Re: Re: Old School
By: Dumas Walker to POINDEXTER FORTRAN on Mon Jan 06 2025 09:14 am
>> True, but back in the 1980s when I went to school, cars were simple. Carbs,
>> points, distributors, voltage regulators. No computers. You could buy a
>> bitchin' 1970s Camaro and spend your free time with it on the lift, doing
>> all sorts of work you couldn't do in your driveway - and with access to a
>> killer set of tools.
> For many years I had a 1980 Chevrolet Monte Carlo that was first purchased i
> California. I hate to tell you this, but cars sold in California back then
> did indeed have computers in them in order to regulate the "California
> emmissions" systems they had to be equiped with in order to be sold there.
What I meant to say was "the cars kids were driving in the 1980s. 1974 was the
beginning of the malaise era in Detroit, and emission controls were a big part
of that.
Most of the cool cars in 1981-1983 were pre-emissions Camaros, early Mustangs
Plymouth Dusters, Chevy Chevelles and a ton of other 1960-70s american cars.
Those were simple cars at their base.
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