My test drive example had something really wrong with the tranny, skipping the 1-2 shift.

When I was a kid, asked to do something like a Rolls Royce, I would have drifted to something like this

expensive though, ar $12 a gallon

also about driving too fast in a dystopia

First, make sure you never use Gashol in it. These old engine could have shellac coated cork floats, natural rubber lines and leather gaskets that will get ate up by any alcohol in the fuel.

1924, Tetraethyl Lead wasn’t commonly used for a fuel additive, though that would soon change in a few years.

Deflagration attempts to target the explosive material component of the bomb for destruction with heat, aiming for more of a sluggish burn than a big boom.

Chess matches would be more entetaining for the spectators with more trash talking between moves

“Ultimately, after being shown the irrefutable evidence, the employee confessed. As a result, we terminated employment.”

So was it always Rat-Rod rust brown?

Who would then rob and murder others.

Brakes were good, for back in the day, with Disc fronts and big 12" drums in back, not too far off what a typical Pickup has to offer today, even.

Removing a Ford 460 and C6 Tranny gets you 850 pounds, no 24 gallon gas tank, that’s 150 pounds filled, no radiator, 80? pounds

My ‘70 Mercury Marquis with the Police 429 in it was not slow or underpowered.

Can’t take a leafblower to the damn thing before taking pics of a heap you want to sell for thousands of Dollars?

When I first started reading up on Fusion Power in the early ‘70s, they said it was just 20 years away.

Damn that Freedom of Choice.

At the start, ‘Internet’ ran on the existing copper wires that Ma Bell was involved with since the 1920s so people could talk to one another, with the switches changed from electro-mechanical to solid state in the 1970s.

chocolate and hazelnut spread, it’s still that.