gas cars

Didn’t read the whole thread but take a listen.
For a while now, gas cars are so emissions efficient, that they emit cleaner air than they breathe in, in some areas.
You want to kill your self while running a newer car in your closed garage? It won’t happen anymore.

 

There's a far side comic in the making lol

 

I ran my 69 first time a couple weeks ago. I have a 2-1/2 stall garage. All doors open and still smoked the dick inside. I took a shower later that day and all I could smell was exhaust. It was nasty!!

 

In 1900 there was very little infrastructure for internal combustion engines, but there was no need to force people to buy them, as the public quickly recognized the enormous advantages that even those early vehicles had. In those years people went crazy buying cars, trucks and tractors.

You don't need to force people to buy things that are better.

 

Absolutely - but you can add cheaper as well. And that's just what the Model T offered.

 

Told the Dinosaurs to not fart so much?
I don'y know why we so up in arms we have to go with and live with the climate changes, what we all think were going to turn it around after we are fully electrified ya not hardly
Electricity will be made by natural gas that is why they want to outlaw gas stoves so the nat gas can be used to generate the elec to run the grid.
so you will still have to burn fuel to make power. Ya need a better way to keep it clean We too lazy on this and taking easy way out?
You must give up for tomorrow

 

The model T offered an affordable entry to car ownership. Having a crude econobox is a heck of a lot better than not having a car.

Americans love to make fun of the Citroen 2CV, but for a modest farmer, being able to bring his produce to market and the family to church on Sunday, it is a life changer.

 

Don't know - Lucy, who was collecting the data, didn't make it...

 

I had a friend here in Seattle that had and used one of these "du cha vo's"(apologies to the French).

He told me the trick to getting on the freeway was to wander back and forth like a drunken sailor. Everyone else would see you coming and get out of your way.

 

The Model T, The Volkswagen type 1, and the 2CV were all after the same market and used essentially the same business plan. Each succeeded. FWIW, I often refer to the T as the largest selling car of all time. When people try to tell me that I'm wrong and the VW type 1 outsold the T 22 million to 15 million, I point out that the T sold 15 million cars in 18 years, the Type 1 VW sold just short of 22 million units in 65 years. The Beetle never came close to the market penetration of the T, and the Ford T did it in a time when there were a lot fewer people, a lot fewer roads, and a lot less money.

 

Ha John - fewer roads and much worse roads, if you could call them that!

 

Bill, it is true that the roads were (in most places) awful. What a horse can deal with, a car perhaps not so much.
A hopefully quick "rest of the story". In about 1919 then Colonel Dwight Eisenhower was ordered to lead a mechanized convoy from the East coast to the West coast. Due to the horrible conditions of the roads - and places where roads simply did not exist, the overall speed of the convoy was about 5 mph with vehicles constantly getting stuck in the mud or breaking down due to the poor road conditions. After WW 2 when Ike has seen the German Autobahns, Eisenhower vowed to improve US roads using the German model. As an aside - the autobahns were built primarily so that the military could move rapidly over land. It should come as no surprise that President Eisenhower approved the interstate highway system 1n 1956. His reason was the same as the Germans.

 

And half that mud he is driving in is probably horse crap!

 

Pretty sure I closed this thread.. weird..