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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Fifty Year Ago Cost
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Posted by Hugh MacKay on February 25, 2004 at 14:14:15 from (209.226.106.31):
In Reply to: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Fifty Year Ago Cost posted by Steve from Mo - wait a mi on February 25, 2004 at 13:28:12:
Steve: To start with all I listed were cars, trucks, tractors and houses. Never had a 74 Buick, however did have a new 74 Olds Delta 88, with 455 - 4 barrel, gave me 23 miles to the Canadian gallon, that would be around 18.5 miles per US gallon. I would take my chances in that old Olds over most of what I see on road today. My Olds didn't turn crossways like the new ones do when you strike wash board country roads. My dad used to haul a ton of feed home from the feed store in his 59 Impalla, fill the trunk and put the rest on the fins. Today you need a 3/4 ton pickup to haul that safely. As for your crappy new houses with their plastics, foams, glues, etc., I wouldn't spend overnight in one of them. I have 2200 square feet and I guess probably it was built before you were building those 1100 square foot toilets. Pickup trucks have steadily gone down hill until you basically can haul nothing with them. I have a friend a traveling mechanic. Up until 1989 he bought a new Chevy 3/4 ton pickup every 3 years for travel and moving his tools. He tells me he actually hauls less weight today than 15 years ago yet he had to go to a 1 ton. Today they have those anti lock brakes that work great for the first year or the first road salt, which ever comes first. My 1978 Chevy 3/4 would stop in less distance from 60 mph to standing than anything I've seen since, and the difference is 10 to 15 feet. No my friend, it used to be you could spend a few more dollars for quality, today Corperate America just releives you of a few more dollars. My wife has an electric can opener given to us as a wedding present 39 years ago, it still works A-1. One look on the back and it is made by Philips in the good old USA, not in some far flung bannana republic.
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