize about that very often.
- Mark
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17 Aug
17 Aug
6:46 p.m.
Mark Tapley wrote:
Uncle Roger asked:
Of course the radio won't work so why drive<g>. I have a 74 Chevy C20 crew cab
pickup with points/condenser/coil and a 77 Ford F250 4WD standard pickup with
electronic ignition.. Wanna guess which starts after an EMP blast?
Anyway to get back to Roger's question, I have always worked on my own vehicles
down to changing tires when a machine is available (military auto hobby shops)
and always rebuilt my own engines, electrical, suspensions, body work, etc .
About the only thing I leave to the local grease monkey is an alignment and I
watch that like a hawk (I've doine my own alignments before on a Bear rack). I
haven't owned a vehicle with an automatic trans since my 65 Chevy Impala 2 dr
with the slip-n-slide Powerglide. All my present vehicles since have had either
commonplace 3 speed or heavy duty 4 speed rock grinders and I rebuilt them in a
few hours easily.
As for the lack of technolog in it, forget that. I always have a load of
computers in the back at any given time whether the Ford or Chevy. BTW I'v e
only owned one foreign (non-US) vehicle, a Datsun pickup, 74. Hated it.
A quick question... How many people know how to
work on their cars? How
many drive older vehicles without as much "black-box" stuff?
'68 Plymouth Sport Suburban (= 3-seat Fury wagon *not* the Chevy Suburban).
I'll work on the stuff that makes it go but I let professionals
handle the stuff that makes it stop or turn.
I sometimes fantasize about a medium big terrorist nuke at very
high altitude using EMP to shut down all the microprocessor-controlled cars
in the state. I don't think that would stop my car with its points and
coil. 'Course, the road will still be jammed full of inert new cars....
....and my classic computer collection will be garbage! Auuugghh!!!
I don't fanatasize about that very often. -
Mark
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Large Asteroids headed toward planets
inhabited by beings that don't have
technology adequate to stop them:
Think of it as Evolution in Fast-Forward.
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