First place Germany was making both synthetic oil and fuel during WWII. So it's not new.
Back in the good old days you did a tune up every 12K or so. Plugs, points condenser with the cap, rotor and wires as New car national average for most cars, 200 plus k. So 2 rebuilds at 1K or more each. Clutch every 60 or 80K at 300 needed. Well today quality plugs point and condenser are 30 bucks or so. In 100 K that's 180 bucks worth of parts. New car, set of pugs at 100 k. Old car 80-100K for rings and bearings. bucks anymore or an auto tranny at 100-120. that today is 1000-1500 if you install it yourself. New auto tranny vehicles are averaging over 200 K on a tranny. I've driven the last 5-6 cars/trucks with fuel injection all over 200K each and have only replaced one fuel pump that was well over 200K. Old car 2 maybe more fuel pumps in 100 K plus at least one carb kit. At todays cost fist 100K's one tune up and oil changes. Old car 8 tune ups, rings and bearing & a valve job, plus a tranny. The lets say one fuel pump and one carb rebuild at today prices! never mind that the car today is most likely going to get better mileage.
As far as todays tractors, I think at the cost that parts will be available both OM and aftermarket for a long time. Heck I watched a CaseIH tractor sell at auction, in todays farm environment, for 119,000 dollars and it's 9 years old with 3560 hour on it. Maybe not 60 years. But go to IH, not CaseIH/NH of Ford and buy a tractor part. So with the value of these new ones I think parts may be available a lot long than people think.
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