AH the good old days, we had fuel pumps with two bolts on the side of the engine that ran off of a cam lobe, you could swap one out in 15 mins instead of dropping the tank and wasting a day, you could adjust your own timing, you could adjust your A/F ratios with two screws on the side if your holly or stromberg carbs.
You could change your plugs and wires in 30 mins (remember when you could actually see the plugs)
You only had one timeing chain that never needed to be replaced.
You busted a manual tranny in your 50 ford, go to the wrecking yard, 15 bux later and a couple hrs you were back on the road
Start buttons today are all the rage, cut my teeth on 40, 46. 49, 50 fords amd mercs, they all had start buttons.
when you changed your oil you bought bulk refined oil (10 cents a qt) and your major mod was one of those oil canisters that used a roll of cheap toilet paper (they worked)
Emissions are lower for sure, but have we really gotten that much better?
Only lights you ever saw on the dash was when the headlights got turned on at night.
was in cuba bout 6 yrs ago on a fishing trip, guide picked us up in Havana in a prestine 53 chevy, drove us 60 miles to the bass lake we fished, was like being in a time machine.
car ran flawlessley, never thru a CEL the entire trip
Guess I am just getting old, but still feel newer is not better.
