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From: jimmy@scgvaxd.UUCP (JA Raisanen)
Newsgroups: net.auto.tech
Subject: Re: OLD/NEW CARS
Message-ID: <522@scgvaxd.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 15-Jan-86 15:47:22 EST
Article-I.D.: scgvaxd.522
Posted: Wed Jan 15 15:47:22 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 18-Jan-86 07:21:45 EST
References: <404@decwrl.DEC.COM>
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Organization: Hughes Aircraft Company, El Segundo, CA
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In article <404@decwrl.DEC.COM> earle@oblio.DEC (Mr. SPPR) writes:
>
>
>	Sometimes I wish all the good'ole-day-boys would just look at their
>parents.  I'm sure there was some 'techno goodie that their parents didn't
>like either 'cause it was so different than what they had in their day.  You
>learned to deal with it didn't you?  It was easier because you were born right
>into it -- grew up with it; to you it was like chewing bubble gum.  All the
>little kids nowadays with computers all around them will look at them as just
>another tool that slow daddy's and mommy's will get upset about.  You all should
>just look in the mirror and say:  When did I stop looking into the future?  I
>hope to god that I won't wake up one day and just stop looking at the future.
>
>	What do you think cars will be like in 1990 or 2000 or 2010?  Even 
>though those numbers seem far away they aren't.  It's a little kid's teenage
>hood.  1960 was 25 years ago.  Doesn't seem that long huh.  In 25 years it will
>be 2010.  Remember the movie 2010?  It ain't some future to far away.  Just
>because you can't strip down a car like you used to be able to doesn't mean
>its too complicated -- it means you ain't learned nothin' in all the time
>the manufactures did.  Do you really think people put stuff together without
>making sure it will work under harsh conditions?  Don't compare personal
>computers to what are put into cars.  They are just not built the same.  Get
>off your soapbox and read a little.
>
>End of sermon.
>
>
>					George Earle
>					DECVAX!DECWRL!RHEA!OBLIO!EARLE
>			
>disclaimer...disclaimer...disclaimer...

Well, no matter what's under the hood, the design is the most important
thing to me.  Today's aerodynamic boxes just do not have the gusto of
the cars that were built before.  There's no heart or soul in most of
them.  Give me a 50's T-Bird, a 60's Corvette, Mustang or Charger, or
a 1973 Challenger (my personal fav!) or a Hillman, etc. over an 80's
Mustang, Laser or Corvette or any of those so-called Japanese `sports'
cars any day!!  And this is posted by one who was born in `59 so I
don't think I qualify as a "good-ol day boy" either!

My indulgence is my own!

Jim Raisanen  {jimmy @ scgvaxd}