Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 Fluke 8/7/84; site fluke.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!houxm!ihnp4!zehntel!tektronix!uw-beaver!microsoft!fluke!jeepcj2a From: jeepcj2a@fluke.UUCP (Dale Chaudiere) Newsgroups: net.auto Subject: Re: Any old car lovers out there? Message-ID: <807@vax1.fluke.UUCP> Date: Wed, 28-Nov-84 10:55:38 EST Article-I.D.: vax1.807 Posted: Wed Nov 28 10:55:38 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 2-Dec-84 04:44:29 EST References: <2613@ihldt.UUCP> <1475@drutx.UUCP> Organization: John Fluke Mfg. Co., Everett, WA Lines: 22 Yes, there are old car lovers out here. The RX-7 is a sharp car, but they are just to common to draw the conversations you get driving your Shelby. I have always been more impressed with a well maintained, restored or customized older car, than a new one that anyone with a fat wallet could obtain. My wife's first car was a 1964.5 Mustang Coupe. We repainted it and rebuilt the 289. During the gas crunch we sold it and bought a 1971 Opel GT. Last summer I dropped a factory rebuilt engine in it. My car is a 1946 Jeep CJ2A. I have owned it now for 10 years. Last summer I installed a 1964 225 V6 and installed a new suspension. I payed $1000. dollars for the jeep orginally and dumped maybe $5000 into it over 10 years (not counting gas and oil). Not only do I enjoy the conversation that the older cars bring, but I can not justify the cost of a new car for what you get. Here in Wa. State the yearly licensing fees for a new car kill you. A new jeep equipped like mine would cost ~$10000 and the licensing fees would be over $200 a year. By the way Wa. State is an old car buffs dream. They do not salt the roads here, when and if it snows. I have seen more older cars still on the road here than anywhere else in the country. .