Great story. Fuck the MBA finance fags! Let engineers run the companies, like Boeing used to be.
Great story. Fuck the MBA finance fags! Let engineers run the companies, like Boeing used to be.
My dad bought a new 1973 Chevy longbed pick-up in the fall of 1972. 4 years later the rust was blasting holes through the rear quarters. He bought a new truck in 1977 to replace it.
We thought it was the advent of using poor quality recycled steel that had embedded rust in it, because the old vehicles from prior decades (virgin steel) never rusted like that.
I had a 1971 Ford Pinto, my first car, in 1977. It had had some minor rust repair and about 64K miles on it when I bought it, was pretty much rusted out by 1980.
My dad bought a new 1973 Chevy longbed pick-up in the fall of 1972. 4 years later the rust was blasting holes through the rear quarters. He bought a new truck in 1977 to replace it.
We thought it was the advent of using poor quality recycled steel that had embedded rust in it, because the old vehicles from prior decades (virgin steel) never rusted like that.
I had a 1971 Ford Pinto, my first car, in 1977. It had had some minor rust repair and about 64K miles on it when I bought it, was pretty much rusted out by 1980.
I had a '73 Duster that I got with 50,000 miles on it (in 1994.) Older gent had owned it since it was new, he rarely drove it. Still had the original spare in the trunk. His kid sold it when he passed.
It was a rust bucket when I got it, within two years the torsion bars pulled out of the subframes and the rear seat couldn't be sat in because there was no metal left under it. The seat belt anchors pulled out of the body. 70k and the thing was ready for the scrapyard because it was unsafe.
The only good part was the slant 6 engine. That thing would get cold idling on a 100F day.
I had a '73 Duster that I got with 50,000 miles on it (in 1994.) Older gent had owned it since it was new, he rarely drove it. Still had the original spare in the trunk. His kid sold it when he passed.
It was a rust bucket when I got it, within two years the torsion bars pulled out of the subframes and the rear seat couldn't be sat in because there was no metal left under it. The seat belt anchors pulled out of the body. 70k and the thing was ready for the scrapyard because it was unsafe.
The only good part was the slant 6 engine. That thing would get cold idling on a 100F day.
Loved the legendary slant 6! I had a gf in the early 1980s that drove a Volaré. That slant 6 was a fantastic engine. Good gas mileage, satisfactory power, incredibly reliable and easy to maintain.
Loved the legendary slant 6! I had a gf in the early 1980s that drove a Volaré. That slant 6 was a fantastic engine. Good gas mileage, satisfactory power, incredibly reliable and easy to maintain.
Yeah they were some of the most reliable things on the road. Too bad the body fell apart around it.
Yeah they were some of the most reliable things on the road. Too bad the body fell apart around it.
Chrysler A- and F-Body cars enter the chat
*Chrysler A- and F-Body cars enter the chat*
That's when FoMoCo got kiked?
That's when FoMoCo got kiked?
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