SeanMartin opened this issue on Aug 26, 2009 · 72 posts
Diogenes posted Sun, 30 August 2009 at 6:51 AM
Technology is often a crock IMHO. I still drive a 1970 Lincoln Mark3. 18 feet long weighs in at 4900 lbs, has a 460 cid for power. As big and heavy as it is it still gets 20 mpg. I can do all the work on it myself and it has never in 30 years left me walking.
I also have a newer dodge PU. weighs much less and has a smaller engine (a318 cid I forget what the liter displacement is but its a 318). Has so much junk on it you have to hook it up to special equipment to work on it. It gets about 13 MPG and spends most of the time in the shop.
The bluebook on the old lincoln is now worth much more than the PU as well.
Go figure.