Vehicles you don't see on the road anymore
- Thread starter Chris
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These were seen in everywhere back in the day. My FIL drove this up in our local mountains loaded with milk for delivery to summer camps and this was also used to deliver milk to the local schools the rest of the year. He had several more larger DIVCOs for home delivery.
Jeepster09
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So many of the pre war vehicles were scraped for the war effort.
Jeepster09
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Saw this this sweet old Datsun 1200 yesterday!
Original motor and tranny. Just ticked over 800,000 miles!
Original motor and tranny. Just ticked over 800,000 miles!
After riding in my buddy's 1200 in 1979 , I can't imagine why someone put a trailer hitch on one !
Pacoson71
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Pacoson71
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My now summer show car. 97 Mitsubishi GTO JDM right hand drive twin turbo.
(newer car but rare to see one)
(newer car but rare to see one)
speeding_infraction
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Saw this this sweet old Datsun 1200 yesterday!
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Original motor and tranny. Just ticked over 800,000 miles!
My buddy's was a 71 fastback that looked like this , but was brown with a brown vinyl top ...
Look at the size difference. "Compact" vs "compact". These modern vehicle are huge comparatively.
FIFY!
If you want efficient vehicles, you make them smaller and lighter, not larger and heavier. And yet...
FIFY!
If you want efficient vehicles, you make them smaller and lighter, not larger and heavier. And yet...
Fed regs dictate fuel efficiency based on size, so carmakers make bigger cars (and trucks) so they have a less stringent mpg target.
Maybe, but that's not the whole story of why they got so big and fat. Look to safety standards and mandates for that. You can really see a noticeable size and weight change in the mid 2000s. Gov mandates became so much that NHRA rules say vehicles made 2008 and later no longer require a basic 4 point rollbar to run in the 11.99-10.00 second range. Vehicles made 2007 and earlier are required to have a 4 point to legally run in that time range. I think some vehicles made around 2015+ are even good to 9.00 without a rollbar all because gov regs have been pushed further.
Look at the size difference between these Civics, 2000 vs 2011. The newer one weighs about 500 lbs more, too.
Any time the Gov gets involved, they're gonna feck shit up. My statement follows common sense, logic and physics....they do not, because they're beholden idiots.
Rude.
I think he might be onto something, possibly inadvertently. While subjective, I'm not convinced there are many really good looking vehicle designs anymore. I'm having a hard time thinking of a new vehicle I'd like to own based solely on looks.