.22-5-40 wrote on Nov 10^th, 2012 at 1:10am:


I think there's more to this. 100 year old guns are much more reliable than 100 year old cars. And most of us are more comfortable with, (and knowledgeable about) our 100 year old guns than we are about old cars. I love old cars, and my newest is a 1971, with my daily driver a 1969, so I'd feel more willing to drive that old car than something newer with a computer I can't find or figure out.

I was fortunately able to buy a 1926 Ford from two elderly spinster sisters who had bought 4 new ones at the end of Model T producton.  They had tried the first model A the dealer got in, but they couldn't learn how to shift the transmission.  That's what they said, but it really was the clutch they couldn't deal with.  When the cars got to 20,000 miles they sold them as 'wore out.'  So I paid $50.00 for it.  I drove it another 50'000 miles after I jury rigged an oil bath aircleaner for it.  I bought it in 1955. Wonderful car, except a ridiculous idea for a heater.  Wish I still had it, but I got seperated from it somehow when I went in the service.