"Boanne Lorraine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [...]
> }- No offense to you or your brother, but the last car I bought
> }- with a carburetor was an 87 model. [...]
>
> Hahahahahahahahahaha! No offense taken. [...]
> My brother works at a place that
> specializes in classic cars.
Ah, THAT explains it! I was wondering what trick they'd missed!
> If you drive a late model car,
> with it's air bags, anti-lock brakes, computer (no matter what OS
> it uses) you are 13 times more likely to be killed in a serious
> accident than I am in my car. I have no desire to own a car made
> before 1974 - ever! [...]
You have to realize I tried to stick to the good ol' American Iron as long
as possible. My last vehicle was the '87 Dodge RAM with the carb that I was
referring to. No ABS (heh), but AC from Hell (er, someplace cold anyhow)
which made it work in Phoenix pretty well. It had a maddening tendency to
stall out in a left hand turn (apparently a carb design defect apparently)
and finally tried to kill me when gas started spewing out of the carb
(damnable thing!) when starting. The rear bumper was also a magnet for Dodge
pickup trucks as well, though I wonder if it was RAM mating season at the
time.
STATISTICALLY those odds may apply, but you'd have to have driven Christine
(actually it's name was Lurch) to appreciate the predicament. Finally, when
my Taurus self destructed after six short years, I went Japanese (at least
my cars did) and have never looked back. I wasn't happy about it, but I felt
pretty screwed.
The money saved since has gone into computers.
I'm thinking about building a carb into one.
- Bob
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