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7. I own a 1987, 1972, and a 2000 model vehicles

Reply to getagrip_already (Reply #4)

Thu Mar 5, 2020, 04:12 PM

Mar 2020

Paid for. Parts are dirt cheap, and they are easier to maintain. I've updated the 1972 to modern fuel injection with an overdrive transmission. Pollutes way less and gets double the gas mileage when it was new.

It doesn't make financial sense to me to purchase a new vehicle, and the software to diagnose them when there's a fault has become proprietary.

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Car makers will get desperate [View all] brokephibroke Mar 2020 OP

And if they offer $5000 cash back to buy the car ... Beakybird Mar 2020 #1

We need another junk-car bill..... getagrip_already Mar 2020 #2

Buy new ??? SamKnause Mar 2020 #3

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