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We are never going back to the days of carbs, mech fuel pumps run off the cam, and standing in the engine bay while working on the car's engine. But what can I buy new or slightly used that isn't a death trap, and can most likely be repaired at home with a decent set of hand tools and a jack if something goes wrong? No removing the front end bodywork to get to a windshield washer pump (Subaru), no jacking the engine off its mounts to get to an alternator (Mazda), no disassembling the engine bay to replace a sensor (VW). And for f**k's sake, no turbo or hybrid anything (Ford).

We are never going back to the days of carbs, mech fuel pumps run off the cam, and standing in the engine bay while working on the car's engine. But what can I buy new or slightly used that isn't a death trap, and can most likely be repaired at home with a decent set of hand tools and a jack if something goes wrong? No removing the front end bodywork to get to a windshield washer pump (Subaru), no jacking the engine off its mounts to get to an alternator (Mazda), no disassembling the engine bay to replace a sensor (VW). And for f**k's sake, no turbo or hybrid anything (Ford).

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[–] • 8 pts

Anything that has a General Motors 350 cc/5.7 liter engine. They've been using basically the same base for 50+ years. Still lots of pre-2000 cars with this motor still on the roads and the junkyards are full of spare parts too.

[–] • 3 pts

There's a guy in New Zealand buying back old tractors to ship back to the UK because farmers are done with new tractors computer chips refusing to turn on cause too cold. Among other reasons.

Farmers aren't stupid they see where things are going with spares and need to self repair which new tractors are locking them out of

[–] • 1 pt

Farmers aren't stupid

Of course they aren't, they're the backbone to Aryan civilization :)