Re: Re: New cars (was: Re: snow and ice)
  By: Nancy Backus to Kurt Weiske on Thu Jan 30 2014 11:19 pm

 NB> Our policy is that as long as the repairs are less (over the course of a
 NB> year or so) than the cost of new car payments, might as well keep an
 NB> older car... as long as it is willing to run...  :)   And nowadays, the
 NB> bodies don't rust out so fast, either, so that isn't an issue....

I'm getting sick of throwing things away, and so keeping an old car running has
some allure to me.  :)

I drove Fiats in my younger days. You could keep the engines going, but the
bodies fell apart. Those were fun cars to work on - simple as could be back
then -- a little Weber carb on top, points, distributors, and no electronics.

Except for the X1/9, basically a Fiat 128 with the engine sideways and behind
the driver. Fun to drive, a bear to work on.
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