I think you are therefore similar to me and to most intelligent people who want to just survive and hopefully learn a little along the way with a strong goal to leave the world in a better place than where we started. I’ve always had very old cars and I was taught to repair and fix anything and everything instead of throwing away and replacing. I have inherited a shop full of tools and I have been lending them and fixing neighbor’s cars and appliances since I was a teenager 40 years ago. Later in life when I finally had enough money to buy things I want, I have always chosen things I deemed most reliable and efficient, like my Tesla car which was the brand that finally started the massive technological irreversible shift moving the world from fossil fuels cars to electric. As you probably know the number one factor today polluting our air is not factories or power stations, but vehicles.
It wasn’t my fault that the CRO turned into a fascist far right power hungry lunatic!! Anyway it was nice chatting with a rare civil person on Reddit. And you’re across the Pond too.
Yeah I get you. It's not your fault that the CEO of Tesla has turned out to be a Nazi. Although that became more than a little obvious about 3 years ago and there was writing on the wall way before then! Even a cursor knowledge of Musk's private life tells you that. That said, we all live with the consequences that aren't our fault all the time. Capitalism is literally about who you can screw over for the most money. 🤷♀️
And I applaud your ethics around reuse and recycle. Everything doesn't have to be the best money can buy...
I was raised by parents who were teachers so we were pretty poor/middle class. When everyone on my block had pretty new cars, we had a 1960’s station wagon with the fake wood paneling on the sides! It broke down all the time and my dad was constantly fixing it. Here is a pic of me doing my job of putting the wheels back on after my dad worked on the suspension: https://imgur.com/X3zvZgz
Then here I am at 16 working on my first car: a 1970 Chevy!
Nicely done! I too worked on my own cars every weekend it seemed during my teens. Replacing the shock absorbers to lights, wheels etc... Whether it was all cost effective remains questionable but it was a good thing to do. We had a breakers yard a mile or so away so frequent visits there to find parts. Even replacing a friends engine in his back garden on a Beatle on one occasion. :)
Nice!! We call those junk yards here and when I was young my dad would take me to some big ones that seemed to go for a mile in each direction. Back then you were allowed to just climb all over the old cars and take off what you wanted yourself and carry the pieces to the cash register!! I spend many hours just climbing on cars by myself, and sometime I didn’t die! lol
Very cool you swapped a Bug engine. Those are air cooled boxer engines, and my 1958 BMW motorcycle that I inherited from my father has a similar engine half the size, but it sounds exactly like a VW beetle!
Here is a video you can hear. It was the first time this bike was started in 35 years so it wasn’t tuned up yet
I came across this video about safety tests performed on Tesla's today...
It demonstrates some serious concerns and shows that Tesla's are the equivalent of the Titan sub that imploded! Billionaire Bullshit. Even more scary is that they are mass produced!
Are you a bot? Just wondering as the way you write seems like the typical fake short news articles that are seen everywhere.
I have seen that video and there is exactly nothing at all that is the least bit alarming as the car did what anyone would expect it would have done.
Yes, in the case of a Wile E Coyote painted paper billboard posted across a highway, the car does exactly what you and about 90% of all drivers would do. It drives through the perfectly set billboard that matches the perspective of the road. That’s is what it should do!! And that’s what you would have done too. It’s not at all a safety issue.
While I would not buy a Tesla ever again because of the crazy evil Bond villain twist that the CEO pulled recently, they are no doubt the safest cars ever made. They catch on fire 1/100th as much as all the gas cars produced in history (like many other EVs except some Chinese and GM EV cars from a
Few years ago) and they have the best active safety systems of any car. My own car has saved my family from dangerous collisions twice in 50,000 miles. You should learn more about cars before you start spreading false information.
Which of these guys are you then? Shows how well it was built to still be functioning 35 years later! Is the petrol even the same grade as was available back then?
Thanks for sharing 🙂
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u/BMWbill 22d ago
I think you are therefore similar to me and to most intelligent people who want to just survive and hopefully learn a little along the way with a strong goal to leave the world in a better place than where we started. I’ve always had very old cars and I was taught to repair and fix anything and everything instead of throwing away and replacing. I have inherited a shop full of tools and I have been lending them and fixing neighbor’s cars and appliances since I was a teenager 40 years ago. Later in life when I finally had enough money to buy things I want, I have always chosen things I deemed most reliable and efficient, like my Tesla car which was the brand that finally started the massive technological irreversible shift moving the world from fossil fuels cars to electric. As you probably know the number one factor today polluting our air is not factories or power stations, but vehicles.
It wasn’t my fault that the CRO turned into a fascist far right power hungry lunatic!! Anyway it was nice chatting with a rare civil person on Reddit. And you’re across the Pond too.