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I was very suprised about this when I read the article.

http://www.freep.com/article/2012072...text|FRONTPAGE

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No more hanging out at the Sunoco Station on friday night learning about carbs.(home on computer) No more cars as entertainment. (flip phones) . No more showing off the new paint job or wheels.(NEW I pad). Many $ reasons here.
No More vehicle identity except Sion or other boxes. Mass cars with different black chrome or body bends.
No more access to easy to learn car lessons. Only air up the tires and add gas. Car dies , have it junked.
Model A fords are taking hold with some younger because they can "tinker" with actural car parts....
Time for a No regulation Car people can work on and enjoy it. I doubt it, our love of cars is being replaced by a cheap, hand held device addiction.

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[QUOTE=Dick Butler;336429]
No more access to easy to learn car lessons. Only air up the tires and add gas. Car dies , have it junked.
So True, Dick. My oldest grandson just graduated from high school. He is an excellent student but is "mechanically challenged"...............A couple of months ago, his 10 year old F 150 developed a knock in the engine. Time to call Grandpa. I quickly determined that it was a rod bearing that went bad. I check the oil and it didn't register on the dip stick. So when I explained the problem to him, I said, "it is out of oil and you spun a bearing". I told him I would take the engine apart and look at it. When I drained the oil, there was about a quart left in the pan. My grandson saw that and said "I thought you said it was out of oil, there is still about a quart in there" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Both of my girls are "gas and go". They did get the part of changing the oil every 3 to 5k. And they did get the rightsy-tightsy thing!

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I got all yall beat, I fussed at my daughter cause her husband(my son-in-law) wouldnt change his own oil. She got on to him and he changed it. Now I got to rebuild the transmission and the motor. He crawled under it and drained the transmission fluid and added 5 quarts of oil to the motor. So transmission lasted about 2 miles and motor lasted about the same amount. The motor like to have caught on fire as oil came out of the dipstick tube and got all over hell and creation. Enough of yalls **** about lazy people. Im going back to changing her oil. cant stand the help. He didnt know they had a oil filter or he would have left it off
reed



reed

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Boy friends with lack of mechanical ability have not yet come into play.....can't wait.

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[QUOTE=SStockDart;336436]Gary one of my grandsons is good with tools and fixing thinks the other would rather play video games. There the oldes the others are to young right now hope all is well in az.

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I think we will start a class called "Basic Car" Then Dads can bring in their kids at some age for an hour a week and have tools, oil, tires etc explained so kids have a clue before things get this bad...

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Great article, kind of funny because of my three girls, all like cars, the oldest now that she owns quality cars has ask me to show her how to wax and make sure to follow proper maintenance schedules, my other two girls are both gearheads and will change their own oil and tires when they come over. This does cause problems with boyfriends when the girls know much more than their boyfriends.lol Claude Ruel

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And that is why Stock and Super Stock will never survive in the coming years, no one cares about cars like we did !

JimR

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Sorry Reed, but that is funny. My oldest Son-in-law (who should know better) saw the power steering fluid level was way low in his F-250. So.............he filled it with brake fluid. OOOPS.................note: these things seem funnier when you don't have to pay for them.

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Told my son over and over again about checking the oil and having it changed. I guess he figured it was a closed loop system, melted the engine into a lump of aluminum while driving up a long hill on the way to visit his girlfriend. This time he had to buy the new car on his own dime.

When I got there they both blamed it on the hill.......it was too steep! Mind you this was a 6 lane highway not some mountain goat trail!

Sad!

JimR

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We are a dieing breed! No doubt. Jim


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Crap
I gotta make sure I keep my son-in-law away from THAT dman hill
reed

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THe son didn't know how to check his oil, so his father told him where to look, 20 minutes later he found the dip stick on this 1998 camaro. The boy came back and said it was low. The father told him to add a quart and recheck it. He obtained the oil and asked his father how to put it in. The father told him to go into the trailer , get the funnel and put the whole quart in. The son came back and told him the funnel was to big. The father asked"what color is it", son replied red. This is the funnel to fill fuel for the race car, used the smaller one. The kid replied "oh okay". The kid came back and said " the black one was to big as well and it made a big mess over the engine". The father at this point could beleive it took this kind of effort with a college degree kid to figure this out. So he went out, got the funnel that the kid used and was going to show him how to put it in. The kid shouted "dad stop thats the same funnel i used and it made a big mess and took a long time to clean it up I dont want to clean up another mess"!!!! The father said" are you nuts I'm not going to make a mess". The kid said " ok dad go ahead you'll see" The son was amazed when the father removed the oil fill cap and not the dip stick to add the oil.

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Have you guys noticed who the new cars are being marketed towards?

You have retro styled Mustangs , Challengers, Camaros, ....PT Cruisers, HHR suburbans,
even little Fiats