Yea, that way every time you drive it you can worry about what's gonna break next.
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polara71
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You're right, I should have said "enjoy" worrying about what's gonna break next.
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I drove such cars all my life. If they're well maintained and worn out parts found and replaced through timely checkup they hold up for a lifetime. Got a 22 year old 200 k mile Volvo 240 as a daily driver since 1999 and it is not too far from show condition with mostly first paint and numbers matching drivetrain. That I used to be a trained mechanic even if only for a short time working on the job helps a lot.
Being stranded with such a maintained car is as unlikely as with any newer used car. Happened exactly once.
Being stranded with such a maintained car is as unlikely as with any newer used car. Happened exactly once.
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polara71
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I think Ross is paranoid
commando1
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We need to take the lad into the back room and give him some learnin...
Fratzog
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It boils down to the definition of original. Keeping a car the way it was designed is my idea of keeping it original. Wouldn't going the modified route would result in more worries about reliability?
commando1
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I guarantee you the bag system will be as reliable as a Harbor Freight $9.95 electric drill.
You always take the chance of something going wrong when you modify it. But whaen it's done, my car will be a turn the key & go driver.
Hopefully harbor freights air compressors are more reliable than their electric drills.
Hopefully harbor freights air compressors are more reliable than their electric drills.
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I agree.
But not every car needs to be fully restored to enjoy it.
This specific 300 doesn't need much to be a enjoyable driver.
Carsten
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The new stuff may be trouble free now, but once "today's" technology gets some age to it, I myself will trust the old simpler vehicles hands down.
You can put a set of points or an extra ECU, and even a voltage regulator in your glove box, and change them in 5 minutes on the side of the road.
There is less to go wrong with simpler parts, like mechanical vs. electric fuel pumps, and you're not going to be changing a fuel pump that is inside your fuel tank on an offramp. You don't need a rollback and a scanner for $500 each occurrance to diagnose the old stuff.
A standard Mopar ECU is $40, and any of the body, engine, or transmission modules for anything in the last 10 years are likely in the $300-$400 range. A loose crimp on a fuelpump relay plug will not put you dead on the side of the road with our old cars, because they don't have one.
You can put a set of points or an extra ECU, and even a voltage regulator in your glove box, and change them in 5 minutes on the side of the road.
There is less to go wrong with simpler parts, like mechanical vs. electric fuel pumps, and you're not going to be changing a fuel pump that is inside your fuel tank on an offramp. You don't need a rollback and a scanner for $500 each occurrance to diagnose the old stuff.
A standard Mopar ECU is $40, and any of the body, engine, or transmission modules for anything in the last 10 years are likely in the $300-$400 range. A loose crimp on a fuelpump relay plug will not put you dead on the side of the road with our old cars, because they don't have one.
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