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Turbopackman wrote:
Trying to talk sense into some of you old codgers set in your ways is like talking to a brick wall. "It's worked for the past 60 years so it must be good". It's this type of thinking that turns most people off to old cars. Hopefully, common sense will prevail on this forum and people will come around. I highly doubt it though...
I completely disagree. The fact these cars still work after 60 years is the reason that people want to buy them. There is some thing great about being able to take something that old, take it apart, clean it, de-rust it, replace any worn parts, and then it works again. The wheel doesn't always need to reinvented so someone can say the reinvented it. Even if someone is not a looking to build a showcar, there is still history in these cars the deserves to be preserved, and not simple preserved in a museum. But as drivable cars.
Once you start re-engineering everything and replacing everything with what you think is better, you are simply altering the vehicle. My car is not a show car by any means. I have tried to be original as much as I can budget allowing. But I have made some trade offs as I know here in So Calif A/C is a must for me, which means 12volt.
Claiming Fluid/Fluid transfer coolers are a joke or bad is an opinion, not fact. As the industry is still using them and has been for 60 years. Every air to fluid cooler I have seen on a car or truck is an Aux type and is always been run in series with the stock fluid to fluid cooler built in the radiator.
Frankly it is get exhausting when every forum thread gets side tracked on trying to reengineer everything, or telling people that the original parts or design are crap. Thats what the Modification Forum is for. I have been very tolerant of all the side-tracked discussions, but at some point it turns the forum into just noise.
Sorry Kevin for hijacking your thread. Back to it.
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