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Old 11-12-2019, 12:22 PM
barry12345 barry12345 is offline
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The really reliable and durable 4 cylinder engines with power. Plus fuel millage I suppose. Engine oils have improved drastically in the same period in many ways as well. So has the price. It was 25c a quart in Canada and cheaper in America for many years I drove. Recomended change interval was every thousand miles though. Many cars also had no oil filter.

I did have one older car with decent brakes though. It was a 1950 mercury with no power booster. The other older cars and there were a lots of them. Never where even in the same ballpark.

Some site members may be too young to know. If you really got water in your drum brakes. You had no brakes until they dried out a little. The introduction of sealed beam headlights was a massive improvement. Perhaps it also was the change from 6 to 12 volt electrical systems as well a little. Yet I cannot really see that. The cars I owned with reflector type headlights where just poor in comparison.

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