Re: DO NOT TRUST BTV

Posted by BH On 2010/3/6 14:29:00

I bet a lot of guys would like to celebrate life with Miriam!!!

Seriously, Gerd, thanks for a thoughtful post.

Those who hate the BTV can do as they please with their own cars, but they shouldn't expect those of us who have worked on the system with our own two hands and understand it inside and out to jump on their bandwagon.

Born in 1959, it's no miracle that I lived past the age of 4 with no other car in our family but a '56 Executive with BTV (and NO seat belts, NO air bags, NO traction control, NO backup monitor, NO tire pressure monitors, NO throttle-by-wire). My dad simply knew how to properly service the entire brake system, but never had a problem with the BTV in the seven years that he owned and the nearly 75,000 miles that he put on that car. Though he parked that car in a field, in 1963, it wasn't brakes, but the lack of parts, in general, and competent rebuilders for the Twin Ultramatic that killed the beast!

Meanwhile PackardInfo is a great place that brings people and knowledge together from not only across the USA, but around the world - people who have might not have ever met otherwise. I wish more people appreciated that as much as you do.

In spite of the danger of reading too much into the written word, I can tell you meeting like-minded people online makes getting together in person all the better. I only wish there was more time and fewer miles between us all for that.