Originally Posted by
Mobile 155
You said. "
My 27 Chrysler has a 440 4 barrel carb and I get 20 to 21 mpg. "
Still not the point. everything else is nothing but personal preference. You want to work on a car maybe you need a simpler car or a fabrication shop like my son is working with? That is your choice. That doesn't make your choice a better one for anyone else but you. If you value light weight and have to have metal you can get Ti or scandium. If you want stiffness you can get aluminum. That also is personal preference. But the concept that we can't see why someone else would want the new technology labels us as Luddites and I for one would rather stay out of the box even to the point of not yelling "get off my lawn." How you care for your bike aside maybe some people don't like top bar carriers, I don't, never had never will, (not since the exhaust from my 63 Thunderbird coming out of my rear bumper melted the tire on my new Steel Viscount back in the 70s.) So I am willing to buy a Saris Cycle on Pro to carry my bikes. I got it when I had an Aluminum, Steel and Scandium bike. Once again that is purely a personal choice. It has nothing to do with an emotional attachment to my choice in tools. This debate always ends in the same place. The I like the old stuff verses the I like new stuff. And no matter how the conversation goes the people that have already made their choices aren't likely to budge.
I am simply not into emotional reasoning in buying a tool. Sorry
You just quoted what I said, nowhere does it say in the city. 20 to 21 was an average on the highway.
And I also said, and you copied the quote: "
it's an opinion, you have yours and I have mine,"
Nor did I ever say my choice was the better choice, it is the better choice for me though because I want and like simplicity, which I also said. And so what if I like old stuff vs new stuff? Again and like I repeatedly said:
it's an opinion, you have yours and I have mine, (now I can't get the italics off) You make is sound like no one is entitled to their opinion, why is that? is it because in this case my opinion doesn't agree with yours? And due to my opinion that I hold personal I won't budge on my beliefs.
By the way, I use to own a 62 T-Bird, it was actually my first car, I paid $100 for it, blew a ring and a head gasket racing a Corvette in Ventura, sold it for $250. Now I wish I would have kept it. It was a boat but when we got done with it it was the perfect sleeper. I use to make the girl friends think that the steering wheel broke at a parking lot so we couldn't go anywhere...you know what I did.