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Post by FlyinGN on Sept 7, 2006 20:05:14 GMT -5
good points Rob....
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Post by Crippled_Visions on Sept 7, 2006 22:49:32 GMT -5
Did you get hurt in the accident? No. I walked away without a scratch. I did have my seatbelt on.
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Post by nance on Sept 8, 2006 4:28:02 GMT -5
I can't say that but it could have been worse.
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Post by JIMD on Sept 8, 2006 16:51:07 GMT -5
Let me share a story from my high school days. I drove a 75 chevy nova and I got into an accident with a "new" 91 Honda Civic. The Civic hit my left front fender at a speed of approximately 35 mph. The Civic was totaled in the accident....the front smashed far into the engine compartment. My nova had a destroyed fender, flat front tire and bent frame. I ended up buying a new fender at a junk yard and pulling out the frame with a chain strapped to a tree. I continued to drive the Nova throughout my college years and still managed to sell it for 500 dollars in the late 90s. Sure the car had some rust and needed an occasional tune up...but it was a solid car. New cars are just not built with the same strength as the old ones....unless you buy an SUV. And I know the new cars are designed to fold like accordions for safety reasons...but I still feel safer in a tank rather than a plastic toy. I bet the totaled Civic still drove better, lol
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Post by FlyinGN on Sept 8, 2006 19:26:19 GMT -5
thats it Jim, poke the sleeping bear with a stick... lol
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Post by JIMD on Sept 8, 2006 20:14:31 GMT -5
thats it Jim, poke the sleeping bear with a stick... lol Sorry, I couldn't resist, lol
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Post by MMM on Sept 8, 2006 21:58:03 GMT -5
Did you get hurt in the accident? No. I walked away without a scratch. I did have my seatbelt on. I figured - it seems so common for people to basically just walk away from an accident in an old car.
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Post by Crippled_Visions on Sept 8, 2006 22:12:35 GMT -5
Let me share a story from my high school days. I drove a 75 chevy nova and I got into an accident with a "new" 91 Honda Civic. The Civic hit my left front fender at a speed of approximately 35 mph. The Civic was totaled in the accident....the front smashed far into the engine compartment. My nova had a destroyed fender, flat front tire and bent frame. I ended up buying a new fender at a junk yard and pulling out the frame with a chain strapped to a tree. I continued to drive the Nova throughout my college years and still managed to sell it for 500 dollars in the late 90s. Sure the car had some rust and needed an occasional tune up...but it was a solid car. New cars are just not built with the same strength as the old ones....unless you buy an SUV. And I know the new cars are designed to fold like accordions for safety reasons...but I still feel safer in a tank rather than a plastic toy. I bet the totaled Civic still drove better, lol Fortunately, the Civic was not even able to drive itself to the scrap yard...it needed to be towed. One less foreign car on the road can only be a good thing.
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Post by MMM on Sept 8, 2006 22:50:06 GMT -5
Nowadays though, many of the American cars have lots of foreign parts. Foreign cars built here, etc...
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Post by hulk007 on Sept 9, 2006 0:28:31 GMT -5
In the year 2006 I don't think there is one car that is 100% american.
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Post by Crippled_Visions on Sept 9, 2006 22:44:59 GMT -5
In the year 2006 I don't think there is one car that is 100% american. This is true...but when you buy a foreign car, you are sending the majority of the profits to a foreign country and hurting the US economy. When you buy American, it shows you support the US and our workforce. Although some of the money will go to foreign countries, the majority will stay here. I've never purchased a foreign car and never plan to...regardless of how great their reviews are.
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